Chapter Summaries

Lin Feng fought Qiu Yue while using fire, physical enhancements, and the Nihility Devouring Flame to exploit Qiu Yue’s injuries and drain his Dou Qi. After assessing the wider battle, Lin Feng sent a message to his wives and concubines to proceed with their plan.

• Lin Feng evaded Qiu Yue’s attacks, taunted him, then unleashed Fire Lotuses and merged with Xiao Ling amid the flames.
• Lin Feng trapped Qiu Yue in the Dragon Emperor Bell, transformed and strengthened his body, then struck Qiu Yue hard enough to send him flying.
• Lin Feng formed a Black Sun enhanced by the Nihility Devouring Flame, which drained Qiu Yue’s Dou Qi through his defenses.
• Qiu Yue broke free of the Black Sun’s pull and pursued Lin Feng, but Lin Feng retreated while continuing to drain him.
• Lin Feng surveyed the battlefield, saw Han Yu held off by Xiao Yi Xian, Cai Lin, and Qing Lin, and telepathically told his wives and concubines to proceed according to the plan.

Lin Feng and his allies weakened the Tong Ling Sect forces with the Grand Xuan Fire Control Array and a devastating Emperor Lotus, then Hun Yuantian used the Deathly Silence Gate to capture many of them. As the remaining Tong Ling Sect fighters called for help, Cai Lin, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin restrained Han Yu, giving Lin Feng an opening to strike him.

• Lin Feng's concubines used ninth-tier magic cores and Ninth-grade Treasure Pills to trap around fifty Tong Ling Sect Dou Shengs in the Grand Xuan Fire Control Array.
• Lin Feng released Hun Yuantian from the Deathly Silence Gate, and Han Yu and Qiu Yue tried to stop the eight-star Dou Sheng from reaching their forces.
• Lin Feng fought Qiu Yue, drained some of his life force, and struck him with an Emperor Lotus fused from more than a dozen Heavenly Flames.
• Hun Yuantian opened the Deathly Silence Gate and began swallowing the injured Tong Ling Sect Dou Shengs and their Spirit Pets.
• Cai Lin, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin used their Fighting Skills to hold Han Yu back and pull his soul into Qing Lin's Pupil Realm.
• Lin Feng used his speed to reach Han Yu and hit him with a black-mist-wreathed palm, sending him flying backward.

Lin Feng and Han Yu fought over the badly wounded Qiu Yue, until Han Yu unleashed a talisman containing the Giant Tree’s soul and sent its overwhelming vines after Lin Feng. Lin Feng shielded himself with the Black and White Iron Box as the final volley struck, while Qiu Yue could only curl up and brace for the attack.

• The Tong Ling Sect Dou Shengs fled after Han Yu was defeated, and the badly injured Qiu Yue emerged from the dissipating fire clouds.
• Lin Feng tried to kill Qiu Yue with Yellow Springs Palm, but Qiu Yue used two Tong Ling Sect Dou Shengs as shields and escaped; Han Yu then returned to confront Lin Feng.
• Han Yu summoned the Giant Tree’s soul from a black iron talisman, and its vines broke through Lin Feng’s defenses and wounded him.
• Lin Feng summoned a Nine Profound Golden Dragon, but the vines pierced and destroyed it before he could escape their second volley.
• Lin Feng fled toward Qiu Yue while Han Yu launched the talisman’s final attack; Lin Feng detonated Emperor Lotuses and hid behind the Black and White Iron Box, which the vines struck and sent him flying.

Han Yu ordered the Tong Ling Sect forces to retreat after Lin Feng returned to the battlefield, and Lin Feng led a pursuit until Han Yu warned him about his injury. Lin Feng discovered that the wound was turning into tree bark, leaving the danger of the vines’ woodification unresolved.

• The vines pierced Qiu Yue, knocking him unconscious and leaving him near death, while Han Yu’s talisman attack sent Lin Feng crashing through mountains.
• Han Yu found Qiu Yue badly wounded and realized the Tong Ling Sect could not keep fighting without another Nine-star Dou Sheng.
• After Lin Feng returned, Han Yu grabbed Qiu Yue and led the Tong Ling Sect forces south in retreat.
• Lin Feng called for his allies to pursue the fleeing Tong Ling Sect forces.
• Han Yu warned Lin Feng to inspect his wound, and Lin Feng stopped when he saw it had turned greenish gray and stiff like tree bark.

