Chapter Summaries

Feng Qingyao sent Xiao Jin and Yun Yun away with the Law Wind Pattern Fruits and Wind Emperor Source Heart, while privately admitting she had forgotten to warn them about the consequences. After they consumed the fruits, Yun Yun absorbed the Wind Emperor Source Heart and began suffering catastrophic strain as Xiao Jin’s breakthrough also accelerated.

• Feng Qingyao revealed that she was a remnant soul, expelled Xiao Jin and Yun Yun from the ruins, and left Xiao Jin’s Spatial Mark dimmed.
• Xiao Jin and Yun Yun each ate a Law Wind Pattern Fruit, triggering powerful changes in their bodies.
• The wind energy strengthened Xiao Jin’s Reincarnation Nirvana Flame and rapidly raised his cultivation toward a breakthrough.
• The Wind Emperor Source Heart entered Yun Yun’s dantian, flooding her body with energy she could not contain.
• Yun Yun, bleeding from her pores, pulled Xiao Jin toward her, and he opened his eyes to find her gravely injured.
• Inside Xiao Jin’s Storage Ring, Little Sapling prepared the others while Nihility Devouring Flame watched, pleased that Little Bodhi would get to eat.

Xiao Jin tried to save Yun Yun from the Wind Emperor Source Heart’s overwhelming energy by using the Reincarnation Nirvana Flame to refine it through their union. In the Ancient Realm, Xun'er learned Xiao Jin had reached the Central Plains and wanted to leave to meet him, but Ling Ying warned that the Soul Clan’s attack on the Ling Clan made it unsafe.

• Yun Yun’s body bled repeatedly as she struggled to withstand energy leaking from the Wind Emperor Source Heart, and Xiao Jin’s flame could not refine it quickly enough.
• The Bodhi Heart showed Xiao Jin that joining with Yun Yun would let the Reincarnation Nirvana Flame refine and redirect the excess energy, so he kissed her and began the process.
• Xun'er recalled her days with Xiao Jin in Wutan City as Ling Ying reported that a young man with a powerful Heavenly Flame had destroyed the Wind Lightning North Pavilion’s upper ranks.
• Xun'er recognized the young man as Xiao Jin and ordered that she be allowed to leave the Ancient Realm.
• Ling Ying objected, explaining that the Soul Clan was responsible for the Ling Clan’s destruction and that the Ancient Clan would oppose her departure.
• Xun'er asked Ling Ying to tell Xiao Jin about the Ling Clan, and Ling Ying said Xiao Jin could enter the Ancient Realm after its Coming of Age Ceremony in at most two years.

Zi Yan returned to the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range and caught Xiao Jin and Yun Yun together after their breakthrough. Xiao Jin explained their gains and the circumstances behind them, while the Heavenly Flames helped Little Bodhi recover; it had reached one fifth of its former strength.

• Zi Yan teleported beside Xiao Jin and Yun Yun, startled them awake, and caught them naked beneath a quilt.
• Zi Yan teased Xiao Jin and Yun Yun and threatened to tell Medusa and Xiao Yi Xian, but Xiao Jin explained that Yun Yun had encountered a problem while breaking through.
• Xiao Jin described the Dou Emperor Ruins, the Wind Emperor Source Heart, and the Law Wind Pattern Fruit, and Zi Yan sensed that both their realms had risen greatly.
• Xiao Jin estimated that Yun Yun could reach Late Nine-Star Dou Sheng in at most fifteen years, and Zi Yan wondered whether she could ask him for similar help someday.
• The Heavenly Flames finished a night of refining and learned that Little Bodhi had grown and recovered one fifth of its strength.

Xiao Jin, Yun Yun, and Zi Yan reached the hidden cave containing the Void Dragon Blood Ganoderma, where its scent drew a horde of powerful magical beasts. Xiao Jin and Yun Yun fought to protect Zi Yan as she began retrieving the herb, while Xiao Jin’s soul power left him weakened.

• Xiao Jin, Yun Yun, and Zi Yan rested before Zi Yan led them to Zhu Kun’s concealed cave in the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range.
• Zi Yan opened the spatial passage, revealing the hidden area and releasing the scent of the Void Dragon Blood Ganoderma.
• Magical beasts surrounded the cave, and Yun Yun’s Dou Zun pressure drove most of them away while the strongest stayed to fight.
• Xiao Jin told Zi Yan to retrieve the herb while he and Yun Yun held off the beasts; Yun Yun attacked the Five-Star Dou Zun beast as the Heaven Demon Puppets charged into the horde.
• Xiao Jin used his Emperor Realm Soul to kill many magical beasts, including two Eighth-Rank beasts, but his face paled from the strain.

