Chapter Summaries

Gu Dao overpowered Hun Sha while pursuing Elder Hun Mo and the Soul Hall Master, and left Hun Sha gravely injured after piercing his abdomen with the azure bamboo staff.

• Gu Dao shattered Hun Sha's saber beams and forced him to fight while Elder Hun Mo and the Soul Hall Master fled.
• Hun Sha unleashed Blood God Splitting Heaven, and the clash with Gu Dao devastated the surrounding mountains and plains.
• Gu Dao used the clash as cover to appear behind Elder Hun Mo, prompting Hun Sha to attack and pursue him with blood-enhanced bat wings.
• Gu Dao blocked Hun Sha's attack and pierced his abdomen with the bamboo staff after overpowering his saber.
• Gu Dao twisted the staff and released Dou Qi through it, destroying Hun Sha's abdominal organs before retreating out of reach.

Gu Dao drove off the wounded Hun Sha while Jing Lian Yao Sheng used the Heaven Refining Ancient Array to strip the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame of its memories and intelligence. After Jing Lian Yao Sheng and the flame destroyed each other, Lin Feng regained control of his body and found Gu Xun'er unconscious nearby; Yun Yun explained that she had been struck while protecting Xiao Yan.

• Gu Dao severely injured Hun Sha, who escaped, and then left rather than pursue Elder Hun Mo and Hun Miesheng.
• Yun Yun sheltered in a spatial crevice with the unconscious Gu Xun'er and the corpses of Hun Feng and the others as the Demon Fire Space filled with the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame's heat.
• Jing Lian Yao Sheng activated the Heaven Refining Ancient Array and forced the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame's memories and intelligence out of its main body.
• Jing Lian Yao Sheng and the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame's intelligence dissipated together when the ancient array exploded, allowing Lin Feng to regain control of his body.
• Lin Feng embraced Yun Yun and retreated with her from the blast, then discovered Gu Xun'er unconscious and asked why she had been left behind.
• Yun Yun explained that Gu Xun'er had taken the Soul Hall Master's attack while protecting Xiao Yan and had missed the chance to escape.

Lin Feng found the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s purified origin in the Demon Fire Space and prepared to absorb it, while the outside world descended into war after the deaths of many powerful experts. Two months later, Lin Feng began drawing on the energy of heaven and earth as his second Ninth-grade Treasure Pill neared completion.

• Lin Feng rejected Yun Yun’s suggestion to kill Gu Xun’er, then discovered Hun Feng’s corpse and decided to leave it for later.
• Xiao Ling led Lin Feng and Yun Yun to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s origin, and Lin Feng decided to prepare before absorbing it.
• Yun Yun went to control Gu Xun’er while Lin Feng began preparing pills and safeguards for absorbing the flame.
• With many Central Continent factions’ strongest experts dead, wars spread across the continent as survivors and refugees fought or fled elsewhere.
• The Ancient Clan and Soul Clan escalated their conflict, and the Soul Clan launched massacres in the Eastern Region after Soul Hall’s strength surged.
• After two months of refining, Lin Feng summoned the energy of heaven and earth into his bronze fire cauldron as his second Ninth-grade Treasure Pill approached completion.

Lin Feng drew nearly all the energy from the Demon Fire Space into a ninth-grade Treasure Pill, producing Pill Rain that proved it had advanced toward—but not reached—the Mysterious Pill realm. He captured the pill’s Dan Thunder and began refining a new pill intended to strengthen Yun Yun.

• Lin Feng carefully fed purified heaven and earth energy into the dark gray pill while Yun Yun and Gu Xun'er watched.
• Yun Yun threatened Gu Xun'er into silence as Lin Feng’s cauldron absorbed energy for six days, leaving the Demon Fire Space’s surroundings greatly depleted.
• Dan Thunder appeared, and Lin Feng initially believed the pill had fallen short of the Mysterious Pill level, until Pill Rain revealed its advancement.
• Lin Feng chose to prioritize improving Yun Yun’s strength and used the Dragon Soul Cauldron to capture the Dan Thunder.
• Xiao Ling refined the captured Black Demon Lightning, and Lin Feng added rare medicinal herbs and a ninth-rank Magic Core to begin another pill for Yun Yun.

