Chapter Summaries

Hun Tiandi prepared to destroy the Yao Clan during its Medicine Ceremony, while Xiao Yan and Yao Chen traveled to the Yao Realm to attend it. After arriving, they confronted Yao Wangui, who had mocked Yao Chen for returning.

• Hun Tiandi told Nihility Devouring Flame that their allies would help exterminate the Yao Clan during its Medicine Ceremony in a few months.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Chen left the Tianfu Alliance for the Yao Clan, with Xiao Yan reassuring his worried Master that he would help reclaim what she had lost.
• The pair reached the Shennong Mountain Range and entered the Yao Realm after Xiao Yan presented his invitation to the guards.
• A guide brought Xiao Yan and Yao Chen to the Yao Clan’s mountain, where Yao Wangui mocked Yao Chen for returning to the clan.
• Xiao Yan confronted Yao Wangui and declared that he and Yao Chen had a score to settle with him.

Xiao Yan confronted Yao Wangui for insulting Yao Chen and attacked Yao Clan members when Wangui refused to back down. The Sword Clan intervened on Xiao Yan’s behalf, and Fire Cloud Elder ordered Wangui to apologize, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Yao Wangui mocked Yao Chen as an outcast, and Xiao Yan killed a Yao Clan Dou Venerate who tried to stop him.
• Xiao Yan struck several Yao Clan members and revealed his Late Five-star Dou Saint strength when Wangui summoned the clan’s experts.
• Xiao Yan demanded that Yao Wangui apologize to Yao Chen and prepared to attack with the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Fire Cloud Elder arrived as Xiao Yan faced a Six-star Dou Sheng, and Gongsun Sanbu declared that the Sword Clan would protect Xiao Yan and Yao Chen.
• Gongsun Sanbu ruled that Yao Wangui should apologize, and Fire Cloud Elder ordered him to do so.

Xiao Yan and Yao Chen attended the Yao Clan’s Medicine Ceremony after Elder Wanhuo settled their dispute with Yao Wangui. Meanwhile, Liuli continued her Sword Tomb inheritance, growing stronger as she waited for a chance to see Xiao Yan again.

• Elder Wanhuo made Yao Wangui apologize to Yao Chen and expelled the Yao Clan members who had insulted the guests for ten years.
• Elder Wanhuo escorted Xiao Yan, Yao Chen, and Gongsun Sanbu to the Medicine Ceremony and seated them in the main section.
• Xiao Yan asked Gongsun Sanbu about Liuli, who said she had rarely appeared since returning to the Sword Clan and urged Xiao Yan to visit after the ceremony.
• Liuli continued drawing and restoring swords in the Sword Tomb, advancing to Seven-star Dou Sheng after nearly a year of training.

Liuli received a year’s leave from her master, while Xiao Yan attended a gathering of powerful figures at the Yao Clan and faced the arrival of Hun Xuzi. The chapter ended with Liuli appearing behind Hun Xuzi and Xiao Yan recognizing her.

• Liuli’s master judged her progress in the Sword Tomb and granted her a year of leave.
• Yao Dan arrived at the Yao Clan gathering, where he and Yao Chen exchanged words about Yao Chen’s past.
• Shennong the Elder arrived and praised Xiao Yan’s Heavenly Realm Great Perfection Soul Power.
• Hun Xuzi arrived uninvited, and Xiao Yan, Yao Chen, and Gongsun Sanbu identified him as a powerful Soul Clan expert.
• Liuli spoke from behind Hun Xuzi, and Xiao Yan recognized her with delight.

Gongsun Liuli arrived at the Yao Clan gathering and reunited with Xiao Yan, while Hun Xuzi tried to provoke them and was driven away from his seat. Hun Xuzi kept his anger hidden and planned to capture Liuli to force her father to trade the Tou She Ancient God Jade for her life.

