Chapter Summaries

Mu Qingluan won the Four Pavilions Assembly after defeating Wang Chen, while Xiao Jin learned that Nalan Yanran had taken the Space Jade Slip he left behind. With the competition over, Xiao Jin, Yun Yun, and Zi Yan set off to get to work.

• Mu Qingluan stopped an Eight-Star Dou Emperor from forming an alliance, and Wind Venerable ended the free-for-all and distributed recovery pills.
• Wind Venerable arranged the next matches by lottery, and the four quarterfinals ended quickly.
• Wang Chen crippled the Wind Lightning Pavilion disciple in the semifinals, while Mu Qingluan defeated Tang Ying with her speed.
• Yun Yun told Xiao Jin that Nalan Yanran had left to travel the continent with his Space Jade Slip.
• Mu Qingluan defeated Wang Chen after he exhausted himself attacking, securing victory in the Four Pavilions Assembly.
• Xiao Jin patted Yun Yun's hand, tapped Zi Yan's head, and said it was time to get to work.

The Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan learned that the Ancient Void Dragon Clan had resurfaced and ordered Feng Qing'er to leave the Wind Lightning Pavilion and prepare to hunt for the clan. At the Four Pavilions Assembly, Xiao Jin confronted Thunder Venerable and revealed his connection to the destruction of the Wind Lightning North Pavilion.

• An elder told Feng Qing'er that the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan had traced the Wind Lightning North Pavilion's destruction to the Ancient Void Dragon Clan and ordered her to withdraw from the Wind Lightning Pavilion.
• The elders showed Feng Qing'er the surviving Magical Beast from the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range and described the three people who had appeared there, including a girl who collected the Void Dragon Blood Ganoderma.
• The Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan ordered Feng Qing'er to receive its secret inheritance and then search for the Ancient Void Dragon believed to be destined as the next Dragon Emperor.
• At the Four Pavilions Assembly, Xiao Jin publicly challenged Thunder Venerable while Zi Yan sensed two hostile Magical Beast auras above them.
• Xiao Jin declared that the Wind Lightning Pavilion should cease to exist and said its North Pavilion had been no match for him, prompting Thunder Venerable to ask if Xiao Jin had destroyed it.

Xiao Jin confronted Thunder Venerable at the Four Pavilions Assembly, while Feng Xian exposed the Wind Lightning Pavilion’s suspicious arrival with two Dou Zun allies. After isolating Thunder Venerable from the other pavilions, Xiao Jin ordered his companions to attack, and the venue erupted into chaos.

• Thunder Venerable pressured Xiao Jin, who challenged him to use whatever means he had.
• The Earth Tiger Clan and Silver Moon Wolf Clan patriarchs appeared and offered to attack Xiao Jin.
• Feng Xian questioned why Thunder Venerable had brought two Dou Zun, prompting Sword Venerable and Yellow Spring Venerable to regard him warily.
• Xiao Jin recognized that Feng Xian had isolated the Wind Lightning Pavilion and ordered everyone to move.
• Zi Yan attacked the Silver Moon Wolf Clan patriarch, a Heaven Demon Puppet struck at Thunder Venerable, and Xiao Jin attacked the Earth Tiger Clan patriarch with the Reincarnation Nirvana Flame.

Xiao Jin and Zi Yan overwhelmed their Dou Zun opponents, while the crowd fled as the battle escalated. Xiao Jin then unveiled ten Heavenly Flames and formed them into Flame Giant Dragons, preparing his improved Thousand Dragon Flame Kill against the Earth Tiger Clan’s patriarch.

• Zi Yan suppressed the Silver Moon Wolf Clan’s patriarch, while Xiao Jin battered the Earth Tiger Clan’s patriarch and a Heaven Demon Puppet drove Thunder Venerable onto the defensive.
• The Earth Tiger Clan’s patriarch transformed into a giant tiger and sent the weaker spectators fleeing with a roar.
• Xiao Jin realized his attacks had not yet brought the tiger within execution range and separated the Reincarnation Nirvana Flame into ten Heavenly Flames.
• Feng Xian recognized the ten Heavenly Flames and suspected Xiao Jin had cultivated the same technique Yao Chen had found.
• Xiao Jin shaped the ten Heavenly Flames into Flame Giant Dragons, forming his improved Thousand Dragon Flame Kill as the Earth Tiger Clan’s patriarch prepared to attack.

