Chapter Summaries

Xiao Jin returned to Qing Lin and reassured her that she was special to him. He set a strength goal for her before their journey to the Central Plains and gave her a Ninth-Grade Golden Pill to help her reach it, leaving Qing Lin wondering whether Xiao Jin loved her as he loved Xun'er and Xiao Yi Xian.

• Xiao Jin returned to the courtyard and found Qing Lin feeling lonely after he took Xiao Yi Xian away for training.
• Qing Lin admitted she wanted to keep calling him “Young Master Xiao Jin” because the name belonged uniquely to her.
• Xiao Jin told Qing Lin that she would need to reach Peak Dou King strength within a year to accompany him to the Central Plains.
• Xiao Jin gave Qing Lin a Ninth-Grade Golden Pill and said Xun'er and Xiao Yi Xian had received one too.
• Qing Lin blushed and wondered whether Xiao Jin's claim that she was the same as the other two meant he loved her as well.

Xiao Jin helped Qing Lin refine a Ninth-Grade Nether Pupil Fusion Pill, then began crafting an Eighth-Grade Nirvana Life-Returning Pill. Xiao Yan sensed the pill refining from afar and renewed his determination to catch up with Xiao Jin.

• Xiao Jin explained how the Nether Pupil Fusion Pill would strengthen Qing Lin's Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils and help her absorb snake-type Magical Beast energy.
• After half a month of preparation, Qing Lin took the pill and guided its medicinal power into the space within her pupils while Xiao Jin assisted her.
• Once Qing Lin's refinement was underway, Xiao Jin set up the Samsara Cauldron and began refining the Nirvana Life-Returning Pill.
• Xiao Yan sensed the pill refining from the Inner Academy, and Yao Chen told him Xiao Jin was making an Eighth-Grade Medicinal Pill that could attract Three-Colored Pill Lightning.
• Xiao Yan was shocked by Xiao Jin's skill, then resolved to grow stronger and avoid falling too far behind him.

Xiao Jin repeatedly refined Eighth-Grade Medicinal Pills to temper the Earth Demon Puppet with Three-Colored Pill Lightning, eventually evolving it into a Heaven Demon Puppet with Dou Zun combat strength. He planned to strengthen it further with the Reincarnation Nirvana Flame, then check on Qing Lin as she neared completion of her Ninth-Grade Golden Pill.

• Xiao Jin finished an Eighth-Grade Nirvana Life-Returning Pill and used its Three-Colored Pill Lightning to turn the Earth Demon Puppet's left arm gold.
• After checking Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin, Xiao Jin resumed refining pills to continue tempering the puppet.
• Over the next month, Xiao Jin used more Three-Colored Pill Lightning to turn most of the Earth Demon Puppet's body gold.
• The Earth Demon Puppet endured another round of lightning and evolved into a fully golden Heaven Demon Puppet.
• Xiao Jin tested the Heaven Demon Puppet's durability and resolved to temper it with the Reincarnation Nirvana Flame.
• Xiao Jin turned to check on Qing Lin, whose Ninth-Grade Golden Pill was expected to be preliminarily refined within a day.

After the Nether Pupil Fusion Pill made Qing Lin a One-Star Dou Emperor, Xiao Jin helped her bind the remnant soul of a Seven-Winged Purple Gold Snake. Qing Lin fell asleep fighting the soul within her pupils, while Xiao Jin continued tempering the Heaven Demon Puppet.

• Qing Lin struggled to believe she had become a One-Star Dou Emperor, and Xiao Jin explained that the pill had improved her aptitude rather than primarily boosting her strength.
• Xiao Jin told Qing Lin that the Blazing Fire Flame Snake was too weak for her now, then brought out the skeleton of a peak Dou Zun Seven-Winged Purple Gold Snake.
• Qing Lin used her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to draw out and absorb the Seven-Winged Purple Gold Snake's remnant soul.
• After the remnant soul entered her pupils, Qing Lin fell asleep to battle it within her spiritual world, and Xiao Jin confirmed her condition was stable.
• Xiao Jin used Heavenly Flames to temper the Heaven Demon Puppet, turning its gold color gradually to dark gold as thunder power dripped from its body.

