Chapter Summaries

Cao Ying and Xiao Yi Xian sensed danger around the Medicine Ceremony as Hun Xuzi secretly corrupted the mountain. When the grandmaster contest began, Cao Ying joined the renowned alchemists onstage and revealed she was a Ninth-grade Alchemist.

• Cao Ying judged Hun Xuzi and Yao Dan to be Seven-Star Dou Shengs and Elder Shennong to be a Six-Star Dou Sheng, while warning Xiao Yi Xian that the Soul Clan might attack the Yao Clan.
• Yao Dan opened the Medicine Ceremony, and young Yao Clan alchemists displayed their skills over several days as black qi from beneath Hun Xuzi's platform seeped into the mountain.
• Elder Shennong, Elder Wan Huo, Hun Xuzi, and Yao Chen took their places for the grandmaster contest.
• Cao Ying stepped onto the central platform, and Yao Chen explained that Su Baichen had trained her and that she had inherited his alchemy legacy.
• Cao Ying confirmed she was a Ninth-grade Alchemist, stunning the crowd and bringing the ceremony to its first climax.

At the Medicine Ceremony’s final contest, the five Alchemy Grandmasters revealed their Heavenly Flames, and Cao Ying astonished them with the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s complete spirit, Xiao Bai. Yao Dan began the contest, and the alchemists formed flame cauldrons and started refining their ingredients.

• Yao Chen, Elder Wan Huo, Hun Xuzi, and Elder Shennong revealed the Bone Chilling Flame, Nine Nether Wind Flame, a Nihility Devouring Flame Sub-Flame, and the Flame of Life.
• Cao Ying summoned Xiao Bai, the spirit of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, shocking the other grandmasters and angering Hun Xuzi.
• Cao Ying recalled that Xiao Bai had formed after she refined much of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s origin and that Su Baichen had helped her nurture it.
• Yao Dan announced the start of the Medicine Ceremony’s final alchemy contest.
• Yao Chen, Elder Wan Huo, Elder Shennong, and Hun Xuzi shaped their flames into medicinal cauldrons and began refining their prepared ingredients.

Cao Ying began refining pills with Xiao Bai’s help while Su Baichen endured the Nine Profound Golden Lightning in the Void Lightning Pool. After seven bolts struck him, he struggled to survive as the lightning began merging into his body.

• Cao Ying and Xiao Bai formed a Heavenly Flame Cauldron and began refining the prepared medicinal ingredients.
• Su Baichen’s body grew resistant to Black Demon Lightning, but its tempering stopped short of breaking through his Mid-Stage Dou Sheng barrier.
• A Nine Profound Golden Lightning struck Su Baichen and nearly killed him, forcing him to use the Heavenly Book, the Tianxuan Bead, Xiao Lu, and healing pills to recover.
• Seven more Nine Profound Golden Lightnings attacked Su Baichen in succession, repeatedly destroying and restoring his body.
• Strands of golden lightning settled into Su Baichen’s flesh, bones, and blood, quietly merging with his body’s origin.

Zhu Kun and Jiang Mingyue discovered that the Void Lightning Pool’s seal contained Dou Di power and learned it might guard a Thunder Emperor’s inheritance. Inside the pool, the Thunder Emperor watched Su Baichen endure the Nine Profound Golden Lightning body tempering, leaving his inheritance dependent on the young man’s fortune and destiny.

• Zhu Kun tried to break through the Nine Profound Golden Lightning seal and was injured, then sensed the power of a Dou Di within it.
• Zhu Kun told Jiang Mingyue the legend that a lightning-controlling Dou Di had created the Void Lightning Pool and left an inheritance there.
• Zhu Kun realized the inheritance restriction had been triggered and lamented that his clan had guarded the pool for thousands of years without finding it.
• Jiang Mingyue comforted Zhu Kun by promising him Dragon Scale Pastry, Ancient Dragon Brew, and whatever else he wanted that night.
• The Thunder Emperor watched Su Baichen repeatedly shatter and reform in the lightning, declaring that inheriting the legacy depended on his fortune and destiny.