Xiao Jin used the Glazed Flame Refining Art and his Calamity Flame Dragon Emperor Spear to hold off the magical beasts while Yun Yun fought elsewhere and Zi Yan focused on the Void Dragon Blood Ganoderma. He fatally pierced an Eighth-Rank Magical Beast’s brain, but the dying beast struck him away.

• Xiao Jin swallowed a Gold-Grade Soul Infant Fruit to restore his soul and resolved to buy time for Yun Yun or Zi Yan.
• Xiao Jin activated the first two stages of the Glazed Flame Refining Art, raising his strength to half-step Dou Zun.
• Xiao Jin formed the Calamity Flame Dragon Emperor Spear from the Reincarnation Nirvana Flame and prepared to face the remaining beasts.
• Xiao Jin used wind energy to rush an Eighth-Rank Magical Beast and drove the spear into its forehead.
• Xiao Jin poured Dou Qi and Heavenly Flame into the spear until it pierced through the beast’s brain, but the dying beast slapped him away.

Xiao Jin and his companions fought through the Magical Beasts guarding the Void Dragon Blood Ganoderma, and Zi Yan retrieved the mature Ninth-Rank medicinal ingredient. They left the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range, while Xiong Zhan emerged too late to claim it and mourned his lost chance to advance.

• Xiao Jin recovered with two Eighth-Grade medicinal pills after killing an Eighth-Rank Magical Beast, then eliminated the five remaining Peak Seventh-Rank Magical Beasts.
• Yun Yun joined the Heaven Demon Puppets and killed five of the six remaining Eighth-Rank Magical Beasts, while the last fled.
• Zi Yan emerged from the spatial passage with the Void Dragon Blood Ganoderma, and Xiao Jin confirmed it was a mature Ninth-Rank ingredient.
• Xiao Jin had Zi Yan store the Ganoderma, and the three left the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range.
• Xiong Zhan emerged from the passage and lamented losing the Ganoderma, which had brought him close to advancing to the Eighth Rank.

After leaving the Pill World, Xiao Jin learned that the Soul Clan was likely behind the Ling Clan’s crisis and suspected his earlier exposure of Gu Yang as a spy had changed the timeline. He planned to visit the Ancient Clan with powerful allies to learn whether the Soul Clan’s plans had advanced, while he, Yun Yun, and Zi Yan returned to their own cultivation tasks.

• Xiao Jin met Old Monster Lin at the Pill World exit and learned that the Pill Tower Ancestor had sent a letter but had not returned.
• Xiao Jin read the letter and told Yun Yun and Zi Yan that clues pointed to the Soul Clan as responsible for the Ling Realm’s closure.
• Xiao Jin suspected the Soul Clan had accelerated its plans after Gu Yang’s exposure and decided he needed to visit the Ancient Clan.
• Xiao Jin concluded that Elder Shennong and Dan Xuansheng would be suitable companions, but waited for them to return before proceeding.
• Zi Yan prepared to refine the Void Dragon Blood Ganoderma, Yun Yun worked to absorb the Wind Emperor Source Heart, and Xiao Jin began studying Tou She Ancient God’s Fire Control Method.

Xiao Jin mastered Tou She Ancient God's Fire Control Technique and began refining the Heavenly Flames in his Storage Ring, while the Pill Tower Ancestor tried to appease the furious A-Yao. Xiao Jin had refined the Xuanhuang Flame and started on the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame, and the Pill Tower Ancestor remained unable to calm A-Yao.

• Xiao Jin realized Tou She Ancient God's Fire Control Technique had been tailored to his Tree of Life and could eventually let him fuse many Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Jin mastered the Fire Control Technique in three days and prepared to refine the Heavenly Flames stored in his ring.
• Xiao Jin refined the Xuanhuang Flame in one day, but his cultivation remained at Five-Star Dou Zong.
• Xiao Jin brought out the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame to continue refining Heavenly Flames.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor stood submissively before the furious A-Yao and wondered why his apology had not appeased her.

