Chapter Summaries

After refusing Hun Ya’s recruitment and leaving the Ancient Clan, Lin Feng traveled with Hao Yan to visit Zhao Yuan. He found Zhao Yuan had successfully revived and advanced to the middle stage of One-star Dou Sheng, and the chapter ended with Zhao Yuan learning that Hao Yan was a Three-star Dou Sheng.

• Lin Feng refused Hun Ya’s second attempt to recruit him and left the Ancient Realm with Hao Yan, while Gu Yi escorted them out.
• Lin Feng and Hao Yan departed Ancient Saint City, and Lin Feng decided to visit Zhao Yuan while recovering from his injuries along the way.
• Hao Yan opened a spatial passage, and he and Lin Feng traveled to the Central Region and reached Zhao Yuan’s valley.
• Zhao Ran welcomed Lin Feng, and Zhao Yuan appeared with Zhao Ran and another man after sensing the visitors.
• Lin Feng learned that Zhao Yuan had awakened and reached the middle stage of One-star Dou Sheng, then introduced him to Hao Yan, a Three-star Dou Sheng.

Lin Feng received Zhao Yuan’s black-and-white iron box and left to prepare for a future trade for the Demon Fire Fragmented Map. Zhao Ran was left wrestling with her attraction to Lin Feng, while Zhao Yuan resolved to leave her romantic future to fate.

• Zhao Ran asked Lin Feng about the Ancient Clan ceremony, and Lin Feng explained that he had defeated Gu Xun’er despite her attempt to kill him.
• Zhao Yuan gave Lin Feng the black-and-white iron box and warned him that its black section could drain life force; Lin Feng caught it with Dou Qi and stored it away.
• Hao Yan departed, and Lin Feng learned that the fragmented map’s owner was still at the Ancient Clan ceremony, so he planned to prepare before negotiating with them.
• Lin Feng thanked Zhao Yuan and left; Zhao Wei teased Zhao Ran about watching him go, and she smacked him before chasing him with a Dou Qi whip.
• Zhao Yuan told Zhao Ran he would not stop her from being involved with Lin Feng, but opposed her marrying him; Zhao Ran left, privately doubting Lin Feng would want her.

Lin Feng returned home, reunited with Qing Lin, and learned where his family had gone. After researching the Light Shadow Space, he examined the Black and White Iron Box and realized it had changed since he first saw it.

• Lin Feng returned to Lin Residence, where Qing Lin welcomed him and explained that Zhao'er and Yun'er had gone back to the Black Corner Region while Cao Ying and Dan Chen trained in the Void Lightning Pool.
• Lin Feng spent several days with Qing Lin, then visited the Library Pavilion to research the Light Shadow Space and learned it predated Tou She Ancient God and had once been a famous Dou Emperor ruin.
• Lin Feng wondered whether Tou She Ancient God had visited the Light Shadow Space and left items there, then headed into the void to investigate the Black and White Iron Box.
• Lin Feng took out the white key he had obtained from Dong Yan and examined the box closely, discovering that it looked completely different from when he had first seen it in Zhao Yuan's cabin.

Lin Feng discovered that holding the Key of Light revealed a hidden message on the Black and White Iron Box, then tried the key and experienced its powerful white radiance. He advanced his soul realm and refined the Heaven Mending Pill over the next two months, while Xiao Yan, Gu Xun'er, Hun Ya, and Hun Li hunted Energy Cores in the Heaven Tomb.

• Lin Feng confirmed that the Black and White Iron Box's patterns changed when he held the white key and deciphered a message calling for the Key of Light and Darkness and the Holy Radiance and Black Demon Cauldrons.
• Lin Feng inserted the Key of Light into the white keyhole, but its dazzling light briefly overwhelmed his consciousness before the key sprang back out.
• Lin Feng stored the key and box, then cultivated for two months, reaching the middle stage of the Heavenly Realm in soul power and refining the peak eighth-tier Heaven Mending Pill.
• Xiao Yan and Gu Xun'er entered the Heaven Tomb after the Ancient Clan allowed Xiao Yan to pass, while Gu Xun'er learned why she had lost to Lin Feng and Xiao Yan learned his Heavenly Flames might have a Fire Spirit.
• Hun Ya and Hun Li avoided Xiao Yan while hunting Energy Cores, but encountering him on the Heaven Tomb's second level intensified the hostility between them.

