Chapter Summaries

Xiao Chuan used the Heavenly Fire Three Profound Changes to overpower and kill Huang Tian, then destroyed the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and took its treasures. After returning to Feng City, he left to travel with Zi Yan, who asked him to accompany her back to the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.

• As Xiao Chuan activated the first and second transformations of the Heavenly Fire Three Profound Changes, his cultivation rose to Seven-Star Dou Sheng and surpassed Huang Tian's.
• Xiao Chuan killed Huang Tian with Yellow Spring Finger, obliterating his soul, then slaughtered the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan without leaving survivors or souls.
• Xiao Chuan looted the clan's treasures, destroyed its small world, and took the clan's servant girls to Feng City with Lao Wang.
• Xiao Chuan handed the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan's treasures to the Mittal Auction House and, after several days in Feng City, left with Zi Yan to explore other places.
• Zi Yan asked Xiao Chuan to accompany her back to the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, and he promised to go with her.

Xiao Chuan visited the Dan Tower, where he revealed that he had destroyed the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and reached Tier 9 alchemist status. Meanwhile, the Soul Hall offered to help the Heavenly Underworld Sect attack the Flower Sect, leaving the sect to consider an alliance.

• Xiao Chuan thanked Xuan Kongzi for the Dan Tower's help and told him he had killed Huang Tian and destroyed the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.
• Xuan Kongzi warned Xiao Chuan that the Soul Hall had been capturing people and was suspected of wiping out several Central Plains factions.
• Xiao Chuan revealed that he had become a Tier 9 Alchemist, shocking Xuan Kongzi, Xuan Yi, and Tian Lei Zi.
• The Heavenly Underworld Sect's leaders learned that Hua Jin and Evil Lord Demon Flower were dead, and that Hua Yu was still alive.
• A Soul Hall expert offered to secretly help the Heavenly Underworld Sect deal with the Flower Sect and proposed cooperation.

The Heavenly Underworld Sect agreed to Soul Hall’s covert support and declared war on the Flower Sect. After Yao Ming reported the imminent attack to Xiao Chuan in Shengdan City, Xiao Chuan set out to confront the forces behind it.

• Ancestor Tianming agreed to join forces with Soul Hall after its expert promised two additional High-Rank Half-Saints to help defeat the Flower Sect.
• The Heavenly Underworld Sect declared war on the Flower Sect.
• Yao Ming found Xiao Chuan in Shengdan City and reported that the Heavenly Underworld Sect was preparing a major move against the Flower Sect.
• Yao Ming told Xiao Chuan that he had sensed a force beyond the Heavenly Underworld Sect, and Xiao Chuan suspected Soul Hall was involved.
• Xiao Chuan told Yao Ming to go with him to meet the people behind the impending attack.

Xiao Chuan defeated the Soul Hall and Heavenly Underworld Sect forces attacking the Flower Sect, then captured the Great Heavenly Venerable and learned the Soul Hall headquarters’ location. He arrived at the headquarters in its hidden dark space, ready to destroy it.

• Xiao Chuan killed Heavenly Underworld Ancestor with one kick, and the Flower Sect routed the remaining Heavenly Underworld Sect fighters.
• Xiao Chuan intercepted and subdued the Great Heavenly Venerable, then learned he was a leader of the Soul Hall’s Nine Heavenly Venerables.
• Xiao Chuan killed the two fleeing High-Rank Half-Saints, while Yao Ming and the Flower Sect annihilated the Heavenly Underworld Sect forces.
• Xiao Chuan ordered Yao Ming to destroy the Heavenly Underworld Sect and divide its spoils between the Nine Serene Deep Earth Python Clan and the Mittal Auction House.
• Xiao Chuan controlled the Great Heavenly Venerable and made him reveal the Soul Hall headquarters’ location in an independent dark space.
• Xiao Chuan followed the Great Heavenly Venerable into the Soul Hall headquarters.

