Chapter Summaries

Lin Feng learned that Xiao Yan had obtained an earlier Bodhi Heart and discovered Half Saints were ambushing his group outside the Barren Ancient Region. After his clone and puppets dealt with most of them, Lin Feng and the women hurried home to absorb their Bodhi Hearts, while a woman with the Heavenly Phoenix bloodline prepared to inherit her clan’s legacy.

• Lin Feng probed Barren Town and learned that Xiao Yan had taken a Bodhi Heart released by the Bodhi Ancient Tree and was absorbing it in seclusion.
• Lin Feng sensed four Half Saints and a group of Dou Zuns waiting to ambush them, including members of the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan and Yao Chen.
• Lin Feng sent his Half Saint clone with four Half Saint puppets to attack the ambushers while he and the women left the Barren Ancient Region.
• Lin Feng’s clone killed three of the four Half Saints, and Lin Feng reunited with it before continuing toward the Central Region with the women and Zhao Ran.
• Lin Feng and the women parted ways with Zhao Ran and hurried home to absorb their Bodhi Hearts and pursue breakthroughs to Dou Sheng.
• A woman with the Heavenly Phoenix bloodline prepared to inherit her clan’s legacy, while an illusory figure hoped she would reach seven-star Dou Sheng.

The Spirit Clan vanished from its opened realm, stirring suspicion that the Ancient Clan or Soul Clan had taken its Tou She Ancient God Jade. The other clans formed an alliance against the two strongest powers, while Lin Feng remained in seclusion, changed greatly over the year.

• Powerful experts found the reopened Spirit Realm empty, with the Spirit Clan and its million-plus descendants gone.
• The Ancient Clans suspected the Spirit Clan’s disappearance was connected to its piece of Tou She Ancient God Jade and turned their attention toward the Ancient Clan and Soul Clan.
• The Lei Clan accused the Ancient Clan of posing a threat and formed the Four-Clan Alliance with the Shi Clan, Yan Clan, and Yao Clan.
• Gu Xun'er urged the Ancient Clan to retaliate against the Lei Clan, but its leaders stayed silent to avoid increasing suspicion.
• The Spirit Clan incident faded from public attention, leaving the six Ancient Clans wary of one another as Lin Feng continued his year of seclusion and underwent major changes.

Xiao Yan emerged from seclusion after breaking through to Dou Sheng, and Gu Xun'er told him the Ancient Clan had agreed to help the Three Great Dragon Kings attack East Dragon Island. Xiao Yan welcomed the chance to target Lin Feng, but became wary when Gu Xun'er revealed she had no news of him for over a year.

• Xiao Yan’s breakthrough shook the mountain, and Ancient Clan elders gathered as he emerged amid raging Heavenly Flames.
• The Ancient Clan elders credited their clan’s help for Xiao Yan’s success, while Gu Xun’er greeted him warmly and the elders left them alone.
• Gu Xun’er told Xiao Yan that the Ancient Clan would join the Three Great Dragon Kings in attacking East Dragon Island, leaving Lin Feng without the Ancient Dragon Clan’s protection.
• Xiao Yan celebrated the chance to deal with Lin Feng and recalled the humiliations and attacks he had suffered at Lin Feng’s hands.
• When Xiao Yan asked about Lin Feng, Gu Xun’er said he had been missing for over a year, and Xiao Yan suspected he was cultivating after gaining an opportunity of his own.

Xiao Yan and Gu Xun'er went to confront Lin Feng, believing he had stolen Xiao Yan’s Heavenly Flames, but found that Lin Feng and his women had all advanced to Dou Sheng. Xiao Yi Xian defended Lin Feng against Xiao Yan’s accusations, and their clash began with Xiao Yan narrowly avoiding her poison.

• Gu Xun'er persuaded Xiao Yan to seek out Lin Feng, and the two headed toward the Central Region to confront him.
• Lin Feng finished absorbing the Bodhi Heart and Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, advanced several realms, and assigned Yun Yun, Xin Lan, Cao Ying, Dan Chen, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin their next tasks.
• Xiao Yan arrived at Lin Feng’s city with Gu Xun'er and a blue-robed old man, accused Lin Feng of stealing his Heavenly Flames and flame-fusion method, and threatened to kill him.
• Xiao Yi Xian appeared as a Dou Sheng and accused Xiao Yan of stealing Lin Feng’s flame-fusion Fighting Skill; the onlookers judged her argument more credible.
• Xiao Yan attacked Xiao Yi Xian, and their attacks shattered the space around them.
• Xiao Yan burned away a trace of Xiao Yi Xian’s poisonous mist, and the voice of a young boy warned him to beware of her poison.

