Chapter Summaries

The First Elder Council settled the dispute over Xiao Yan by expelling him from the Pill Pagoda and ordering compensation for Lin Feng. Gu Xun'er agreed to provide Lin Feng with a poison-attributed Heaven Grade Cultivation Method, then left after warning him against the Ancient Clan.

• Gu Xun'er invoked the Ancient Clan's agreement to protect Xiao Yan, and the Second Elder turned to Lin Feng to settle the matter.
• Gu Xun'er offered to stop pursuing the belongings Lin Feng had taken from Xiao Yan and compensate him with a Heaven Grade Cultivation Method; Lin Feng requested a poison-attributed one, and she agreed.
• The Second Elder expelled Xiao Yan from the Pill Pagoda and fined each of the Three Giants two eight-colored medicinal pills, with compensation due within a month.
• The elders departed, while the Three Giants reflected that their efforts to rescue Xiao Yan had angered the Second Elder.
• Gu Xun'er told Lin Feng she would send his compensation and warned him about the Ancient Clan; Lin Feng answered with a warning about the clan's future and left.

Lin Feng left the Lesser Pill Pagoda after settling matters with Gu Xun'er and the Pill Tower Three Giants, then returned to Ye Courtyard. He told Feng Qing'er, Xiao Yi Xian, and Ye Xinlan about the dispute and warned them that Gu Xun'er might spread word of their connection.

• Lin Feng visited Dan Chen to tell her he was leaving the Lesser Pill Pagoda and promised to bring her a gift when he returned.
• Dan Chen gave Lin Feng three Metal Attribute Eight-Rank Magic Cores for his cultivation.
• Lin Feng returned to Ye Courtyard and found Feng Qing'er, Xiao Yi Xian, and Ye Xinlan admiring a Huang Ji Pill that Ye Xinlan had refined.
• Lin Feng told the three women that Gu Xun'er had agreed to compensate them with a Heaven Grade Cultivation Method and warned that she might retaliate.
• Lin Feng cautioned Feng Qing'er that Gu Xun'er might spread rumors about their relationship to cause them trouble.

Lin Feng reassured Feng Qing'er about the threat of revealing her marriage, explained that he had requested a poison-attributed Heaven Grade Cultivation Method for Xiao Yi Xian, and distributed pills earned from selling puppets. Feng Qing'er reported that Revered Thunder was gathering bones and disciples to bring back, while Lin Feng prepared to pursue his breakthrough before the Pill Gathering.

• Lin Feng told Feng Qing'er that if their secret was exposed, they could reveal that Xiao Yan possessed multiple Heavenly Flames, easing her worries.
• Lin Feng explained that he had chosen a poison-attributed Heaven Grade Cultivation Method for Xiao Yi Xian and presented Feng Qing'er with another gift: a large stockpile of Grade Eight Pills.
• Lin Feng distributed Five-Color and Seven-colored Pills to Feng Qing'er and Xiao Yi Xian, gave five Five-Color Pills to Ye Xinlan for the Ye Family, and kept the rest for his own plans.
• Feng Qing'er said Revered Thunder had returned to the Wind Lightning Pavilion to retrieve former pavilion masters' bones and trustworthy disciples, and Lin Feng said he was ready to use the Secret Technique when Revered Thunder arrived.
• Lin Feng planned to settle outstanding matters, absorb his two Heavenly Flames, and reach Dou Zun before the Pill Gathering in about ten months.

Lin Feng sent Xiao Yi Xian, Feng Qing'er, and Ye Xinlan into seclusion to raise their strength while he left Sacred Pill City to absorb his Heavenly Flames. Gu Xun'er reunited with the weakened Xiao Yan, who learned she had failed to recover his teacher’s belongings and vowed to reclaim them himself.