Xiao Jin finished tempering two Heaven Demon Puppets and helped Qing Lin and Zi Yan advance, then promised to take Zi Yan to meet her father. He returned to the Inner Academy with her to borrow Yao Chen’s Bone Chilling Flame and prepare to revive Skyfire Venerable at his peak strength.

• Xiao Jin completed the tempering of both Heaven Demon Puppets, raising their strength to Four-Star Dou Zun and stabilizing his own foundation and soul-power control.
• Qing Lin defeated the Seven-Winged Purple Gold Snake remnant soul, advanced to Two-Star Dou Wang, and gained the ability to summon it at Two-Star Dou Zun strength.
• Qing Lin returned to the Inner Academy and stayed with Zi Yan, who complained to Xiao Jin about Qing Lin’s rapid cultivation and received twenty Eighth-Grade Medicinal Pills.
• Xiao Jin promised to take Zi Yan to meet her biological father, Zhu Kun, and Zi Yan agreed because she wanted to learn about her origins.
• Xiao Jin left one Heaven Demon Puppet to protect Xiao Yi Xian and brought Zi Yan to the Inner Academy to borrow Yao Chen’s Bone Chilling Flame and revive Skyfire Venerable.

Xiao Jin met Xiao Yan after Xiao Yan defeated a Strong Ranking opponent and revealed his deal with Skyfire Venerable. He asked Yao Chen to discuss how they could revive Skyfire Venerable despite lacking a third Heavenly Flame.

• Xiao Yan defeated the Alchemy Department’s sixth-ranked student in a fire-control match and drew attention to his strength.
• Xiao Jin appeared at the arena, and Xiao Yan left with him to talk privately.
• Xiao Jin summoned Skyfire Venerable and told Xiao Yan that he had agreed to revive him in exchange for a fire-control secret technique and three years of protection for Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan and Skyfire Venerable were shocked to learn that Xiao Jin had refined both the Three Thousand Burning Flame and the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• When Xiao Yan asked how Xiao Jin would revive Skyfire Venerable without a third Heavenly Flame, Xiao Jin called for Yao Chen to join the discussion.

Xiao Jin asked Yao Chen to help Skyfire Venerable’s resurrection by lending him the Bone Chilling Flame, and Yao Chen agreed. Yao Chen questioned how Xiao Jin possessed the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and the Pill Tower Ancestor appeared to confirm Xiao Jin’s account.

• Yao Chen appeared and greeted Xiao Jin, who asked him to help with Skyfire Venerable’s resurrection.
• Yao Chen agreed to help and understood that Xiao Jin needed the Bone Chilling Flame to meet the three-Heavenly-Flame requirement for refining a body.
• Yao Chen asked where Xiao Jin had obtained the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and Xiao Jin said he could not explain its origin but pointed to the Fragmented Map as a clue to its sealed location.
• Xiao Yan defended Xiao Jin, while Yao Chen explained that the existence of two Purifying Demonic Lotus Flames challenged everything he knew.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor appeared and vouched for Xiao Jin, saying another Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame had appeared beside him when the Ancestor awoke.

Xiao Jin borrowed the Bone Chilling Flame's origin source from Yao Chen and prepared to revive Skyfire Venerable using rare materials. The revival began as Xiao Jin infused Skyfire Venerable's soul into a Dou Venerate skeleton and gave him the Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill.

• Yao Chen handed Xiao Jin the Bone Chilling Flame's origin source and asked him to return it for Xiao Yan.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor replenished Yao Chen's soul power, and Yao Chen and Skyfire Venerable returned to Xiao Jin's Storage Ring.
• Xiao Jin left Xiao Yan and opened a cave near Xiao Yi Xian's cave to begin reviving Skyfire Venerable.
• Xiao Jin showed Skyfire Venerable a Seven Stars Dou Venerate skeleton, Ancient Dragon Bear Essence Blood, and a Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill.
• Xiao Jin fused the Reincarnation Nirvana Flame with a trace of the Bone Chilling Flame, prepared the skeleton, and placed Skyfire Venerable's soul inside it.
• Skyfire Venerable swallowed the pill as Xiao Jin dripped the Ancient Dragon Bear Essence Blood onto the skeleton.