Lin Feng returned to Pingnan Pass after the battle and investigated the woodification spreading through his wound. He discovered that Wood Source Energy had hidden itself in his blood and began using Nihility Devouring Flame to purge it.

• Lin Feng sent his concubines and Hun Yuantian to help defeat the remaining Tong Ling Sect Dou Sheng, then collected their bodies and souls in the Deathly Silence Gate.
• Xiao Yi Xian found that Lin Feng’s wound was not caused by poison, so he returned to Pingnan Pass to examine its spreading woodification.
• After Lin Feng left, the Ancient Heavenly Demon Python attacked Han Yu’s retreating group, killed several Tong Ling Sect Dou Sheng, and then withdrew to heal.
• Lin Feng spent several days investigating and discovered that the tree’s Wood Source Aura had disguised itself as his own blood.
• Lin Feng mobilized Nihility Devouring Flame to search his blood for the Wood Source Energy and remove it.

After recovering from the Wood Source Energy, Lin Feng decided to improve his Dou Qi by refining a Ninth-grade Golden Core. He studied the Nine Bends Mysterious Yuan Pill recipe and its alchemical notes, then prepared to attempt the pill for the first time.

• Lin Feng recovered from his injuries and removed the Wood Source Energy after spending about a month in seclusion.
• Xiao Yi Xian, Cai Lin, Qing Lin, and the others searched for cultivation resources and killed Tong Ling Sect members they encountered, while the sect withdrew to its headquarters.
• Lin Feng chose to perfect and consume a Golden Core rather than focus on mastering the Book of Death and Life.
• Lin Feng reviewed the Nine Bends Mysterious Yuan Pill recipe, whose materials were rare and whose effects could advance an Eight-star Dou Sheng by up to two minor stages.
• Lin Feng studied a Ninth-grade Golden Core Grandmaster’s notes on refining the pill and prepared to make his first attempt.

Lin Feng began refining tens of thousands of medicinal herbs for a Ninth-grade Golden Core while Hun Tiandi’s Soul Clan identified a likely location of Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion. The Soul Clan held back from acting until Hun Tiandi recovered, while Gu Yuan realized the Ancient Clan was badly outmatched and likely trailing them.

• Lin Feng summoned Xiao Ling and used his Soul Power to divide her flames among tens of thousands of herbs, beginning their simultaneous refinement.
• A Soul Clan investigator told Hun Tiandi that a volcanic range in the Black Corner Region matched the clues to Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion and contained a deep Magma World guarded by powerful Lizardmen.
• Hun Tiandi prepared to send Elder Hun You to investigate, but Nihility Devouring Flame warned him that acting openly would alert the Ancient Clan, so Hun Tiandi ordered everyone to stop investigating until his injuries healed.
• After the others withdrew, Hun Tiandi celebrated finding the cave mansion, while Nihility Devouring Flame secretly resolved to pursue the inheritance within it for himself.
• An Ancient Clan report warned Gu Yuan that the Soul Clan had gathered the eight Tou She Ancient God Jade pieces and was withdrawing its exploration teams, leaving the Ancient Clan at a severe disadvantage.

Gu Yuan reassured the Ancient Clan that Yan Clan Elder Huo Ling's breakthrough improved their chances against the Soul Clan, while Gu Xun'er hid in the Lin Realm to protect her unborn child. Lin Feng's attempt to refine a Ninth-grade Golden Core failed during solidification, and he prepared to try again with Xiao Ling's help.

• Gu Yuan told the Ancient Clan elders that Huo Ling had advanced to Eight-star Dou Sheng and proposed moving Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion into the Heaven Tomb.
• Gu Xun'er stayed in the Lin Realm after failing to find Lin Feng, concealing her pregnancy from Gu Yuan.
• Lin Feng and Xiao Ling brought tens of thousands of medicinal essences together and successfully fused them into an energy liquid.
• Lin Feng's first attempt to solidify the energy liquid into a Ninth-grade Golden Core failed when a temperature fluctuation caused the fireball to explode.
• Xiao Ling comforted Lin Feng, and he identified his mistake in timing the temperature change during impurity expulsion.
• Lin Feng and Xiao Ling began preparing for another attempt, with Xiao Ling promising to control the flames more carefully.