• Lin Feng gave Xiao Yi Xian the Green Lotus Core Flame, Fallen Heart Flame, and a Grade Eight Alchemist’s soul, and asked her to resurrect the Wind Lightning Pavilion’s people.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Feng Qing'er went into seclusion, and Ye Xinlan also left to improve her strength.
• Lin Feng flew toward the outskirts of Sacred Pill City to hide and advance while Gu Xun'er visited Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan asked whether Gu Xun'er had recovered the Bone Flame Ring and Ancient Spirit Cold Fire, and she admitted she had failed and had given away a Heaven Grade Cultivation Method.
• Xiao Yan comforted Gu Xun'er and vowed to defeat Lin Feng himself and reclaim his teacher’s belongings.

Gu Xun'er told Xiao Yan that his family descended from the Xiao Clan, once one of eight Dou Di bloodline clans, and explained that the Soul Clan had destroyed it. She revealed that the Soul Hall was the Soul Clan's pawn, leaving Xiao Yan vowing revenge and asking how the Xiao Clan's past could help him obtain Heavenly Flames.

• Xiao Yan brooded over Lin Feng's strength and asked Gu Xun'er how he could quickly increase his power.
• Gu Xun'er explained that the continent had once had eight Dou Di bloodline clans, including the Xiao Clan of Wutan City.
• Gu Xun'er recounted that the Soul Clan had destroyed the Xiao Clan and that the Ancient Clan had later seized its remaining territory and possessions.
• Xiao Yan learned that the Soul Clan had also used the Soul Hall to capture Xiao Zhan and Venerable Yao, and he swore revenge.
• Xiao Yan asked Gu Xun'er whether the Xiao Clan's history was connected to the Heavenly Flames he needed.

Gu Xun'er persuaded Xiao Yan to agree to a deal with the Ancient Clan in exchange for at least three Heavenly Flames, hoping the boost would strengthen him and improve his chances of marrying her. Meanwhile, Lin Feng traveled to the Eastern Region of Central Province and began preparing to break through to the Dou Zun realm.

• Gu Xun'er told Xiao Yan that the Ancient Clan had taken control of the abandoned Xiao Realm to keep the Soul Clan from using it as a base.
• Gu Xun'er proposed that the Ancient Clan help Xiao Yan obtain several Heavenly Flames, and Xiao Yan agreed to her plan.
• Xiao Yan required the Ancient Clan to find at least three Heavenly Flames ranked twentieth or higher, including one no weaker in rank than his Fallen Heart Flame, and excluded the flames on Lin Feng.
• Xiao Yan expected the flames to evolve Fen Jue, help him reach Dou Zun, and give him the strength to kill Lin Feng and reclaim his flames and Bone Flame Ring.
• Lin Feng traveled for nearly ten days to a mountain range near the edge of the Eastern Region, secured a cave, and prepared to break through with the Netherworld Poison Fire.

Lin Feng swallowed the Netherworld Poison Fire and began fusing it with his other Heavenly Flames, then used the Myriad Beast Spirit Fire to continue pursuing a breakthrough to the Dou Zun realm. In Sacred Pill City, Xiao Yan and the Three Giants realized Lin Feng had disappeared and sent people to find and sabotage his breakthrough.

• Lin Feng forced the Netherworld Poison Fire through his meridians and into his dantian, where he used Fen Jue to merge it with his existing Heavenly Flames.
• When the Netherworld Poison Fire did not provide enough power for Lin Feng to break through, he swallowed the Myriad Beast Spirit Fire and continued absorbing it.
• Nearly a month after Lin Feng disappeared, Xiao Yan and the Three Giants visited Ye Courtyard but found only Xiao Yi Xian and Ye Xinlan there.
• The Three Giants secretly searched Ye Courtyard with Soul Power and found no trace of Lin Feng, leading them to conclude that he had left to break through.
• Xiao Yan and the Three Giants agreed to send trusted Dou Zuns to find Lin Feng and disrupt his breakthrough.

After months of searching, Xiao Yan and the three giants failed to find Lin Feng, while Xiao Yan signed an agreement with the Ancient Clan in exchange for three Heavenly Flames. Gu Xun'er paid Xiao Yi Xian’s compensation, drawing powerful strangers to Ye Courtyard, where revived allies protected her as Feng Qing'er rapidly grew stronger.

