Chapter Summaries

Xiao Jin returned to the Jia Ma Empire and turned the battle against Soul Hall and Soul Clan forces with his three powerful Dragon King Puppets. Ya Fei defeated Shi Tian, leaving the invasion’s remaining forces under attack.

• Gu Yan lay dying as Xiao Jin arrived, and Xiao Ding greeted his Fourth Brother.
• Hun Shang revealed himself with several Soul Clan experts, while Xiao Yan joined Xiao Jin and Xiao Li on the battlefield.
• Xiao Jin admitted his ties to the Pill Tower and summoned three Dragon King Puppets, which overwhelmed Hun Shang and the other Dou Saints.
• Old Monster Lin and the Little Pill Tower elders engaged the remaining Soul Clan fighters as the Dragon King Puppets battered their opponents.
• Ya Fei pierced Shi Tian with her sword, and he begged her to spare him and promised to withdraw his troops.

Xiao Jin reunited with Ya Fei after she killed Shi Tian, punished Shi Tian’s soul, and led the Jia Ma Empire’s forces to victory over the Soul Clan attackers. He kept the captured Soul Clan Dou Saints alive to delay the clan’s response, then asked Ya Fei to come with him to Central Plains.

• Ya Fei beheaded Shi Tian, and Xiao Jin pulled his soul from the corpse and trapped it in a bottle to burn with the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Xiao Jin embraced Ya Fei, learned that Shi Tian had offended her, and promised no chance for Shi Tian to revive.
• With the Little Pill Tower elders and Dragon King Puppet joining the battle, the Jia Ma Empire’s forces defeated the Lion Underworld Sect and captured five Soul Clan Dou Saints.
• Xiao Jin explained that keeping the prisoners alive would delay the Soul Clan’s discovery of the defeat until after the Pill Gathering, and Old Monster Lin understood his plan.
• Back in the Imperial Capital, Xiao Jin saw how much Ya Fei had built with the Heavenly Snake Mansion’s support and asked her to accompany him to Central Plains.
• Ya Fei wondered whether Xun Er would agree to her going with Xiao Jin.

Xiao Jin reunited with his brothers, brought Ya Fei to Wutan City, and then took her to investigate the place where he had been found as an infant. There, he uncovered a hidden entrance to a strange green-lit world.

• Xiao Jin asked Ya Fei to accompany him to the Central Plains, and she agreed.
• Xiao Jin reunited with Xiao Ding, Xiao Li, and Xiao Yan, then returned with his elder brothers to visit Xiao Zhan in Wutan City.
• Xiao Yan left for the Pill Tower to prepare for the Pill Gathering, while Xiao Jin and Ya Fei traveled toward the Magic Beast Mountain Range.
• Xiao Jin used his soul power to locate a concealed cave near the place where the Pill Tower Ancestor had found him as an infant.
• Xiao Jin revealed a hidden gate among the vines, exposing a strange world that gave off a dim green light.

Xiao Jin and Ya Fei entered a star-filled ruin that showed them the Dou Qi Continent’s ancient battle against the Outer Realm Evil Clan and revealed Xiao Jin’s father among its defenders. An energy copy of Xiao Jin challenged him to a trial required to unseal his bloodline, and Xiao Jin began fighting it.

• Xiao Jin and Ya Fei entered the ruin, where Ya Fei discovered that its worldly energy was exceptionally dense.
• The ruin showed the Outer Realm Evil Clan overwhelming Dou Emperors until Xiao Jin’s father led the defense and the survivors sealed the Dou Qi Continent away from the Great Thousand World.
• Xiao Jin told Ya Fei that the scenes were from ten thousand years ago and that the front-line warrior was likely his father.
• A translucent energy body identical to Xiao Jin appeared and said he had to defeat it before he could ask about his bloodline.
• Xiao Jin attacked with Heart Melting Palm, but the energy body matched his technique and its flame overpowered the Reincarnation Nirvana Flame.
• Xiao Jin wrapped himself in the Reincarnation Nirvana Flame and charged with Calamity Fire Flash.

