Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan and the Tianfu Alliance reached the Ancient Domain Platform after battling dangers in the Barren Ancient Region. There, Nalan Yanran challenged Gu Yao over his past insult of Xiao Yan while Gu Xun'er reunited with Xiao Yan and greeted his other companions, leaving the family to joke about the brewing romantic rivalry.

• Xiao Li warned the group to fend for themselves in the Barren Ancient Region, where they overcame dangers and used a blood pool to make breakthroughs before reaching the Ancient Domain Platform.
• Xiao Li told Xiao Yun that Nalan Yanran had become an Eight Star Dou Venerate and had grown strong in the Sword Dao.
• Gu Xun'er arrived and embraced Xiao Yan, prompting Cailin, Xiao Yi Xian, and Nalan Yanran to react with displeasure.
• Nalan Yanran challenged Gu Yao for insulting Xiao Yan and cut his palm, then criticized Gu Xun'er for tolerating the insult.
• Gu Xun'er greeted Cailin, Xiao Yi Xian, and Nalan Yanran, while Xiao Yan's family watched and teased him about the rivalry and Xiao Li about his own romantic history.

Xiao Li and Xiao Yan helped the Bodhi Ancient Tree purge the black qi left by an ancient Dou God, with the Black Lotus absorbing the corruption. The tree rewarded them by taking Xiao Yan into its trunk for cultivation and giving Xiao Li a chance at Hundred Lifetimes Reincarnation and three Bodhi Hearts.

• After the factions broke through the beast tide, they reached the Bodhi Ancient Tree, and Xiao Li approached it while sensing its wariness.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree showed Xiao Li how a black-robed Dou God had wounded it and left behind negative emotions, then drew Xiao Yan into an illusion.
• Xiao Li and Xiao Yan refined Bodhi Seeds to release pure aura, while the Black Lotus absorbed the black qi drawn from the tree.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree restored Xiao Yan and Xiao Li on emerald meditation cushions, then pulled Xiao Yan into its trunk after the corruption was gone.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree offered Xiao Li Hundred Lifetimes Reincarnation and gave him three Bodhi Hearts for his wives.

Xiao Yan emerged from a month beneath the Bodhi Ancient Tree after enduring a hundred lifetimes of reincarnation, while Xiao Li continued his own trial. Xiao Yan discovered that Xiao Li had come from the same world as him, Blue Star, and the chapter ended with Xiao Li awakening and leaving the tree.

• Xiao Li entered the Bodhi Ancient Tree to undergo a Hundred Lifetimes Reincarnation, and the tree expelled the other people who had been trapped inside its illusions.
• Hun Yu tried to interrupt Xiao Yan and Xiao Li’s enlightenment, but Xiao Xue stopped him; he escaped her grasp and used a Spatial Jade Mirror to deter her from killing him.
• The crowd waited and cultivated for about a month while Xiao Yan and Xiao Li remained beneath the tree.
• Xiao Yan awoke and told Xun'er, Cailin, Xiao Yi Xian, and Yanran that he was back after enduring a hundred reincarnations.
• Xiao Yan revealed that he had encountered Xiao Li during several reincarnations and learned that Xiao Li came from Blue Star.
• Xiao Li awakened, thanked the Bodhi Ancient Tree, and stepped out.

After the Bodhi Ancient Tree gave Xiao Li its Bodhi Seeds, he returned to the Tianfu Alliance and revealed that he had reached Early Nine Star Dou Saint. He reassured Xiao Yan about the nature of his life, then agreed to demonstrate a new alchemy technique for refining a Bodhi Pill.

• Xiao Xue killed the people who rushed for the Bodhi Seeds, and Xiao Li collected the seeds and invited Xun'er to Heavenly Palace to take a Bodhi Pill.
• Xiao Li transported the Tianfu Alliance and Gu Clan members back to headquarters, where he sent the cultivators into seclusion and told them to earn Bodhi Pills by reaching Nine Revolutions Dou Venerate Peak.
• Zi Yan noticed Xiao Li's breakthrough, and he said that together they could now face Hun Tiandi without fear.
• Xiao Yan privately asked Xiao Li whether they were both from Earth and whether his life was merely a novel; Xiao Li confirmed their origins and urged him to focus on the present.
• Xiao Yan left to cultivate and refine the Bodhi Heart, then returned to ask Xiao Li to refine a Bodhi Pill, and Xiao Li told him to meet in the alchemy room.