• Xiao Yan and the three giants searched the Central, Western, Northern, and Beast Regions for Lin Feng but found no clues and eventually gave up.
• Gu Xun'er returned to Sacred Pill City with Ancient Clan elders, and Xiao Yan signed an agreement promising him three Heavenly Flames.
• Gu Xun'er publicly gave Xiao Yi Xian her compensation, and the Pill Tower announced the outcome without detailing the full payment.
• Rumors exaggerated Xiao Yi Xian’s compensation, attracting many Dou Zuns to Ye Courtyard, where Revered Thunder and Feng Qing'er’s revived subordinates deterred them.
• Feng Qing'er had her revived subordinates learn part of the Digang Inverted Heaven Great Array, and she advanced to Seven-star Dou Zun.

Xiao Yan secured the Nine Dragon Lightning Seal Fire and the Volcanic Stone Flame through the Ancient Clan’s negotiations, then chose to absorb the less dangerous Volcanic Stone Flame first. After eight months in seclusion, Lin Feng emerged having broken through to the Dou Zun realm.

• Xiao Yan signed an agreement with the Ancient Clan, which paid two Ninth-grade Treasure Pills to settle its past wrongdoing.
• The Ancient Clan healed Old Ancestor Huo Yun and traded a Ninth-grade Treasure Pill to Fen Yan Valley for the Nine Dragon Lightning Seal Fire.
• When a reclusive family refused a pill exchange for the Volcanic Stone Flame, the Ancient Clan offered a marriage alliance through its outer branch, and the family agreed.
• Xiao Yan received both Heavenly Flames and decided to absorb the Volcanic Stone Flame before the more dangerous Nine Dragon Lightning Seal Fire.
• Lin Feng’s breakthrough shook the surrounding region, and he emerged from seclusion as a Dou Zun.

Lin Feng returned from seclusion as a Dou Zun and learned that the Pill Gathering was three months away, then reached Ye Courtyard to find powerful elders guarding it. The chapter ended when a woman ordered Fei Tian to stop attacking Lin Feng.

• Lin Feng tested his new spatial power, created a Space Wormhole, and set off for Sacred Pill City.
• Lin Feng learned that alchemists had gathered for the Pill Gathering, which would begin in three months, and decided to improve his alchemy.
• Lin Feng traveled through the void to Ye Courtyard, where three six-star Dou Zuns and an eight-star Dou Zun confronted him.
• The three elders used the Digang Inverted Heaven Great Array to raise the eight-star elder’s power to the Peak Dou Zun realm.
• A woman called out to Fei Tian and stopped him from attacking Lin Feng.

Lin Feng returned to Ye Courtyard after more than half a year and reunited with Feng Qing'er, who told him how she and the others had been hunting Soul Hall members alongside Xiao Yan's campaign. The chapter left Lin Feng puzzling over Xiao Yan's sudden rise in strength and greeting Ye Xinlan and Xiao Yi Xian as they returned.

• Lin Feng reunited with Feng Qing'er and flew with her to Ye Courtyard, while Fei Tian and the others realized the pair were intimate.
• Feng Qing'er told Lin Feng that Ye Xinlan and Xiao Yi Xian had gone with Dou Zun experts to hunt Soul Hall Protectors and explained that Xiao Yan had been attacking Soul Hall members.
• Feng Qing'er reported that Xiao Yan had rapidly advanced to Seven-star Dou Zong and that the resurrected Wind Venerable had reached roughly Seven-star Dou Zun.
• Lin Feng and Feng Qing'er suspected that the Ancient Clan had helped Xiao Yan find a Heavenly Flame, after hearing that the clan had sent Dou Zun members across other continents.
• Ye Xinlan and Xiao Yi Xian returned, and Ye Xinlan threw herself into Lin Feng's arms, telling him she had missed him.

Lin Feng reunited with Ye Xinlan and Xiao Yi Xian, learned that Xiao Yi Xian had reached the Spirit Realm, and agreed to raid a weakened Soul Hall branch in the Youmo Mountain Range. He left with Xiao Yi Xian and Feng Qing'er while Ye Xinlan stayed behind.