Xiao Jin battled an energy body that matched and surpassed his techniques, then passed its test by enduring its Emperor Tier Dou Technique. The energy body revealed itself as Xiao Jin’s father and acknowledged how hard he had worked.

• Xiao Jin used the Source Fire Divine Map, but the energy body countered it with a stronger version that summoned four divine beasts.
• The White Tiger phantom overwhelmed Xiao Jin until he used the Great Sun Glazed Body to shatter it with one punch.
• Xiao Jin realized the energy body had deliberately dispelled its attack, and it told him he had passed the test.
• The energy body’s face changed to resemble Xiao Jin’s father, who greeted him and recognized his effort.

Xiao Jin and Ya Fei met Cang Yuan, who revealed that seven women with deep ties to Xiao Jin were needed to unseal his bloodline. As Xiao Jin inspected the formation’s seven stone platforms, Cang Yuan identified several women connected to them, including Ya Fei, but the seventh remained unexplained.

• Xiao Jin introduced Ya Fei to Cang Yuan as one of his future wives, and Cang Yuan teased him about the other women in his life.
• Cang Yuan showed Xiao Jin and Ya Fei a formation requiring seven women to willingly and sincerely offer their most precious things to unseal Xiao Jin’s bloodline.
• Xiao Jin recognized the first four platforms as representing Cai Lin, Yun Yun, Xiao Yi Xian, and an Ancient Void Dragon.
• Cang Yuan identified the fifth platform as representing someone with a Dou Emperor Bloodline nearly as powerful as his own, and Xiao Jin connected it to Xun Er.
• Xiao Jin found a Golden Flame of All Living Beings on the sixth platform, and Cang Yuan said its destiny and karma aura came from Ya Fei.

Cang Yuan explained that Xiao Jin needed the Golden Flame of All Living Beings and two items left with Tuo She to unseal his bloodline, and Xiao Jin learned that Ya Fei would need to build her business in the Central Plains. After Cang Yuan sent Xiao Jin and Ya Fei back to the Magic Beast Mountain Range, Xiao Jin offered to ask his teacher, the Pill Tower master, to help Ya Fei.

• Cang Yuan told Xiao Jin that the Golden Flame of All Living Beings could serve as the vessel needed to withstand the energies released when his bloodline was unsealed, and Ya Fei would need to expand her business into the Central Plains.
• Xiao Jin recognized the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils on the seventh stone platform and realized it belonged to Qing Lin, while Cang Yuan teased him about his future wives.
• Cang Yuan told Xiao Jin he could retrieve two items left with Tuo She before unsealing his bloodline and that his mother could appear only when she helped with the process.
• Cang Yuan sent Xiao Jin and Ya Fei back to the Magic Beast Mountain Range and urged Xiao Jin to return after reaching Peak Nine-Turn Dou Venerate to cultivate toward Dou Saint.
• Xiao Jin learned that Ya Fei had been planning her Central Plains commercial strategy and offered to ask his teacher, the Pill Tower master, to assist her.

In the Pill World, Xiao Yan was ambushed by Chen Xian and two Dou Zongs, but Cao Ying intervened on the orders of her teacher, Xuan Kongzi. Xiao Yan learned that Xuan Kongzi had instructed Cao Ying to help him, leaving him with a new connection to the Pill Tower’s leadership.

• Xiao Yan reached the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range while searching for the medicinal ingredients marked on his map.
• Chen Xian and two old men attacked Xiao Yan, and their confrontation drew a crowd.
• Cao Ying arrived with another woman, told Chen Xian to leave, and attacked him with her spiritual force when he refused.
• Cao Ying revealed that her teacher, Xuan Kongzi, had ordered her to help Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan recalled that Yao Chen had mentioned his old ties with Xuan Kongzi, one of the Pill Tower’s three giants.

Xiao Jin learned that Soul Hall planned to ambush the Pill Tower’s young alchemists in the Pill World and entered with Zi Yan to stop them. There, Cao Ying and Dan Chen faced the attackers while Xiao Yan watched from hiding.