Xiao Li refined a Bodhi Saint-Ascension Pill, gave Bodhi Hearts to Yun Yun and the Pei Sisters to help them reach Dou Sheng, and considered letting Hun Tiandi gather the Ancient Emperor Jade fragments. He ended the chapter spending time with Zi Yan while the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and the ancient clans' schemes remained ahead.

• Xiao Li refined a Ninth Grade Treasure Pill that could help a peak Nine Revolutions Dou Venerate break through to Dou Sheng, then told Xiao Yan he planned to attempt a Rank 9 Golden Pill on Dragon Island.
• Xiao Li urged the Tianfu Alliance experts to cultivate before the Demon Fire Plains opened, then returned to his residence to reunite with Yun Yun, Pei Yuhan, Pei Yuru, and Zi Yan.
• Xiao Li gave Yun Yun and the Pei Sisters three Bodhi Hearts and pills to help them absorb the treasures, and the three women entered seclusion.
• Xiao Li considered giving the Spirit Clan's Ancient Emperor Jade Fragment to Hun Tiandi so he could gather the fragments and open the Ancient God Cave Abode.
• Zi Yan embraced Xiao Li, and the two went off together.

Two years after Xiao Yan entered seclusion, he broke through to Two Star Dou Sheng Early Stage while Xiao Li learned that the Demon Transformation Array had been completed across Central Continent to counter the Hun Clan’s hidden formation. With the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s emergence approaching, Xiao Li planned to refine a Rank 9 Golden Pill and reach Late Nine Star Dou Saint.

• Xiao Yan emerged from two years of seclusion and broke through to Two Star Dou Sheng Early Stage.
• Xiao Li sensed that his bloodline was nearing a God Grade mutation and noted that he still needed the Origin Qi in an Emperor Grade Crude Pill to complete his preparations.
• Zi Yan told Xiao Li that the Ancient Void Dragon Clan had finished laying two layers of the Demon Transformation Array over the Spirit-Devouring Life-Extinguishing Array across Central Continent.
• Xiao Li recalled that the Hun Clan intended to use the hidden array to refine the Emperor Grade Crude Pill into a genuine Emperor Pill using Central Continent’s living beings.
• As the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s emergence drew near, Xiao Li resolved to refine a Rank 9 Golden Pill and raise his cultivation to Late Nine Star Dou Saint.

The Tianfu Alliance launched a coordinated campaign that destroyed the Soul Hall’s Central Continent forces, though Hun Miesheng escaped and the Heaven Hall’s main store of Soul Origin was lost. Afterward, Xiao Li distributed the Soul Origin recovered from the other halls and promised the elders Ninth Grade Treasure Pills.

• Xiao Li ordered the Tianfu Alliance to eradicate the Soul Hall, and Old Man Yao assigned forces to attack its halls.
• Fire Cloud Old Ancestor and Joyful Demon Elder defeated Great Heavenly Venerate and destroyed the Human Hall.
• Tianyin Old Man and Old Freak Lin killed Deputy Hall Master and destroyed the Earth Hall.
• Xiao Li found the Heaven Hall abandoned, discovered its Soul Origin was gone, and destroyed the hall as Hun Miesheng sensed the defeat and vowed revenge.
• Xiao Yan and Tianyin Old Man presented recovered Soul Origin at the victory banquet, and Xiao Li distributed it among Xiao Yan, Old Freak Lin, Elder Han, and Wang Ming.

As the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame emerged, Xiao Li led a small Tianfu Alliance party to the Demon Fire Plains, where the major clans gathered. Yao Chen confronted Yao Wangui over his past persecution, and Xiao Yan and Yao Chen struck them down, leaving the feud poised to escalate.

• Xiao Li, Zi Yan, Yao Chen, and Xiao Yan arrived at the Demon Fire Plains with other Tianfu Alliance experts to await the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• The Hun Clan arrived, and Xiao Li assessed its members while Xiao Yan noticed a young Hun Clan Dou Sheng watching him.
• The Gu Clan arrived, followed by the Yan, Lei, and Yao Clans, and Xiao Li encouraged Yao Chen to settle his old score with Yao Wangui.
• Yao Wangui mocked Yao Chen for being discarded by the Yao Clan, and Yao Tian joined in by taunting him.
• Xiao Yan slapped and stepped on Yao Tian, while Yao Chen struck and stood on Yao Wangui; Xiao Li praised Xiao Yan for following his teachings.

