Chapter Summaries

Xiao Li survived refining the Yin Yang Twin Flames, which devoured the Fallen Heart Flame’s Child Flame and strengthened his body and cultivation. He returned from the Gate of Life and Death to Yun Yun and Yun Shan, then offered to help Yun Shan break through to Dou Zong.

• The Yin Yang Twin Flames healed Xiao Li, overwhelmed the Fallen Heart Flame’s Child Flame, and absorbed it, gaining its heart-flame tempering ability.
• Xiao Li woke and discovered the Yin Yang Twin Flames were bound closely to him, the Fallen Heart Flame was gone, and his meridians and body had grown stronger.
• Xiao Li left the Gate of Life and Death and reunited with Yun Yun, who hugged him and scolded him for taking such a risk.
• Xiao Li told Yun Shan he had become a Rank 7 Alchemist and offered to refine more Breaking Ancestor Pills and other pills to support Yun Shan’s breakthrough to Dou Zong.
• Yun Shan agreed to enter seclusion and pursue the Dou Zong breakthrough after Yun Yun took over as Sect Leader.

Xiao Li returned to the Volcano Cluster with Yun Yun and used his newly formed Yin Yang Heart Flame to help Bai Lie stabilize Old Wang’s condition. Old Wang entered Nirvana, which could raise him to around Four Star Dou Ancestor after three to five years, while Xiao Li was told to meet Mang Tian Chi at Jia Nan Academy in one year.

• Xiao Li showed Bai Lie that the Yin Yang Twin Flames had devoured the Fallen Heart Flame’s Child Flame and become the Yin Yang Heart Flame.
• Bai Lie examined Old Wang and discovered his Heavenly Yang Physique, then instructed Xiao Li to guide the Yang Fire through his teacher’s meridians.
• Xiao Li refined Old Wang’s Medicinal Power, weakening the Demon Poison Spot and stabilizing his body.
• Old Wang entered Nirvana, and Bai Lie said he might reach around Four Star Dou Ancestor after three to five years.
• Bai Lie told Xiao Li that Mang Tian Chi wanted him to go to Jia Nan Academy in one year and travel to Central Continent.

Xiao Li strengthened the Xiao Clan and prepared to leave for the academy and Central Continent after a year. He left Xiao Lin in charge, confident the clan could manage without him.

• Xiao Li found Old Wang nearing a breakthrough and asked Xiao Ting to watch over him while he completed his Nirvana State.
• Xiao Li promised to refine cultivation pills for Xiao Ting, learned Xiao Zhan's son was soon to be born, and offered the child a Profound Bodhi Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Xiao Ting told Xiao Li about a young cousin with Fire Attribute Dou Qi and a trace of Wood Qi, and Xiao Li agreed to assess her potential as an Alchemist.
• During the following year, Yun Yun became the Misty Cloud Sect's Ninth Generation Sect Leader and entered seclusion, while Xiao Lin's military victories strengthened the Xiao Clan's standing.
• After challengers came to the Xiao Clan, Xiao Li killed two Dou Kings and confronted Jia Xingtian, who later stepped down from public rule.
• Xiao Li left the Imperial Capital, gave Xiao Lin a life-saving wisp of Yang Fire, and entrusted him with the clan as Xia Yilong joined the Xiao Clan after breaking through to Dou King.

Xiao Li departed for Central Continent after strengthening the Xiao Clan and arranging its protection, while Xiao Lin prepared the younger generation to take over clan affairs. At the Misty Cloud Sect, Yun Ji rejected Yun Leng’s attempt to secure a deacon position for the Mo Clan and abruptly dismissed the Elder Council after sensing someone’s arrival.

• Xiao Li reminded Xiao Lin that the clan’s Secret Guards and diligent cultivation would help protect the Xiao Clan, then flew away.
• Xiao Lin urged Xiao Zhan to learn clan management and cultivate, while keeping the truth about Xiao Ting’s survival and strength secret.
• Xiao Ting advanced to Six Star Dou Emperor, and Xiao Li’s cousins and the clan’s younger members continued growing stronger.
• Yun Ji questioned Yun Leng’s proposal to grant the Mo Clan a deacon position and condemned using the Misty Cloud Sect for power and profit.
• Yun Ji sensed someone’s arrival, dismissed the gathered elders, and left the Sect Master Hall.

