Chapter Summaries

Xiao Jin deduced that the Bodhi Ancient Tree had gathered the remains of ancient powerhouses, including an Ancient Void Dragon, and that the Soul Clan and Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan had secretly allied with it. Feng Qing'er and Hun Sheng Tian revealed that they had lured Xiao Jin into a trap, leaving him surrounded by powerful enemies.

• Xiao Jin told Zi Yan that the Bodhi Ancient Tree had likely collected the remains of the Ancient Void Dragon and Ancient Heaven Phoenix, alarming Zi Yan because the Dragon Emperors had a duty to recover the senior’s remains.
• Feng Qing'er’s followers angrily challenged Xiao Jin after he rejected her, but they balked when she ordered them to teach him a lesson, and she reprimanded Jiu Feng for their cowardice.
• Xiao Jin asked when the Soul Clan and Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan had allied with the Bodhi Ancient Tree, then deduced that they had made contact during the Space Auction.
• Hun Sheng Tian admitted that the Soul Clan had used a clump of Soul Origin as bait to occupy Xiao Jin and draw away the Pill Tower’s forces.
• Xiao Jin assessed the powerful forces surrounding him, and Feng Qing'er confirmed that they believed they had him trapped.

Xiao Jin escaped the ambush in the Wild Wilderness by teleporting himself and his companions to the Starry Space. There, he warned them that the Bodhi Ancient Tree might be powerful enough to control puppets above Seven-Star Dou Sheng and that the trap could also target their strongest reinforcements.

• Xiao Jin used a brilliant white light to teleport himself, Xun Er, and the other women away before Feng Qing'er and the Soul Clan could attack.
• Feng Qing'er asked the Bodhi Ancient Tree how Xiao Jin had escaped, and it identified his method as a Dou Emperor's power.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree berated the gathered clans, and everyone, including Feng Qing'er, knelt before it.
• In the Starry Space, Zi Yan offered to summon Zhu Kun, but Xiao Jin said Zhu Kun, Gu Yuan, the old man, and Xiao Xuan must not intervene.
• Xiao Jin suggested that the Bodhi Ancient Tree might control puppets stronger than Seven-Star Dou Sheng, leading him and Zi Yan to suspect the ambush was designed to trap their Late Nine-Star Dou Sheng allies too.

Xiao Jin warned the Pill Tower Ancestor that the Bodhi Ancient Tree was controlling powerful Dou Saint Puppets and hunting alliance experts, then sought answers from Feng Qingyao. She explained how the tree’s corrupted spirit had been sealed in the Wild Wilderness, leaving Xiao Jin with the knowledge that the ancient seal was still holding.

• Xiao Jin returned to the Pill Tower and told the Pill Tower Ancestor that the Bodhi Ancient Tree controlled dozens of Dou Saint Puppets and was targeting powerful alliance members.
• Xiao Jin and the Pill Tower Ancestor concluded that the tree was confined to the Wild Wilderness, but agreed that avoiding it forever would not solve the threat.
• Xiao Jin traveled to Feng Qingyao’s Dou Emperor Space and asked her how to deal with the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• Feng Qingyao revealed that the tree was stronger than a Half-Emperor but weaker than a Dou Emperor, and that its evil spirit had been sealed away.
• Feng Qingyao explained that a dying Dou Emperor’s negative emotions had corrupted the Bodhi Ancient Tree, and Cang Yuan had sealed the corrupted portion of its spirit in the Wild Wilderness.

Feng Qingyao explained that the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s evil consciousness sought Xiao Jin’s Origin Emperor Qi, and she persuaded him not to confront it before he was strong enough. The seal might break sooner than expected, leaving Xiao Jin as little as three years to become a Dou Emperor.

• Feng Qingyao told Xiao Jin that the sealed evil consciousness had grown stronger by absorbing negative emotions and might be seeking his unrefined Origin Emperor Qi.
• Xiao Jin asked Feng Qingyao how to defeat the evil consciousness, but she admitted that even Cang Yuan had only managed to seal it.
• Feng Qingyao pointed out that Xiao Jin could avoid the Wild Wilderness and wait until his strength surpassed the evil consciousness’s before confronting it.
• Xiao Jin relaxed after realizing that his Origin Emperor Qi and Blood Pool could help him reach the Dou Emperor realm.
• Feng Qingyao warned Xiao Jin that the Soul Clan and Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan might break the seal early, giving him as little as three years to become a Dou Emperor.