At the Yao Realm Medicine Ceremony, Cao Ying used the Wanhuo Qinglian to refine and draw in heaven-and-earth energy more effectively than the four senior alchemists. After two days, the energy was nearly exhausted, and Cao Ying appeared poised to win while Hun Xuzi watched her artifact with greed.

• Hun Xuzi, Elder Wan Huo, Elder Shennong, and Yao Chen competed to absorb heaven-and-earth energy for their pill refinement.
• Cao Ying summoned the Wanhuo Qinglian, which drew in and purified energy across the plaza, overwhelming the other alchemists.
• Yao Dan recognized the Lotus Platform as a divine artifact and linked its creation, along with the hairpins worn by Cao Ying and others, to Su Baichen.
• After two days, the energy supply dwindled, and Yao Chen acknowledged that Cao Ying would likely win the competition.
• Elder Shennong and Elder Wan Huo accepted Cao Ying's advantage, while Hun Xuzi eyed the Wanhuo Qinglian with greed.

Hun Xuzi tried to steal the pill energy of his rivals, but Xiao Bai suppressed his flame and stole his Nascent Pill, enraging him into attacking Cao Ying. Cao Ying completed her pill with the stolen energy and two half-finished Mystic Pills, and it rose beneath the Black Demon Lightning for its final trial.

• Hun Xuzi sent four Sub-Flames of the Nihility Devouring Flame to seize pill energy from Yao Chen, Wan Huo, Elder Shennong, and Cao Ying, but Xiao Bai trapped the flame targeting Cao Ying.
• Xiao Bai stole Hun Xuzi's Nascent Pill and hid with it inside the Wanhuo Qinglian, provoking Hun Xuzi into a furious attack on Cao Ying.
• Yao Chen, Elder Wan Huo, and Elder Shennong blocked Hun Xuzi while Cao Ying refined the stolen Nascent Pill's energy into her own pill.
• Cao Ying added two half-finished Mystic Pills to her cauldron, and her pill triggered Pill Rain and drew the Black Demon Lightning tribulation.
• Cao Ying watched her golden pill rise into the tribulation clouds, leaving its survival and final transformation to the lightning baptism.

Cao Ying refined and captured an intelligent Ninth Grade Profound Pill that took the appearance of Su Baichen, then was named the continent’s Number One Alchemist and received a Nine Nether Wind Flame. As she prepared to leave, an endless sea of black flames covered the sky above the Yao Realm.

• Cao Ying and Xiao Bai trapped the escaping Mystic Pill, which transformed into Su Baichen’s likeness before reverting to a Ninth Grade Profound Pill that Cao Ying sealed away.
• Cao Ying explained that the pill had imitated Su Baichen because its embryo contained two practice pills he had made.
• Yao Dan declared Cao Ying the continent’s Number One Alchemist and offered her a favor from the Yao Clan.
• Cao Ying requested a Nine Nether Wind Flame, and Yao Dan summoned one from the clan’s back mountain.
• An immense sea of black flames spread across the sky above the Yao Realm, silencing the plaza as a terrifying pressure descended.

Nihility Devouring Flame and Hun Xuzi invaded the Yao Clan, sealed off its territory, and began slaughtering its people. Yao Dan summoned the Remnant Soul of the Medicine Emperor, but Cao Ying and Xiao Yi Xian realized it was too weak to match Nihility Devouring Flame and would likely be worn down.

• Nihility Devouring Flame appeared at Alchemy Plaza, and Hun Xuzi revealed himself as the Soul Clan’s accomplice in the invasion.
• Yao Dan discovered that the Yao Clan’s protective array had failed and that the space around the clan, including its passage to the Yan Clan, was sealed.
• Black flames attacked the guests and Yao Clan disciples, while Nihility Devouring Flame offered to spare a few bloodlines if the clan surrendered.
• Yao Dan activated an ancient formation and used tens of thousands of medicinal pills to summon the Remnant Soul of the Medicine Emperor.
• Cao Ying and Xiao Yi Xian observed from a safe zone and judged that the Remnant Soul could only reach roughly Eight-Star Dou Sheng power, while Nihility Devouring Flame could exhaust or devour it.