Xiao Li left Misty Cloud Sect for Central Continent after arranging for Yun Ji to pass a message to Yun Yun. At Jia Nan Academy, he revealed that he had killed the Golden Silver Elders, then met Headmaster Mang Tian Chi, who said Xiao Li was suited to make a name for himself at the Pill Assembly.

• Xiao Li gave Yun Ji two Imperial Origin Pills and four Dou Spirit Pills and asked him to tell Yun Yun he had gone to Central Continent for training.
• Xiao Li killed the Golden Silver Elders after they attacked him, then hung their corpses from the Death Spirit Tree in Peace Town.
• Wu Tianlang learned that Xiao Li had killed the Golden Silver Elders and rushed to warn Hu Gan, where he found Xiao Li already visiting the Vice President.
• Xiao Li told Hu Gan and Wu Tianlang that he had killed the brothers, then asked Hu Gan to take him to Headmaster Mang Tian Chi.
• Mang Tian Chi praised Xiao Li's cultivation and Soul Force before revealing that he meant the Pill Assembly.

Mang Tian Chi ordered Xiao Li to enter Danta’s Pill Assembly to build his reputation and prepare for a future in the Central Continent. He gave Xiao Li an Earth Demon Puppet to withstand Pill Lightning, and Xiao Li set out to practice refining pills before the competition.

• Mang Tian Chi explained Danta’s power and urged Xiao Li to participate in the Pill Assembly, saying a strong showing would bring fame and open doors in the Central Continent.
• Xiao Li worried that Pill Lightning would prevent him from competing, and Mang Tian Chi realized he needed a way to help him withstand it.
• Mang Tian Chi gave Xiao Li an Earth Demon Puppet, which Xiao Li bound to himself with blood containing his Soul Mark.
• Xiao Li thanked Mang Tian Chi and went to ask Great Elder Su Qian for medicinal ingredients so he could practice refining Zong Yuan Pills.

Xiao Li returned to Jia Nan Academy to refine a Zong Yuan Pill for the Pill Assembly, revealing his Rank 7 alchemy skills and Yin Yang Twin Flames. He began refining the pill using his new fire-control technique as the academy’s Elders watched.

• Zi Yan welcomed Xiao Li back, revealed that she had reached Rank 5, and fell asleep after eating five Dou Spirit Pills at once.
• Xiao Li told Su Qian that he had become a Rank 7 Alchemist and needed ingredients to refine a Zong Yuan Pill; he declined Su Qian’s offer to help withstand the Pill Lightning.
• Fire Elder explained to the gathered Elders that a Zong Yuan Pill could raise a Dou Zong’s cultivation and improve their comprehension of the Power of Space.
• Xiao Li began refining the pill with his Yin Yang Twin Flames, using Yin Fire to extract the medicinal ingredients and Yang Fire to form the pill.
• Su Qian recognized the Yin Yang Twin Flames, while Mang Tian Chi observed Xiao Li’s refinement from a distance.

Xiao Li used the Earth Demon Puppet to withstand Pill Lightning from his newly refined Zong Yuan Pill, and the lightning tempered the puppet into a brighter, stronger form. He gave Su Qian the promised pill and offered to refine another for Xu Mo, then prepared to continue his pill training at Jia Nan Academy.

• Qian Bai Er Lao arrived to help Xiao Li face the Pill Lightning, but he insisted on handling it himself and split the first bolt with a black-flame slash.
• Xiao Li summoned the Earth Demon Puppet, whose punch shattered another lightning strike and astonished the academy elders with its Nine Star Dou Ancestor strength.
• The Earth Demon Puppet endured nearly half an hour of Pill Lightning, absorbing its energy and shedding impurities as its silver body brightened.
• Xiao Li resolved to refine more pills at Jia Nan Academy so the puppet could reach Dou Zun level before the Pill Assembly.
• Xiao Li gave Su Qian the promised Zong Yuan Pill and offered to refine one for Xu Mo, then began meditating before resuming his pill refinement.

Zi Yan asked Xiao Li to marry her so she could eat unlimited pills, prompting Su Qian to beat Xiao Li. Later, Xiao Li and Mang Tian Chi traveled toward Central Continent for the Pill Assembly, entering a Spatial Wormhole aboard Mang Tian Chi’s Spatial Ship.