Xiao Jin sought a way to destroy the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s evil sentience, but Su Min guided him to focus on weakening its source of power. He realized that improving ordinary people’s lives could reduce the negative emotions that sustained it, leaving him with a path toward defeating it after reaching Dou Emperor.

• Xiao Jin considered using the three years before the confrontation to stabilize his cultivation and reach Dou Emperor, possibly training in the Heavenly Tomb.
• Feng Qingyao told Xiao Jin she did not know how to destroy the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s evil intelligence and suggested asking Su Min.
• Su Min told Xiao Jin that Cang Yuan’s failure did not mean he would fail, and urged him to consider what could weaken the evil sentience.
• Xiao Jin realized that negative emotions varied with people’s circumstances and that meeting ordinary people’s material needs could reduce those emotions across the continent.
• Xiao Jin concluded that weakening the evil sentience by improving ordinary people’s lives could create an opportunity to destroy it completely.

Xiao Jin rejected the idea of using mass deaths to weaken the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s evil consciousness after Su Min warned that the resulting resentment would feed it. He learned that Su Min and the others were alive in the Star Domain, then asked Ya Fei to use her commercial influence to improve the continent’s fundamental situation.

• Su Min warned Xiao Jin that killing large numbers of people would create resentment for the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s evil consciousness, and reminded him that his parents had sealed him away to change events.
• Su Min told Xiao Jin to improve his strength over the next two years and revealed that she and the others were alive in the Star Domain before sending him back to the Pill Tower.
• Xiao Jin tried to contact Su Min through his Spatial Mark but found that she had cut off communication.
• Xiao Jin visited Ya Fei, teased her about her earrings, and explained the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s evil consciousness and the need to transform the continent.
• Ya Fei agreed to give her commercial efforts everything she had to help Xiao Jin weaken the evil consciousness’s influence.

At a high-level meeting in the Little Pill Tower, Xiao Xuan confronted Yan Jin and Lei Ying over their clans’ past treatment of the Xiao Tribe, and Xiao Jin demanded compensation. When Lei Ying insulted Xiao Jin, powerful allies gathered behind him, leaving Lei Ying facing the question of what standing Xiao Jin had.

• Xiao Xuan accused Yan Jin and Lei Ying of benefiting from the Xiao Tribe’s decline after his death.
• Xiao Jin calmed Xiao Xuan and told the two clan chiefs to return what they had taken from the Xiao Tribe and pay ten or eight times its value in compensation.
• Lei Ying challenged Xiao Jin’s right to speak, while Yan Jin quickly distanced himself from Lei Ying.
• Zhu Kun, the Pill Tower Ancestor, Gu Yuan, and Xiao Xuan backed Xiao Jin and suggested turning against the Lei Clan.
• Yan Jin joined Xiao Jin’s side as more powerful figures gathered behind him.
• Xiao Jin asked Lei Ying whether he wanted to know what standing he had.

Xiao Jin confronted Lei Ying over the Lei Clan’s past mistreatment of the Xiao Tribe and challenged him to a duel. Xiao Jin fought using only his soul, and his first clash with Lei Ying displayed power at the Nine-Star Dou Sheng level.

• Xiao Jin repeatedly mocked Lei Ying’s silence, then challenged him to settle the matter through combat.
• Lei Ying accepted the challenge rather than let the Lei Clan’s reputation suffer, and four Late Nine-Star Dou Sheng experts raised a barrier around the dueling ground.
• Xiao Jin announced that he would fight using only his soul, while Xun Er and Cai Lin recognized that his soul was his stronger side.
• Lei Ying formed Black Demon Lightning into a miniature thundercloud and launched a lightning palm seal against Xiao Jin’s towering Soul Hand Seal.
• Their collision shook the barrier, and the experts maintaining it realized Xiao Jin’s soul attack had reached Nine-Star Dou Sheng power.