• Lin Feng comforted Ye Xinlan, then Xiao Yi Xian told her that their enemies made it dangerous for him to stay with them.
• Lin Feng discovered that Xiao Yi Xian's Soul Power had reached the Spirit Realm, while Ye Xinlan and Feng'er had reached Intermediate Seventh-grade.
• Ye Xinlan and Xiao Yi Xian told Lin Feng that most experts had left a Soul Hall branch in the Youmo Mountain Range, leaving a two-star Venerable Elder and several dozen Protectors.
• Lin Feng agreed to attack the branch and collect its Soul Bodies, but forbade Ye Xinlan from joining because of her Dou Emperor-level cultivation.
• Lin Feng departed with Xiao Yi Xian and Feng Qing'er after reviewing the branch's dangers and planning their raid.

Lin Feng, Xiao Yi Xian, and Feng Qing'er traveled to the Youmo Mountain Range and located a hidden Soul Hall branch hall. Lin Feng planned to break its Spatial Barrier while the two women concealed their actions.

• Lin Feng, Xiao Yi Xian, and Feng Qing'er reached the Youmo Mountain Range after four days of nonstop flight.
• Xiao Yi Xian led Lin Feng and Feng Qing'er through the frigid mountains, where they cautiously avoided Soul Hall patrols and Eight-Rank Magical Beasts.
• The three arrived at a steep slope overlooking a valley that held a massive black Soul Hall branch hall.
• Xiao Yi Xian explained that a Spatial Barrier concealed the branch hall, and Lin Feng sensed a Dou Zun and more than a dozen Dou Zong Protectors inside.
• Lin Feng asked Xiao Yi Xian and Feng Qing'er to create a concealment barrier while he broke through the Spatial Barrier and attacked the Soul Hall personnel.

Lin Feng attacked a Soul Hall branch and drew out its Elder and fifteen Protectors. After defeating and capturing the Two-star Dou Zun Elder, he watched the Protectors try to flee, unaware that Xiao Yi Xian and Feng Qing'er had sealed off the area.

• Lin Feng reclaimed the Fallen Heart Flame and Green Lotus Core Flame from Xiao Yi Xian while Feng Qing'er and Xiao Yi Xian concealed their appearances.
• Lin Feng struck the Soul Hall's Spatial Barrier, prompting the Elder and fifteen Soul Hall Protectors to come out.
• Lin Feng used Glimmering Shadow Movement and the Myriad Gang Body Tempering Art to break the Elder's arms and knock him away.
• The Elder begged for mercy, so Lin Feng stopped his attack and seized him by the neck.
• The Soul Hall Protectors scattered to escape, but Xiao Yi Xian and Feng Qing'er had sealed off the area.

Lin Feng captured the fleeing Soul Hall Protectors, implanted a Heavenly Flame seed in a Soul Hall Elder, and forced him to open the Spatial Barrier. With the barrier gone, Lin Feng entered the sub-hall as its Protectors sounded the alarm.

• Lin Feng used the Falling Heart Flame to capture fifteen fleeing Soul Hall Protectors and sealed them in Jade Bottles.
• Lin Feng planted a Heavenly Flame seed in the Soul Hall Elder and used its pain to force him to cooperate.
• The Two-star Dou Zun opened the Spatial Barrier with a hand seal, revealing the Soul Hall sub-hall.
• Lin Feng broke through the hall's ceiling and entered, prompting the Protectors inside to shout that an enemy had attacked.

Lin Feng subdued the Soul Hall Protectors and looted a warehouse in the branch hall. He then discovered a vast chamber filled with imprisoned Soul Bodies, including two exceptionally powerful ones.

• Lin Feng used the Soul Hall's Three-stage Soul Lock to capture the hidden Protectors and sealed them in Jade Bottles.
• Lin Feng searched the hall, identified it as a warehouse, and collected its pills, Pill Recipes, medicinal cauldrons, and other supplies.
• Lin Feng defeated more stationed Protectors as he searched the branch hall and gathered several dozen Dou Zong-level souls.
• Lin Feng broke open the final room's iron door and found countless Soul Bodies chained to rune-covered pillars, including two with soul realms seemingly as powerful as his own.