Lin Feng and Xiao Ling refined medicinal essences into a Golden Core Nascent Pill, but their first attempt cracked during formation. Lin Feng then perfected the Origin Augmentation Pill with Xiao Ling’s flames and survived its Dan Thunder, ending with a finished Ninth-grade Golden Core and wondering if it could help him reach Nine-star Dou Sheng.

• Lin Feng and Xiao Ling refined the medicinal herbs and fused their essences, then carefully raised the flames to form a Nascent Pill.
• After impurity eruptions, the Nascent Pill absorbed vast natural energy, but a crack formed because its medicinal energy conflicted with the energy it absorbed.
• Lin Feng stored the damaged Nascent Pill and began refining the Origin Augmentation Pill he had recovered from the Golden Core Grandmaster Ruins.
• Xiao Ling’s Golden Exotic Flame refined the Origin Augmentation Pill for half a month until it became smooth and triggered powerful Dan Thunder.
• The Nine Profound Golden Lightning struck the pill repeatedly, purifying it into a perfect Ninth-grade Golden Core as Lin Feng celebrated and considered whether it could help him break through to Nine-star Dou Sheng.

Lin Feng trapped the Ninth-grade Golden Core, consumed it, and spent half a month refining its immense energy. Both of his Qi vortices neared the Nine-star Dou Sheng level, leaving him on the verge of a breakthrough.

• Lin Feng fused with Xiao Ling to reach Early Nine-star Dou Sheng strength, then sealed the fleeing Ninth-grade Golden Core with the Pill Control Art.
• Lin Feng suppressed the Golden Core until it returned to pill form, sent Xiao Ling to stand guard, and swallowed it.
• The Golden Core's energy overwhelmed Lin Feng's meridians and formed crystalline armor over his scales, so he used two Cultivation Methods and an auxiliary pill to absorb it faster.
• Lin Feng spent half a month refining the Golden Core, bringing both Qi vortices close to the Nine-star Dou Sheng level.
• Lin Feng reflected that the pill's energy came from its long cultivation and the resources it had devoured, and that Nihility Devouring Flame might not have been able to capture it alone.

Lin Feng absorbed the Ninth-grade Golden Core and advanced to Early Nine-star Dou Sheng, then learned how Xiao Yi Xian and Cai Lin had reached late Eight-star Dou Sheng through an exchange with the wounded Ancient Heavenly Demon Python. The revealed carcasses included the Titan Ink Beetle and Qiu Yue’s Spirit Pet, showing the heavy losses the Tong Ling Sect had suffered.

• Lin Feng absorbed the Ninth-grade Golden Core, broke through to Early Nine-star Dou Sheng, and concluded that his strength could surpass Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Xiao Ling tried to persuade Lin Feng to give her the defective Golden Core Nascent Pill, but he refused and carried her back to their base.
• Lin Feng discovered that Xiao Yi Xian and Cai Lin had advanced to late Eight-star Dou Sheng, and Xiao Yi Xian explained that poisons and Magic Cores from the Ancient Heavenly Demon Python’s trade had helped them.
• Xiao Yi Xian revealed the black beetle and gray ape carcasses she had received, and Lin Feng recognized the beetle as the Titan Ink Beetle and inferred that the ape had been Qiu Yue’s Spirit Pet.

Lin Feng broke through to Nine-Star Dou Sheng but failed to refine a Ninth-grade Golden Core, then sent the failed pill to Feng'er in hopes of strengthening her before the coming battle. He learned that Gu Xun'er was pregnant and flew off to confront her, while the women around him reacted with resentment.

• Lin Feng discussed the Ancient Heavenly Demon Python's distrust and gave up on using it to ambush Han Yu and the Tong Ling Sect.
• Cai Lin reported that Lin Feng's women had advanced in strength, and Lin Feng gave his failed Golden Core to Cao Ying to take to Feng'er.
• Lin Feng planned to leave seclusion and lure out Han Yu and his allies, but Dan Chen told him that Gu Xun'er was pregnant.
• Cai Lin led the other women away, and Lin Feng flew toward the northern exit to deal with Gu Xun'er.

Gu Xun'er confronted Lin Feng about her pregnancy and her fear that her father would prevent her from having the child. Lin Feng persuaded her to travel with him to hidden alchemist ruins by promising a safe place to recuperate, while secretly planning to trick her.