Xiao Jin defeated Lei Ying with his soul power, forcing the Lei Clan and Flame Clan to promise compensation for their past wrongs against the Xiao Tribe. At a meeting about the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s threat, Xiao Jin assured the gathered experts that he would become a Dou Emperor before it broke free of its seal.

• Xiao Jin easily defeated Lei Ying with his soul, and Lei Ying admitted defeat and agreed that the Lei Clan would compensate the Xiao Tribe.
• Yan Jin promised that the Flame Clan would also send apology gifts, and Xiao Jin asked Xiao Xuan whether the matter had been handled to his satisfaction.
• Xiao Jin opened the meeting at the Pill Tower, where the Pill Tower Ancestor explained that the Bodhi Ancient Tree could create and control Dou Saint Puppets.
• Xiao Jin warned everyone not to panic because the Bodhi Ancient Tree remained sealed in the Wild Wilderness, then declared that he would become a Dou Emperor before it escaped.

Xiao Jin revealed that he possessed Origin Emperor Qi, and Xiao Xuan explained that it could allow a Late Nine-Star Dou Sheng to become a Dou Emperor. Xiao Jin said he had convened the meeting not to hand over the Qi, but to gather everyone’s strength to open a new space.

• Xiao Xuan explained that Origin Emperor Qi was the missing energy needed to break through to Dou Emperor and confirmed that Xiao Jin possessed enough for one breakthrough.
• The assembled experts reacted eagerly to the Origin Emperor Qi, but the Pill Tower Ancestor’s warning brought them back to their senses.
• A Lei Clan elder suggested giving the Origin Emperor Qi to one of the four supreme experts, and Lei Ying struck him down and apologized to Xiao Jin.
• Xiao Jin reassured Lei Ying that he held no grudge and said his real purpose was to gather everyone’s strength to open a new space.

Xiao Jin explained that opening a Small World would gather the alliance’s forces and lure Soul Heaven Emperor into pursuing the Ancient God Jades. He planned to strengthen himself before the showdown and left the Heavenly Tomb expedition’s roster partly undecided.

• The Pill Tower Ancestor questioned whether Xiao Jin’s plan to open a Small World could work, and Xiao Jin said the alliance would benefit whether the Soul Clan attacked or not.
• Xiao Jin explained that gathering the clans’ Ancient God Jades would tempt Soul Heaven Emperor to seize them, while giving Xiao Jin time to pursue his own path to becoming a Dou Emperor.
• Xiao Jin revealed that he needed the Ancient God Jades to remove the restrictions on Tou She Ancient God’s Cave Mansion and release the remnant soul that could guide him to Tou She Ancient God in the Great Thousand World.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor asked whom Xiao Jin would take into the Heavenly Tomb, and Xiao Jin said Ya Fei had to stay behind while Qing Lin could choose for herself.
• Xiao Jin said the others could join him, but they would wait until Yun Yun emerged from seclusion in Feng Qingyao’s cave dwelling.

The Lei Clan and Flame Clan apologized to the Xiao Clan and compensated them, while Xiao Jin gave Yao Chen a Fire Bodhi Pill to help Xiao Yan break through to Dou Saint. After Yun Yun emerged from seclusion, Xiao Jin filled her in on recent events and asked her to invite the Flower Sect into the alliance, as they prepared to confront the Heavenly Underworld Sect.

• Yan Jin and Lei Ying brought gifts to the Xiao Clan and apologized to Xiao Zhan under Xiao Xuan's watchful gaze.
• Xiao Jin gave Yao Chen a Fire Bodhi Pill for Xiao Yan's planned breakthrough to Dou Saint.
• Yun Yun came out of seclusion and reunited with Xiao Jin, who told her about the Wild Wilderness and Nalan Yanran.
• Xiao Jin asked Yun Yun to invite the Flower Sect into the alliance when she visited Nalan Yanran.
• Yun Yun agreed to help and discussed Cai Lin's plan to move against the Heavenly Underworld Sect.