Lin Feng discovered the Soul Hall branch hall’s accumulated Soul Origin and took it after promising its victims he would avenge them. He then ignored two captured Grade Eight Alchemists’ offers and attacked them.

• Lin Feng rushed to the central platform, where two Spirit Realm Souls offered him a Grade Eight Four-Color Pill in exchange for rescue.
• Lin Feng traced the pale-yellow Soul Origin flowing through the chains and excavated a sphere of it from beneath the hall floor.
• Lin Feng sensed that the Soul Origin carried the victims’ accumulated resentment, promised to avenge them, and watched their negative emotions dissipate before storing the sphere.
• Lin Feng returned to the platform and ignored the two Grade Eight Alchemists’ offers of rewards and powerful allies.
• Lin Feng sent two invisible fire chains through the alchemists’ Soul Bodies and struck the chains binding them with streams of Dou Qi.

Lin Feng captured thousands of Soul Bodies in the Soul Hall before a battle outside forced him to return to the Youmo Mountain Range. He helped Feng Qing'er break the Soul Hall reinforcements’ formation, leaving their surviving leader realizing he could not win.

• Lin Feng shattered the chains holding the Spirit Realm Souls, stored two Grade Eight Alchemist souls in jade bottles, and captured thousands of Soul Bodies in Soul Bags.
• A powerful battle shook the great hall, so Lin Feng destroyed the remaining chains and rushed back to the Youmo Mountain Range.
• Lin Feng found Xiao Yi Xian and Feng Qing'er uninjured but facing thirty-nine Soul Hall reinforcements, many of whom were already wounded.
• Lin Feng struck a Two-star Dou Zun Soul Hall Elder out of the formation, causing it to collapse and backlash against its members.
• Feng Qing'er attacked the Five-star Dou Zun, while the remaining Three-star Dou Zun realized he and the Protectors could not defeat them.

Lin Feng and Feng Qing'er defeated the Soul Hall forces and learned that the group had been trying to ambush Xiao Yan. Lin Feng captured some fleeing Protectors while the surviving Soul Hall experts escaped, leaving Xiao Yi Xian to regroup with them.

• Lin Feng blocked an injured Three-star Dou Zun, then Feng Qing'er struck the Soul Hall Elder down with a stream of Dou Qi.
• The fleeing Soul Hall Protectors revealed that their group had been trying to ambush Xiao Yan, and Lin Feng realized what had happened.
• Lin Feng captured two Protectors while another escaped, believing Xiao Yan had anticipated the ambush and turned it against the Soul Hall.
• Feng Qing'er flew to Xiao Yi Xian's battlefield as the Soul Hall's Seven-star Dou Zun ordered a retreat.
• The Soul Hall experts bombarded Xiao Yi Xian with Fighting Skills to hold her back, then fled before Lin Feng and Feng Qing'er arrived.

Lin Feng, Xiao Yi Xian, and Feng Qing'er destroyed the Youmo Mountain Range branch hall after escaping with its souls and other spoils, making the attack appear to be Xiao Yan’s revenge. When Soul Hall’s reinforcements arrived, they discovered the branch hall’s Soul Origin was missing too, and the furious man in blue blamed the surviving Dou Zuns.

• Feng Qing'er questioned Lin Feng about delaying their departure, and he said they should retreat before more Soul Hall experts arrived.
• Lin Feng insisted they destroy the branch hall to disguise their theft as retaliation by Xiao Yan’s people.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Feng Qing'er bombarded the Soul Hall Branch Hall until it became ruins, then left with Lin Feng.
• Several hours later, the man in blue and the escaped Dou Zuns arrived and assumed Xiao Yan’s subordinates had freed the imprisoned souls.
• The men found the Soul Origin’s pit empty, and the man in blue erupted in anger and cursed the Dou Zuns for their failures.