• Hun Xuzi attacked Liuli with invisible pressure, but she passed through it unharmed, astonishing him and Yao Dan.
• Liuli greeted Yao Dan, who welcomed her as the Sword Clan’s Young Clan Leader and gave her a seat of honor beside Gongsun Sanbu.
• Gongsun Sanbu switched seats with Xiao Yan, letting him sit beside Liuli and renew his resolve to compete for the title of the continent’s number one Alchemist.
• Hun Xuzi demanded that Yao Dan grant him the title, but Yao Dan told him to compete by his own Alchemy skill and warned him to obey the Yao Clan’s rules.
• Hun Xuzi taunted Old Yao about his past, and Xiao Yan and Liuli attacked him together, forcing him to teleport away from his chair.
• Hun Xuzi refrained from retaliating and secretly resolved to capture Liuli and demand the Tou She Ancient God Jade from her father.

The Medicine Ceremony’s opening contests ended with Yao Tian establishing himself as the Yao Clan’s leading young Alchemist, before Xiao Yan and four other masters were called to compete for the title of the continent’s number one Alchemist. Xiao Yan challenged Hun Xuzi on behalf of the Tianfu Alliance, and the confrontation began as the Alchemists summoned their flames.

• Yao Dan opened the Medicine Ceremony, and the Yao Clan respectfully honored the phantom of their ancestor, the Yao Emperor.
• The Yao Clan’s young Alchemists competed for three days, and Yao Tian secured his standing as their top talent by refining an Eighth-grade pill that summoned Nine-colored Pill Lightning.
• Yao Dan invited Xiao Yan, Hun Xuzi, Elder Wanhuo, Shennong the Elder, and Gongsun Sanbu to compete for the title of the continent’s number one Alchemist.
• Xiao Yan challenged Hun Xuzi on behalf of the Pill Tower and the Tianfu Alliance, and Hun Xuzi responded by forming a huge cauldron from his black flames.
• Hun Xuzi called on the competitors to summon their Heavenly Flames, and Gongsun Sanbu revealed the Red Lotus Karmic Fire.

Xiao Yan and four other alchemists began refining pills, each displaying their Heavenly Flames and alchemy methods. As Hun Xuzi drew in the power of heaven and earth to refine a Ninth-grade Profound Pill, Xiao Yan began gathering that energy too.

• Shennong the Elder revealed his Flame of Life, while Xiao Yan soothed Xiao Yi after the little flame objected to his envy.
• The five alchemists moved apart to begin refining pills after Yao Dan gave the signal.
• Shennong the Elder used his Flame of Life to rapidly grow medicinal herbs from seeds, and Gongsun Sanbu sent herbs into his Crimson Pill Cauldron.
• Xiao Yan sent Xiao Yi into a huge Pink Fire Cauldron and fed it thousands of medicinal herbs at once, astonishing the spectators.
• Hun Xuzi used a hand seal to draw in Heaven and Earth Energy and began refining a Ninth-grade Profound Pill.
• Xiao Yan recognized Hun Xuzi's method and changed his hand seals to draw Heaven and Earth Energy into his own cauldron.

As five alchemists refined Ninth-grade Profound Pills, the energy around Yao Mountain was exhausted before their pills could be completed. Liuli briefly investigated the Yao Realm for signs of a Soul Clan attack, then returned to find Hun Xuzi stealing the energy from the other alchemists’ cauldrons.

• Yao Dan watched Xiao Yan, Elder Wanhuo, Hun Xuzi, and the other alchemists refine Ninth-grade Profound Pills, while their cauldrons drained the energy across Yao Mountain for nearly three days.
• Liuli asked Yao Dan to let her explore the Yao Realm, and he sent Yao Ling to guide her.
• Liuli probed the skies for signs of the Soul Clan’s movements but found nothing, then returned with Yao Ling.
• Yao Dan concluded that the five alchemists lacked enough Heaven and Earth Energy to finish their pills, and Elder Wanhuo expected them all to fail.
• Hun Xuzi attacked the other four cauldrons with black flames and began devouring the energy they had gathered, prompting an alarmed protest.

Hun Xuzi attacked the other alchemists with the Nihility Devouring Flame, but Xiao Yan used Xiao Yi and the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame to counter him. As the battle between Hun Xuzi and the elders escalated, Xiao Yi consumed Gongsun Sanbu’s pill embryo and then Xiao Yan’s gift, unleashing vast energy into Xiao Yan’s Fire Cauldron.