After Yun Yun returned from seclusion, Cai Lin worried that none of Xiao Jin’s companions had become pregnant, while Xiao Jin suspected his bloodline was responsible. Xiao Jin then brought Yun Yun to the Flower Sect to form an alliance and revealed that Granny Hua had died sealing Youming Zi, whom he intended to defeat.

• Cai Lin asked Xiao Jin why she and the others had not become pregnant, and Xiao Jin suspected they would have to wait until they became Dou Emperors.
• Xiao Jin accompanied Yun Yun to the Flower Sect, where its elders agreed to join the Pill Tower Alliance and accepted two Eighth-Grade Medicinal Pills.
• Yun Yun went to find Nalan Yanran while Xiao Jin led Qing Fairy and Hua Xianzi to the cave where Granny Hua had fallen.
• Xiao Jin explained that Granny Hua had sacrificed herself to seal Youming Zi, a one-star Dou Sheng of the Heavenly Underworld Sect.
• Xiao Jin declared that he would deal with Youming Zi as the first step in wiping out the Heavenly Underworld Sect.

Xiao Jin broke Hua Yu’s seal and freed the badly injured Youming Zi, who taunted the Qing and Hua Immortals over his past crimes against the Flower Sect. Xiao Jin captured him and began torturing him with the powers of multiple Heavenly Flames, leaving Youming Zi alive but in agony.

• Xiao Jin burned through Hua Yu’s seal with the Reincarnation Nirvana Flame while the Qing and Hua Immortals stood by.
• Youming Zi emerged from the broken seal, laughed at Hua Yu’s failure to kill him, and realized he was too injured to face the Qing and Hua Immortals.
• The Qing and Hua Immortals confronted Youming Zi over Hua Yu’s death and his abuse of Flower Sect disciples.
• Xiao Jin dragged Youming Zi toward him and trapped him in the Reincarnation Nirvana Flame.
• Xiao Jin repeatedly tortured and healed Youming Zi with the distinct powers of his Heavenly Flames, keeping him alive through the ordeal.

Xiao Jin killed Youming Zi and secured the Flower Sect’s support for a campaign against the Heavenly Underworld Sect. Yun Yun persuaded Nalan Yanran to return to the Pill Tower, and the Flower Sect assembled its forces to set out.

• Xiao Jin killed Youming Zi, then asked the Qing and Hua Immortals to help him attack the Heavenly Underworld Sect.
• Qing Fairy agreed to gather the Flower Sect’s people and join the campaign.
• Yun Yun warned Nalan Yanran that staying with the Flower Sect could put her and the sect in danger because of the Soul Clan.
• Nalan Yanran agreed to return to the Pill Tower with Yun Yun, though she felt disappointed about seeing Xiao Jin less often.
• Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran joined Xiao Jin at the sect plaza, where more than a thousand Flower Sect disciples gathered before the expedition.

Xiao Jin led the Flower Sect to the Heavenly Underworld Sect and overwhelmed its defenders, using Youming Zi’s corpse to cripple Tianmingzi before destroying the sect with a flaming palm. He left the remaining survivors for the Flower Sect to deal with.

• Yi Chen toured the Heavenly Underworld Sect with Venerable Ghost Senluo, who praised him as the future sect master.
• Tianmingzi and the sect’s other experts rushed to the barrier entrance after the Flower Sect arrived in force.
• Xiao Jin had the South Dragon King hurl Youming Zi’s corpse at Tianmingzi, crushing his chest and revealing that the Heavenly Underworld Sect’s Dou Sheng patriarch was dead.
• Xiao Jin declared that the Heavenly Underworld Sect would cease to exist and unleashed the Eight Desolations Ashen Extinction Palm, burning the compound and killing Yi Chen.
• Xiao Jin told the Qing and Hua Immortals to leave the survivors to the Flower Sect, and they agreed.

Xiao Jin helped the Flower Sect destroy the Heavenly Underworld Sect, then clarified to Nalan Yanran that he could never return her feelings because of her former engagement to Xiao Yan and his relationship with Yun Yun. Nalan Yanran accepted his rejection but refused his offer of support, saying she wanted to cut ties completely.