Pill Tower Ancestor reunited with Yin Youyao after nearly a thousand years apart and explained how Xiao Jin had resurrected him. He gave Yin Youyao a Nine Lives Profound Yin Saint Pill that could extend her life, leaving her with hope of surviving and the two of them together again.

• Yin Youyao stopped punishing Pill Tower Ancestor and asked him where he had been all these years.
• Pill Tower Ancestor told Yin Youyao that he had fallen before she established Sound Valley and had been resurrected by his disciple, Xiao Jin.
• Pill Tower Ancestor recounted how he met Xiao Jin and lived in Wutan City, but he could not remember how he had fallen.
• Pill Tower Ancestor gave Yin Youyao the Nine Lives Profound Yin Saint Pill that Xiao Jin had provided, and she accepted it.
• Pill Tower Ancestor expected the pill to extend Yin Youyao's life and help her reach the Four-Star Dou Saint realm.

After refining eight Heavenly Flames, Xiao Jin advanced to Seven-Star Dou Zong and met Yin Youyao, the Pill Tower Ancestor’s companion. Yin Youyao invited him to join Sound Valley as part of his effort to oppose the Soul Clan.

• Xiao Jin finished refining the Heavenly Flames, strengthening the Reincarnation Nirvana Flame and raising his cultivation from Five-Star to Seven-Star Dou Zong.
• Old Monster Lin told Xiao Jin that the Pill Tower Ancestor had returned with Yin Youyao, so Xiao Jin went to meet them.
• Xiao Jin met Yin Youyao, learned that Yin Lingyu was a woman, and clarified that he had no romantic intentions toward her.
• Yin Youyao asked Xiao Jin about his plan to form an alliance against the Soul Clan and invited him to join Sound Valley.

Xiao Jin accepted Yin Youyao’s offer to use Sound Valley’s identity to draw the Soul Hall’s attention and received Tokens granting access to Sound Valley and the Pill Tower. The chapter ended with news that a visitor from the Ancient Realm had specifically come to see him, leading Xiao Jin to suspect Ling Ying.

• Yin Youyao proposed that Xiao Jin act under Sound Valley’s identity to divert the Soul Hall’s attention from the Pill Tower and conceal the Pill Tower Ancestor’s resurrection.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor explained that Yin Youyao and Yin Lingyu would stay at the Pill Tower, keeping Sound Valley’s core members safe while Xiao Jin drew the Soul Hall’s focus.
• Xiao Jin accepted Sound Valley’s Tokens, which he could also give to trusted companions, and received Tokens that would let him enter and leave the Pill Tower freely.
• Old Monster Lin reported that a visitor from the Ancient Realm had requested to see Xiao Jin, prompting Xiao Jin to suspect that the visitor was Ling Ying.

Ling Ying brought Xiao Jin word that the Soul Clan had likely destroyed the Ling Clan, and Xiao Jin used the visit to send Gu Yuan a warning about a possible leak inside the Ancient Clan. As Xiao Jin stabilized his cultivation and prepared for the Four Pavilions Assembly, Yun Yun and Zi Yan made major breakthroughs, while Xiao Yi Xian and Medusa remained away.

• Ling Ying told Xiao Jin that Xun'er believed the Soul Clan was almost certainly responsible for the Ling Clan incident.
• Xiao Jin asked Ling Ying to tell Xun'er to have Gu Yuan investigate whether information had leaked and whether the Ancient Clan had other similar vulnerabilities; he also said he would visit within half a year.
• Xiao Jin told the Pill Tower Ancestor that he suspected the Soul Clan had attacked the Ling Clan because its operation involving Gu Yang had been exposed, and that his promised visit would pressure Ling Ying to deliver the warning.
• Xiao Jin spent his free time stabilizing his Seven-Star Dou Zong cultivation and practicing Tou She Ancient God's Fire-Control Technique.
• Yun Yun emerged from seclusion at Peak Five-Star Dou Zun after combining her technique with the Nine Heavens Wind-Controlling Sword Canon.
• Zi Yan refined the Void Dragon Blood Ganoderma and reached Nine-Star Dou Zong, while Xiao Yi Xian and Medusa had still not returned by the Four Pavilions Assembly.