• Hun Xuzi’s Nihility Devouring Flame overwhelmed Shennong the Elder’s and Elder Wanhuo’s Heavenly Flames until Xiao Yi melted it with the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Xiao Yan absorbed the energy of Hun Xuzi’s Black Flame, while Gongsun Sanbu sent his pill embryo to Xiao Yi as a gift.
• Xiao Yi stole Hun Xuzi’s pill embryo and swallowed it before Shennong the Elder held back Hun Xuzi’s Black Flame Fire Dragon.
• Elder Wanhuo joined Shennong the Elder in fighting Hun Xuzi, and their Heavenly Flames clashed with his Black Flame above Yao Mountain.
• Xiao Yan gave Gongsun Sanbu’s pill embryo to Xiao Yi, which swallowed it and expanded into a giant infant as a pillar of energy poured into Xiao Yan’s Fire Cauldron.

Xiao Yan fought off Hun Xuzi’s attack with help from North King, Gongsun Sanbu, and others while continuing to refine the Ninth-grade Profound Pill. With Shen Nong and Elder Wanhuo contributing their Embryonic Pills, the pill finally formed and drew terrifying lightning for its final refinement.

• Hun Xuzi merged with the Black Flame Fire Dragon and attacked Xiao Yan, but North King and Gongsun Sanbu joined the battle to hold him back.
• Xiao Yan found that the energy in the cauldron was still insufficient, so Shen Nong and Elder Wanhuo gave him their Embryonic Pills.
• Xiao Yan used the added energy to condense the Ninth-grade Profound Pill, summoning dark clouds and destructive Pill Lightning.
• Pill rain spread across Medicine Mountain, and Yao Dan declared that the Profound Pill had emerged as Xiao Yan celebrated its formation.
• A pillar of light carried the Light Embryo into the thunderclouds, where black lightning struck it to complete the pill’s final refinement.

Xiao Yan completed the Ninth-grade Profound Pill, but Nihility Devouring Flame appeared and seized control of the battlefield. Hun Xuzi announced that the Soul Clan intended to destroy the Yao Clan, leaving Xiao Yan and Liuli facing the threat.

• Xiao Yan endured the Pill Lightning as it tempered the Light Embryo, completing the Ninth-grade Profound Pill’s refinement.
• Xiao Yan struck down the escaping pill spirit, imprinted the pill, and tried to claim it.
• Nihility Devouring Flame attacked Xiao Yan and suppressed him with Black Flame as the pill’s glow dimmed.
• The Sword Clan’s Pure White Sword Qi briefly distracted Nihility Devouring Flame, allowing Xiao Yan to retreat to the stone platform with the pill.
• Hun Xuzi introduced Nihility Devouring Flame as a Soul Clan Grand Elder, and Xiao Yan warned Liuli that the Soul Clan would target them.
• Hun Xuzi declared that the Yao Clan would cease to exist that day.

The Soul Clan sealed the Yao Realm and attacked the Yao Clan, whose elders activated their clan-protection formation and summoned the Yao Emperor’s Remnant Soul. As Nihility Devouring Flame battered the Remnant Soul’s defenses, Hun Xuzi opened a passage that brought more figures into the battle.

• Xiao Yan, Liuli, and Old Yao realized the Soul Clan had sealed the Yao Realm and discussed trying to escape when the Yao Clan resisted.
• Yao Dan ordered the Yao Clan to activate the Heaven Transformation Medicine Formation, which gathered energy from the mountains and formed a defense comparable to an eight-star Dou Saint.
• Nihility Devouring Flame sent black flames against the formation and offered the Yao Clan a chance to surrender, but Yao Dan used the clan’s pills to summon the Yao Emperor’s Remnant Soul.
• The Yao Emperor drove away the black flames and blocked Nihility Devouring Flame’s giant flaming finger with a Medicine Cauldron, but both the cauldron and the Remnant Soul weakened.
• Nihility Devouring Flame repeatedly struck the Medicine Cauldron, while Hun Xuzi opened a passage of black flames and brought several figures into the Yao Realm.