Xiao Chuan infiltrated the Soul Hall headquarters, defeated and killed Hun Miesheng, and used the information he gained to destroy the Soul Hall’s branches across the Central Plains. The chapter leaves Huo Zhan and Qian Xuan waiting for a chance to attack Zi Yan in Shengdan City.

• Xiao Chuan raised his cultivation from Four-Star to Eight-Star Dou Sheng with the Heavenly Fire Three Profound Changes and crushed Hun Miesheng with two slaps.
• Xiao Chuan searched Hun Miesheng’s soul for the Soul Hall branch and array locations, then killed him.
• Xiao Chuan destroyed all twenty-four Disha Halls and the ordinary Soul Hall branches he found across the Central Plains.
• The Soul Clan lost contact with the Soul Hall but could not identify who had destroyed it.
• In Shengdan City, Huo Zhan and Qian Xuan hesitated to attack Zi Yan while she remained in Dan Tower territory and Zhu Li was nearby.

Xiao Chuan caught two North Dragon Island elders who had been watching Zi Yan and learned that the Ancient Void Dragon Clan was moving toward conflict. As he accompanied Zi Yan and Zhu Li back to East Dragon Island, the three Dragon Kings allied and marched to seize it.

• Xiao Chuan found Zi Yan in Shengdan City and sensed Huo Zhan and Qian Xuan watching her.
• Xiao Chuan subdued the two elders, and Zhu Li identified them as members of North Dragon Island who had been sent to assassinate Zi Yan.
• Zi Yan asked Xiao Chuan to help protect East Dragon Island, and he agreed to return with her and Zhu Li to the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.
• The North Dragon King urged the West Dragon King and South Dragon King to openly seize East Dragon Island, and they agreed.
• The three Dragon Kings gathered the Three Islands' elders and powerhouses and appeared in spatial rifts around East Dragon Island.

Xiao Chuan helped Zi Yan and East Dragon Island confront the rebellious Three Dragon Kings, killing all three before they could challenge her claim. With the rebellion crushed, Qingshan announced that East Dragon Island would take control of the Three Dragon Islands and gave their followers a chance to submit.

• Zi Yan and the East Dragon Island elders agreed to target the Three Dragon Kings while sparing the rest of the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.
• The Three Dragon Kings arrived and demanded that East Dragon Island hand over Zi Yan, but Qingshan refused.
• Xiao Chuan killed the West Dragon King with a punch and the South Dragon King with the Yellow Spring Finger.
• Xiao Chuan annihilated the North Dragon King with a single finger before he could use the Dragon Transformation Demonic Array.
• Qingshan told the surviving members of the Three Dragon Islands that East Dragon Island would take control and urged them to turn over a new leaf.

Xiao Chuan met with Gu Yuan and revealed that the Soul Clan stood behind the Soul Hall and that he had killed Hun Miesheng. He then warned Gu Yuan that the Ling Clan had already been wiped out, leaving the Gu Clan to verify the news.

• The Ancient Void Dragon Clan surrendered, and Xiao Chuan left its reorganization to Zi Yan before returning to the Flower Sect.
• After several days with Lingling, Xiao Chuan returned to the Mittal Auction House, where Old Man invited him to meet Gu Yuan.
• At the Gu Clan's Ancient Realm, Gu Yuan and Gu Lie learned that Xiao Chuan had reached Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Chuan told Gu Yuan and Gu Lie that the Soul Clan stood behind the Soul Hall and that he had killed Hun Miesheng, showing them the Child Flame of the Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Xiao Chuan revealed that the Ling Clan was already gone, and Gu Yuan asked whether he was sure.

Xiao Chuan helped Gu Yuan discover that the Soul Clan had destroyed the Ling Clan, prompting the ancient clans to gather and consider uniting against the Soul Clan. At the meeting, Xiao Chuan became an Emperor Grade Alchemist, and the representatives learned that he had already destroyed Soul Hall.