The Soul Clan attacked the Yao Clan, while Nihility Devouring Flame fought the Remnant Soul of the Medicine Emperor. Hun Xuzi’s attempt to kill Cao Ying triggered a sword aura from her that struck both Hun Xuzi and the battling souls, just as the Yao Clan Protective Array shattered.

• Nihility Devouring Flame mocked Yao Dan and attacked the Remnant Soul of the Medicine Emperor, who initially held him back.
• Yao Dan ordered the Yao Clan members to reinforce their Protective Array, while Hun Xuzi sent the Soul Clan Dou Sheng to slaughter them and claim the Tuoshe Ancient Jade.
• The Soul Clan attacked the plaza, and several Dou Sheng targeted Cao Ying and Xiao Yi Xian as Hun Xuzi turned his attention to Cao Ying.
• Nihility Devouring Flame enveloped the weakening Remnant Soul of the Medicine Emperor, and Hun Xuzi struck at Cao Ying while she dodged another attack.
• A silver-white sword aura erupted from Cao Ying, struck Hun Xuzi, then continued toward Nihility Devouring Flame and the Remnant Soul of the Medicine Emperor.
• The Remnant Soul of the Medicine Emperor restrained Nihility Devouring Flame so the sword aura could hit them, and the Yao Clan Protective Array shattered.

After Cao Ying’s sword strike injured Nihility Devouring Flame, Yao Dan and the surviving fighters broke out of the Yao Realm while the Soul Clan restored the flame by feeding it battlefield remains. Nihility Devouring Flame reassembled, learned Hun Xuzi had fled with the Yao Clan’s Tuoshe Ancient Jade, and returned to the Soul Clan.

• Yao Dan ordered the surviving elders to attack the spatial barrier, and they opened a breach as the trapped fighters fled.
• Xiao Yi Xian examined Cao Ying and explained that the sword Qi had drained Cao Ying and Xiao Bai to wound Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Yao Chen, Xiao Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, and Cao Ying escaped the Yao Realm with the last survivors.
• The Soul Clan fed corpses and battlefield remains to Nihility Devouring Flame until he recovered his human form.
• A Soul Clan Dou Sheng told Nihility Devouring Flame that Hun Xuzi had taken the Yao Clan’s Tuoshe Ancient Jade and returned to the clan.
• Nihility Devouring Flame ordered the Soul Clan to return and left the collapsing Yao Realm.

Cailin and Xuanyi discussed the Soul Clan’s growing threat while Su Baichen remained away, and Gu Yuan struggled to find allies for the Gu Clan. Xun'er revealed that Gu Yuan’s betrayal of Xiao Xuan had made Su Baichen fear becoming entangled with the Gu Clan, leaving Gu Yuan to confront the consequences of his past.

• Cailin and Xuanyi agreed to keep the Baichen Realm away from the Tuoshe Ancient Jade conflict, and Xuanyi said Cao Ying was recovering from her encounter with Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Gu Yuan recalled that Zhu Kun had refused to support the Gu Clan, while Cailin and Xuanyi had rebuffed his envoys because Su Baichen was away.
• Gu Yuan asked Xun'er where Su Baichen had gone, but she said she did not know and explained that Xuanyi and Cailin had deeper bonds with him.
• Xun'er told Gu Yuan that Su Baichen knew about the Gu Clan’s actions against the Xiao Clan and feared suffering the same fate as Xiao Xuan.
• Gu Yuan fell silent as he realized his betrayal of Xiao Xuan had become a barrier to Xun'er's happiness and the Gu Clan’s survival.

Hun Tiandi learned that Su Baichen’s sword qi had wounded Nihility Devouring Flame and ordered the Soul Clan to accelerate its collection of the Ancient Jades. Meanwhile, Cailin confirmed Su Baichen’s Nine-Star Dou Sheng cultivation, and Gu Yuan sheltered the devastated Yao Clan as an alliance began forming against the Soul Clan.