Lin Feng completed a Lightning Tribulation Pill and had Yun Yun capture it to strengthen herself before they faced the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. He weakened the flame with the Flame Cold Array, Drunk Demon Saliva, and the Nine Yin Yellow Spring Pill, then swallowed the dark gray pill he had refined to prepare for absorbing the flame.

• Lin Feng captured the humanoid dark gray pill and sealed it in a jade bottle after its cold energy proved powerful enough to protect him while absorbing the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• After Yun Yun sealed Gu Xun'er away, Lin Feng sent two Human Puppets to endure the Black Demon Lightning, raising their strength to Dou Sheng before recalling them.
• Lin Feng compressed the Black Demon Lightning, removed its Heaven and Earth Might, and used the tamed lightning to temper the Lightning Tribulation Pill until it gained a pill pattern.
• Lin Feng called for Yun Yun to capture the fleeing Lightning Tribulation Pill, then went to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame with Xiao Ling.
• Lin Feng used the Flame Cold Array and Drunk Demon Saliva to weaken and expose the flame's pink source, then applied the Nine Yin Yellow Spring Pill to suppress its heat.
• As the Nine Yin Yellow Spring Pill's cold mist battled the flame, Lin Feng swallowed the dark gray pill he had refined.

Lin Feng began refining the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame with the Nine Yin Yellow Spring Pill and Xiao Ling protecting him, while Yun Yun swallowed her Lightning Tribulation Pill. Months later, the Central Continent’s factions remained locked in conflict as Cao Ying, Dan Chen, and the other women advanced their pill-making under the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan’s support.

• Lin Feng swallowed the Nine Yin Yellow Spring Pill, then took the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s source Fire Seed into his body and used the Fen Jue to guide it through his meridians.
• Xiao Ling entered Lin Feng’s body and shielded his meridians from the Fire Seed’s heat with her bronze flames as he continued refining it.
• Yun Yun found a place to swallow her Lightning Tribulation Pill while Gu Xun’er remained sealed away in the Demon Fire Space.
• The Ancient and Soul Clans’ war remained deadlocked, and the weakened Stone Clan sent fighters to support the Soul Clan.
• Cao Ying, Dan Chen, and the other women refined Ninth-grade Treasure Pills on Dragon Island, while the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan’s attempt to capture Nine Profound Golden Lightning ended with three of its experts injured.

After a year trapped in the Demon Fire Space, Lin Feng fused the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and reached the late Six-star Dou Sheng stage, but its Fire Poison overwhelmed his reason and led to a confrontation with Gu Xun'er. The chapter ended with Gu Xun'er threatening to expose him unless he compensated her with resources for Xiao Yan.

• The Central Continent’s factions settled into new territories as the Ancient Clan’s war with the Soul Clan intensified, while the Ancient Clan continued searching for Gu Xun'er.
• Lin Feng completed his fusion of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, advancing to the late Six-star Dou Sheng stage as Yun Yun watched.
• The Flame’s Fire Poison overwhelmed Lin Feng, and Yun Yun fled from him before freeing Gu Xun'er, who was still sealed and unable to resist.
• Lin Feng attacked Gu Xun'er while out of control, and Yun Yun later helped keep her alive; afterward, Gu Xun'er threatened to detonate her Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame unless Lin Feng chose between killing her and compensating her.
• Gu Xun'er rejected Yun Yun’s suggestion that they seal her away, explaining that Xiao Yan and others could reveal what happened and that the Ancient Clan could pursue Lin Feng’s family.
• Gu Xun'er demanded cultivation resources from Lin Feng for Xiao Yan, who needed strength to rescue Xiao Zhan and his brothers from the Soul Clan.