Xiao Jin reached the Heavenly Star Mountain Range with Yun Yun and Zi Yan ahead of the Four Pavilions Assembly, then found Yin Lingyu and revealed that her teacher, Yin Youyao, had been reunited with the Pill Tower Ancestor and could have her lifespan extended. Yin Lingyu received tokens to visit her teacher and access Pill Tower, while Xiao Jin explained that he would act as a Sound Valley disciple.

• Xiao Jin brought Yun Yun and Zi Yan through a Space Wormhole to the Heavenly Star Mountain Range, and later punished Zi Yan for repeatedly mocking his reduced strength.
• Xiao Jin arrived at Starfall Pavilion seven days before the Four Pavilions Assembly and found Yin Lingyu at an inn the next day.
• Xiao Jin revealed that he and his companions had recognized Yin Lingyu's disguise as a woman from their first meeting.
• Xiao Jin told Yin Lingyu that her teacher, Yin Youyao, was at Pill Tower and that the person she had sought for a thousand years was the Pill Tower Ancestor, Xiao Jin's teacher.
• Xiao Jin gave Yin Lingyu a Pill Tower Token and a Sound Valley Token, explained the alliance between the two groups, and said Yin Youyao could gain nine hundred years of life from the Nine Lives Profound Yin Saint Pill.
• Xiao Jin told Yin Lingyu that Yin Youyao and the Pill Tower Ancestor had been partners a thousand years ago, making Yin Youyao his senior sister-in-law.

Yin Lingyu chose to stay in the Heavenly Star Mountain Range to witness the Wind Lightning Pavilion’s downfall, while Xiao Jin sought a way to contact Wind Venerable Feng Xian. After failing to meet Feng Xian, Xiao Jin found Mu Qingluan and asked her to relay that he had information about the person her teacher most wanted to know about.

• Yin Lingyu decided to remain in the Heavenly Star Mountain Range and watch the Wind Lightning Pavilion be wiped out.
• Yin Youyao planned to take Yin Lingyu to the Pill Tower after the Four Pavilions Assembly and keep her apart from Xiao Jin.
• Xiao Jin returned to the inn, noticed Yun Yun seemed relieved, and focused on finding Feng Xian, now known as Gu Ling.
• Xiao Jin could not find Feng Xian before the assembly, so he went to the venue and encountered Mu Qingluan.
• Mu Qingluan asked why Xiao Jin wanted her teacher, and Xiao Jin told her to pass along that he had information about someone Feng Xian most wanted to know about.
• Mu Qingluan agreed to return to Starfall Pavilion and find her teacher while Xiao Jin waited.

Xiao Jin revealed to Wind Venerable that Yao Chen was still alive in soul form and could be resurrected, then told him he had killed Fei Tian and nearly all of Wind Lightning North Pavilion’s Dou Emperor-level forces. He proposed discussing Starfall Pavilion’s future and ended by asking whether Feng Xian wanted to give Yao Chen a grand gift when he returned.

• Xiao Jin showed Feng Xian the Bone Chilling Flame mark and explained that Yao Chen remained in soul form but could be resurrected.
• Xiao Jin told Feng Xian that his third brother was refining the Fallen Heart Flame at Jia Nan Academy and that he had secured the materials needed to restore Yao Chen’s body.
• Feng Xian learned that Xiao Jin had killed Han Feng and realized Han Feng had betrayed Yao Chen, then vented his anger.
• Feng Xian personally led Xiao Jin, Yun Yun, and the others into Starfall Pavilion to discuss its future development.
• Xiao Jin told Feng Xian and Mu Qingluan that he had killed Fei Tian and nearly all of Wind Lightning North Pavilion’s forces above Dou Emperor level.
• Xiao Jin asked Feng Xian whether he wanted to give Yao Chen a grand gift before his return.

Xiao Jin revealed his ties to Sound Valley and urged Feng Xian to cooperate against Soul Hall, then asked him not to interfere with an attack on Wind Lightning Pavilion. Feng Xian warned him about the Pavilion’s powerful allies, but Xiao Jin declared that Yun Yun could defeat them, leaving the proposed assault undeterred.

• Xiao Jin showed Feng Xian a Sound Valley token and explained his connection to Xiao Yan, Yao Chen, and the Xiao Clan’s feud with Soul Hall.
• Feng Xian considered an alliance with Sound Valley but hesitated to commit before Yao Chen returned to the Central Plains.
• Xiao Jin asked Feng Xian not to stop him from attacking Wind Lightning Pavilion during the Four Pavilions Assembly.
• Feng Xian warned Xiao Jin that Wind Lightning Pavilion had support from the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and several Dou Zun experts.
• Xiao Jin insisted that Yun Yun’s strength was enough to defeat Wind Lightning Pavilion’s leading fighters.