Xiao Yi Xian and Yun Yun confronted Xiao Yan and Gu Xun'er when they came to attack, but Cai Lin’s breakthrough forced the visitors to retreat. Cai Lin emerged from seclusion at Peak Three-star Dou Sheng, while Lin Feng chose to focus on his plans involving the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan and the Ancient Dragon Clan.

• Xiao Yan accused Xiao Yi Xian of hiding Lin Feng, and she accused him of stealing Cultivation Methods and Fighting Skills; Gu Xun'er stepped forward to defend him.
• Xiao Yi Xian whistled for help, and Yun Yun arrived, revealing herself as a Dou Sheng and stopping Xiao Yan and Gu Xun'er from attacking.
• Xiao Yan and Gu Xun'er suspected Lin Feng’s group had obtained Bodhi Hearts and considered disrupting his seclusion, while Yun Yun warned the Ancient Clan against provoking the Pill Pagoda.
• A seven-colored pillar erupted from Cai Lin’s cultivation chamber, and the blue-robed elder ordered Gu Xun'er to leave; she and Xiao Yan withdrew with him through a Space Wormhole.
• Cai Lin emerged at Peak Three-star Dou Sheng and was surprised by Xiao Yi Xian and Yun Yun’s breakthroughs; Xiao Yi Xian took her away to explain, while Yun Yun calmed the city.
• Lin Feng told Cao Ying that they should not pursue Xiao Yan yet and should first settle matters involving the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan and the Ancient Dragon Clan.

Lin Feng explained why he planned to visit the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan: he needed Yellow Spring Blood Crystal to make a pill for subduing the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and hoped to obtain the Yellow Spring Demon Sage’s inheritance. After Cai Lin returned from seclusion, Lin Feng gave her two rare colored stones to strengthen her bloodline before they set out together.

• Lin Feng told Qing Lin and the Three Beauties of Pill Tower that the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame had defeated many Dou Sheng experts and that the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan held the materials and inheritance he sought.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Cai Lin arrived, and Cai Lin accused Lin Feng of neglecting her while he was with the other women.
• Cai Lin angrily cursed Xiao Yan and Gu Xun'er, then proposed a cruel revenge against Gu Xun'er that Lin Feng and the other women accepted.
• Cai Lin learned that the others had advanced using Bodhi Hearts and asked why Lin Feng had not helped Yun Yun and Xiao Yi Xian earlier; he repeated his explanation.
• Lin Feng presented Cai Lin with an Eight-colored Raw Stone and a Seven-colored Raw Stone, told her to absorb them before their journey, and she kissed him in excitement.

Lin Feng and his companions prepared to grow stronger before visiting the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan, while Xiao Yan’s group discussed their setbacks and the danger of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. Lin Feng entered seclusion, and Xiao Yan agreed to approach the flame more cautiously.

• Lin Feng gave Cai Lin a Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast’s poison sac and urged her to improve her bloodline before their visit to the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan.
• Lin Feng gave Qing Lin captured Soul Bodies and the Falling Heart Flame to strengthen her Soul Power and Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, then entered seclusion to absorb the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit’s energy.
• Xiao Yan told Yao Chen and Han Shanshan that Lin Feng’s side had two Dou Shengs, and they advised Yao Chen and Han Shanshan to seek shelter at the Pill Pagoda and Lesser Pill Pagoda.
• Yao Chen proposed refining a Ninth-grade Treasure Pill with Xiao Yan or helping him reach the Heavenly Soul Realm, while warning that Xiao Yan’s depleted resources and strained relations with the Ancient Clan left him with few options.
• Gu Xun’er and Yao Chen explained that past Dou Sheng experts had vanished trying to subdue the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and Xiao Yan agreed to be cautious.

Xiao Yan prepared to pursue the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame while escorting Yao Chen and the others to the Pill Tower, as news of his Dou Sheng breakthrough and Lin Feng’s powerful household shook the Central Continent. A month later, Cai Lin emerged from seclusion as a Four-star Dou Sheng with a newly evolved Nine-colored bloodline, though she still needed more Nine-colored Raw Stones to complete its evolution.