Lin Feng negotiated compensation with Gu Xun'er for absorbing the source flame of her Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame, and revealed detailed knowledge of the Ancient Clan's internal affairs. He offered her a choice between three months with him or information about a way to help Xiao Yan reach the Emperor Soul Realm, and Gu Xun'er demanded proof that the information was genuine.

• Gu Xun'er demanded Ninth-grade Treasure Pills, ingredients, and a Ninth-grade Mysterious Pill, while Lin Feng refused and acknowledged that his Exotic Flame had absorbed her source flame and helped him reach peak Six-star Dou Sheng.
• Lin Feng pointed out that Gu Xun'er had lost influence in the Ancient Clan and revealed details about its elders, Gu Qingyang, Gu Lie, and the clan's strength, leading Gu Xun'er to suspect he had planted spies.
• Lin Feng offered a Ninth-grade Treasure Pill recipe, ingredients, and a Mysterious Pill in exchange for three months with Gu Xun'er; after he threatened to seek her hand in marriage, she agreed to the three-month arrangement.
• Lin Feng offered an alternative: information about a method with at least a ninety-percent chance of helping Xiao Yan reach the Emperor Soul Realm, plus his promise of a Mysterious Pill.
• Gu Xun'er doubted Lin Feng's claim, but became interested when he said the method was within Ancient Clan territory; she tried to coax the location from him, and he proposed a written agreement with Soul Power and Dou Qi as proof.

Lin Feng negotiated with Gu Xun'er over an item that could help Xiao Yan reach the Emperor Soul Realm, using a recorded encounter and a future three-month arrangement to secure her cooperation. After she left, he revealed to Yun Yun that he planned to lure Xiao Yan into a dangerous clash at the Yao Clan’s Medicine Canon and take his Emperor Soul Realm for himself.

• Lin Feng made Yun Yun record his encounter with Gu Xun'er, then had Gu Xun'er sign an agreement and leave her Soul Power and Dou Qi on it.
• Yun Yun broke Gu Xun'er's seal, restoring her strength and revealing that she had become a Three-star Dou Sheng.
• Lin Feng refused to reveal the Emperor Soul Realm opportunity immediately and agreed to trade its details later, after Gu Xun'er spent three months with him; they exchanged Space Jade Slips.
• Gu Xun'er accepted the terms after Lin Feng promised the item had at least a ninety-percent chance of advancing Xiao Yan's Great Perfection of Heaven Realm soul, and she left to contact him later.
• Lin Feng confirmed to Yun Yun that the item was in the Ancient Clan and explained his plan to use Xiao Yan's advancement to draw him into danger at the Yao Clan's Medicine Canon and seize his soul.

More than a year after the Demonic Flame descended, Gu Xun'er emerged onto the Demon Fire Plains and learned that Xiao Yan had founded the Heavenly Mansion Alliance. She bargained with Lin Feng over his rivalry with Xiao Yan and obtained his promise to give Xiao Yan a powerful item before the Yao Clan’s Medicine Canon.

• The Heavenly Mansion Alliance’s mine guards chased miners who had secretly tunneled into their territory to excavate Demonic Flame Stones.
• Gu Xun'er appeared through a spatial fissure, and the guards’ leader recognized her as a powerful Dou Sheng and explained that the Demonic Flame had descended over a year earlier.
• Lin Feng arrived carrying Yun Yun, mocked Xiao Yan’s alchemy reputation, and learned from the mine guard that Xiao Yan led the Heavenly Mansion Alliance as a Three-star Dou Sheng and Ninth-grade alchemist.
• Gu Xun'er offered Lin Feng an invitation to the Yao Clan’s Medicine Canon in exchange for dropping his challenge to Xiao Yan’s reputation, and he agreed.
• Gu Xun'er made Lin Feng promise to give Xiao Yan an item and enough time to refine it before the Medicine Canon; Lin Feng then departed with Yun Yun.