Old Man Yao and Xiao Yan defeated Yao Wangui and Yao Tian, while Xiao Li forced the Yao Clan to retreat. Old Man Yao vowed to have his parents’ names carved on the Ancestral Stele, and the Hun Clan decided not to contest the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame for now.

• Old Man Yao revealed his Four Star Dou Saint Late Stage cultivation and Heaven Realm Great Perfection soul power, then beat Yao Wangui in revenge for framing and trying to kill him.
• Xiao Yan defeated Yao Tian, while Yao Ling caught her brother and Gu Yao wondered why Xiao Yan had compared him to Yao Tian.
• Old Man Yao declared that he would visit the Yao Clan during the Medicine Ceremony and have his parents’ names engraved on the Ancestral Stele, regardless of opposition.
• Xiao Li suppressed Yao Wangui, warned him against insulting Old Man Yao or the Tianfu Alliance, and sent the Yao Clan away in disgrace.
• Hun Miesheng worried that Xiao Li would secure the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, but Hun Qianmo said the Hun Clan could let the Tianfu Alliance hold it temporarily while they pursued their greater objective.

Xiao Li entered the Demon Fire Space with Zi Yan, Xiao Yan, and Old Man Yao, then seized the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame before the other clans arrived. The Hun Clan and Yan Clan still sought the flame, and the Hun Clan members debated what to do next.

• Xiao Li sent the Tianfu Alliance members below Dou Sheng level away and entered the Demon Fire Space with Zi Yan, Xiao Yan, and Old Man Yao.
• Gu Xun'er warned Xiao Yan about the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and Xiao Yan carried two Ninth Grade Treasure Pills prepared by Old Man Yao to help him refine it.
• Xiao Li used Yin Yang Holy Flame to counter the illusionary flames, then took Zi Yan directly to the altar where the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame sat in human form.
• Xiao Li seized the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, sealed its voice, and waited on the throne with Zi Yan as the other groups battled through illusions and fire slaves.
• Hun Miesheng and other God Clan members reached the altar and saw that Xiao Li had subdued the flame; the Hun Clan members began discussing what to do.

Xiao Li exposed the Hun Clan members’ Nihility Devouring Flame Child Flames and warned the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame against scheming. Jinglian Yaosheng then appeared through Xiao Yan, traded his inheritance map to Xiao Li for the flame, and prepared to deal with his former flame himself.

• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame detected Nihility Devouring Flame Child Flames inside Hun Miesheng and Hun Feng, and Xiao Li decided to take them for his Yin Yang Holy Flame.
• Xiao Li threatened the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and killed four Hun Clan members, leaving only two black flames behind.
• The Yan, Lei, and Gu Clan members departed, while Gu Xun'er stayed with Xiao Li and Old Man Yao.
• Jinglian Yaosheng appeared through Xiao Yan, and Old Man Yao recognized that the Ancient Map had brought him forth.
• Xiao Li agreed to return the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame in exchange for Jinglian Yaosheng’s inheritance map and gave him an Eighth Grade Soul-Reverting Pill.
• Jinglian Yaosheng accepted the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and said that what happened next was between him and Little Demon.

Xiao Li left the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s inheritance site to pursue a breakthrough, while Xiao Yan refined the Flame’s Origin. Xiao Li gave Old Man Yao a pill for the Medicine Ceremony and set out with Zi Yan for Dragon Island.

• Xiao Li studied Jinglian Yaosheng’s inheritance, then departed with Old Man Yao after assuring him Xiao Yan was protected; Gu Xun'er stayed with Xiao Yan.
• Jinglian Yaosheng stripped the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame of its intelligence, and they vanished together; Xiao Yan found the Flame’s Origin and began refining it.
• Xiao Li decided to enter seclusion and refine a Rank 9 Golden Pill to reach the Late Nine Star Dou Saint stage.
• Old Man Yao asked Xiao Li for a Heaven-Melting Pill to strengthen himself before the Medicine Ceremony, and Xiao Li gave him one.
• Zi Yan asked Xiao Li where they would go next, and he said they were heading to Dragon Island.