Xiao Jin killed the Earth Tiger Clan chief with ten detonating Heavenly Flame dragons, while Zi Yan kept the Silver Moon Wolf Clan chief in check. When Wang Chen suddenly attacked Mu Qingluan and Yellow Spring Venerable blocked Feng Xian, Xiao Jin intervened and killed Wang Chen, prompting Yellow Spring Venerable to demand that someone attack.

• Xiao Jin detonated ten Heavenly Flame dragons and killed the Earth Tiger Clan chief, then replenished his Dou Qi with a Hundred Rivers Returning to Origin Pill.
• Zi Yan cautiously held off the Silver Moon Wolf Clan chief, while the Heaven Demon Puppet continued fighting Thunder Venerable.
• Wang Chen ambushed Mu Qingluan as Yellow Spring Venerable attacked Feng Xian and blocked him from reaching his disciple.
• Xiao Jin punched Wang Chen's head from his body before Wang Chen could kill Mu Qingluan.
• Yellow Spring Venerable stared at Wang Chen's head and shouted, "Why haven't you attacked yet!"

Xiao Jin uncovered the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s scheme to use the Four Pavilions Assembly to weaken Starfall Pavilion and raise Yellow Spring Pavilion to the top. After the clan’s elders exposed that they knew Zi Yan was an Ancient Void Dragon, Xiao Jin prepared to face them, leaving the confrontation poised to erupt.

• Xiao Jin realized the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan had allied with Yellow Spring Pavilion and planned to damage Starfall Pavilion if Wind Lightning Pavilion could not be saved.
• Xiao Jin urged Mu Qingluan to return to Starfall Pavilion, and she flew away after seeing him face the three new Dou Venerates.
• Xiao Jin challenged the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan elders, who revealed that they had learned Zi Yan’s identity from a survivor of the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range.
• Zi Yan killed the Silver Moon Wolf Clan’s leader while Xiao Jin welcomed the chance to defeat the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s three Dou Venerates.
• The black-robed elder berated Thunder Venerable, while Wind Venerable stood beside Xiao Jin and the spectators began fleeing.

Xiao Jin assigned his allies to face the five Dou Zun on the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan’s side while keeping Zi Yan and Yin Lingyu out of the immediate fight. After the enemies argued over Thunder Venerable’s failures, Xiao Jin and Yun Yun launched the first attacks, and the battlefield broke into duels.

• Xiao Jin sent Yun Yun to face the black-robed old man, assigned the Heaven Demon Puppet to the two Heavenly Demon Phoenix elders, and matched Feng Xian against Thunder Venerable.
• Xiao Jin claimed Yellow Spring Venerable as his opponent and told Zi Yan to guard their backs because the Phoenix bloodline resisted her suppression.
• Yin Lingyu prepared her flute but held back to avoid exposing her identity unless the fight became desperate.
• The black-robed old man rebuked Thunder Venerable for the Wind Lightning Pavilion’s failures, while Yellow Spring Venerable mocked him and provoked him.
• Thunder Venerable suppressed his anger and judged that their best chance depended on Yellow Spring Venerable defeating Xiao Jin quickly.
• Xiao Jin and Yun Yun attacked, and the five opponents, three magical beasts, and two puppets engaged in one-on-one duels.

Xiao Jin fought Yellow Spring Venerable, using taunts and defensive techniques to withstand the Two-Star Dou Zun’s attacks before scorching his wrist with the Reincarnation Nirvana Flame. Yellow Spring Venerable was badly injured, while Thunder Venerable realized he could not defeat Wind Venerable without support.