Gu Xun'er killed Xiao Yan’s disrespectful subordinate and the ore thieves, then sent a bracelet to request a meeting with him. On Dragon Island, Cai Lin reached Peak Seven-star Dou Sheng and Zi Yan advanced to Peak Six-star before Lin Feng returned from the Demon Fire Space and reunited with the women.

• Gu Xun'er killed the scrawny Eight-star Dou Zong who had leered at her and annihilated the thieves stealing Xiao Yan’s Mystic Fire Stone.
• Gu Xun'er gave the burly elder Xiao Yan’s bracelet as proof of her identity and asked him to arrange a meeting.
• Lin Feng suspected the Ancient Clan was backing Xiao Yan and worried that Gu Yuan might learn what Lin Feng had done to Gu Xun'er.
• Cai Lin reached Peak Seven-star Dou Sheng on Dragon Island, where the elders praised her strength and discussed her rare Heavenly Devouring Emperor Python bloodline.
• Zi Yan emerged from seclusion after advancing to Peak Six-star Dou Sheng and expressed concern that Lin Feng had been trapped in the Demon Fire Space for over a year.
• Lin Feng returned to Dragon Island, reunited with Qing Lin and the other women, and praised their progress before Zi Yan insisted that her own breakthrough was impressive too.

Lin Feng reunited with Zi Yan and the others on Dragon Island, discussed the Old Dragon Emperor with Zhuohuo, and learned about the Heavenly Mansion Alliance’s rise and its clashes with Soul Hall. He assessed the strength of his allies and left confident that their united forces could dominate the continent outside the Soul Clan and Ancient Clan.

• Lin Feng greeted Zi Yan and met Zhuohuo, who asked about the Old Dragon Emperor; Lin Feng agreed to let Zi Yan explain the matter to him.
• Cai Lin and Xiao Yi Xian told Lin Feng about the Central Continent’s conflicts and Xiao Yan’s creation of the Heavenly Mansion Alliance, including Shennong Old Man’s role and Soul Hall’s support from Hun Qianmo.
• Lin Feng identified the black flames empowering the Earthwalker Sect and Void Profound Gate’s ancestors as Nihility Devouring Flame’s work and warned that the ancestors might have become its slaves.
• Qing Lin and Zi Yan reported how pills had strengthened the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan and Ancient Void Dragon Clan, while Qing Lin described the Sky Demon Phoenix Clan’s forces.
• Lin Feng tallied his allies’ Dou Sheng fighters and concluded that their alliance could overwhelm any faction except the Soul Clan and Ancient Clan.

Lin Feng explained his plan to explore two ancient lands sealed beyond the present Dou Qi Continent before acting against the Stone Clan. After clearing up his dealings with Gu Xun'er and outlining a plan to capture Xiao Yan’s soul, he left with Xiao Ling to absorb Nihility Devouring Flame’s sub-flame in the Demon Fire Space, then explore the southern region.

• Lin Feng showed the women a map of the two sealed lands and refused to let them accompany him until he had assessed the danger.
• Xiao Ling emerged from Lin Feng as a Five-star Dou Sheng Fire Spirit, and the women confronted him about his relationship with Gu Xun'er.
• Yun Yun explained how Lin Feng and Gu Xun'er’s relationship began, and Lin Feng told the women that his bargain concerned the Heaven Tomb and its Soul.
• Lin Feng described his plan to use the Yao Clan’s Medicine Canon to capture Xiao Yan’s Emperor Soul Realm soul with help from his allies.
• Lin Feng said he would first absorb Nihility Devouring Flame’s sub-flame in the Demon Fire Space, then explore the sealed southern region, and left Dragon Island with Xiao Ling.

