Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan won the Fragmented Map of Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame at the auction, only for Xiao Ling to take it in exchange for a Rank 9 healing pill. Xiao Ling revealed that the Bodhi Ancient Tree would soon appear in the Vast Desolate Ancient Region, and Xiao Yan set out to warn Elder Yao while hoping to claim its Bodhi Heart.

• Xiao Yan won the Fragmented Map of Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame with two Grade 8 Pills tempered by Nine-Colored Pill Lightning.
• Xiao Ling used Spatial Shift to bring Xiao Yan into a void, revealed himself, and took the map in exchange for a Rank 9 healing pill.
• Xiao Ling told Xiao Yan to warn Elder Yao that the Bodhi Ancient Tree would appear in the Vast Desolate Ancient Region and said he would protect their allies there.
• Xiao Yan learned about the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s power to help someone break through to Dou Sheng and wondered if he could obtain its Bodhi Heart.
• Xiao Ling departed for the Vast Desolate Ancient Region, and Xiao Yan flew toward the Alchemist Tower to inform Elder Yao.

Xiao Ling diverted to the Gu Clan's Ancient Realm after receiving a signal from Xun Er, while news of the Bodhi Ancient Tree's impending emergence sent factions across the Central Plains racing to the Vast Desolate Ancient Region. Gu Yuan asked Xiao Ling to take Xun Er there and help her claim an opportunity to break through to Dou Sheng, and Xiao Ling agreed.

• Xiao Ling received a signal from the Gu Clan and changed course for the Ancient Realm.
• Old Man Baoshan announced that the Bodhi Ancient Tree would soon emerge, prompting factions to send advance squads toward the Vast Desolate Ancient Region.
• Gu Yuan opened a Space Passage for Xiao Ling, whose Two-star Dou Sheng cultivation astonished the Gu Clan elders.
• Xiao Ling greeted Gu Yuan as his father-in-law and said he hoped to obtain the Bodhi Ancient Tree's opportunity for Xun Er.
• Gu Yuan asked Xiao Ling to take Xun Er to the Vast Desolate Ancient Region and help her break through to Dou Sheng, and Xiao Ling readily agreed.
• After discussing their plans, Gu Yuan dismissed Xiao Ling and Xun Er.

Xiao Ling and Xun Er traveled from the Ancient Realm to Vast Desolate Town after learning that the Bodhi Ancient Tree was about to emerge. After surveying the town and its dangers, they entered the Vast Desolate Ancient Region, where powerful ninth-tier magical beasts lurked.

• Xiao Ling and Xun Er shared an affectionate reunion in the Ancient Realm, and Xiao Ling promised to help her seize the Bodhi Ancient Tree's opportunity and break through to Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Ling and Xun Er arrived in Vast Desolate Town and explored its crowded streets, gathering supplies while hearing that experts had already died near the Ancient Region.
• Xiao Ling and Xun Er learned that even Dou Zun Experts had perished on the outskirts, but the Bodhi Ancient Tree's promise kept cultivators coming.
• Xiao Ling and Xun Er left the town and saw the vast forest marking the entrance to the Vast Desolate Ancient Region.
• Xun Er sensed several terrifying ninth-tier magical beasts, and Xiao Ling cautioned her to remain vigilant before carrying her into the forest with the Power of Space.
• Xiao Ling and Xun Er traveled deeper into the ancient forest, where dense natural energy filled the vast, desolate land.

Xiao Ling and Xun Er crossed the deadly outer reaches of the Vast Desolate Ancient Region and used a Bodhi Seed to find the direction of the Bodhi Ancient Tree. After passing the Ancient Region Stage, they reached a vast plain filled with an enormous gathering of fierce beasts.

• Xiao Ling protected himself and Xun Er from a swarm of poisonous insects with a spatial barrier and led them across the black mist to the core mountains.
• Xiao Ling sensed a connection between his Bodhi Seed and the Bodhi Ancient Tree, identified a direction, and flew with Xun Er toward it.
• When fierce beasts ambushed them above a ravine, Xun Er burned them to ash with the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame, and Xiao Ling collected their cores.
• Xiao Ling and Xun Er crossed the Ancient Region Stage and flew through a mountain range into the deepest region.
• Xiao Ling and Xun Er saw a vast black plain covered by a seemingly endless horde of huge, high-level fierce beasts.