Xiao Jin revived Skyfire Venerable by merging his soul with a Dou Zun skeleton and burning it with Heavenly Flame. The revival unleashed a powerful aura, and after the Earth Demon Puppet injured Jia Nan Academy’s Guardians, Xiao Jin healed them with Eighth-Grade pills.

• Xiao Jin used Ancient Dragon Bear Essence Blood to regrow flesh on the Dou Zun skeleton, then Skyfire Venerable entered the body and began fusing with it.
• Xiao Jin burned the skeleton with Heavenly Flame for three days and nights as Skyfire Venerable endured the pain and gradually took control.
• On the fourth day, the revived body's growing power drew Qianmu and Bailie, who sensed an aura stronger than a Two-Star Dou Zun.
• The Earth Demon Puppet attacked Qianmu and Bailie, badly injuring them, until Xiao Jin ordered it to stop.
• Xiao Jin gave the Guardians Nirvana Life-Returning Pills, and they learned the pills were Eighth-Grade before regretting how quickly they had swallowed them.

Xiao Jin learned that Skyfire Venerable revived at Four-Star Dou Zun strength because his soul needed time to fuse with his new body, though he was expected to regain his peak power. After Skyfire Venerable promised to protect Xiao Yan and left to teach him fire control, Xiao Jin discussed reviving the Pill Tower Ancestor and realized the ancestor could secretly regain control of the Pill Tower.

• Xiao Jin introduced Skyfire Venerable to Qianmu and Bailie, who confirmed the unfamiliar Dou Zun aura posed no threat to Jia Nan Academy and departed.
• Skyfire Venerable explained that he had revived at Four-Star Dou Zun strength and would need six months to five years for his soul and body to fully fuse and restore his peak power.
• Skyfire Venerable promised to protect Xiao Yan without the former three-year limit and left to teach him fire control.
• Xiao Jin summoned the Pill Tower Ancestor and worried that revival might leave him too weak to oppose the Soul Clan.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor said he might retain Eight-Star Dou Sheng strength and could secretly take control of the Pill Tower, leaving the Soul Clan unaware of his revival.

Xiao Jin prepared to revive the Pill Tower Ancestor, whose former Peak Nine-Star Dou Saint strength made the available materials unlikely to restore him to his peak. After a month of pill refining and arranging matters for his companions, Xiao Jin returned to the cave and prepared to begin the revival.

• The Pill Tower Ancestor urged Xiao Jin to revive him so he could help shield Xiao Jin from the Soul Clan, and Xiao Jin promised to find a way to restore his peak strength.
• Xiao Jin rested for a day, then spent a month refining two hundred Hundred Rivers Returning to Origin Pills to replenish his Dou Qi during the long process.
• Xiao Jin returned to the Inner Academy, told Qing Lin to stay and cultivate, left Zi Yan half a year's supply of medicinal pills, and gave Xiao Yan the sealed Fallen Heart Flame with instructions to wait until after the Three-Year Agreement.
• Xiao Jin returned to the cave, asked whether the Pill Tower Ancestor was ready, and heard him say that failure would be all right because Xiao Jin could revive him in the future.

Xiao Jin used a Half-Emperor corpse, Ancient Heaven Phoenix Essence Blood, and the Nirvana Holy Blood Pill to create a new body for the Pill Tower Ancestor. After weeks of grueling work and three days of repeatedly burning and regrowing flesh, the body took human form, leaving the final fusion to the Ancestor as Xiao Jin collapsed from exhaustion.

• Xiao Jin poured the Ancient Heaven Phoenix Essence Blood over the Half-Emperor bones and endured an illusion of the corpse and the blood’s remnant souls fighting.
• Xiao Jin spent a month and a half roasting the bones with the Reincarnation Nirvana Flame and Bone Chilling Flame until the blood energy fused into them.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor swallowed the Nirvana Holy Blood Pill, sent his soul into the bones, and began growing flesh as Xiao Jin drove the Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Jin burned away and regrew the Ancestor’s flesh for three days until skin covered the body and it took human form.
• Xiao Jin collapsed into a deep sleep while the Pill Tower Ancestor faced the final step of fusion.