• Nihility Devouring Flame told Hun Tiandi that Su Baichen’s sword qi had struck down the Remnant Soul of the Medicine Emperor and wounded him.
• Hun Tiandi concluded that Su Baichen had reached at least the middle stage of Nine-Star Dou Sheng and ordered the Soul Clan to gather the Ancient Jades faster.
• Nihility Devouring Flame confirmed that the Emperor Grade Embryonic Pill in Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion had reached the Half-step Dou Di realm and said the complete Tuoshe Ancient Jade could restrain it.
• Cailin told Lei Zhen that Su Baichen was traveling and silently confirmed his Nine-Star Dou Sheng cultivation.
• Gu Yuan welcomed Yao Dan and the surviving Yao Clan into the Gu Realm, reinforced their spatial passages, and helped lay the groundwork for an alliance against the Soul Clan.

Cao Ying recovered in the Baichen Realm and learned that Su Baichen had left without saying where he was going. Su Mu visited her and Xiao Yi Xian to see Xiao Bai, then asked how he could grow up faster so his sister could no longer bully him so easily.

• Cao Ying finished recovering and learned from Xiao Yi Xian that Su Baichen had left the Baichen Realm without saying when he would return.
• Su Mu burst into Cao Ying's room and said he had come to play with Xiao Bai, whom he hoped to treat as his little brother.
• Cao Ying explained that Xiao Bai was a four-star Dou Sheng and far stronger than Su Mu, who was only at the Dou Zong realm.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Cao Ying reassured Su Mu that his cultivation was already extraordinary, but Cao Ying still teased him by ruffling his hair.
• Su Mu asked Cao Ying how to grow from two years old to twenty-two overnight, explaining that Su Ling'er had said little brothers should be hit while they were young.

Su Mu boasted that he would punish Su Ling'er when he grew stronger, but she overheard him and took him away for a lesson. The chapter ended with Su Ling'er spanking him in her room while he begged for mercy.

• Su Mu listed the punishments he planned to inflict on Su Ling'er, making Cao Ying and Xiao Yi Xian laugh.
• Su Ling'er arrived behind Su Mu and teased him about trembling after threatening to punish her.
• Su Ling'er delivered two bottles of pills from Cailin to Cao Ying, then said she would teach Su Mu battle skills.
• Su Mu eagerly followed Su Ling'er to her room, where she called her spanking lesson “Bamboo Shoot Fried Meat.”
• Su Mu cried and begged Su Ling'er to stop as she spanked him for boasting about suppressing her.

Zi Yan prepared Ancient Dragon Island for war against the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, rewarding Hei Qing and ordering the Wind Thunder Pavilion destroyed for its ties to the clan. The elders praised her leadership while reminding Zhu Kun how his past choices had contributed to Ancient Dragon Island’s division.

• Zi Yan reviewed Hei Qing’s report on the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s strength and confirmed that Ancient Dragon Island was ready to move against them.
• Zi Yan ordered Hei Qing to have the Wind Thunder Pavilion erased because its disciple Feng Qing’er belonged to the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.
• Zi Yan promised Hei Qing a Bodhi Pill after the victory, and he pledged to fight for her before leaving to gather troops.
• Zhu Kun and the senior elders watched from concealment and praised Zi Yan’s decisive leadership.
• The elders teased Zhu Kun about his less thorough rule, recalling how his disappearance and earlier choices had helped weaken Ancient Dragon Island and split it into four.

As Zi Yan prepared to challenge the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, Hun Tiandi learned of her plans and decided to use the conflict as cover for the Soul Clan’s real operation. He planned to seize the Tou She Ancient God Jade fragments held by the Gu Clan, Yan Clan, and Lei Clan.

• Reclusive experts praised Zi Yan’s leadership while Zhu Kun endured Jiang Mingyue’s warning and stayed quiet.
• Zi Yan studied intelligence on the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan as the Soul Clan received word of her plans.
• Hun Tiandi ordered Nihility Devouring Flame to tell Huang Tian that the Soul Clan would help the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan without openly intervening.
• Hun Tiandi rejected targeting Zi Yan and revealed that he planned to use the war to distract the continent.
• Hun Tiandi ordered the Soul Clan to seize the Gu Clan, Yan Clan, and Lei Clan’s Tou She Ancient God Jade fragments so he could open the Ancient God Cave Mansion and pursue becoming a Dou Di.