Xiao Xuan appeared in the Heaven Tomb and saved Xiao Yan, Gu Xun'er, and the Ancient Clan members from a coordinated Soul Clan and Lei Clan ambush. He reunited with Xiao Yan in his tomb residence, heard how the Xiao Family had fallen, and began explaining his experience with Heavenly Flames before recounting his defeat by Hun Tiandi.

• Hun Ya and Hun Li joined forces with the Lei Clan to ambush Xiao Yan and Gu Xun'er using three Dou Sheng energy bodies.
• Xiao Xuan appeared as an image, destroyed the attackers with a single blow, and introduced himself to Xiao Yan as his ancestor.
• Xiao Xuan led the group toward his tomb residence, then brought Xiao Yan alone inside to speak with him.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Xuan about the Xiao Family's decline, his own experiences, Fen Jue, and his deal with the Ancient Clan.
• Xiao Xuan approved of Xiao Yan's choices and named the three Heavenly Flames he had controlled before describing how Hun Tiandi attacked him after his failed attempt to reach Dou Emperor.

Xiao Xuan revealed that the Three Thousand Burning Flame might have survived in the starry sky, then gave Xiao Yan the Xiao Clan’s preserved bloodline so he could inherit its power. Meanwhile, Lin Feng received the final Demon Fire Fragmented Map from Zhao Ran and learned that the Tian Clan wanted his help breaking through to Dou Sheng in exchange for rare treasures.

• Xiao Xuan told Xiao Yan that the Three Thousand Burning Flame might be recovering deep in the starry sky and explained how Xiao Yan could complete the Xiao Clan clan mark.
• Xiao Xuan transferred the Xiao Clan’s preserved Dou Di bloodline into a Blood Pool and urged Xiao Yan to inherit it without falling asleep.
• Xiao Xuan dispatched energy bodies to gather Energy Cores while Xiao Yan began receiving the bloodline inheritance.
• Lin Feng returned to Zhao Ran and asked her to gather medicinal ingredients for a Heaven Mending Pill; Zhao Ran also gave him the fourth Demon Fire Fragmented Map, obtained through a Tian Clan ancestor.
• Zhao Ran explained that the Tian Clan ancestor wanted Lin Feng’s help breaking through to Dou Sheng and offered compensation, including a Ninth-grade Treasure Pill Scrap and the Pill Control Art.

Lin Feng learned that the Tian Clan possessed the Pill Control Art and arranged to meet Zhao Ran’s friend, while discussing the Bodhi Ancient Tree and the upcoming trading fair. Back home, he tried and failed to break the soul barrier on a Storage Ring from the Dou Sheng Relic, leaving it unopened until his Soul Power grew stronger.

• Lin Feng excitedly kissed Zhao Ran after hearing about the Tian Clan’s Pill Control Art, then asked her to have her friend visit him to discuss a deal.
• Lin Feng declined to meet the other major factions, accepted Zhao Ran’s trading fair invitations, and revealed that he already knew about their failed expedition and the coming appearance of the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• Lin Feng invited Zhao Ran to explore the Bodhi Ancient Tree with him, and she agreed before giving him a list of confirmed trading fair items.
• Lin Feng returned home, informed Qing Lin, and visited the secret chamber to consider the Nine Nether Golden Ancestor Fire, which he and Xiao Ling had been unable to subdue.
• Lin Feng repeatedly struck the Alchemist’s Storage Ring with his Soul Power, but its barrier remained intact, so he decided to try again after reaching the Great Perfection of Heaven Realm.

Lin Feng refined two drops of Heavenly Serpent Bone Marrow in the void, raising his strength to a peak Five-turn Dou Zun. A message then drew him back to meet a powerful Half-Saint and pursue the Tian Clan’s Pill Control Art.

• Lin Feng traveled deep into the void and swallowed a drop of Heavenly Serpent Bone Marrow, refining its energy with Xiao Ling’s help.
• After absorbing the first drop, Lin Feng’s strength reached Four-turn Dou Zun, and he refined a second drop over six days.
• The second drop raised Lin Feng to peak Five-turn Dou Zun, though he did not break through to Six-turn Dou Zun.
• Lin Feng received a message and suspected that the High-level Half-Saint friend mentioned by Zhao had arrived to discuss a deal.
• Determined to obtain the Tian Clan’s Pill Control Art, Lin Feng rushed back toward the message’s source.