• Xiao Jin and the Flower Sect wiped out the Heavenly Underworld Sect, while Qing Fairy and the disciples thanked him for helping them avenge their fallen sisters.
• Yun Yun publicly acknowledged Xiao Jin as her partner, and Nalan Yanran watched her closely before following her back to the Pill Tower.
• After Yun Yun left them alone, Xiao Jin reminded Nalan Yanran of her engagement to his third brother, Xiao Yan, and said he had never held romantic feelings for her.
• Nalan Yanran said she understood, but refused Xiao Jin's offer to help her reach Dou Sheng, explaining that his continued kindness would keep her tied to him.
• Nalan Yanran broke down in tears and said she would rather Xiao Jin stop taking care of her for Yun Yun's sake.

After Nalan Yanran left, Xiao Jin prepared to enter the Heavenly Tomb with Yun Yun, Xun Er, Cai Lin, and Xiao Yi Xian for two years of cultivation. Before departing, he suspected the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s evil consciousness had failed to exploit a weakness involving a Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit, but postponed investigating until Xiao Yan finished his breakthrough.

• Xiao Jin invited Yun Yun to join the group entering the Heavenly Tomb, and she agreed after learning Xiao Yi Xian and Cai Lin would be there.
• Xiao Jin suspected the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s evil consciousness had overlooked a chance to lure him using the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit Xiao Yan found in an ancient ruin, but Yun Yun reminded him that Xiao Yan was already breaking through to Dou Saint.
• Xiao Jin and his companions bought decades’ worth of ingredients in Saint Pill City and he held a private discussion with the Pill Tower Ancestor.
• Seven days later, Xiao Jin’s group of five entered the Ancient Realm, while a hidden watcher observed their departure as a likely final farewell.
• Gu Yuan received Xiao Jin and heard him promise to take good care of Xun Er in the Heavenly Tomb.

Xiao Jin secluded himself in the Heavenly Tomb, where his strength and the women’s foundations steadily improved. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan broke through at Starfall Pavilion, reaching the mid-phase of Two-Star Dou Sheng as Yao Chen worried over the approaching Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and the Soul Clan’s schemes.

• Xiao Jin built a secluded courtyard in the Heavenly Tomb and gradually stabilized his realm, nearing the mid-stage Seven-Star Dou Sheng by his fifth year there.
• Qing Lin joined Xiao Jin in the Heavenly Tomb in the sixth year, while Zi Yan and Ya Fei visited before returning to their own responsibilities.
• Disturbances increased around the Demonic Flame Plains as people gathered in anticipation of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s appearance.
• Yao Chen told Feng Xian that the flame might appear early and voiced concern about the Soul Clan and Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s alliance with the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s evil sentience.
• Xiao Yan’s breakthrough shook Starfall Pavilion, and Yao Chen protected its disciples from the flames and soul pressure.
• Yao Chen realized Xiao Yan had refined Soul Origin as well as advanced his cultivation, and Xiao Yan emerged at the mid-phase of Two-Star Dou Sheng.

After spending more than ten years cultivating in the Heavenly Tomb, Xiao Jin and his companions returned to the Ancient Saint Mountain Range as powerful Dou Shengs. Xiao Jin planned to secure the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame for Xiao Yan and learned that the Soul Clan’s hidden realm was near the Wild Wilderness.

• Xiao Jin and his companions left the Heavenly Tomb, where Xiao Jin had reached Late Eight-Star Dou Sheng and several others had advanced in cultivation.
• Xiao Jin told Gu Yuan that the Ancient Clan should stay away from the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s emergence so he could claim it for Xiao Yan.
• Gu Yuan agreed to Xiao Jin’s request and reported that the continent had remained mostly peaceful despite continued friction with the Soul Clan.
• Gu Yuan revealed that the Soul Clan’s and Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s pocket worlds lay in a mountain range bordering the Wild Wilderness, and gave Xiao Jin information about the Demonic Flame Plains.
• Xiao Jin took the scroll and left the Ancient Realm with his companions, while Gu Yuan concluded that the final battle was near.