• Xiao Yan left Cao Ying and searched for his target in the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range as a black-cloaked figure watched them from a hillside.
• Xiao Jin returned to the Pill Tower, where Zi Yan accused him of visiting another woman, and he introduced her to Ya Fei.
• Xiao Jin told Zi Yan that Soul Hall was preparing to ambush the alchemists, then went with her to the Pill World after warning Qiu Ling.
• Cao Ying and Dan Chen confronted a group of black-clad attackers while Xiao Yan observed from a tree.
• The black-robed leader declared that the alchemists would die for the Pill Gathering championship, and Cao Ying recognized the attackers as Soul Hall.

Xiao Jin arrived in time to rescue Xiao Yan, Cao Ying, and Dan Chen from a Soul Hall ambush, destroying the Soul Barrier and killing the spies. After revealing himself to Old Man Mu Gu, Xiao Jin ordered Zi Yan to fight him, while teasingly withholding his other identity.

• Xiao Yan and Cao Ying prepared to fight the Dou Zun Old Man Mu Gu while Cao Ying tried to break the Soul Barrier.
• Xiao Jin and Zi Yan arrived, and Xiao Jin shattered the barrier and killed the Soul Hall spies surrounding Xiao Yan and the others.
• Xiao Jin destroyed the spies' bodies and souls, then let Dan Chen absorb some of his soul power.
• Xiao Jin mocked Old Man Mu Gu and revealed that he had killed several Soul Hall Dou Saints, prompting Old Man Mu Gu to recognize him.
• Xiao Jin hinted at another identity and sent Zi Yan to fight Old Man Mu Gu.

Xiao Jin helped Dan Chen control her soul and gave her a cultivation technique, then learned the identities of two more Soul Hall spies from Old Man Mu Gu. He had Zi Yan kill Mu Gu without revealing his own identity.

• Xiao Jin explained that Dan Chen’s soul would stop absorbing others’ souls once it was full and said reaching the Heaven Realm would let her control it freely.
• Xiao Jin gave Dan Chen a soul cultivation technique and revealed that only women could cultivate it, then told Cao Ying he was a member of the Pill Tower.
• Xiao Yan, Cao Ying, and Dan Chen left to find the medicinal ingredients they still needed for the Pill Gathering.
• Zi Yan defeated Old Man Mu Gu, and Xiao Jin offered to trade information about their identities and allegiances.
• Old Man Mu Gu revealed the identities of the other two Soul Hall spies at the Pill Gathering.
• Xiao Jin ordered Zi Yan to kill Mu Gu, then claimed he would reveal his identity at Mu Gu’s grave.

Xiao Jin reunited with Yun Yun after returning early from the Pill World and reassured her about Nalan Yanran, then joined the Pill Tower Ancestor to identify two Soul Hall spies at the Pill Gathering. They planned to sabotage the spies’ cauldrons and kill them during an explosion, leaving their reputations ruined as well.

• Xiao Jin met Yun Yun at the Pill Tower and learned that Nalan Yanran had stayed at the Flower Sect.
• Xiao Jin told Yun Yun about his recent experiences, and he confused her with an argument that his bond with Qing Lin and Zi Yan was familial rather than romantic.
• Xiao Jin and the Pill Tower Ancestor identified two Soul Hall spies by the Sub-flame of Nihility Devouring Flame within them.
• Nihility Devouring Flame asked to consume the spies’ sub-flames, and Xiao Jin agreed to kill them.
• Xiao Jin and the Pill Tower Ancestor planned to tamper with the spies’ cauldrons so they could kill them during an apparent alchemy accident and destroy their reputations.

Xiao Jin and the Pill Tower Ancestor killed two Soul Hall spies during the alchemy competition and agreed to launch a full-scale counterattack after Xiao Jin returned from Ancient Dragon Island. There, Xiao Jin brought Zi Yan the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit so she could begin refining it in the Void Space.