Xiao Ling and Xun Er crossed the beast-infested plain and witnessed the Bodhi Ancient Tree emerge from the earth. Its appearance stirred the Central Plains, and Xiao Yan led the Spirit Talisman Hall toward the Vast Desolate Ancient Region as the race for the tree began.

• Xiao Ling concealed himself and Xun Er with Spiritual Power and the Power of Space, then carried her past the Beast Tide without being detected.
• Xiao Ling and Xun Er entered dense fog that suppressed Xiao Ling’s soul perception, and the Bodhi Seed began glowing as the ground trembled.
• Xiao Ling recognized the upheaval as the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s emergence and lifted Xun Er above the cracking earth.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree rose from the plain, dispelled the fog, and revealed its immense size and ancient vitality to Xiao Ling and Xun Er.
• The tree’s aura spread across the Central Plains, prompting factions including the Hun Clan and Gu Clan to send their younger elites toward the Vast Desolate Ancient Region.
• Yao Chen entrusted Xiao Yan with leading the Spirit Talisman Hall’s expedition, and Xiao Yan set out with the group toward the ancient region.

Xun Er defeated the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s five Half-Saint Puppets, but the tree then drew her and Xiao Ling into a trial that trapped Xiao Ling in an illusion of his former life. He recognized the dream and rejected it, causing the false world to shatter.

• Xiao Ling sensed the Bodhi Heart inside the tree, while the Spirit of the Ancestral Stone warned him that a violent consciousness had grown within it.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree sent five Half-Saint Puppets against Xiao Ling and Xun Er, and Xun Er destroyed their Energy Cores.
• Xiao Ling warned Xun Er to guard her true heart, but the tree enveloped them in a pillar of light that stripped away their Dou Qi and pulled them inside.
• Xiao Ling awoke in an illusion where he was a student reprimanded for sleeping in math class, then returned home to speak with his parents.
• Xiao Ling recognized the scene as the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s illusion, said farewell to his final attachment, and shattered the false world.

Xiao Ling learned that the Bodhi Ancient Tree had been afflicted by the resentment of a slain Dou Di and realized it wanted help purifying the evil aura within it. After the tree offered him Bodhi Seeds, Xiao Ling consulted the Spirit of the Ancestral Stone, who agreed that it could help.

• Xiao Ling found Xun Er trapped in an illusion and asked the Bodhi Ancient Tree to release her in exchange for fair help.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree showed Xiao Ling a vision of a black-clad Dou Di attacking it, then being destroyed by the tree and another Dou Di.
• Xiao Ling learned that the dying Dou Di's resentment had corrupted the Bodhi Ancient Tree and left it with separate benevolent and evil spirits.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree demonstrated how Bodhi Seeds could cleanse its aura and offered Xiao Ling more than twenty seeds.
• Xiao Ling asked the Spirit of the Ancestral Stone to purify the tree's evil aura, and it agreed to help if the tree cooperated.

Xiao Ling arranged for the Spirit of the Ancestral Stone to purify the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s Dou Di-level resentment in exchange for Bodhi Seeds. With the tree replenishing and strengthening his Dou Qi throughout the prolonged purification, the Spirit of the Ancestral Stone finally cleansed the resentment completely.

• Xiao Ling asked the Bodhi Ancient Tree to give him the Bodhi Seeds it would have spent on purification, and the tree agreed to reward him if he succeeded.
• Xiao Ling summoned Yan, the Spirit of the Ancestral Stone, which began purifying the resentment embedded in the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• Yan’s purification rapidly drained Xiao Ling’s Dou Qi, so the Bodhi Ancient Tree replenished him with pure energy that also expanded his capacity and strengthened his cultivation.
• Xiao Ling allowed Yan to use his Dou Qi without restraint as the tree repeatedly replenished him, bringing him to the peak of the middle phase of Two-star Dou Sheng.
• Yan dissolved the final remnant of resentment, and the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s life force surged as it confirmed the purification was complete.