Lin Feng and Xiao Ling defeated and absorbed the Nihility Devouring Flame's Sub-Flame, giving Lin Feng the ability to devour energy. Meanwhile, Gu Xun'er hid what had happened with the maid from Xiao Yan, then urged him to seek an Emperor Soul Realm treasure and warned him about Lin Feng's growing strength.

• Lin Feng let Xiao Ling fight the Nihility Devouring Flame's Sub-Flame, and she froze it, shattered its shell, and absorbed the flame after restraining its last wisp.
• Lin Feng tested his new devouring power by drawing in nearby energy, then stored Hun Feng's corpse and headed with Xiao Ling toward the sealed land beneath the Southern Continent.
• Gu Xun'er killed the maid who had been with the unconscious Xiao Yan, cleared the room's scent, and convinced Xiao Yan that he had slept with her while drunk.
• Gu Xun'er told Xiao Yan that the Ancient Clan had found clues to a treasure that could help someone reach the Emperor Soul Realm, and promised to lead the search for his sake.
• Gu Xun'er warned Xiao Yan that Lin Feng had absorbed the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and reached Peak Four-star Dou Sheng; Xiao Yan speculated that the flame had lost most of its power before Lin Feng absorbed it.

Lin Feng opened the ancient seal and entered a continent transformed into a rich land of spiritual herbs, where an Eight-star Dou Sheng-level Titan Ink Beetle ambushed him. As he hid from the beetle, a small green-lit mountain revealed a plant phantom that trapped it in a river of purple pollen.

• Lin Feng opened the seal using the method on the map and entered the ancient continent, where he found dense Dou Qi and abundant top-grade medicinal herbs.
• Lin Feng inspected several rare herbs before a Titan Ink Beetle burst from the ground and attacked him.
• Lin Feng summoned Xiao Ling, who struck the beetle with a Fire Lotus, giving Lin Feng time to escape and conceal himself nearby.
• The injured Titan Ink Beetle rampaged through the mountains until it struck a small, green-glowing mountain and was blasted away.
• The mountain summoned a phantom of a green-leaved, purple-flowered plant, whose pollen formed a river that enveloped the charging Titan Ink Beetle.

Lin Feng watched a Titan Ink Beetle battle two powerful spirit plants and discovered that the sealed continent was far more dangerous than he had expected. After the beetle escaped, he wondered what had caused so many formidable creatures to appear there in less than ten thousand years.

• The Titan Ink Beetle drew on the earth's power to defeat the purple-flowered plant's phantom, but vines from another plant bound it as the purple-flowered plant attacked again.
• An Ancient Life-Devouring Grass emerged, and Lin Feng recognized it as a dangerous predator whose aura rivaled the beetle's.
• The Ancient Life-Devouring Grass used purple pollen to put the Titan Ink Beetle to sleep, then prepared to trap it while fighting off the purple-flowered plant's sword-like leaves.
• The Titan Ink Beetle broke free, crushed the Ancient Life-Devouring Grass's phantom with its mandibles, and fled as the purple-flowered plant's phantom vanished.
• Lin Feng concluded that the creatures could use tactics despite lacking civilization and wondered what had enabled so many powerful beings to thrive on the isolated continent.

Lin Feng abandoned his plan to seize the injured Ancient Life-Devouring Grass after discovering it had produced a seed, a sign it had once been a Nine-star Dou Sheng. After fleeing, he found an ancient settlement called Pingnan Pass and wondered what conflict it had once been built to contain.

• Lin Feng headed toward the Ancient Life-Devouring Grass, while the Titan Ink Beetle returned to its cave and told its master that newcomers had entered the sealed land; the man sent out tiny insects and followed the beetle toward Lin Feng.
• Lin Feng found the Life-Devouring Grass severely weakened and considered taking its energy-rich roots and weapon-like leaves, but Xiao Ling interrupted his attempt to use a fire technique.
• Xiao Ling spotted a gray-black seed beside the Life-Devouring Grass, and Lin Feng realized it was a seed that could rapidly sprout by consuming life force.
• Lin Feng concluded the grass had been at least an early Nine-star Dou Sheng before producing the seed and fled tens of thousands of miles rather than challenge it.
• Lin Feng stumbled upon an ancient settlement surrounded by four mountains and found the words “Pingnan Pass” carved into its gates.
• Lin Feng wondered what rebellion or foreign invasion the pass had once suppressed and questioned why records from before Tou She Ancient God became an Emperor were so incomplete.