• Xiao Jin told the Pill Tower Ancestor that he would wait until after his return from Ancient Dragon Island to declare war on Soul Hall, and the Ancestor agreed to reveal that Pill Tower had a Young Tower Master.
• On the fourteenth day of the alchemy competition, the Pill Tower Ancestor disrupted two Soul Hall spies' medicine cauldrons, and Xiao Jin used the fragments to kill them both.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor promised to handle the aftermath and said they would launch a full-scale counterattack once Xiao Jin returned from Ancient Dragon Island.
• Xiao Jin returned to Ancient Dragon Island and found that order had improved, while Zhu Kun and Zi Yan were now able to communicate normally.
• Xiao Jin gave Zi Yan the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit, and Zhu Kun opened a passage to the Void Space so she could refine it safely.

Zi Yan swallowed the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit, but its immense power tore through her body and left her near death. Xiao Jin realized his life-infused blood might keep her alive and fed it to her, while Zhu Kun chose not to interfere despite the risk to Zi Yan’s bloodline.

• At Zi Yan’s insistence, Zhu Kun entered the Void Space with Xiao Jin, and Zi Yan swallowed the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit.
• The fruit unleashed the clashing power of two peak Ninth-Rank beasts, violently damaging and repeatedly restoring Zi Yan’s body as her condition worsened.
• Zhu Kun panicked when Zi Yan’s aura faded, while Xiao Jin searched for a way to save her.
• Xiao Jin realized his Bodhi Heart and Tree of Life had infused his blood with life force and asked Zhu Kun not to stop him.
• Xiao Jin cut his wrist and fed his blood to Zi Yan, and Zhu Kun accepted the risk that it could mix her bloodline.

Xiao Jin gave his blood to stabilize Zi Yan’s conflicting bloodlines, sacrificing his own vitality and cultivation. Three days later, Zi Yan remained stable as her energies slowly merged, and Zhu Kun treated Xiao Jin as the person who had saved them both.

• Xiao Jin continued giving blood to Zi Yan as his bloodline and cultivation weakened, while her condition improved.
• Zi Yan’s purple-gold and crimson-gold radiance faded into a powerful golden light, and Zhu Kun recognized the aura of a Dou Emperor.
• Zhu Kun realized Xiao Jin carried a Dou Emperor bloodline and vowed to protect him, then left to slaughter two Heavenly Demon Phoenixes.
• Xiao Jin lost consciousness for three days, then woke and checked that Zi Yan’s body was stable as her conflicting energies continued to weaken.
• Xiao Jin nearly collapsed from blood loss, and Zhu Kun caught him when he returned to check on them.

After Xiao Jin’s bloodline weakened him, Cang Yuan and Li Que healed him in the Starry Space and worried about the danger of his coming to the Great Thousand World. Two years later, a powerful alliance of four forces had launched a devastating campaign against Soul Hall.

• Xiao Jin left Zhu Kun and used his Spatial Mark to reach the Starry Space, where he collapsed from his bloodline deficiency.
• Cang Yuan caught Xiao Jin, repaired his bloodline with Stellar Power, and placed him in a lake of starlight to recover.
• Li Que visited while Xiao Jin was unconscious, and she and Cang Yuan discussed his safety and the possibility that he might not win the approval of a powerful consciousness.
• Two years passed, and Pill Tower, Sound Valley, Blazing Flame Valley, and Starfall Pavilion formed an alliance and declared war on Soul Hall.
• The alliance destroyed twenty-three Soul Hall branch halls in one year, despite the Pill Tower Ancestor not having appeared.

The alliance expanded cautiously as the Soul Clan stayed silent, the Shi Clan vanished, and a mysterious chamber of commerce spread across the Central Plains. Two years later, Yun Yun and Xiao Yi Xian returned to the Pill Tower, where they learned Xiao Jin was still away in the Starry Space.