Xiao Ling freed Xun'er from the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s illusion and received its Bodhi Heart, but the tree then drew both of them into a hundred-lifetime reincarnation trial. Outside, Soul Clan leaders prepared to hunt Xiao Ling, unaware that he and Xun'er were already inside the tree.

• The Bodhi Ancient Tree released Xun'er from her illusion after Xiao Ling asked it to, and Xiao Ling explained what had happened.
• The tree presented Xiao Ling with the Bodhi Heart, which he accepted and promised to give to Xun'er after returning her to the Gu Clan.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree suddenly sent Xiao Ling into a reincarnation illusion, then rendered Xun'er unconscious and drew both of them into its inner space.
• Yan sensed the reincarnation trial but chose not to intervene, while the Bodhi Ancient Tree began the pair’s hundred lifetimes of reincarnation.
• Outside the tree, Soul Clan Hun Yu reported to Hun Feng that Xiao Ling and Xun'er were together, and Hun Feng planned to use an elder and a Space Jade Slip to kill Xiao Ling.

Hun Yu led the allied forces into the beast tide, then withdrew the Hun Clan and left the other factions to suffer heavy losses before the survivors reached the Bodhi Ancient Tree. The tree drew everyone into a trial of reincarnation, while Xiao Ling experienced lifetime after lifetime in shifting identities and circumstances.

• Hun Yu proposed that the factions join forces against the beast tide, and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and other groups agreed.
• Hun Yu and the Hun Clan led the charge, then withdrew to the rear as the beast tide overwhelmed the remaining alliance and killed most of its members.
• Hun Feng and the surviving experts broke through to the Bodhi Ancient Tree, where its peaceful aura healed them and its golden light drew them into an illusion.
• The restored Bodhi Ancient Tree sent each survivor into a trial of the heart, while Xiao Ling experienced many lifetimes of different fortunes, hardships, and choices.

After emerging from the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s hundred-life trial, Xiao Ling advanced to Three-star Dou Sheng and reached the pinnacle of alchemy, while Xun Er broke through to Dou Sheng. Reunited beneath the tree, they reaffirmed their bond and thanked the Bodhi Ancient Tree for its trial.

• Xiao Ling awakened from the hundred lives of reincarnation and found his way back to the present with his resolve and memories intact.
• The trial’s insights and the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s life energy raised Xiao Ling from peak Two-star Dou Sheng to Three-star Dou Sheng and advanced his alchemy to the continent’s highest level.
• Xun Er awakened, embraced Xiao Ling, and told him that she wanted to remain by his side in every life.
• Xiao Ling promised Xun Er that they would stay together and never part again.
• Xun Er revealed that the trial had helped her break through to Dou Sheng, and Xiao Ling praised her advancement.
• Xiao Ling and Xun Er thanked the Bodhi Ancient Tree, which responded by gently swaying its branches.

Xiao Ling recognized Hun Feng as the Hun Clan figure whose illusion showed him being defeated, and asked the Bodhi Ancient Tree to release him. After Hun Feng tried to summon help and attacked, Xiao Ling revealed his Three-star Dou Sheng strength and knocked him unconscious with a spiritual assault.

• Xiao Ling and Xun'er saw illusions of people seeking the Bodhi Ancient Tree, including Hun Feng's vision of defeating Xiao Ling and becoming Dou Di.
• Xun'er identified Hun Feng as the Hun Clan's young master, a late Two-star Dou Sheng known as the Madman.
• Xiao Ling asked the Bodhi Ancient Tree to release Hun Feng, who emerged from the illusion into the tree's core space.
• Hun Feng recognized Xiao Ling and Xun'er, then tried to use a Space Jade Slip to summon the Hun Clan elders, but the tree's barrier stopped the message.
• Hun Feng attacked Xiao Ling, but Xiao Ling's strike overpowered him and revealed that he had reached Three-star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Ling struck Hun Feng's soul with Spiritual Power, leaving him unconscious.