• Yellow Spring Venerable attacked Xiao Jin with daggers and Shadow Dou Qi, but Xiao Jin blocked the ambush and burned away the black wyrms with his flame spear.
• Xiao Jin mocked Yellow Spring Venerable’s height and appearance, making him furious before he unleashed a pillar of black Dou Qi.
• Xiao Jin activated his Nirvana Flame Armor as Yellow Spring Venerable attacked with the Bone-Eroding Circular Dagger Dance, corroding patches of the armor.
• Yellow Spring Venerable suddenly screamed and knelt with his wrist burning from Xiao Jin’s pink flames, then dispersed the fire and revealed a devastating injury.
• Thunder Venerable noticed Yellow Spring Venerable’s injury and feared that, without his support, he could not defeat Wind Venerable.

Xiao Jin used the Glazed Refining Flame Technique to reach Dou Zun strength and defeat Yellow Spring Venerable. After killing his opponent, he quietly asked Zi Yan for support so he would not collapse after his display of strength.

• Xiao Jin’s Nirvana Flame Armor severely damaged Yellow Spring Venerable’s wrist when the elder attacked him at close range.
• Yellow Spring Venerable activated the Yellow Spring Blood Technique, raising his strength to that of a Three-Star Dou Zun.
• Xiao Jin used all three levels of the Glazed Refining Flame Technique and reached the Dou Zun Realm, astonishing Yin Lingyu.
• Yellow Spring Venerable unleashed the Yellow Spring Corrupt Corpse Arm, but Xiao Jin threw his flaming spear into the elder’s chest and the resulting point of light devoured him.
• Xiao Jin returned to Zi Yan and asked her for support while trying not to collapse.

After Xiao Jin killed the Yellow Spring Venerable with a powerful Heaven-Tier battle technique, he recovered while Zi Yan supported him and the remaining battles tilted in their allies’ favor. Xiao Jin warned Zi Yan that the Ancient Void Dragon Clan might beg her to return and lead them, leaving her frightened that he would let her go.

• Xiao Jin used the Calamity Flame Dragon Emperor Spear to kill the Yellow Spring Venerable, but the technique left him severely weakened.
• Zi Yan supported Xiao Jin as he recovered, while the Yellow Spring Venerable’s death threw the Central Plains’ established power structure into turmoil.
• Thunder Venerable struggled against Feng Xian, the Heaven Demon Puppet fought the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan to a stalemate, and Yun Yun gained the upper hand over the black-robed old man.
• Xiao Jin teased Zi Yan that the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and the Ancient Void Dragon Clan would seek her out after the battle.
• Xiao Jin suggested that East Dragon Island’s people might beg Zi Yan to return as their leader, and Zi Yan grew afraid that he would let her go.

Xiao Jin helped Feng Xian defeat the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and killed Thunder Venerable, leaving the Four Pavilions in turmoil. After refusing to visit Starfall Pavilion and departing to recover, Xiao Jin collapsed in a cave and admitted the strain of using a Heaven Tier battle technique.

• The Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan escaped, while Feng Xian killed Thunder Venerable and Yellow Spring Pavilion and Wind Lightning Pavilion lost their Dou Zun leaders.
• Xiao Jin decided to claim Wind Lightning Pavilion's Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Bodies technique for Xiao Yan, while Sword Venerable fled with Tang Ying to protect Ten Thousand Sword Pavilion.
• Feng Xian thanked Xiao Jin and pledged Starfall Pavilion's alliance with Sound Valley, but Xiao Jin declined his invitation and urged him to deal with Wind Lightning Pavilion.
• Xiao Jin left with Yun Yun, Zi Yan, and the others as spectators speculated about Sound Valley and the upheaval in the Central Plains.
• Xiao Jin collapsed in a cave after flying away and cursed himself for using a mid-grade Heaven Tier battle technique at the Dou Zong realm.

Xiao Jin returned to Saint Pill City with Yin Lingyu and learned that the Ancient Clan had sent visitors seeking to speak with him. He met Ling Ying and an unfamiliar, courteous young man, who addressed him as Lord Xiao Jin.