The Soul Clan attacked the Yao Clan with three of the Four Demon Saints, while Nihility Devouring Flame fought the Yao Emperor above Yao Mountain. After the Yao Emperor sacrificed his Remnant Soul to strike back, Nihility Devouring Flame won and ordered the remaining Yao Clan members captured, leaving Xiao Yan and the others facing the Soul Clan’s hunters.

• Hun Jing, Hun Yan, and Hun Sha arrived with the Soul Clan forces, and Hun Jing offered Yao Dan the choice of surrender or death.
• Nihility Devouring Flame absorbed the blood of tens of thousands of Yao Clan descendants, and the Yao Emperor sacrificed his Remnant Soul to refine it into a giant Medicine Cauldron.
• Nihility Devouring Flame swallowed the Medicine Cauldron with a colossal Black Flame gate, defeated the Yao Emperor, and the Yao Clan’s great formation shattered.
• Nihility Devouring Flame left to seal the Yao Realm, while Hun Xuzi turned on Xiao Yan and rushed to attack him.
• Gongsun Sanbu, Wan Huo, and Shen Nong prepared to stop Hun Xuzi, while Liuli chose to face Hun Sha, one of the Four Demon Saints.

Gongsun Liuli fought Hun Sha in the collapsing Yao Realm, wounding him with her strongest sword technique but suffering injuries herself. Their battle was interrupted when the realm shattered, revealing a white-robed man watching Hun Sha from the void.

• Hun Sha attacked Liuli with the Soul Devouring Abyss Slash, and she countered with Three Thousand Lotus Flowers as the Yao Realm’s barrier began to collapse.
• Liuli activated her Pure Sword Heart to break through Hun Sha’s attacks, damaging his Ghost Head Blade while both fighters were driven back.
• Hun Sha unleashed Myriad Souls Devour Heaven, but Liuli used Nine Lotuses Return to One, World Purifier to split his phantom blade and wound him.
• Hun Sha vowed to refine Liuli’s Sword Heart, bloodline, and soul, then sent black chains toward her as she prepared to fight on.
• The Yao Realm shattered into fragments, forcing the fighters to stop, and Hun Sha spotted a white-robed man watching him from the void.

Gongsun Lin arrived at the Yao Realm and killed Hun Tu, but Hun Tiandi appeared and drew him into a Space Rift for a duel. As the Soul Clan’s plan froze everyone in place, a mysterious woman from the Natural Realm appeared and halted Nihility Devouring Flame, declaring that the farce would end.

• Gongsun Lin arrived at Yao Mountain, killed Hun Tu, and challenged the Soul Clan over its attack on the Sword Clan.
• Hun Tiandi appeared, and he and Gongsun Lin entered a Space Rift to fight away from the Yao Realm.
• Gongsun Lin secretly warned Xiao Yan to take Liuli and the others and leave, but Nihility Devouring Flame froze everyone in place.
• Nihility Devouring Flame revealed that the Soul Clan had prepared thoroughly and tried to seize Yao Dan, but the same force also immobilized him.
• A mysterious woman from the Natural Realm emerged from the Void, silenced Nihility Devouring Flame, and said the farce should end.

A mysterious White-robed Woman overwhelmed the fighters in the Yao Realm, branded Liuli’s soul, and took Nihility Devouring Flame and the Hun Clan experts away. After the White-robed Woman vanished, Xiao Yan was left holding the unconscious Liuli as the Black-robed old man faced the aftermath.

• The White-robed Woman immobilized everyone, approached Liuli, and forcibly branded her soul, knocking her unconscious.
• Xiao Yan broke free, launched a Destruction Fire Lotus at the White-robed Woman, and rushed to catch Liuli after the Black-robed old man dispersed the attack and caught her.
• The Black-robed old man and the White-robed Woman exchanged greetings and spoke briefly about their past.
• The White-robed Woman seized Nihility Devouring Flame and the Hun Clan experts, then swept them away through a spatial vortex.
• The White-robed Woman vanished, and the pressure over the Yao Realm faded as the battle ended.

After the Yao Clan survived the Soul Clan’s attack, Gongsun Lin discovered that his unconscious daughter Liuli had no serious visible injuries but remained inexplicably comatose. He took her, Xiao Yan, and the others through a sword-light passage toward the Jian Realm, leaving the devastated Yao Clan behind.