• Gu Xun'er lamented being unable to join the coming war against the Soul Clan and blamed Lin Feng for Xiao Yan's death.
• Lin Feng arrived, and Gu Xun'er told him she was pregnant with his child; he pretended to be indifferent before reassuring her that he would support her decision to give birth.
• Lin Feng offered to take Gu Xun'er to the hidden ruins of an Ancient Ninth-grade Alchemist so she could rest during her pregnancy.
• Gu Xun'er asked Lin Feng for the Ninth-grade Mysterious Pill he had found, but he claimed he had given it to the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.
• After learning the ruins remained unexplored, Gu Xun'er agreed to Lin Feng's private condition, and he carried her away toward the ruins.

Lin Feng confronted Han Yu and Qiu Yue near the Tong Ling Sect and examined the Ascension Platform, where he discovered a breach through the continent’s world barrier. He realized the Tong Ling Sect Ancestor had advanced beyond Peak Nine-Star Dou Sheng by cultivating Dou Qi, leaving Lin Feng more pressed for time as Hun Tiandi waited outside.

• Lin Feng met Han Yu and Qiu Yue, who surrounded him near the Tong Ling Sect’s headquarters and blocked his retreat.
• Lin Feng spotted the Ascension Platform and saw a hole through the Void Space and the continent’s world barrier.
• Lin Feng’s soul perception touched the hole and was destroyed by a powerful force that injured him.
• Lin Feng inferred that the Tong Ling Sect Ancestor had entered through the Ascension Platform and was now stronger than Peak Nine-Star Dou Sheng.
• Lin Feng grew anxious about facing the Tong Ling Sect Ancestor while Hun Tiandi waited outside, as Han Yu and Qiu Yue became angry that he ignored them.

Lin Feng revealed his Nine-star Dou Sheng strength and overwhelmed Qiu Yue and Han Yu, pursuing them toward the Tong Ling Sect camp. He wounded Han Yu and trapped him in a fire cauldron, but the Tong Ling Sect Ancestor intervened with a powerful beam, forcing Lin Feng to abandon the kill.

• Qiu Yue and Han Yu attacked Lin Feng together, but Lin Feng revealed his Nine-star Dou Sheng cultivation and shattered Han Yu's energy palm seal.
• Lin Feng broke Qiu Yue's hand with a punch, pursued him, and used a black metal book to drain his life force before Qiu Yue escaped into camp.
• Lin Feng intercepted Han Yu with a soul shockwave and Yellow Springs Palm, then trapped him inside the Grand Xuan Fire Control Array.
• Qiu Yue and the Tong Ling Sect members begged their Ancestor to save Han Yu, and the Ancestor fired a blue beam through Lin Feng's fire cauldron.
• Lin Feng sensed danger and dodged the beam, which pierced the cauldron and smashed into the distant ground.

Lin Feng drove Han Yu and Qiu Yue back to the Tong Ling Sect camp, but the Tong Ling Sect Ancestor’s attacks forced him to abandon his pursuit. He then looted the sect’s nearby resources for half a day before leaving with several full Storage Rings.

• The Tong Ling Sect Ancestor destroyed Lin Feng’s fire cauldron and Phoenix Shadow with icy attacks, allowing Han Yu to escape using a tiny gray insect as a decoy.
• Lin Feng dodged the Ancestor’s attacks, but gave up chasing Han Yu when a blue ice sword broke through his flame barriers.
• Qiu Yue carried the unconscious Han Yu into the Tong Ling Sect camp and taunted Lin Feng from behind its protection.
• Lin Feng collected the dead insect, then began taking cultivation resources from around the camp while the Tong Ling Sect members cursed but dared not stop him.
• After looting for more than half a day, Lin Feng left with several Storage Rings full of resources.

Lin Feng returned to the Ancient Southern Continent, visited the imprisoned Gu Xun'er, and gathered his women to recruit them for the coming struggle over the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's cave mansion. The concubines agreed to help him seize the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill, and Lin Feng ended the meeting by arranging a private discussion with his wives.