After Xiao Yi Xian completed her Poison Qi Rune, Xiao Jin rested while continuing to oversee the Pill Tower Ancestor’s revival. As the Ancestor began to stir, Little Bodhi offered its Bodhi Heart to help awaken Xiao Jin’s bloodline, revealing a strange tree growing on it.

• Xiao Yi Xian completed her Poison Qi Rune, reached Nine-Star Dou Ancestor, and joined Xiao Jin as he watched over the burning Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Yi Xian found the exhausted Xiao Jin, let him sleep in her lap, and promised to protect him before kissing him.
• A month later, Xiao Jin noticed the Pill Tower Ancestor stirring and sent Xiao Yi Xian away in case the Ancestor lost control of his strength.
• Xiao Jin sensed that the Pill Tower Ancestor would recover to late-stage Eight-Star Dou Sheng strength and vowed to help him complete the remaining step.
• Inside Xiao Jin’s Storage Ring, Little Bodhi insisted on giving up its Bodhi Heart to awaken Xiao Jin’s bloodline, then showed Nihility Devouring Flame a tree growing on it.

Xiao Jin discovered that his Storage Ring contained two Bodhi Hearts and gave one to the Pill Tower Ancestor, helping him recover and break through to Nine-Star Dou Saint Initial Stage. With the Pill Tower Ancestor now at his side, Xiao Jin left the chapter ready to move from strategic defense into strategic stalemate.

• Xiao Jin found two Bodhi Hearts in his Storage Ring and gave one to the Pill Tower Ancestor.
• The Bodhi Heart restored the Pill Tower Ancestor's vitality and helped him break through the late Eight-Star Dou Saint stage.
• After several days, the Pill Tower Ancestor awoke and confirmed that he had reached Nine-Star Dou Saint Initial Stage.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor thanked Xiao Jin for the Bodhi Heart and resolved to protect him from anyone who threatened him.
• Xiao Jin recognized that his position had changed and that he no longer needed to hide in strategic defense.

The Pill Tower Ancestor took Xiao Jin to Wutan City to begin creating a Small World for the Xiao Clan and established a Space Wormhole linking it to Mulan Valley. Xiao Jin traveled through the wormhole toward the Snake-Person Race camp, intending to tell Medusa about the escape route he had arranged.

• The Pill Tower Ancestor said the Bodhi Heart and heavenly treasures would help him recover an Emperor Realm Soul within ten years, then took Xiao Jin from Jia Nan Academy to Wutan City.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor explained that he would create a country-sized Small World for the Xiao Clan, a task expected to take three or four months.
• Xiao Jin asked the Pill Tower Ancestor to link Wutan City and Mulan Valley, and the Pill Tower Ancestor opened a one-use Space Wormhole and placed a Spatial Mark at the Snake-Person Race's camp.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor explained that the passage would give the Snake-Person Race a way to retreat into the Xiao Clan's Small World while allowing him to control who entered.
• Xiao Jin entered the Space Wormhole and arrived at its other end half an hour later.

Xiao Jin returned to the Snake-Person encampment through a Space Wormhole and told Medusa that his revived teacher had prepared an escape route for her people. He then traveled with Medusa, while the Pill Tower Ancestor introduced himself to Xiao Zhan as Xiao Jin’s teacher.

• Medusa confronted the Spatial Mark in the Snake-Person encampment, but Xiao Jin stumbled out of the Space Wormhole before she could erase it.
• Xiao Jin explained that the Pill Tower Ancestor had opened a Small World in Wutan City as a refuge for the Snake-Person Race, and Medusa realized the safeguard was made for her.
• Xiao Jin warned Medusa that the Soul Clan had twenty Dou Shengs, including two Nine-Star Dou Shengs, but she insisted she was not afraid.
• Medusa told Xiao Jin she had finished arranging matters for the Snake-Person Race and would accompany him to Jia Nan Academy so he would not run off.
• Xiao Zhan met the Pill Tower Ancestor, who explained that he had guided Xiao Jin’s cultivation since Xiao Jin was four years old and said they were equals as his adoptive father and teacher.