• The surviving Yao Clan members emerged from the ruins and mourned their dead as Yao Chen felt relief that their bloodline had survived.
• Gongsun Lin returned from battle, examined Liuli, and learned from the Black-robed old man that her condition was connected to an overbearing method she had used.
• Yao Dan thanked Gongsun Lin, the Black-robed old man, and Xiao Yan for saving the Yao Clan, while Gongsun Lin said he needed to take Liuli away for treatment.
• Gongsun Sanbu opened a sword-light passage to the Jian Realm, and Gongsun Lin, the Black-robed old man, and Xiao Yan entered it.
• Xiao Yan followed Gongsun Lin through the passage, watching the unconscious Liuli with concern as they traveled toward the Jian Realm.

After the Soul Clan’s failed attack on the Yao Clan, Hun Tiandi met with the White-haired Woman and planned to accelerate the search for the Ancient Jades. The White-haired Woman agreed to help, while Hun Tiandi privately regarded Natural Realm as a pawn in his ambition to become emperor.

• Hun Tiandi returned from the Yao Realm wounded, and Nihility Devouring Flame angrily demanded an explanation for the retreat and his humiliation.
• Hun Tiandi reassured Nihility Devouring Flame that the Soul Clan would settle its debts later, then told him the White-haired Woman had arrived.
• Hun Tiandi showed the White-haired Woman the Ancient Jades of the Ling, Shi, and Yao Clans and proposed activating Soul Clan agents to steal more jades while the other clans mobilized.
• The White-haired Woman agreed to Hun Tiandi’s plan and promised to provide the Sword Clan’s jade once he gathered the other eight.
• After the White-haired Woman vanished, Hun Tiandi concealed his contempt for her and resolved to use Natural Realm as a pawn in his pursuit of becoming emperor.

After Liuli collapsed from exhausting her Soul Power, the Sword Head explained the Natural Realm’s ancient history and its role in the struggle over the Tou She Ancient God Jade. The chapter ended with Gongsun Lin summoning the Sword Clan elders while Xiao Yan resolved to grow strong enough to protect Liuli and challenge the forces manipulating events.

• Gongsun Sanbu examined Liuli and determined that she was unconscious from excessive Soul Power consumption, with no other apparent harm.
• The Sword Head told Gongsun Lin, Xiao Yan, and Gongsun Sanbu how the Natural Realm helped defeat the Tunling Clan ten thousand years earlier.
• The Sword Head revealed that the Natural Realm later disclosed the secret of the Tou She Ancient God Jade and had supported the Soul Clan while also intervening to save the Yao Clan.
• Xiao Yan suspected that the Natural Realm had used the Soul Clan’s actions as cover to target Liuli, and the Sword Head warned that everyone might be a piece in its larger plan.
• Gongsun Lin ordered Gongsun Sanbu to summon the elders and peak masters for an assembly at the Elder Hall.
• Xiao Yan watched over Liuli and resolved to become strong enough to protect her and overturn the Natural Realm’s game.

Xiao Yan attended a Sword Clan assembly where Gongsun Lin revealed that the Soul Clan had joined forces with a power matching the Sword Clan. The Sword Clan leaders learned that the Natural Realm Realm Master was a Half Emperor, leaving the threat far greater than they had expected.

• Gongsun Lin warned Xiao Yan that the Sword Clan elders had protected Liuli since childhood and would test him before accepting him.
• Xiao Yan entered the assembly hall and sensed the immense power of the Four Great Sword Saints and the Sword Clan's Ten Elders and Seven Peak Masters.
• Xiao Yan took the seat beside a white-robed elder whose Soul Power appeared to have reached the Emperor Realm.
• Gongsun Lin opened the meeting by announcing that the Soul Clan had made its move alongside a force no weaker than the Sword Clan.
• Gongsun Lin reported the destruction of the Ling Clan, the theft of the Shi Clan's Ancient Jade, and the crippling losses suffered by the Yao Clan.
• Gongsun Lin revealed that the Natural Realm Realm Master was a Half Emperor, shocking the gathered Sword Clan leaders.