• Zi Yan asked Xiao Li to make ten thousand sweet pills, and Xiao Li learned she had digested five Dou Spirit Pills and reached cultivation equivalent to a Three Star Dou King.
• Zi Yan proposed marrying Xiao Li for unlimited pills, and Su Qian dragged Xiao Li away before returning with him bruised and swollen.
• Mang Tian Chi and Xiao Li set off for Central Continent to attend the Pill Assembly, and Mang Tian Chi explained Spatial Wormholes during their journey.
• Mang Tian Chi brought Xiao Li to Tianya City, where the Luo Family let them use its Spatial Wormhole.
• Mang Tian Chi took out an Eight-Level Spatial Ship, and he and Xiao Li traveled through the passage toward Central Continent.

Xiao Li and Mang Tian Chi traveled to Tian Yuan City in the Central Continent, where Xiao Li found a Colorful Origin Stone and made it into a necklace. They then headed to the Yu Family’s Tian Yuan Auction House to browse before continuing toward the Pill Region.

• Xiao Li comprehended space during the journey, and Mang Tian Chi expected the trip to the Pill Assembly to take less than a month.
• Xiao Li and Mang Tian Chi arrived in the Central Continent and traveled to Tian Yuan City, where the Yu Family controlled a spatial wormhole leading to the Central Region.
• Xiao Li bargained with a stall owner and traded two Qing Yuan Pills for a Colorful Origin Stone and a Golden Silk Thread.
• Xiao Li fashioned the stone and thread into a necklace, while Mang Tian Chi teased him about his handiwork.
• Mang Tian Chi led Xiao Li to the Tian Yuan Auction House, where he planned to look for items that interested him.

Mang Tian Chi brought Xiao Li to the Tian Yuan Auction House, where Xiao Li hoped to find a higher-level Cultivation Method. After Yu Ruoyan captivated the crowd with her Bewitching Art, the Heaven class auction began.

• Xiao Li checked his pills and considered replacing his Earth Grade Low-level Nine Tribulations Heavenly Flame Technique as he approached the Dou Ancestor Level.
• Mang Tian Chi explained that the Spatial Trade Fair offered rarer treasures than the Tian Yuan Auction House, but Xiao Li did not yet qualify to attend.
• Yu Ruoyan appeared at the auction and used her Fox Charm Physique and Bewitching Art to captivate the crowd, while Xiao Li quickly regained control of himself.
• Mang Tian Chi told Xiao Li about Yu Ruoyan's Six-Star Dou Ancestor cultivation, Special Physique, and devotion to a single love.
• Yu Ruoyan opened the auction with a Mysterious Grade High-level Leg Technique, and the bidding began.

Xiao Li won the Eight Desolate Fire Scripture after a fierce bidding war with Yan Lie, then listened as the auction offered a Jade Slip granting entry to the Spatial Trade Fair. Bidding for the slip remained intense as the chapter ended.

• Xiao Li waited for a suitable Fire Attribute Cultivation Method while buying medicinal ingredients and the Soaring Dragon Flash Step.
• Xiao Li outbid Yan Lie of the Wind Lightning Pavilion for the Eight Desolate Fire Scripture, offering two Zong Yuan Pills and three Snow Soul Pills.
• An Elder of the Wind Lightning Eastern Pavilion urged Yan Lie to let Xiao Li win so they could kill him afterward, and Yan Lie agreed.
• Yu Ruoyan introduced a Jade Slip that allowed entry to the Spatial Trade Fair, where Heaven Rank Techniques and high-grade pills might appear.
• Bidders offered increasingly valuable treasures for the Jade Slip as Xiao Li doubted they could safely claim the fair’s legendary items.

The auction’s final two lots were a Grade 8 Purple-Green Supreme Pill and a Magic Thunder Jade Fragment tied to the Demon Thunder Saint’s inheritance. Mang Tian Chi wanted the fragment but had left his valuables at the academy, while another bidder offered a Grade 8 Three-Colored Pill.