Xiao Li strengthened Yin Yang Holy Flame by absorbing two Nihility Devouring Flame Child Flames, then brought it to the Void Thunder Pool to consume Black Demon Thunder. There, he found Nine Mystical Golden Thunder and helped it form a spirit, leaving it under his command as his master.

• Xiao Li absorbed the two Nihility Devouring Flame Child Flames into Yin Yang Holy Flame, granting it devouring power.
• Xiao Li traveled to the Void Thunder Pool, where Yin Yang Holy Flame devoured Black Demon Thunder and strengthened Xiao Li’s Dou Qi.
• Xiao Li found the Nine Mystical Golden Thunder Dragon and had Yin Yang Holy Flame devour its lightning attacks.
• Xiao Li gathered Spiritual Qi and used his Emperor Realm Soul to help Nine Mystical Golden Thunder form a spirit.
• Nine Mystical Golden Thunder acknowledged Xiao Li as its master.

Xiao Li forged two Rank 9 Golden Pills on Ancient Dragon Island with the help of the Nine Mystical Golden Thunder he had subdued. After capturing the pills when they tried to escape, he returned to Dragon Island with them.

• Xiao Li arrived on Ancient Dragon Island to prepare for forging Rank 9 Golden Pills and studied the Creation Golden Pill formula.
• Xiao Li refined the scarce ingredients, added four Ninth Grade Mysterious Pills to strengthen the Embryonic Pill, and split it into two pills.
• The Nine Mystical Golden Thunder descended, and Xiao Jin absorbed it before channeling its energy into the two Embryonic Pills.
• The two Rank 9 Golden Pills formed, took human shape, and fled, but Xiao Li caught them with the Pill Transformation Art.
• Xiao Li stored the two captured Golden Pills and returned to Dragon Island.

Xiao Li and Zi Yan reached the Late Nine Star Dou Saint stage with Rank 9 Golden Pills and returned to the Tianfu Alliance, where they discovered that Hun Tiandi had attacked the Gu Clan. Xiao Li set out for the Ancient Realm as Gu Yuan warned him about Hun Tiandi’s God-Slaying weapon, while the Gu Clan struggled to hold off the Hun Clan.

• Xiao Li and Zi Yan cultivated with a Rank 9 Golden Pill, reaching the Late Nine Star Dou Saint stage, and Xiao Li refined a second pill before they left Ancient Dragon Island.
• Xiao Li returned to the Tianfu Alliance and found Gu Yuan badly wounded; Gu Yuan warned him to beware of Hun Tiandi and began to mention something called God-Slaying before fainting.
• Xiao Li gave Gu Yuan a Ninth Grade Mysterious Pill and used Yang Fire to heal him, then sent Zi Yan toward the Ancient Realm and flew there himself.
• In the Ancient Realm, Gu Lie commanded the Gu Clan’s defense as Hun Clan forces attacked through black flames and the Four Demon Saints overwhelmed the Gu Clan Three Immortals.

The Gu Clan summoned the Emperor Gu’s Remnant Soul to defend the Ancient Realm against Nihility Devouring Flame and the Hun Clan. While the Emperor Gu confronted the invaders, Hun Tiandi recovered from his battle with Gu Yuan and prepared to pursue the remaining Ancient Emperor Jades, wary of Xiao Li.

• Gu Lie and the Gu Clan Elders formed the Gu Di Mirror, but Nihility Devouring Flame blocked its attack.
• Gu Lie and the Gu Clan Three Immortals burned the Gu Clan’s Dou God Bloodline to summon the Emperor Gu’s Remnant Soul, who appeared with Nine Star Dou Saint strength.
• Hun Tiandi revealed that he had severely wounded Gu Yuan and taken the Gu Clan’s Ancient Emperor Jade, but had failed to kill Gu Yuan because of his ancient treasure.
• Hun Tiandi healed himself with Ninth Grade Mysterious Pills and said the remaining Ancient Emperor Jades would soon be his, though Xiao Li posed a serious threat.
• The Emperor Gu’s Remnant Soul learned that Gu Yuan was missing and that the Hun Clan had attacked, then declared that the Hun Clan members would stay behind.

Nihility Devouring Flame attacked the Gu Clan, whose Emperor Gu remnant soul depleted the clan’s Dou God Bloodline while fighting it. Xiao Li and Zi Yan arrived in time to save the Gu Clan, and Emperor Gu revealed that Spiritual Qi came from the Greater Thousand World and that an ancient war with the Evil Clan had caused the Dou Qi Continent to decline.