Huang Tian learned that Zi Yan’s forces were approaching the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and had to prepare for battle while relying on Hun Tiandi’s promised reinforcements. He ordered the clan to activate its defenses, leaving its survival dependent on whether the Soul Clan would come.

• Huang Tian reflected on the clan’s decline and the threat posed by Zhu Kun, and recalled seeking protection from Hun Tiandi.
• Jiu Feng brought Huang Tian a message from Hun Tiandi stating that Zi Yan had gathered the four island forces and would soon reach the clan.
• Huang Tian told Jiu Feng that Hun Tiandi wanted them to hold out until reinforcements arrived, while Jiu Feng warned that the Soul Clan might be deceitful and asked whether they should flee.
• Huang Tian explained that the Ancient Void Dragons could track and pursue the clan through space, leaving them nowhere to escape.
• Huang Tian ordered the clan to activate the Ten Thousand Phoenix Burning Heaven Grand Formation, prepare its ancient defenses, distribute Nirvana Pills, and arm its adult members.
• Jiu Feng departed to carry out the orders as Huang Tian prayed that his clan would survive the coming attack.

Zi Yan led the Ancient Void Dragon Clan in an assault on the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, beginning a battle that drew the attention of the continent. Meanwhile, two Ancient Void Dragons confronted Thunder Venerable at Wind Thunder Pavilion, and the Soul Realm opened in the north.

• Zi Yan arrived with nearly a hundred Ancient Void Dragon experts and ordered Huang Tian and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan exterminated.
• Huang Tian activated the Myriad Phoenixes Burning Heaven formation, and the dragons and phoenixes clashed in a devastating battle.
• Observers across the Central Plains turned their attention to the fighting, while black-robed figures emerged from the Soul Realm.
• Thunder Venerable worried that Feng Qing'er's ties to Wind Thunder Pavilion would bring the dragons' wrath and pleaded with his ancestors for protection.
• Two Ancient Void Dragons with the power of Seven Star Dou Zuns burst into the ancestral hall, and Thunder Venerable recognized that his nightmare had come true.

Two Ancient Dragon Clan Dou Zuns killed Thunder Venerable and annihilated the Wind Thunder Pavilion as part of the campaign against the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan. In Baichen Realm, Cailin sent Cao Ying and Caidie to watch the battlefield from the perimeter after Xuanyi warned that the Soul Clan's silence was suspicious.

• Two Ancient Dragon Clan Dou Zuns attacked Thunder Venerable, killed him, and began slaughtering the Wind Thunder Pavilion on orders to leave no survivors.
• The Wind Thunder Pavilion was annihilated, and news of its destruction spread fear among the powers of the Central Plains.
• Caidie told Cailin and Xuanyi that Zi Yan had led an attack on the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and asked to join the fighting.
• Cailin refused to intervene directly because Zi Yan needed to establish her authority as Dragon Emperor, while Xuanyi warned that the Soul Clan's silence was suspicious.
• Cailin sent Cao Ying and Caidie to observe the battlefield's outer perimeter and provide support from the shadows if needed.

Soul Clan infiltrators stole the Tuoshe Ancient Jade from the Yan and Lei Ancestral Shrines as Hun Tiandi launched a massacre in the Gu Realm. He confronted Gu Yuan and publicly accused him of delivering the decisive blow that destroyed the Xiao Clan.

• A Soul Clan infiltrator struck down his fellow Yan Clan guardian, stole the Tuoshe Ancient Jade, and fled the Ancestral Shrine.
• A Soul Clan infiltrator attacked the Lei Clan guardian and escaped with the jade, while Lei Ying and Lei Zhen watched from hiding after arranging a decoy.
• Lei Ying and Lei Zhen decided to take the Lei Clan to the Baichen Realm before Hun Tiandi discovered the jade was fake.
• Dozens of Soul Clan Dou Sheng experts invaded the Gu Realm and slaughtered its people until Gu Yuan arrived and attacked them.
• Hun Tiandi blocked Gu Yuan's attack, revealed that Gu Yuan had joined him in wiping out the Xiao Clan, and claimed Gu Yuan had delivered the decisive blow.