• Yao Chen explained that Xiao Yan needed a Ninth-grade Treasure Pill and the flame’s source to subdue the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and Xiao Yan gave him scrolls from Xiao Xuan’s inheritance to support their preparations.
• Gu Xun’er stayed silent rather than ask her clan for more help, and Xiao Yan led Yao Chen, Aunt Han, and Gu Xun’er toward the Pill Tower for protection from Lin Feng.
• News spread that Xiao Yan had become a true Dou Sheng but had been forced to retreat by Lin Feng’s two Dou Sheng-level wives, and the Central Continent spent a month discussing the event.
• Cai Lin emerged from seclusion at Four-star Dou Sheng after two Nine-colored Raw Stones completed much of her bloodline evolution, while Lin Feng revealed he had advanced to Three-star Dou Sheng.
• Cai Lin told Lin Feng that she needed more Nine-colored Raw Stones to perfect her bloodline evolution.

Lin Feng, Qing Lin, and Cai Lin traveled to the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan’s underground headquarters to explore the Nine Netherworld Yellow Spring and seek its treasures. After entering the spring, they encountered strange snake-type magical beasts, but Cai Lin’s Nine-colored Sky Swallowing Python bloodline drove them away.

• Lin Feng told Cai Lin that the Nine Netherworld Yellow Spring might help her bloodline and revealed that the Yellow Spring Demon Sage’s inheritance was hidden within the clan’s ancestral grounds.
• Lin Feng led Qing Lin and Cai Lin into the Beast Region, bypassed the guards at the Nine Netherworld Abyss, and reached the clan’s headquarters in the Nether Snake Earth Vein.
• Lin Feng concealed their auras and figures, then took Qing Lin and Cai Lin down the ravine into the Nine Netherworld Yellow Spring.
• Lin Feng shielded himself with Heavenly Flames while the three descended through the freezing water, and Qing Lin and Cai Lin endured the cold with their own abilities.
• Lin Feng sensed approaching snake-type magical beasts, but Cai Lin released her bloodline pressure and frightened them into fleeing.

Lin Feng and Qing Lin discovered Yao Ming, the former Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan leader, imprisoned beneath the Nine Netherworld Yellow Spring, and Qing Lin used her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to control him. Lin Feng began freeing Yao Ming by breaking the Yellow Spring Yin Stones, and the first of the four chains snapped.

• Cai Lin sensed a bloodline summons beneath the gravel and plunged into the ground to seek its source while Lin Feng and Qing Lin searched for Yellow Spring Blood Crystals.
• Lin Feng unearthed four enormous chains and revealed the withered Yao Ming, who explained that Yao Xiaotian had imprisoned him for centuries.
• Qing Lin used her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to control Yao Ming, making him an ally without impairing his intelligence.
• Yao Ming explained that Yellow Spring Yin Stones at the ends of the chains drained his Dou Qi, so Lin Feng followed a chain to uncover one stone inside a mountain.
• Lin Feng used Heavenly Flame to break the hidden mechanism within the Yellow Spring Yin Stone, snapping the chain and reducing the cold yin energy draining Yao Ming.

Lin Feng freed Yao Ming from his centuries-long imprisonment beneath the Nine Netherworld Yellow Spring, and Yao Ming recovered enough strength to confront Yao Xiaotian. The chapter ended as Yao Ming ambushed Yao Xiaotian, who realized his brother had escaped and rushed to defend himself.

• Lin Feng broke the seals on Yao Ming's chains, freed him, and gave him two peak eighth-grade medicinal pills to restore his Dou Qi.
• Lin Feng concealed himself, Qing Lin, and Yao Ming nearby while they waited for Yao Xiaotian, who could sense that the seal had broken.
• Lin Feng promised Yao Ming that he could reclaim the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan chieftaincy after they dealt with Yao Xiaotian, while Qing Lin explained that she could use her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to control him.
• Yao Ming asked Lin Feng to let him attack Yao Xiaotian himself, and Lin Feng agreed after Qing Lin said she could take control of their opponent.
• Yao Xiaotian descended into the Nine Netherworld Yellow Spring, and Yao Ming struck him with the Yellow Springs Finger.
• Yao Xiaotian recognized Yao Ming's attack and began circulating his Dou Qi to defend himself.

Lin Feng and Qing Lin subdued Yao Xiaotian and the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan's First Elder, securing control of the clan and obtaining a Yellow Spring Blood Crystal. Lin Feng promised Yao Ming the clan leadership and prepared to leave the Nine Netherworld Yellow Spring.