• Nihility Devouring Flame fought Emperor Gu’s remnant soul while the Gu Clan Elders maintained the formation with their Dou God Bloodline.
• Nihility Devouring Flame sent the Hun Clan People to attack the weakened Gu Clan, and it blocked Emperor Gu’s attempt to stop them.
• Xiao Li and Zi Yan broke into the Ancient Realm, and Xiao Li annihilated the Hun Clan People around him.
• Nihility Devouring Flame used Soul Emperor’s escape technique to flee with the remaining Hun Clan elites before Xiao Li could catch them.
• Emperor Gu told Xiao Li that Spiritual Qi was the energy needed to advance to Dou God and described the ancient war against the Evil Clan that led the eight rising talents to seal away the Dou Qi Continent.

After saving the Gu Clan, Xiao Li heard Emperor Gu’s Remnant Soul explain the Dou Qi Continent’s ancient war and its place in the Greater Thousand World. Emperor Gu gave Xiao Li a disk to find him if he was still alive, then dispersed.

• Emperor Gu used the Ancient Realm’s World Energy to heal the Gu Clan, while Xiao Li learned that Gu Lie and Gu Dao had lost much of their cultivation and the clan’s Dou God Bloodline was ruined.
• Gu Dao and the Gu Clan Elders thanked Xiao Li for saving them, and Xiao Li told them Gu Yuan was recovering at the Heavenly Palace and that they would have to manage without their former standing.
• Xiao Li spoke with Emperor Gu about bloodlines, and Emperor Gu said they could empower descendants but also restrain them.
• Emperor Gu told Xiao Li that the Demon Devouring Clan once invaded the Dou Qi Continent and that the first Dou God returned from the Greater Thousand World to help defeat them.
• Emperor Gu explained that the Dou Qi Continent was a lower plane, warned Xiao Li to beware of both Evil Clans and the Greater Thousand World’s natives, and handed him an ancient disk before dispersing.

Xiao Li left the Ancient Realm and learned more about the Greater Thousand World, while Hun Tiandi planned his next move against the clans and Xiao Li. Two and a half years later, Xiao Yan returned to the Tianfu Alliance with Gu Xun’er after subduing the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.

• Xiao Li and Zi Yan left the Ancient Realm, and Xiao Li explained the Greater Thousand World’s cultivation realms to her.
• Nihility Devouring Flame reported to Hun Tiandi that Xiao Li had reached Late Nine Star Dou Saint and forced him to retreat from the Gu Clan.
• Hun Tiandi decided to gather the Ancient Emperor Jades from the three clans during the Medicine Ceremony and seek a way to deal with Xiao Li.
• Xiao Li told the injured Gu Yuan that the Gu Clan needed to focus on rebuilding rather than dwelling on its past decline.
• Two and a half years later, Xiao Yan and Gu Xun’er returned to the Tianfu Alliance, with Xiao Yan at Mid-stage Six Star Dou Saint and Gu Xun’er at Five Star Dou Saint Early-Stage.

After Gu Yuan revealed that the Hun Clan had devastated the Gu Clan, Xiao Yan and Xiao Li prepared for the Hun Clan’s next attack at the Medicine Ceremony. Xiao Yan, Yao Chen, and Old Man Shennong arrived at the Yao Clan as Xiao Li began readying the Tianfu Alliance for the decisive battle.

• Gu Xun'er reunited with her wounded father, Gu Yuan, who welcomed Xiao Yan as her partner and blamed himself for the Gu Clan’s calamity.
• Xiao Li told Xiao Yan that Hun Tiandi had defeated Gu Yuan and predicted the Hun Clan would strike during the Medicine Ceremony to seize the Three-Clan Alliance’s Ancient Emperor Jade.
• Xiao Yan persuaded Xiao Li to give him the Ancient Emperor Jade so he could use it as bait, and Xiao Li also gave him a Spatial Jade Mirror that could communicate through Nihility Devouring Flame’s barrier.
• Seven days later, Xiao Yan, Yao Chen, and Old Man Shennong departed for the Yao Clan while Xiao Li ordered Cailin to prepare the Tianfu Alliance for war.
• Xiao Yan announced the group’s arrival at the Yao Clan, and the guards and onlookers recognized the renowned alchemists who had come to compete in the Medicine Ceremony.