Lin Feng met Tian Yan, a Half-Saint seeking his help to break through to Dou Sheng, and explained the risks and intimate nature of the process. Tian Yan left to consider whether she could accept it, while Lin Feng carried Qing Lin off after she offered to help him.

• Lin Feng returned to Lin Family Fortress and greeted Qing Lin, who insisted on continuing to call him Young Master.
• Lin Feng met Tian Yan and learned she had come hoping to break through to Dou Sheng after hearing of Zhao Yuan’s success.
• Lin Feng told Tian Yan the low-level Dou Sheng remains he had used were gone and warned that her breakthrough could fail and kill her.
• Lin Feng explained that the process would require him to remove her clothes, temper her with Heavenly Flames, and touch her body, so Tian Yan left to think it over.
• After Tian Yan departed, Qing Lin offered to help Lin Feng, and he carried her toward a nearby room.

Lin Feng returned to the Heavenly Eye Mountain Range with Qing Lin to explore its dense fire-element energy, and he left the Gold-Devouring Rat Clan’s leaders arguing over a Grade Eight pill.

• After several days of travel, Lin Feng and Qing Lin reached the Heavenly Eye Mountain Range, where Qing Lin sensed the energy clouds and Lin Feng recognized their hidden Fire Poison.
• Lin Feng and Qing Lin entered the range, and two Gold-Devouring Rat Clan guards confronted them before recognizing Lin Feng.
• Jin Shi and Jin Gu were astonished by Lin Feng’s strength and welcomed him after he offered them a Grade Eight Jin Zun Pill in exchange for entering the range.
• Lin Feng and Qing Lin headed toward the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool while Jin Gu stole the pill from Jin Shi, leading the two clan leaders to fight over it.

Lin Feng and Qing Lin descended through the Tianshan Blood Pool and into a volcano filled with exceptionally dense energy and Fire Poison. Guided by Xiao Ling’s perception toward a place where magma had blocked her search, they found no visible sign of anything unusual and asked her to sense the area again.

• Lin Feng and Qing Lin passed through the Blood Pool’s Spatial Barrier and descended into the volcanic crater, protected by Lin Feng’s Heavenly Flame.
• They entered scarlet magma whose energy was extraordinarily dense and whose Fire Poison was strong enough to threaten even powerful Dou Zun cultivators.
• Xiao Ling awakened and began searching the magma for fire-attributed treasures, then detected magma moving to obstruct her perception of a spot far below.
• Lin Feng and Qing Lin followed Xiao Ling’s indicated direction, with Lin Feng warning Qing Lin to stay alert.
• After descending nearly ten thousand more meters without finding anything, Qing Lin reported that she saw no movement, and Lin Feng asked Xiao Ling to check for anything unusual nearby.

Lin Feng and Qing Lin discovered that the hidden force beneath the volcano was the Half-Saint-level Crimson Lotus Karmic Fire, which had taken the form of a woman and attacked them. As Lin Feng struggled to resist its flames, Qing Lin summoned a Mid-level Half-Saint from the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan to fight it.

• Xiao Ling warned Lin Feng that an unseen attacker was approaching, and he and Qing Lin struck back against the magma.
• Xiao Ling identified the attacker as a powerful Heavenly Flame, and Lin Feng recognized it as the Crimson Lotus Karmic Fire.
• The Crimson Lotus Karmic Fire revealed its human form, clashed with Lin Feng's gray Heavenly Flame, and tried to seize the chance to devour it.
• Qing Lin attacked the Crimson Lotus Karmic Fire, but it overwhelmed her beams by controlling the surrounding magma.
• Lin Feng used the Void Suppressing Seal against the Crimson Lotus Karmic Fire, then asked Qing Lin to summon their strongest help.
• Qing Lin released a Mid-level Half-Saint from the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan, who charged at the Crimson Lotus Karmic Fire.