• Gu Yuan, Gu Lie, and Xiao Chuan found that the Ling Clan's spatial world had vanished, confirming the clan was gone.
• Gu Yuan sent Gu Lie to summon the other ancient clans, then allowed Xiao Chuan to visit Xun Er, who gave him a Peace Talisman for his birthday.
• Gu Lie gathered representatives from the ancient clans, and Xiao Chuan joined their meeting.
• Xiao Chuan received a notification that Xiao Yan's advancement to Tier 6 Alchemist had raised his alchemy proficiency to Emperor Grade Alchemist.
• Gu Yuan told the representatives that the Soul Clan had destroyed the Ling Clan and that Xiao Chuan had already uprooted Soul Hall.
• Yao Dan and the other representatives agreed they needed to stand together against the Soul Clan.

Xiao Chuan accompanied Yao Dan to the Yao Clan, where he was introduced as an example for its younger alchemists. Hun Xuzi then infiltrated the clan with hostages and opened a spatial passage for Soul Clan reinforcements, leaving Xiao Chuan facing an unavoidable battle.

• Gu Yuan was chosen to lead the clans' alliance against the Soul Clan, and the other leaders departed to prepare their clans.
• Yao Dan invited Xiao Chuan to the Yao Clan so its younger generation could learn from his strength, and Xiao Chuan agreed.
• Hun Xuzi captured Yao Tian and Yao Ling, forced Yao Jixing to guide him into the Yao Clan Small World, and planned to let Soul Clan experts invade through a spatial passage.
• Yao Dan presented Xiao Chuan to the Yao Clan's younger generation and urged them to learn from him and overcome their arrogance.
• Yao Jixing arrived with Hun Xuzi and the hostages, and Hun Xuzi opened a spatial passage that released powerful Soul Clan Auras.

The Soul Clan trapped the Yao Clan inside its sealed Small World, but Xiao Chuan’s cultivation surged to Nine-Star Dou Sheng and he turned the battle around. He left Nihility Devouring Flame as the only major enemy still standing.

• Nihility Devouring Flame sealed the Yao Clan Small World with Nihility Black Flame, cutting off escape and outside help.
• Xiao Chuan attacked Hun Xuzi, whose Soul Power and cultivation could not withstand him, and killed him with one punch.
• Xiao Chuan created two Nine-Star Dou Sheng clones with the Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Body, and they killed Hun Jing and Hun Yan.
• Xiao Chuan freed Yao Tian and Yao Ling, and Yao Dan and the rescued pair realized he had saved the Yao Clan.
• Nihility Devouring Flame faced Xiao Chuan after his plan collapsed and was unwilling to accept the turn of events.

Xiao Chuan captured Nihility Devouring Flame after defeating him with self-destructing clones and overwhelming Soul Power, then emerged from the collapsing small world and killed Hun Sha. Yao Dan thanked Xiao Chuan, recognizing that they now had the strength to fight the Soul Clan.

• Xiao Chuan used a self-destructing clone to break Nihility Devouring Flame’s escape and pursued him through the collapsing space.
• Xiao Chuan and another clone cornered Nihility Devouring Flame, and a second self-destruction severely injured him.
• Nihility Devouring Flame unleashed his Di Realm Soul, but Xiao Chuan’s stronger Soul Power shattered it and left him helpless.
• Xiao Chuan captured Nihility Devouring Flame, imprisoned him, and made him his servant so he could learn the Soul Clan’s location.
• Yao Dan and the others escaped the small world, where Hun Sha waited outside to attack them.
• Xiao Chuan arrived and killed Hun Sha with Yellow Spring Finger, and Yao Dan thanked him for saving the Yao Clan.

Xiao Chuan brought the rescued Yao Clan members to Feng City and arranged shelter for them. He put them to work refining pills for the Mittal Auction House, while Yao Dan left to warn others about the Soul Clan.