• Yao Ming struck Yao Xiaotian with Yellow Springs Finger, and Qing Lin used her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to control him.
• Yao Xiaotian revealed the clan's weakened bloodline and said only the First Elder knew Yao Ming had escaped; Qing Lin hid him in her Demon Eye Space.
• Yao Ming ambushed the arriving First Elder, and Qing Lin controlled him after the two fought to a draw.
• Yao Ming gave Lin Feng a Yellow Spring Blood Crystal, which Lin Feng stored after its cold energy froze his arm.
• Lin Feng promised Yao Ming the clan leader's position, advised him how to explain his return, and led the group away.

Xiao Yan destroyed a Soul Hall branch, killed Gu You, and refined the trapped Soul Bodies to gather Soul Origin before setting out to prepare for the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. Meanwhile, Lin Feng arranged for Yao Ming to reclaim leadership of the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan and learned that the clan held the Yellow Spring Demon Sage’s legacy and essence blood.

• Xiao Yan defeated and killed Gu You with the Nine Harmonious Heaven-Shattering Ruler, then refined the trapped Soul Bodies into Soul Origin and collected the Soul Origin hidden beneath the ruined hall.
• A skeletal Soul Hall expert arrived at the valley, identified the Heavenly Flame traces as Xiao Yan’s, and left in pursuit of him.
• Lin Feng and his companions emerged from the Nine Netherworld Yellow Spring, and Lin Feng instructed Qing Lin to have Yao Ming, Yao Xiaotian, and the First Elder stage Yao Ming’s return so Yao Xiaotian could relinquish the clan chief position.
• Lin Feng asked Yao Xiaotian to obtain medicinal herbs for practicing the refinement of a Ninth-grade Treasure Pill.
• Yao Ming told Lin Feng that the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan possessed the Yellow Spring Demon Sage’s legacy, including a stone tablet said to contain the ancient expert’s essence blood.

Lin Feng, Qing Lin, and Yao Ming traveled to the Yellow Spring Stone Tablet, where the Yellow Spring Demon Sage's blood essence and Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath were hidden behind a powerful remnant soul. After several days of rest, Lin Feng prepared to challenge the tablet's soul defense and warned Qing Lin and Yao Ming to guard his body.

• Qing Lin urged Yao Ming to lead them to the Yellow Spring Stone Tablet and promised him a share of the Yellow Spring Demon Sage's blood essence if they found it.
• Yao Ming described the tablet's three Heaven-class Dou Skills, including the famed high-tier soundwave skill Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath, and said the blood essence and skill were concealed within the Demon Sage's remnant soul.
• Lin Feng postponed their visit so Yao Ming and the others could recover, while Yao Ming and Yao Xiaotian told the clan that Lin Feng and Qing Lin had rescued Yao Ming and arranged medicinal herbs for them.
• On the fifth day, Yao Ming led Lin Feng and Qing Lin to the ancient altar and warned them that the tablet's remnant soul had once injured him severely.
• Lin Feng sensed that the Yellow Spring Demon Sage had possessed an Emperor Soul Realm and told Qing Lin and Yao Ming to keep others away from his body as his illusory soul emerged before the tablet.

Lin Feng entered the Yellow Spring Stone Tablet’s hidden space and fought the Yellow Spring Demon Sage’s remnant soul for Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath and its blood essence. After surviving the remnant soul’s ultimate attack, Lin Feng learned that the Demon Sage had witnessed Tou She Ancient God become a Dou Emperor.

• Lin Feng entered the tablet’s inner world, endured its lightning and traps, and located the Yellow Spring Demon Sage’s remnant soul.
• Lin Feng challenged the remnant soul for Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath and the blood essence, then fought its attacks with his soul power and Heavenly Flame.
• The remnant soul unleashed Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath, destroying the space and badly weakening Lin Feng’s soul body.
• Lin Feng emerged unharmed, explaining that the remnant soul’s power had faded over thousands of years; the Demon Sage said he had once killed even Emperor Soul Realm experts with his technique.
• The Yellow Spring Demon Sage recalled seeing someone break through to Dou Emperor, and Lin Feng realized he meant Tou She Ancient God.

Lin Feng defeated the Yellow Spring Demon Sage’s remnant soul and received its techniques and essence blood, then shared some of the blood with Yao Ming and Qing Lin. Meanwhile, the Soul Hall continued to decline, and the Pill Pagoda later selected Zhao Wei as its new Titan.