• An old man won the jade slip with five Rank 7 Pills and an Earth Rank Cultivation Method and Battle Skill.
• Yu Ruoyan revealed the Three-Colored Purple-Green Supreme Pill, and Dou Zun Experts competed fiercely before a Venerable bought it for an astronomical price.
• Mang Tian Chi explained to Xiao Li how Earth Rank High Grade Cultivation Methods and star-level gaps shaped the strength of Dou Zun Experts.
• Yu Ruoyan presented the Magic Thunder Jade Fragment, which granted entry to the Demon Thunder Saint’s ruins and inheritance.
• Mang Tian Chi asked Xiao Li to lend him Rank 7 Pills because he had left his valuables at the academy, and Xiao Li pointed out that another bidder had offered a Grade 8 Three-Colored Pill.

Xiao Li and Mang Tian Chi left the Tian Yuan Auction House with Xiao Li’s purchases, then waited for rival experts to weaken one another before joining the looting. While Mang Tian Chi charged into the battle, Xiao Li killed a Rank 7 Alchemist and two Dou Zongs who tried to seize his cultivation method, and began searching their rings.

• Yu Lei Venerate bought the Magic Thunder Jade Fragment, and Mang Tian Chi explained that he was a Six Star Dou Venerate while Venerable Lei was a Three Star Dou Venerate.
• Mang Tian Chi escorted Xiao Li to collect his auction purchases, then told him they would wait for the other experts to fight before looting them.
• Several hundred li outside Tian Yuan City, Mang Tian Chi rushed into the battle while Xiao Li watched from a mountain with his Earth Demon Puppet.
• A White-Haired Elder certified as a Rank 7 Low-grade Alchemist demanded the Eight Desolate Fire Scripture, but Xiao Li’s Earth Demon Puppet killed him and his two Dou Zong companions.
• Xiao Li ordered the Earth Demon Puppet to capture the elder’s fleeing soul, burned it away with Yin Fire, and broke the soul restrictions on the three Storage Rings.

Xiao Li and Tian Chi looted the Wind Lightning Pavilion and several defeated rogue cultivators, gaining battle skills, pill formulas, cultivation methods, and remains. They arrived in Tianhuang City, where Xiao Li recognized the Liu Family as the home of a Jia Nan Academy student.

• Xiao Li searched Elder Yan's spoils and found Wind Lightning Pavilion battle skills, pill formulas, pills, cultivation methods, and a secret technique.
• Tian Chi returned after defeating the Wind Lightning Pavilion's Dou Zun, gave Xiao Li the spoils from the defeated cultivators, and borrowed Three Thousand Thunder Movements and Three Thousand Thunder Phantom Bodies.
• Xiao Li tallied the remaining loot and discussed turning Dou Zun remains into puppets, while Tian Chi advised him to preserve one good corpse.
• Xiao Li and Tian Chi traveled through a spatial wormhole and arrived near Tianhuang City in the Central Region.
• Xiao Li recognized Tianhuang City and suggested visiting the Liu Family, whose head he believed was a Jia Nan Academy Inner Academy student.

Xiao Li and Tian Chi arrived in Tianhuang City, where Xiao Li reunited with his old friends Liu Tianlong and Liu Tianjiao. After learning that Xiao Li had become a Rank 7 Alchemist and was headed to Danta’s Pill Assembly, the brothers received pills from him.

• Xiao Li and Tian Chi discussed Burning Flame Valley and its Half Saint Fire Cloud Old Ancestor while traveling through Tianhuang City.
• Xiao Li visited the Liu Family and identified himself to the guards as an old friend from Jia Nan Academy.
• Liu Tianlong and Liu Tianjiao welcomed Xiao Li and met Tian Chi, the headmaster of Jia Nan Academy.
• Xiao Li told the brothers that he was traveling to participate in Danta’s Pill Assembly and revealed that he was a Rank 7 Alchemist.
• Xiao Li gave Liu Tianlong and Liu Tianjiao an Imperial Origin Pill and a Dou Spirit Pill.

Xiao Li accepted the Liu Family’s support and refined pills in their secluded grounds, drawing Pill Lightning that revealed a Rank 7 Alchemist was in Tianhuang City. The Liu Family kept his identity secret as the Cheng Family and Burning Flame Valley reacted to the news, and Yin Valley also received a report.