• Xiao Chuan escorted the Yao Clan through a spatial passage to Feng City, where Xiao Yi Xian arranged accommodations for them.
• Yao Dan went to notify others of the Soul Clan’s threat while Xiao Chuan stayed behind to protect the clan.
• Yao Wangui agreed to organize the Yao Clan disciples to refine medicinal pills for the Mittal Auction House.
• Yao Wangui confronted Yao Tian, Yao Jixing, and Yao Ling over their role in the trouble, but Xiao Chuan told them to atone by refining pills.
• Xiao Chuan joked that he would make the three refine pills for the Mittal Auction House for the rest of their lives, leaving Yao Wangui speechless.

Xiao Yan and Yao Chen confronted Yao Wangui over his past betrayal, while Xiao Chuan and the clan leaders discussed the weakened Soul Clan and how to find its location. Xiao Chuan planned to make Nihility Devouring Flame reveal where the Soul Clan was so the clans could prepare a counterattack.

• Xiao Yan arrived in Feng City and learned that Yao Wangui had falsely accused Yao Chen, prompting Yao Chen to confront him.
• Yao Wangui admitted what he had done, and Yao Chen declared that Xiao Yan would help him reclaim what he had lost; Xiao Chuan left their grudge for them to settle themselves.
• Xiao Chuan criticized Yao Dan's management of the Yao Clan, while Gu Yuan discovered that Xiao Chuan had advanced to Five-Star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Chuan explained how he had defeated the Soul Clan's forces, and Yao Dan urged Gu Yuan to join the clans in striking back.
• Xiao Chuan offered to force Nihility Devouring Flame to reveal the Soul Clan's location, while Gu Yuan returned to alert the other clans and Yao Dan considered changes to the Yao Clan.

Hun Tiandi grew concerned when Nihility Devouring Flame failed to return from the Yao Clan, while Xiao Chuan tortured his captive and encouraged Xiao Yan to grow stronger. Xiao Chuan then went to the Flower Sect, where his advanced alchemical insight gave him a way to address Mother Flower’s worsening condition, and he prepared to refine medicine.

• Hun Tiandi sent Hun Tu to investigate the Yao Clan and learned that the clan was gone, but Nihility Devouring Flame and the others were missing.
• Xiao Chuan tortured Nihility Devouring Flame for information about the Soul Clan, then told him he would refine him regardless of whether he talked.
• Xiao Yan confessed that he felt weak beside Xiao Chuan, so Xiao Chuan gave him a Huangji Pill before he set out to gain experience.
• Xiao Yan’s cultivation rose to Two-star and then Three Star Dou Emperor, raising Xiao Chuan’s cultivation to Six-Star and Seven-Star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Chuan arrived at the Flower Sect and told Yun Yun that his alchemical insight had revealed a way to resolve Mother Flower’s condition, then prepared to refine medicine.

Xiao Chuan refined a Tier 9 Golden Pill that could save Mother Flower, then considered how to resolve Queen Medusa’s two-soul problem. After returning to Feng City, he learned that several ancient clans had allied against the Soul Clan and exposed its destruction of the Ling Clan.

• Xiao Chuan spent weeks refining a pill, and a Pill Tribulation revealed it was a Tier 9 Golden Pill.
• Xiao Chuan gave the pill to Mother Flower, who was overjoyed, and then spent the night with Yun Yun.
• Xiao Chuan discovered that the innocent Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python soul could take control of Queen Medusa’s body, and he promised to find a way to resolve their situation.
• Xiao Chuan concluded that separating the two souls would require recovery pills and a way to create a Soul Container, but he lacked the knowledge to refine such a pill.
• Xiao Chuan returned to Feng City and learned that several ancient clans had allied against the Soul Clan and revealed that it had exterminated the Ling Clan.
• Gu Yuan and the other clan leaders publicly challenged the Soul Clan to draw it into a fight while it was weakened.

Hun Tiandi realized that Nihility Devouring Flame and the Soul Clan’s missing experts had likely been defeated, and began plotting a desperate scheme against the alliance. In Feng City, Xiao Chuan started refining Nihility Devouring Flame to extract his memories, while the Soul Clan remained hidden and the process was only halfway complete as the birth of Xiao Chuan’s children drew near.