Lin Feng and Qing Lin combined their forces to overwhelm the Crimson Lotus Karmic Fire, using Qing Lin’s control abilities and a Nine Netherworld Underworld Python expert’s Heavenly Grade Dou Skill to create an opening for Lin Feng’s Six-Colored Emperor Lotus. The Crimson Lotus Karmic Fire survived the explosion but emerged severely wounded, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Lin Feng released more than a dozen Human Puppets to harass the Crimson Lotus Karmic Fire while Qing Lin prepared to assist the Mid-level Half-Saint Nine Netherworld Underworld Python expert.
• Qing Lin used Soul Seizure to unsettle the Crimson Lotus Karmic Fire’s soul, giving the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python expert time to unleash Yellow Springs Finger.
• The Crimson Lotus Karmic Fire absorbed magma energy and raised a barrier against the puppets, but Qing Lin’s Demon Eye Body Control paralyzed her and disrupted her Dou Skill.
• The Nine Netherworld Underworld Python expert’s Yellow Springs Finger struck the Crimson Lotus Karmic Fire and shattered the surrounding space, leaving her badly injured.
• Lin Feng used all three transformations of Heavenly Flame Three Profound Transformations and launched a Six-Colored Emperor Lotus into the void.
• The Crimson Lotus Karmic Fire emerged from the sea of fire with an unstable aura and wounds covering nearly her entire front.

Lin Feng and Qing Lin continued their fight against the Crimson Lotus Karmic Fire Spirit, using Human Puppets and a Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan expert to wear her down. The spirit destroyed most of the puppets and engulfed Lin Feng in Crimson Lotus Karmic Fire, leaving his fate uncertain.

• The enraged Crimson Lotus Karmic Fire Spirit unleashed her power, and Lin Feng ordered the remaining Human Puppets to attack while Qing Lin prepared another Heavenly Grade Dou Skill.
• The Crimson Lotus Karmic Fire Spirit resisted Qing Lin’s soul-controlling Dou Skill and destroyed most of the Human Puppets with flame lotuses and a vast flame ribbon.
• Lin Feng approached and used Great Heaven Creation Palm to absorb lingering Crimson Lotus Karmic Fire, then tried to swallow the spirit’s incoming fire lotuses.
• The spirit’s fire lotuses exploded, shattered Lin Feng’s black halo, and engulfed him in Crimson Lotus Karmic Fire.
• Qing Lin called out to Lin Feng in alarm as the Crimson Lotus Karmic Fire Spirit laughed, believing she had won.

Lin Feng and the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python expert defeated the Crimson Lotus Karmic Fire Spirit, revealing the Heavenly Flame’s source flame. Lin Feng prepared to absorb it and summoned help to gather herbs and make use of the volcano’s energy, while Xiao Yan began receiving the Xiao Clan’s Dou Di bloodline.

• The Nine Netherworld Underworld Python expert struck the Crimson Lotus Karmic Fire Spirit with the Yellow Springs Finger after a phoenix cry disrupted her, and the attack dispersed her spirit.
• Lin Feng survived the clash with help from his Snow Silk Soft Armor, and Xiao Ling confirmed that the Fire Spirit’s aura had vanished.
• Lin Feng approached the Crimson Lotus Karmic Fire’s source flame and told Qing Lin to bring Yun'er, Dan Chen, Xin Lan, and Cao Ying, along with medicinal herbs from the Dan and Cao Families.
• Qing Lin accepted Lin Feng’s instructions and left, while he stayed behind to guard the source flame.
• At the Blood Pool, Xiao Xuan infused Xiao Yan with the Xiao Clan’s Dou Di bloodline and cautioned him inwardly not to become greedy for power.

The Spirit Realm vanished and remained sealed for a month, while the other Ancient Races failed to discover what had happened to the Spirit Clan. Lin Feng’s wives reunited with him beneath the Heavenly Eye Mountain Range as he prepared to suppress the Crimson Lotus Karmic Fire, and Xiao Yan absorbed the last of the Dou Di bloodline in the Blood Pool.

• The Spirit Realm closed without warning, leaving Spirit Clan members outside unable to contact anyone within, and investigations by the Ancient Races found no trace of it.
• The Flame and Lightning Clans took in stranded Spirit Clan members, while black-clad figures gathered the vanished clan’s former collection inside its territory.
• After a month passed with the Spirit Realm still missing, Lin Feng’s wives arrived beneath the Heavenly Eye Mountain Range, and he gave Cao Ying a Four-star Dou Sheng skeleton to extract marrow for Xin Lan and Yun Yun.
• Lin Feng took the medicinal herbs and left to refine pills that could suppress the Crimson Lotus Karmic Fire, while Dan Chen and Cao Ying stayed to guard its source.
• The final Dou Di bloodline in the Blood Pool entered Xiao Yan, and Xiao Xuan sensed the power building within him as the pool erupted.