• Liu Tianjiao persuaded Liu Tianlong to let Xiao Li use the Liu Family’s stored medicinal ingredients for pill practice, and Liu Tianlong predicted Xiao Li would become famous after the Pill Assembly.
• Liu Kunsheng approved opening the Liu Family’s Treasure Vault for Xiao Li and offered him a secluded place to refine pills; Xiao Li gave Liu Kunsheng a Zong Yuan Pill in thanks.
• Xiao Li began intensive pill refinement, and Pill Lightning over the Liu Family drew attention from across Tianhuang City.
• The Cheng Family Patriarch warned against harming the unknown Rank 7 Alchemist and ordered his identity investigated, while the Liu Family concealed Xiao Li’s identity.
• Tang Zhen learned that a Rank 7 Intermediate Alchemist was refining pills in Tianhuang City and decided to go investigate with the Second Elder.
• Yin Valley’s Valley Master received a report that Pill Lightning had appeared over Tianhuang City.

Su Wan Yin came to Tianhuang City and recognized the ancient Storage Ring Xiao Li wore, demanding to know where it came from. Xiao Li revealed that it had belonged to his teacher, Wang Ming, and Su Wan Yin demanded proof that he was Wang Ming's disciple.

• Su Wan Yin decided to visit Tianhuang City after hearing of a Rank 7 Alchemist there.
• Xiao Li continued honing his Alchemy while Mang Tian Chi praised his rapid progress.
• Liu Kunsheng told Xiao Li that Tang Zhen and Su Wan Yin had arrived specifically to see him, and he escorted Xiao Li and Mang Tian Chi to the Liu Family main hall.
• Su Wan Yin sensed Xiao Li and Mang Tian Chi, then clashed verbally with Tang Zhen over her visit.
• Xiao Li introduced himself as Wang Li, and Su Wan Yin seized his hand after spotting his Storage Ring; Mang Tian Chi struck her back to protect him.
• Xiao Li explained that Wang Ming, his teacher, had given him the Storage Ring, and Su Wan Yin demanded proof that he was Wang Ming's disciple.

Xiao Li convinced Su Wan Yin that he was Wang Ming’s disciple by showing her Wang Ming’s keepsakes and letter, and she welcomed him as her junior and gave him a Silver Scroll. Meanwhile, Wang Ming completed his Nirvana breakthrough to Five-Star Dou Ancestor and emerged looking young and transformed.

• Xiao Li showed Su Wan Yin the Nine Tribulations Heavenly Flame Hand, Blue Flame Cauldron, and Wang Ming’s letter, which moved her to tears.
• Su Wan Yin asked about Wang Ming’s condition, named herself Aunt Su, and accepted Xiao Li’s greeting as Shi Niang before giving him the Heavenly Sound Shock.
• Su Wan Yin took Xiao Li to a courtyard and asked him to explain how he met Wang Ming and what had happened to him.
• In the volcanic mountain range, Xiao Ting sensed a powerful disturbance and found Wang Ming absorbing the surrounding Fire Attribute energy.
• Wang Ming completed Nirvana, broke through to Five-Star Dou Ancestor, and discovered that his face and body had become youthful and handsome.

After Wang Ming recovered from more than a year in Nirvana State, he decided to claim the Mountain Rock Flame before returning to the Jia Ma Empire. In Central Continent, Xiao Li met Su Wan Yin, whose breakthrough revealed the formidable hidden foundations of the Three Valleys.

• Wang Ming awoke looking young again, reached Five-Star Dou Ancestor, and learned that Xiao Li had traveled through Central Continent with Jia Nan Academy's Headmaster.
• Wang Ming decided to seek the seventh-ranked Exotic Flame, the Mountain Rock Flame, before leaving.
• Su Wan Yin welcomed Xiao Li as her disciple and arranged for him to enter the Pill Assembly under Yin Valley's protection, warning him to avoid Tianming Sect, Di Ming Sect, Xuan Ming Sect, and Soul Hall.
• After learning Wang Ming was safe, Su Wan Yin broke through, and her surging Dou Qi forced Xiao Li to rely on the Earth Demon Puppet for protection.
• Mang Tian Chi and Tang Zhen refrained from disturbing Su Wan Yin's breakthrough, mindful of the Three Valleys' hidden experts: Fire Cloud Old Ancestor, Tianbing Old Demon, and Tianyin Old Man.