Xiao Ling and Xun Er prepared to return to the Gu Clan with the unconscious Hun Feng, while Xiao Ling gained a trove of Bodhi treasures by trading Heavenly Creation Dew with the Bodhi Ancient Tree. The pair left the ancient tree’s strange space and began their journey home.

• Xiao Ling decided to take Hun Feng to the Gu Clan and question him about Hun Clan secrets, while reassuring Xun Er that the Gu Clan could withstand any retaliation.
• Xiao Ling reminded Xun Er to refine the Yellow Springs Demon Saint Blood Essence, then asked the Bodhi Ancient Tree for the promised Bodhi Seeds.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree gave Xiao Ling more than two hundred Bodhi Seeds, and Xiao Ling discovered that Heavenly Creation Dew could help it recover.
• Xiao Ling traded Heavenly Creation Dew for five Bodhi Hearts and a root containing the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s origin essence, then stored the treasures for future use.
• Xiao Ling and Xun Er said their farewells, took the unconscious Hun Feng, and left the strange space to return to the Gu Clan.

Xiao Ling brought the captured Hun Feng to Gu Yuan and revealed his suspicion that a high-ranking spy in the Gu Clan had exposed his cultivation and route to the Hun Clan. As Xiao Ling tortured Hun Feng and stole his Void Devouring Flame Child Flame, he secretly began controlling Hun Feng so he could make him reveal the spy’s identity.

• Xun Er returned to the Gu Clan with Xiao Ling after breaking through to the Dou Sheng realm, and Gu Yuan welcomed them.
• Xiao Ling produced the captured Hun Feng and warned Gu Yuan that the Hun Clan appeared to have a spy within the Gu Clan’s upper ranks.
• Gu Yuan moved everyone to a sealed chamber and assigned Xiao Ling to interrogate Hun Feng.
• Xiao Ling used the Fallen Heart Flame to torment Hun Feng, then forcibly extracted and contained his Void Devouring Flame Child Flame.
• As Hun Feng endured the intensified torture, Xiao Ling secretly sent energy into his soul to control him and make him disclose Gu Yang’s secret.

Xiao Ling tortured Hun Feng until he revealed that the Hun Clan had ordered his ambush and planted a Dou Sheng-level undercover agent in the Gu Clan. Gu Yuan confronted Gu Yang at the Ancestral Hall, where the exposed infiltrator prepared to resist his attack.

• Xiao Ling used Falling Heart Flame to torture Hun Feng, who finally begged for mercy and agreed to confess.
• Hun Feng revealed that Nihility Devouring Flame had ordered the ambush and that the Hun Clan had planted an agent in the Gu Clan: Gu Yang, whose body had been taken over by a Hun Clan elder.
• Gu Yuan opened a Space Passage to the Gu Clan Ancestral Hall and brought Xiao Ling, Xun Er, and Hun Feng with him to verify the accusation.
• Gu Yang realized his cover was exposed when Gu Yuan attacked him, and he hurriedly gathered his strength to block the strike.

Gu Yuan exposed the Hun Clan’s replacement of Elder Gu Yang, killed the impostor, and destroyed the Hun Clan soul occupying his body. He ordered a funeral for the true Gu Yang and warned the Gu Clan to remember the Hun Clan’s blood debt.

• Gu Yang fled after Gu Yuan’s probing strike, confirming Gu Yuan’s suspicion that the Hun Clan had replaced him.
• Gu Yuan trapped Gu Yang, killed the body, and crushed the Hun Clan elder’s soul before it could escape.
• Gu Clan elders arrived and questioned Gu Yuan about Gu Yang’s death.
• Gu Yuan explained that the Hun Clan had replaced Gu Yang a hundred years earlier using the Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Gu Yuan ordered a funeral with the highest honors, summoned all Gu clansmen to attend, and warned them to remain vigilant against the Hun Clan.
• Gu Yuan carried Gu Yang’s body back into the ruined ancestral hall as Xun Er and Xiao Ling watched.