• The Yellow Spring Demon Sage gave Lin Feng the Yellow Springs Three Absolutes and his essence blood before his remnant soul vanished.
• Lin Feng returned to Qing Lin and Yao Ming, then gave Yao Ming a share of the essence blood after Yao Ming failed to withstand the stone tablet’s soul impact.
• Lin Feng gave Qing Lin another share of the essence blood and the Three Thousand Burning Flame to refine it, then left to distribute the remaining blood and study the techniques.
• Rumors spread that Xiao Yan had destroyed Gu You’s branch hall and that Xiao Yan and Lin Feng had both disappeared.
• About two years after the battle with the Soul Hall, the Pill Pagoda held a selection for new Titans, and Zhao Wei won the position.

Lin Feng returned to the Lesser Pill Pagoda to find Dan Chen and Cao Ying, but learned they were in seclusion refining pills. After hearing Zhao Ran had been injured fighting Wu Chunsheng, he visited her and accidentally sensed her bathing.

• Zhao Wei won a position as a Pill Pagoda Titan despite Xuan Yi and Tian Lei Zi opposing her selection.
• Lin Feng arrived at the Lesser Pill Pagoda and revealed to the elders that he had reached the Dou Sheng realm.
• The First Elder told Lin Feng that Dan Chen and Cao Ying were secluded for one or two months, so they could not use the Demon Sage Essence Blood yet.
• Old Hou informed Lin Feng that Zhao Ran and Zhao Yuan had been injured while trying to kill Wu Chunsheng.
• Lin Feng visited Zhao Ran and inadvertently sensed her bathing, prompting her to tease him.

Lin Feng visited Zhao Ran after hearing she had been injured and learned that Wu Chunsheng had defeated her and her brother after stealing the Zhao Family's inherited techniques. Lin Feng offered to help her kill Wu Chunsheng, and Zhao Ran kissed him and drew him toward the bed.

• Zhao Ran told Lin Feng that her injuries were minor, but her brother still needed time to recover.
• Zhao Ran explained that Wu Chunsheng had advanced to the middle stage of Two-star Dou Sheng and had stolen three powerful Zhao Family technique sets that could rapidly strengthen their users.
• Zhao Ran revealed that the techniques included methods for partners to transfer Dou Qi to each other, and Lin Feng said he would help her take revenge on Wu Chunsheng.
• Lin Feng promised to take Zhao Ran to confront Wu Chunsheng the next day, partly because he wanted to obtain the Holy Radiance Cauldron.
• Zhao Ran said she did not want to be merely Lin Feng's friend, kissed him, and he carried her to the bed.

Lin Feng learned that Yao Chen was gathering yin-cold herbs for a pill connected to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, then agreed to keep seeing Zhao Ran without marrying her because she could not abandon her son Wei'er. He later bought the herbs Yao Chen still needed, obstructing Xiao Yan and his master's plans.

• Zhao Ran warned Lin Feng that Yao Chen was seeking high-grade herbs, and Lin Feng suspected Xiao Yan was preparing for the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Zhao Ran refused Lin Feng's offer of marriage because her brother would oppose it and she did not want to alienate her son, Wei'er.
• Lin Feng agreed to continue their relationship without marriage, and he and Zhao Ran spent several days together.
• Lin Feng stayed at the Lesser Pill Pagoda and secretly visited Zhao Ran at night.
• Lin Feng traded for all the herbs Yao Chen still needed, buying them cheaply with the experts' support.

Xiao Yan and Yao Chen sought medicinal ingredients for a Ninth-grade Treasure Pill after Lin Feng bought up the supplies in the Lesser Pill Pagoda. Tian Lei Zi found a hidden clan willing to trade, and the group agreed to meet its demands while preparing to pursue the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.

• Xiao Yan learned that Lin Feng had bought the medicinal ingredients he needed and agreed with Yao Chen to seek help from the Three Great Dragon Islands.
• Tian Lei Zi arrived with news that an Alchemist from a hidden clan would trade several ingredients in exchange for help defeating an opposing faction and double payment.
• Yao Chen warned Xiao Yan not to attack the clan and advised accepting its terms until they secured the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Xiao Yan asked Tian Lei Zi to remain a Pill Pagoda Titan and delay his breakthrough until Lin Feng was dealt with, promising future compensation.
• Yao Chen told Xiao Yan to practice refining Grade Eight Pills before they attempted to refine a Ninth-grade Treasure Pill together.