• Xiao Jin told Zi Yan and Yun Yun that he planned to wait for the Soul Hall to investigate and then hunt its experts, while preparing to make more Heaven Demon Puppets.
• Yin Lingyu asked to travel with Xiao Jin to the Pill Tower, and he agreed after checking that Yun Yun and Zi Yan had no objections.
• After two days of rest, Xiao Jin and the others traveled through a Space Wormhole to Saint Pill City, where Xiao Jin recovered fully along the way.
• Xiao Jin brought Yin Lingyu to the Pill Tower, where she found her teacher Yin Youyao holding hands with the Pill Tower Ancestor and received medicinal pills from him.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor told Xiao Jin that Ling Ying and a young man from the Ancient Clan had arrived and refused to speak without him, so Xiao Jin went to meet them.
• The young man in blue robes greeted Xiao Jin as Lord Xiao Jin.

Xiao Jin met Gu Qingyang, who revealed that the Soul Clan had discovered trouble with its spy in the Ancient Clan. Xiao Jin inferred that the Soul Clan had paused its attacks because Soul Heaven Emperor could not risk fighting another clan’s Dou Emperor Remnant Soul while injured.

• Gu Qingyang visited Xiao Jin at the Pill Tower and privately told him that the Soul Clan had realized Gu Yang was in trouble.
• Xiao Jin asked about the Shi Clan, and Gu Qingyang said it had sealed its realm entrance but showed no signs of a Soul Clan attack.
• Xiao Jin connected the Soul Clan’s pause to the Ancient Clans’ Dou Emperor Remnant Souls and asked whether the Ancient Clan possessed one.
• Gu Qingyang’s reaction confirmed Xiao Jin’s guess that the Ancient Clan had a Dou Emperor Remnant Soul.
• Xiao Jin concluded that Soul Heaven Emperor was too injured to risk fighting the Ling Clan’s remnant soul before attacking the Shi Clan.

Xiao Jin told Gu Qingyang that a wounded Nine-Star Dou Sheng in the Soul Clan had likely been injured by an Ancient Emperor Clan’s Dou Emperor Remnant Soul, then asked him to pass a promise to Xun Er. After Gu Qingyang left, Xiao Jin confessed his ancient origins and hidden bloodline to the Pill Tower Ancestor, who struggled to reconcile the revelations with everything he knew.

• Xiao Jin reasoned that Soul Heaven Emperor remained injured and the wounded Nihility Devouring Flame could not currently target the Shi Clan or interfere with him.
• Xiao Jin asked Gu Qingyang to tell Gu Yuan about the Soul Clan’s wounded Nine-Star Dou Sheng and promised to visit Xun Er within two years.
• Gu Qingyang revealed that Xun Er had reached the Five-Star Dou Zun realm after refining the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame, then left to report Xiao Jin’s information to the clan leader.
• Xiao Jin told the Pill Tower Ancestor that he was older than he appeared and recounted his ancient parents, Emperor Realm Soul, and sealed Dou Emperor Bloodline.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor silently considered Xiao Jin’s confession and recognized how his treasures, soul, and extraordinary cultivation talent seemed to support it.

Xiao Jin asked the Pill Tower Ancestor to help search for clues to his origins, but accepted that he would have to find Dou Emperor Ruins himself. He spent the next three months refining eight Heaven Demon Puppets, then confirmed their formation could match an Eight-Star Dou Zun and might reach Nine-Star Dou Zun after further tempering.

• Xiao Jin asked the Pill Tower Ancestor to watch for strange places that might reveal clues left by his mother, and the ancestor explained why Xiao Jin would need to investigate the ruins himself.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor asked Xiao Jin to teach the Little Pill Tower’s alchemists in three months, and Xiao Jin agreed after securing time to prepare.
• Xiao Jin spent three months refining eight Heaven Demon Puppets while Yun Yun stayed by his side.
• Xiao Jin tested the eight puppets and found that their formation could match an Eight-Star Dou Zun, with the potential to match a Nine-Star Dou Zun after tempering.

Xiao Jin struggled to teach the Little Pill Tower elders how to maintain separate temperature zones in one medicinal cauldron, then spent six days refining an Eighth-Grade Medicinal Pill. After the pill attracted Five-Colored Pill Lightning and tempered the Heaven Demon Puppet, the Pill Tower Ancestor told Xiao Jin that something had happened to Xuan Sheng.