The Pill Tower Ancestor opened a Small World to protect the Xiao Clan before Xiao Jin left for the Central Plains. After inspecting it, Xiao Jin planned to return to Jia Nan Academy, rest, and prepare to break through to Dou Zong.

• The Pill Tower Ancestor told Xiao Zhan that Xiao Jin had asked him to create a Small World to protect the Xiao Clan, and Xiao Zhan agreed to place its entrance at the clan’s current location.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor tore open the space for the Small World and began forming its embryonic realm.
• Xiao Jin persuaded Medusa not to accompany him to Jia Nan Academy, then spent several days advising talented members of the Snake-Person Race before returning to Wutan City.
• Xiao Jin criticized the new Small World’s energy density, and the Pill Tower Ancestor promised to improve it while explaining its size and capacity.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor told Xiao Jin that he was ready to attempt a Dou Zong breakthrough, and Xiao Jin said he would first return to Jia Nan Academy and recover with Xiao Yi Xian and the others.

After returning the Bone Chilling Flame and spending half a month relaxing with his companions, Xiao Jin prepared to use the Bodhi Heart to advance his cultivation. The Bodhi Heart awakened a vast energy within him, and he reached the Dou Zong barrier within moments.

• Xiao Jin returned the Bone Chilling Flame to Yao Chen, who placed its source in Xiao Yan’s forehead so he could become familiar with it before refining it.
• Xiao Jin learned that Skyfire Venerable had taught Xiao Yan the Five-Wheel Fire Technique and was spending time drinking with Qianmu Bailie.
• Xiao Jin spent half a month traveling with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin, and Zi Yan joined them after refusing to be left behind.
• Xiao Jin prepared to enter seclusion with Xiao Yi Xian, who planned to use the Bodhi Zongzun Pill to attempt a breakthrough to Dou Zun.
• Xiao Jin swallowed the Bodhi Heart, and the Tree of Life in his dantian absorbed energy from a reappearing pink lake until his aura reached the Dou Zong barrier.

Xiao Jin entered an illusion that showed him a possible past in which a Dou Emperor couple raised an infant named Jin Er, whom he realized might be himself. The vision ended with the father preparing to leave the Dou Qi Continent and entrusting Jin Er’s safety to powerful flames.

• Xiao Jin encountered a mature man who looked like his future self and followed him through a forest filled with rare plants to the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• The man collected Bodhi Seeds for his newborn son, Jin Er, and Xiao Jin suspected the man was his father.
• Xiao Jin watched the man and his wife tenderly care for their infant, and he wept at the sight of the family.
• The couple discussed a summons from beyond the Dou Qi Continent and feared that Outer Realm Heavenly Demons would bring disaster if they stayed.
• The vision shifted to the Void Space, where the man asked Void and Little Demon to protect Jin Er and received responses from the gathered flames.

Xiao Jin witnessed an illusion revealing that his Dou Emperor parents had sealed him for ten thousand years to protect him and the continent from the Outer Realm Evil Clan. Back in his consciousness space, he accepted that he would need to reach Dou Emperor and search the Great Thousand World for them.

• The Bodhi Ancient Tree gave up its Emperor Realm Soul to protect Jin Er, while twenty-two Heavenly Flames offered their origins.
• Jin Er's mother placed his parents' treasures and Source Qi in a Storage Ring and explained that they planned to seal the passage to the Great Thousand World.
• Jin Er's father returned with the Samsara Cauldron, and he and Jin Er's mother joined several illusory figures to seal their son for ten thousand years.
• The illusion ended, and Xiao Jin realized that he had arrived in the world ten thousand years earlier as the son of two Dou Emperors, with an Emperor Realm Soul from the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• Xiao Jin wondered whether the seal had left him without Dou Qi, then resolved to break through to Dou Emperor and look for his parents in the Great Thousand World.