Xiao Jin demonstrated the strength of his two Heaven Demon Puppets to Feng Xian and secured his support for a gamble against the Wind Lightning Pavilion. Meanwhile, Thunder Venerable struggled with the North Pavilion’s destruction and Feng Qing’er’s departure as he prepared for the Four Pavilions Assembly.

• Xiao Jin had Feng Xian test a Heaven Demon Puppet, which matched and outperformed the Four-Star Dou Zun in their clash.
• Yun Yun protected Mu Qingluan from the fight’s shockwaves, and Feng Xian recognized the puppets’ strength and agreed to join Xiao Jin’s gamble.
• Thunder Venerable recalled that the Wind Lightning North Pavilion’s leaders and many fighters had been killed in Tianbei City, leaving only a few dozen Dou Kings.
• Feng Qing’er returned to the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, leaving Thunder Venerable without his strongest candidate for the Four Pavilions Assembly.
• Thunder Venerable summoned the Earth Tiger Clan and Silver Moon Wolf Clan leaders to accompany him, troubled by an ominous premonition.
• Xiao Jin reflected that securing Feng Xian’s support in advance would make later complications easier to handle.

After learning that Zi Yan likely belonged to the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, Feng Xian and Mu Qingluan prepared for Starfall Pavilion’s pivotal alliance at the Four Pavilions Assembly. Xiao Jin made plans for the coming battle, and the next day he and his companions arrived at the crowded assembly, where Yin Lingyu found them.

• Mu Qingluan guessed that Zi Yan came from the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, and Feng Xian reflected on the powerful backgrounds of Xiao Jin’s companions.
• Feng Xian warned Mu Qingluan that Starfall Pavilion’s future depended on the next day’s Four Pavilions Assembly, and she resolved to help the alliance.
• Xiao Jin told Zi Yan she could fight Wind Lightning Pavilion’s magical-beast allies and arranged for the Heaven Demon Puppet to engage Thunder Venerable while Yun Yun supported it.
• The next day, Xiao Jin, Yun Yun, and Zi Yan arrived at the packed Four Pavilions Assembly, where Yin Lingyu approached them and Zi Yan asked how she had found them.

Xiao Jin and his companions watched the Four Pavilions Assembly begin at Starfall Pavilion as the pavilion masters arrived. After sensing hidden Magical Beasts nearby, Xiao Jin focused his attention on Yellow Spring Venerable and considered destroying Yellow Spring Pavilion.

• Yin Lingyu explained that Sound Valley Tokens could sense one another and said her teacher had added the feature so she could be located if she got lost.
• Xiao Jin warned Yin Lingyu to protect herself, and she reassured him that Yin Youyao had given her many life-saving treasures.
• Starfall Pavilion’s disciples assembled, and Wind Venerable Feng Xian arrived to take his place at the venue.
• Thunder Venerable arrived first among the visiting pavilion masters, and Xiao Jin detected two hidden Magical Beasts near the sky.
• Sword Venerable arrived with a young man, then Yellow Spring Venerable arrived with his scarred disciple and mocked Sword Venerable.
• Xiao Jin felt uneasy at Yellow Spring Venerable’s arrival and considered using the gathering to wipe out Yellow Spring Pavilion.

Wind Venerable opened the Four Pavilions Assembly and started its melee, while Xiao Jin noticed that Feng Qing'er was absent from the Wind Lightning Pavilion team. As the arena battle narrowed to nine fighters, Mu Qingluan prepared to strike one of five Eight-Star Dou Emperors targeting her.

• Wind Venerable welcomed the guests, announced the melee rules, and called the participants into the arena.
• Thunder Venerable revealed that the Wind Lightning Pavilion had sent a Three-Star Dou Emperor instead of Feng Qing'er, and Xiao Jin wondered why she was missing.
• Wind Venerable started the competition, and after a five-minute standoff, the participants launched into battle.
• The melee reduced the field to nine fighters: the four pavilion disciples and five Eight-Star Dou Emperors.
• The five Eight-Star Dou Emperors focused on Mu Qingluan, who prepared to defeat one of them and end the melee.