• Hun Tiandi connected the alliance’s formation with the disappearance of Nihility Devouring Flame and the Soul Clan’s experts, then began arranging a new scheme.
• Xiao Chuan returned to Feng City, visited Ya Fei and Feng Qing'er, and considered names for their soon-to-be-born children.
• Xiao Chuan confronted Nihility Devouring Flame, who was stunned by Xiao Chuan’s rise to Seven-Star Dou Sheng and refused to reveal the Soul Clan’s location.
• Xiao Chuan used his Di Realm soul to erase Nihility Devouring Flame’s soul so he could refine him and extract his memories.
• The Soul Clan stayed out of sight as tension grew across the Central Plains, while Xiao Chuan’s refining progress reached halfway.

After refining the Nihility Devouring Flame, Xiao Chuan learned the Soul Clan's location and joined Gu Yuan's forces to attack its lair, only to find it abandoned. The Soul Clan then began massacring cities across the Central Plains, and the chapter ended with news that it had seized over a hundred cities and activated a formation to devour their inhabitants.

• Ya Fei and Feng Qing'er gave birth to sons while Xiao Chuan remained in seclusion.
• Xiao Chuan emerged after refining the Nihility Devouring Flame, visited Ya Fei and his newborn son, and learned from Xiao Yi Xian that nothing had happened in the Central Plains.
• Xiao Chuan told Gu Yuan that he knew the Soul Clan's location, and Gu Yuan gathered forces to attack its lair.
• Gu Yuan's forces found the Soul Clan's small world empty and began searching for traces of its relocated members, with Xiao Chuan suggesting they investigate cities.
• Reports revealed that the Soul Clan had massacred more than a dozen cities, then seized over a hundred cities and activated a formation to devour everyone inside.

The Soul Clan seized cities and threatened their inhabitants to force the alliance to hand over the Tou She Ancient God Jade. Xiao Chuan revealed his overwhelming strength, and Gu Yuan gave Hun Tiandi the jade in exchange for releasing half the cities, but Hun Tiandi broke his promise and left the others in danger.

• The Soul Clan took control of more than a hundred cities and demanded the Tou She Ancient God Jade in exchange for the people’s lives.
• Xiao Chuan urged the alliance to hand over the jade, saying he had a way to deal with Hun Tiandi and that Hun Tiandi could not reach Dou Di.
• Xiao Chuan used the Heavenly Fire Three Profound Changes to rise to Peak Nine-Star Dou Sheng, convincing Gu Yuan and the other patriarchs of his strength.
• Gu Yuan gave Hun Tiandi most of the Tou She Ancient God Jade after Hun Tiandi agreed to release half the cities, and Gu Lie reported that those cities were safe.
• Gu Yuan handed over the remaining jade, but Hun Tiandi refused to release the other cities and left, telling the alliance to clean up the mess.

Xiao Chuan rescued Fentian Valley and joined the other Dou Sheng in hunting down Soul Clan forces while Hun Tiandi used the Tou She Ancient God Jade to locate Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion. Hun Tiandi reached the Magma World beneath Jia Nan Academy, where Xiao Chuan and the others were waiting for him.

• Xiao Chuan killed the Soul Clan Dou Sheng controlling Fentian Valley and reassured Tang Zhen that Huo'er was safe in Feng City.
• Xiao Chuan and the other Dou Sheng intercepted and slaughtered Soul Clan experts who had been marked during the negotiations.
• Hun Tiandi learned the cave mansion's location from the Tou She Ancient God Jade and ordered Hun Tu to distract their enemies by sacrificing Soul Clan members.
• Hun Tiandi followed the jade to Jia Nan Academy and entered the Magma World beneath the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower.
• Gu Yuan asked Xiao Chuan how he had known Hun Tiandi would come there.