Lin Feng explored Pingnan Pass, discovered an ancient stone pillar and took its disc and a dead defender’s Storage Ring before encountering two powerful men and a Titan Ink Beetle. He introduced himself as Xiao Yan to test whether the newcomers recognized the name, and their surprise left their intentions uncertain.

• Lin Feng searched Pingnan Pass and found a moss-covered stone pillar beside a human skeleton on the central peak.
• He used his Human Puppet to turn over the skeleton and kick the pillar, revealing ancient golden carvings and a stone disc.
• Lin Feng removed the disc and the skeleton’s Storage Ring, then set off north to leave the dangerous area.
• Two men and a Titan Ink Beetle arrived from the south, and one man claimed they were descendants of the Pingnan Army seeking help to return home.
• Lin Feng cautiously approached the newcomers and introduced himself as Xiao Yan, and both men reacted with surprise.

Lin Feng, posing as Xiao Yan, negotiated with Han Yu and Qiu Yue, descendants of the Pingnan Army who wanted to escape their sealed world. He claimed he knew only part of the exit method and left them weighing whether to try now or wait for him to grow stronger.

• Han Yu and Qiu Yue introduced themselves as Pingnan Army descendants and offered rewards for a way out; Lin Feng said he had lost the records after a Soul Clan expert took them.
• Qiu Yue offered two Ninth-grade Mysterious Pills, and Lin Feng accepted one as a deposit while claiming he remembered part of the exit method.
• Lin Feng explained that opening the northern spatial passage required continent bloodline and incomplete hand seals, and warned that the damaged passage gave them only a sixty percent chance of escape together.
• When Han Yu and Qiu Yue doubted his claim that their presence lowered the odds, Lin Feng demonstrated his exceptional spatial control by vanishing and reappearing from the Void.
• Lin Feng said he could likely rescue them with an eighty percent chance after reaching Eight-star Dou Sheng or the Emperor Soul Realm, and with certainty if he reached both; Han Yu and Qiu Yue considered how difficult that would be.

Lin Feng struck a deal with Han Yu and Qiu Yue: they would help him advance and provide two Ninth-grade Mysterious Pills, while he helped them escape. As Han Yu explained the sealed region’s history, Lin Feng learned that a powerful tree spirit protected its strongest treasures, forcing him to abandon his plan to hunt the Ancient Life-Devouring Grass.

• Lin Feng agreed to help Han Yu and Qiu Yue escape in exchange for help advancing to Eight-star Dou Sheng and the Emperor Soul Realm, two Ninth-grade Mysterious Pills, and freedom to travel within their limits.
• Han Yu and Qiu Yue privately revealed their hostility toward the natives, their plan to use Lin Feng’s spatial talent, and their desire to restore the Tong Ling Sect on the Hundred Source Continent.
• Lin Feng warned Xiao Ling to stay silent and explained that he had bluffed the two men because fleeing from them would almost certainly get him killed.
• Han Yu told Lin Feng that the spiritual plants and Magical Beasts came from the Pingnan Army’s old battlefield and recounted how outside forces had transformed the sealed region before a devastating war.
• Lin Feng proposed killing the Ancient Life-Devouring Grass to gain strength, but Han Yu warned that a nearly unstoppable tree spirit protected powerful spiritual plants and could kill them both.
• Lin Feng abandoned his plan to hunt the Life-Devouring Grass after learning how dangerous its protector was, and Han Yu invited him to continue their discussion.