After Elder Gu Yang’s funeral, Xiao Ling entered seclusion to refine the Void Devouring Flame and the Living Flame, using a freezing force to suppress their resistance. In the Hun Realm, Hun Tiandi learned that Hun Feng had likely died and that the Gu Clan’s hidden agent had been exposed, then suspected Xiao Ling was involved.

• The Gu Clan held a grand funeral for Elder Gu Yang, and Xiao Ling and Xun Er parted as she entered seclusion to refine the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s blood essence.
• Xiao Ling entered seclusion and swallowed the Void Devouring Flame Child Flame and the Living Flame to refine them with Fen Jue.
• Xiao Ling used the ultimate chill from his Destiny Talisman to suppress both flames and began absorbing their Flame Origins.
• Hun Miesheng reported to Hun Tiandi that Hun Feng had disappeared and was likely dead after going to the Ancient Wasteland Region.
• Hun Miesheng revealed that Gu Yuan had killed Gu Yang after exposing him as a soul body from the Hun Clan.
• Hun Tiandi suspected Xiao Ling had a connection to the Gu Clan’s discovery and expressed interest in meeting him when the time was right.

Xiao Ling emerged from seclusion having advanced to the late stage of Three-star Dou Sheng, reunited with Xun Er, and learned that the Spirit Clan and its realm had vanished. Gu Yuan reported the calamity, leaving Xiao Ling and Xun Er to consider the Hun Clan’s likely involvement and the suspicion that could fall on the Gu Clan.

• Xiao Ling finished refining the Living Flame and Nihility Devouring Flame, advancing to the late stage of Three-star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Ling tested the Living Flame on the garden’s Spiritual Plants and found that it rapidly stimulated their growth.
• Xun Er told Xiao Ling that the Hall of Souls had backed the Nether River Alliance, which Starfall Pavilion and the Alchemist Tower destroyed after Elder Yao killed Old Demon of Heaven Nether.
• Gu Yuan visited Xiao Ling and Xun Er and praised Xiao Ling’s cultivation progress.
• Gu Yuan revealed that the Spirit Realm had disappeared without a trace, and Xun Er realized the Gu Clan could be suspected alongside the Hun Clan.

Xiao Ling, Xun'er, and Gu Yuan discussed the Spirit Clan's destruction and the threat posed by the Hun Clan, while Xiao Ling privately planned to let the Hun Clan gather the remaining Ancient Jades for him. Gu Yuan lifted his restrictions on Xiao Ling and Xun'er, and the chapter ended with the two sharing a tender night together.

• Xun'er warned Gu Yuan that the Hun Clan's destruction of the Spirit Clan revealed its growing power, and urged him to build ties with the other Ancient Races.
• Gu Yuan said the other clans distrusted both the Gu Clan and the Hun Clan, while Xiao Ling reassured him that the Gu Clan's and Xiao Clan's Ancient Jades could thwart the Hun Clan's plan.
• Xiao Ling privately resolved to let the Hun Clan collect the remaining Ancient Jades, then take them for himself when the time was right.
• Gu Yuan urged Xiao Ling and Xun'er to cultivate, praised Xun'er, and told Xiao Ling he would no longer restrict their relationship.
• Xiao Ling promised to cherish and protect Xun'er, and Gu Yuan departed through a Space Rift.
• Xun'er and Xiao Ling reminisced about their years together before spending the night embracing in their bedroom.

Xiao Ling reunited with Xun Er, then asked Gu Yuan to open a passage into the Heavenly Tomb so he could speak with Xiao Xuan. After reaching Xiao Xuan, Xiao Ling prepared to discuss an important matter, but its details had not yet been revealed.

• Xiao Ling and Xun Er woke together and shared a tender morning before visiting Gu Yuan.
• Xiao Ling asked Gu Yuan to open a passage into the Heavenly Tomb so he could meet Xiao Xuan, and Gu Yuan agreed.
• Gu Yuan warned Xiao Ling not to stay in the Heavenly Tomb for more than a year, then opened a rift for him.
• Xiao Ling entered the Heavenly Tomb and quickly reached the core region, where he greeted Xiao Xuan.
• Xiao Xuan praised Xiao Ling's progress, and Xiao Ling said he had come to discuss an important matter.