Xiao Yan inherited Xiao Xuan’s bloodline power and stabilized at Peak Eight-Star Dou Zun after suppressing the surge in strength. He refused to cultivate in hiding, and Xiao Xuan gave him Level Nine Energy Cores while secretly planning how to prepare him for the truth about the Ancient Clan.

• Xiao Yan’s aura surged from Six-Star to nearly One-Revolution Dou Zun before he suppressed it and ultimately stabilized at Peak Eight-Star Dou Zun.
• Xiao Yan thanked Xiao Xuan and refused to hide away and cultivate, saying he needed to save his father and brothers, avenge himself against Lin Feng, and obtain the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Xiao Xuan gave Xiao Yan numerous Level Nine Energy Cores to help him grow stronger and obtain the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Xiao Yan vowed to restore the Xiao Clan and began absorbing an Energy Core.
• Xiao Xuan resolved to keep the Ancient Clan’s role in the Xiao Clan’s downfall secret until Xiao Yan was strong enough to face them.

Lin Feng refined a Cold Origin Spirit Pill to suppress the Crimson Lotus Karmic Fire, then began absorbing the Heavenly Flame. He left the Fire Seed raging through his body while Xiao Ling protected his vital organs and helped him refine it.

• Lin Feng completed the peak eighth-tier Cold Origin Spirit Pill using a High-level Half-Saint Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Magic Core, then returned to the Heavenly Eye Mountain Range.
• Lin Feng found Xin Lan beginning her breakthrough to Dou Zun and saw Yun Yun cultivating at Four-star Dou Zun.
• Lin Feng used the Cold Origin Spirit Pill to temporarily suppress the Crimson Lotus Karmic Fire and prepared to absorb its source Fire Seed.
• Lin Feng endured the Fire Seed's heat, cooled it with a drop of Heavenly Serpent blood, and swallowed it.
• The Crimson Lotus Karmic Fire fought the Flame Mantra's refinement inside Lin Feng, while Xiao Ling used the other Heavenly Flames to protect his organs and meridians.

Lin Feng and his companions advanced their cultivation while Xiao Yan received Xiao Xuan’s final advice and left the Heaven Tomb with the Ancient Clan group. Their return revealed that Hun Ya, Hun Li, Lei Haiyun, and Lei Biao had died inside, prompting suspicion that Xiao Yan had killed them.

• Lin Feng refined the Crimson Lotus Karmic Fire for two months as Xin Lan, Yun Yun, Dan Chen, and Cao Ying made major cultivation gains.
• Xiao Xuan warned Xiao Yan about the Soul Clan and the Lei Clan, entrusted him with the Xiao Clan’s future, and asked Gu Xun’er to convey his request for Gu Yuan to help Xiao Yan obtain two more powerful Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Yan accepted the Storage Rings for the Ancient Clan and left the Heaven Tomb with Gu Xun’er and the other Ancient Clan members as the three-year period ended.
• Members of the Yan, Yao, Stone, and other clans emerged from the Heaven Tomb with stronger cultivation, while two Stone Clan geniuses were revealed to have advanced by collecting discarded Energy Cores.
• Hun Ya, Hun Li, Lei Haiyun, and Lei Biao emerged dead, and Huo Xuan and Huo Zhi suspected Xiao Yan had killed the Soul Clan and Lei Clan members.

Xiao Yan and Gu Xun'er emerged from the Heaven Tomb, where the gathered clans learned of Xiao Yan's dramatic increase in strength. Mang Tianchi and a Soul Clan elder attacked him over their clans' dead, but Gu Yi intervened and blasted them away.

• Mang Tianchi found two dead Lei Clan juniors and discovered traces of Heavenly Flames on their bodies, while two Soul Clan elders mourned Hun Ya and Hun Li.
• Xiao Yan and Gu Xun'er emerged from the Heaven Tomb, and the gathered clans were astonished by Xiao Yan's Five-turn Dou Zun strength.
• Gu Yi and the Ancient Clan elders welcomed Gu Xun'er and wondered whether Xiao Yan had obtained Xiao Xuan's inheritance.
• Mang Tianchi attacked Xiao Yan over the stolen Heavenly Flame and the dead Lei Clan members, while a Soul Clan elder also launched an attack.
• Gu Yi shattered Mang Tianchi's hold on Xiao Yan and struck both attackers with a stream of Dou Qi, sending them flying while Xiao Yan remained unharmed.