• Xiao Jin explained how to create separate temperature zones inside a medicinal cauldron, but the Little Pill Tower elders could not keep their flames from merging.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor ended the lesson and told the elders that mastering Xiao Jin's technique could help Xiao Lin become a Ninth-Grade Alchemist.
• Xiao Jin stayed behind to refine an Eighth-Grade Medicinal Pill while the elders returned each day to watch and study his technique.
• Six days later, Five-Colored Pill Lightning descended, and the Heaven Demon Puppet tempered its body in the lightning until it gradually turned dark gold.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor told Xiao Jin that something had happened on Xuan Sheng's side.

After Medusa and Dan Xuansheng became trapped in the Heaven-Swallowing Python Ruins and Medusa underwent an unknown change, Xiao Jin rushed there alone to rescue them. He reached a vast mountain range that seemed to conceal a Dou Emperor Ruins and wondered whether Medusa was the person connected to it this time.

• The Pill Tower Ancestor told Xiao Jin that a surge of energy had sealed the Heaven-Swallowing Python Ruins and that Dan Xuansheng had reported something strange happening to Medusa.
• Xiao Jin insisted on going alone, and the Pill Tower Ancestor opened a spatial passage and sent him toward the ruin.
• After traveling for five days, Xiao Jin arrived in a mountain range teeming with powerful Magical Beasts and suspected it was the Beast Domain.
• Xiao Jin flew to the mountain range’s tallest peak and sensed that the lush landscape concealed a pitch-black Void Space.
• Xiao Jin recalled the Pill Tower Ancestor’s warning about Dou Emperor Ruins and wondered whether Medusa was connected to this one.

Xiao Jin entered a relic that revealed the rise and fall of an ancient empire ruled by Nine-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Pythons. He found Medusa immersed in a vast Blood Pool, but saw no sign of Dan Xuansheng.

• Xiao Jin sensed the relic's barrier, entered it, and followed a passage lined with giant python statues and vivid murals.
• Xiao Jin learned from the murals that many serpentine Magical Beasts shared a common ancestor and had once followed the Nine-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python.
• Xiao Jin saw the final mural depict a Nine-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python trying to devour an unknown stone as lightning threatened to strike.
• Xiao Jin passed through a half-open stone door and found Medusa half-submerged in a vast Blood Pool, with her lower body returned to a snake tail.

Xiao Jin rescued Medusa from the Blood Pool and met Cai Lianyi, a Dou Emperor connected to his parents, who explained that Medusa was safe while receiving a legacy. Cai Lianyi brought Xiao Jin to her palace to talk, leaving Medusa unconscious in her dwelling.

• Xiao Jin endured the Blood Pool's pressure and pulled Medusa out, discovering that she had transformed and advanced to Three-Star Dou Zun.
• Xiao Jin wondered where Dan Xuansheng had gone, then nearly walked into the Blood Pool before a mysterious woman snapped him out of its influence.
• The woman identified Feng Qingyao as the first breeze born between heaven and earth and confirmed that the Dou Emperor Ruins were connected to Xiao Jin.
• Cai Lianyi assured Xiao Jin that Medusa was safe and explained that she was undergoing a Dou Emperor's legacy.
• Cai Lianyi transported Xiao Jin to her magnificent palace and revealed that Xiao Jin's mother had given her the name Cai Lianyi.

Xiao Jin learned from Cai Lianyi that his mother had left him the Blood Pool, though he could not yet enter it or learn how to awaken his Dou Emperor Bloodline. Cai Lianyi began recounting his parents’ past, revealing that his father became a Dou Emperor at twenty and ended the ancient era’s wars.

• Cai Lianyi told Xiao Jin that Dan Xuansheng was safe and would receive an unexpected reward after waking.
• Cai Lianyi explained that the Blood Pool was Xiao Jin’s mother’s gift, but Xiao Jin could not enter it in his current state.
• Cai Lianyi revealed that her remnant soul retained all her memories and agreed to tell Xiao Jin about his parents.
• Cai Lianyi said Xiao Jin’s father became a Dou Emperor at twenty without inheriting a Dou Emperor Bloodline.
• Cai Lianyi explained that Xiao Jin’s father ended the ancient era’s chaotic wars, leading Xiao Jin to infer that his father united the Dou Emperors against the Outer Realm Evil Clan.