• The alliance destroyed eleven Earth Fiend Halls and the Human Hall and Earth Hall, but the Soul Hall and Soul Clan did not retaliate, prompting the alliance to stay vigilant.
• The sealed Shi Realm reopened empty, and the Shi Clan disappeared, leaving the Soul Clan as the chief suspect and the Yao Clan anxious about being next.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor recognized that the Soul Clan's move suggested Nihility Devouring Flame and Soul Heaven Emperor had recovered, while Xiao Jin's preparations helped place the Soul Clan under pressure from multiple sides.
• A new Chamber of Commerce Alliance spread across the Central Plains, punished attacks on its caravans, and gained the common people's trust by improving their lives.
• Yun Yun returned to the Pill Tower after reaching One-Star Dou Saint Early Stage and met Xiao Yi Xian in Xiao Jin's courtyard.
• Xiao Yi Xian said she had reached One-Star Dou Saint Middle Stage and mastered Su Min's inheritance, then learned Xiao Jin remained in the Starry Space.

Yun Yun and Xiao Yi Xian reunited with Qing Lin in Xiao Jin’s courtyard while Xiao Jin continued recovering in the Starry Space. As he approached waking, his Dragon-Phoenix Ancient Armor manifested, and his parents discussed Zi Yan’s progress and Xiao Jin’s cultivation.

• Qing Lin reunited with Yun Yun and Xiao Yi Xian, then offered to clean Xiao Jin’s courtyard and cook for them.
• Cang Yuan observed that Xiao Jin had absorbed five percent of the Star Lake’s energy and risen to Peak Nine-Turn Dou Venerate, though sharing his bloodline power had damaged his foundation.
• A golden light erupted from Xiao Jin, and Cang Yuan summoned Li Que to examine the unusual Dragon-Phoenix aura.
• Li Que recognized that Xiao Jin had received Zi Yan’s Essence Blood, and the Dragon-Phoenix Ancient Armor appeared across his body.
• Cang Yuan said Zi Yan needed at least another year to digest the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit, while Li Que rejected giving Xiao Jin the Dragon-Phoenix True Scripture and insisted he practice Stellar Guidance.
• Li Que sensed Xiao Jin was about to wake and prepared to go to him.

Zi Yan completed the initial refinement of the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit, transforming her bloodline and reaching the Early Two-Star Dou Saint Stage. After learning Xiao Jin had vanished while saving her, she left to search for him, while Cang Yuan warned Xiao Jin that the Soul Clan might still have an unknown trump card.

• Cang Yuan sternly told Xiao Jin not to risk his life recklessly, and Xiao Jin recalled how the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit had nearly killed Zi Yan.
• Zi Yan’s bloodline transformed as she refined the fruit, and Zhu Kun was forced to his knees by the power she released when she awoke.
• Zi Yan told Zhu Kun that she had reached the Early Two-Star Dou Saint Stage but would need about two more years to absorb the fruit’s remaining energy.
• Zhu Kun told Zi Yan that Xiao Jin had used his bloodline to save her and had disappeared from the continent, so she left to seek him at the Pill Tower.
• Xiao Jin examined the Dragon-Phoenix Ancient Armor and heard Cang Yuan warn that Soul Heaven Emperor and the Soul Clan might have more power than they had revealed.

Xiao Jin feared the Soul Clan had grown too powerful while he was away, but Cang Yuan urged him to hear the history behind the Soul Clan’s possible threat. After explaining the Cang Clan’s Myriad Origin Qi and its connection to the Tunling Clan, Cang Yuan told Xiao Jin that he and his allies were key to defeating the Soul Clan.

• Xiao Jin realized the Soul Clan might have ways to strengthen its Dou Shengs and worried that the Pill Tower had already suffered losses.
• Xiao Jin rushed to return to the Pill Tower, but Cang Yuan stopped him and said he and Xiao Jin’s mother had prepared for the Soul Clan’s methods.
• Cang Yuan told Xiao Jin that the Tunling Clan had once devoured bloodlines across the continent before destroying the Cang Clan, whose cultivation technique was called Myriad Origin Qi.
• Cang Yuan explained that he had been the lone surviving child of the Cang Clan, later became a Dou Emperor, and helped the other clans defeat the Tunling Clan.
• Cang Yuan warned that the Soul Clan might have learned to reproduce some effects of Myriad Origin Qi through the Nihility Devouring Flame and years of research.
• Cang Yuan told Xiao Jin that his companions, rather than the Ancient Emperor Clans, were the key to defeating the Soul Clan.