• The Tong Ling Sect Ancestor explained to Qiu Yue that she had let Xiao Yan go because she could not enter the Dou Qi Continent and did not want to provoke him further.
• Lin Feng returned to Pingnan Pass and visited Gu Xun'er, whom he had imprisoned and isolated after sealing her Dou Qi.
• Lin Feng summoned his women and revealed that the Ancient Clan and Soul Clan were fighting over the key to a Dou Emperor's cave mansion and an Emperor Grade Nascent Pill.
• Lin Feng said he had reached the Nine-star Dou Sheng realm, planned to join the struggle with powerful allies, and urged his women to help before the Ancient Clan or Soul Clan could claim the prize.
• The concubines agreed to help Lin Feng seize the pill after he promised to help any of them who reached Nine-star Dou Sheng become Dou Emperors.
• Lin Feng ended the mobilization meeting and secretly summoned his wives to a private meeting that night.

Lin Feng assessed the coming struggle for the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill, compared the strength of his faction with the Soul, Ancient, and Yan Clans, and assigned preparations to his allies and family. Meanwhile, Hun Tiandi sent Hun You to investigate the Black Corner Region and rejected Nihility Devouring Flame’s proposal to attack the Yan Clan, leaving the Soul Clan focused on securing the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill.

• Xiao Yi Xian reported that Zi Yan had reached Peak Seven-star Dou Sheng, while Cai Lin had received no news about Feng’er’s breakthrough.
• Lin Feng calculated both sides’ high-level fighters, worried that Hun Tiandi and Gu Yuan might cooperate against his faction, and ordered Cai Lin, Qing Lin, Xiao Yi Xian, and the Three Beauties of Pill Tower to prepare their forces.
• After the women left to carry out their assignments, Lin Feng examined and tempered the tiny gray insect Han Yu had used, then went to ask Zhao Ran to care for his children and guard Gu Xun’er.
• Hun Tiandi ordered Hun Miesheng to have Hun You investigate whether Tou She Ancient God’s Cave Mansion was near the Black Corner Region.
• Nihility Devouring Flame agreed to hold Gu Yuan back while Hun Tiandi pursued the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill, then proposed attacking the Yan Clan for its Dou Di bloodline.
• Hun Tiandi refused the proposed attack, deciding that risking Nihility Devouring Flame before the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill was secured could jeopardize his plan.

Gu Yuan put aside his search for Gu Xun'er and prepared the Ancient Clan for an approaching war with the Soul Clan over the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill. Meanwhile, Soul Clan forces invaded the Black Corner Region and Jia Nan Academy, where their leader discovered a legendary cave abode and used a Space Jade Slip to summon help.

• Gu Yuan accepted the Ancient Clan elders' warning about the Soul Clan, ordered spatial passages built across three continents, and arranged to monitor Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Dozens of Soul Clan Dou Zuns reached the Black Corner Region, killed the Magic Blade Sect's Dou Emperor, and began slaughtering the region's inhabitants after Lin Feng's Heavenly Treasure Pavilion had evacuated.
• Soul Clan forces attacked Jia Nan Academy, destroyed the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower, and killed its elders and students while Cai Lin's earlier evacuation warning had gone largely unheeded.
• The Thousand Hundred Elders arrived to defend Jia Nan Academy, but the Soul Clan attackers overwhelmed the academy's forces.
• The Soul Clan leader returned from beneath the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower, crushed a Space Jade Slip, and revealed that he had found the cave abode of a legendary expert who had vanished ten thousand years earlier.

Lin Feng split his forces, sending his allies toward Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion while he planned to seize the Heaven Tomb from the Ancient Clan. As Hun Tiandi and Gu Yuan raced toward the cave mansion, Lin Feng set out for the now-unprotected Ancient Realm.

• Lin Feng assigned the three Magical Beast clans to watch the Ancient God's Cave Mansion and told Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, Cai Lin, and Feng'er how to prepare and avoid a reckless fight.
• Lin Feng gave Feng'er a tiny combat puppet and Cai Lin the Deathly Silence Gate, then stayed behind to monitor the Ancient Realm as the others departed.
• Hun Tiandi confirmed that the Soul Clan had prepared its blood pool and other materials, then learned that Tou She Ancient God's cave mansion lay beneath Jia Nan Academy.
• Nihility Devouring Flame opened a spatial passage, and Hun Tiandi led the Soul Clan's Dou Sheng experts through it toward the cave mansion.
• Gu Yuan sensed the Soul Clan's departure, opened a passage, and led the Ancient Clan's Dou Sheng experts in pursuit.
• As Gu Yuan left the Ancient Realm, Lin Feng raced from the Lin Realm toward it to take control of the Heaven Tomb.