Chapter Summaries

Jiang Han revealed his breakthrough to Dou Zong and fought Earth Demon Old Ghost at the Black Emperor Auction House. He overwhelmed Earth Demon Old Ghost with tri-colored flames, leaving the spectators to conclude that only Old Man Mang could rival him at Jia Nan Academy.

• Su Qian shielded Jiang Han as Earth Demon Old Ghost demanded the fire pearl, but Jiang Han interrupted and attacked him, severely injuring his right palm.
• Su Qian and Hu Qian realized Jiang Han had advanced to Dou Zong, while Xiao Xun'er asked Xiao Yan what he knew about Jiang Han.
• Earth Demon Old Ghost attacked Jiang Han with black ice spikes and an ice sword, but Jiang Han's tri-colored flames swallowed the attacks and engulfed him.
• Jiang Han's flames exploded and destroyed most of the auction house, leaving Earth Demon Old Ghost's fate unclear as Su Qian and Hu Qian praised Jiang Han's strength.

Jiang Han killed Earth Demon Old Ghost after thwarting his escape with spatial power, then killed Mo Tianxing and claimed the Yin-Yang Life Soul Pill. He returned to Canaan’s academy and began using Earth Demon Old Ghost’s corpse to help Heaven Flame Venerable refine a physical body.

• Earth Demon Old Ghost unleashed Blood Chill Extreme Freezing Sky, then used Space Blood Escape to flee, but Jiang Han used spatial power to catch and kill him.
• Jiang Han told Su Qian and Hu Qian that he could use rudimentary spatial power and was only a half Dou Zun.
• Jiang Han killed Mo Tianxing for standing by during the attack on him and took the Yin-Yang Life Soul Pill.
• Jiang Han returned to the mountains near Canaan’s Inner Academy and Outer Academy, gave Heaven Flame Venerable the pill, and prepared Earth Demon Old Ghost’s corpse with Heaven Flame Venerable’s soul power and Tier 7 Magical Beast essence blood.
• As the corpse began to show signs of vitality, Jiang Han signaled Heaven Flame Venerable, who entered it while it was covered in tri-colored flames.

After helping Heavenly Flame Venerable gain a new body, Jiang Han reached Two-Star Dou Zun and prepared to leave the academy to help Xiao Yan investigate the Soul Hall. Jiang Han took Xiao Yan toward Yun Lan Sect, while Xiao Xun'er planned to return home for a guard.

• Jiang Han refined Earth Demon Old Ghost's corpse with the Tri-Colored Strange Fire, allowing Heavenly Flame Venerable to revive in a physical body.
• Jiang Han's successful stare raised his strength to Two-Star Dou Zun, and he demonstrated spatial power to the Thousand-Hundred Two Elders, Su Qian, and Hu Qian.
• Jiang Han granted Heavenly Flame Venerable his freedom, and Heavenly Flame Venerable flew toward Central Province.
• Jiang Han told the four elders he would leave the academy for a while, while affirming that the academy remained his home.
• Xiao Yan asked Jiang Han for help finding the person taken by the Soul Hall, and Xiao Xun'er said she would return home to seek another guard.
• Jiang Han grabbed Xiao Yan and flew toward Yun Lan Sect.

Jiang Han and Xiao Yan arrived at the Yun Lan Sect during its annual recruitment, where Jiang Han challenged Yun Shan and demanded that the new disciples leave. Yun Shan attacked with a green tornado, but Jiang Han pierced his chest with a three-colored flame spear, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Half a month earlier, Yun Shan emerged from seclusion, learned that Yun Yun and Gu He had been killed, and ordered Yun Ling to renew the search for Jiang Han.
• During the Yun Lan Sect's recruitment ceremony, Yun Shan promised the new disciples that the sect would protect them.
• Jiang Han and Xiao Yan appeared above the ceremony, and Jiang Han warned everyone to leave because the Yun Lan Sect would be destroyed in fifteen minutes.
• Yun Shan attacked Jiang Han with a towering green tornado while the disciples watched.
• Jiang Han's three-colored flame spear overpowered the tornado and pierced Yun Shan's chest.

Jiang Han overwhelmed Yun Shan, who summoned Wu Protector for help, but Jiang Han revealed his Dou Venerable strength and stopped Wu Protector from escaping. Wu Protector unleashed his strongest attack, forming a giant axe as the chapter ended.

• Yun Shan launched his Great Compassion Wind Ripping Hand at Jiang Han, but Jiang Han's flame palm destroyed it and badly wounded Yun Shan.
• Yun Shan summoned Wu Protector with a rune-wrapped black candle and promised him more souls in exchange for killing Jiang Han.
• Xiao Yan recognized Wu Protector as the one who had taken his teacher, while Wu Protector recognized Xiao Yan and tried to probe Jiang Han's soul power.
• Wu Protector attacked Jiang Han with a Jet-Black Chain, but Jiang Han tore apart the chain with spatial power and revealed that he was a Dou Venerable.
• Wu Protector tried to flee as black mist, but Jiang Han froze and shattered it, forcing Wu Protector back into view.
• Wu Protector formed nine Jet-Black Chains into a massive black axe and raised it for an all-out attack.

Jiang Han destroyed the Yun Lan Sect, extracted Wu Protector’s memories, and learned where Yao Chen was imprisoned. He took Xiao Yan to Starfall Pavilion in the Southern Region to seek help from Wind Venerable, where they were challenged upon entering.

• Jiang Han crushed Wu Protector’s Dark Giant Axe, killed Yun Shan, and burned the Yun Lan Sect with three-colored flames.
• Jiang Han extracted Wu Protector’s memories and discovered that Yao Chen was held at a Soul Hall branch in the Dead Souls Mountain Range.
• Jiang Han told Xiao Yan that they would seek help from Wind Venerable before attempting to rescue Yao Chen.
• Jiang Han and Xiao Yan traveled to the Southern Region and found the hidden entrance to Starfall Pavilion in the Heavenly Star Mountain Range.
• Jiang Han and Xiao Yan entered Starfall Pavilion and were challenged by a hostile voice.

Xiao Yan and Jiang Han found Wind Venerable and told him that Yao Chen had been captured by Soul Hall. After Jiang Han advanced to Five-Star Dou Zun, the group reached a hidden Soul Hall branch, where Jiang Han entered alone to rescue Yao Chen while the others prepared to draw out its Dou Zuns.

• Mu Qingluan brought Jiang Han and Xiao Yan to Wind Venerable, who recognized Yao Chen’s Black Ancient Ring as proof of Xiao Yan’s connection to him.
• Xiao Yan told Wind Venerable that Han Feng and Soul Hall had harmed Yao Chen, and that Jiang Han had killed Han Feng.
• Xiao Yan revealed that Soul Hall had captured Yao Chen and asked Wind Venerable to help rescue him; Jiang Han’s aura rose, and he advanced from Two-Star to Five-Star Dou Zun.
• Jiang Han, Xiao Yan, Wind Venerable, and Iron Sword Venerable traveled to the Dead Souls Mountain Range and found a hidden Soul Hall branch behind a spatial barrier.
• Jiang Han told Wind Venerable and Xiao Yan to draw out the branch’s Dou Zuns, then broke through a barrier and entered the hall alone to rescue Yao Chen.

Jiang Han and Xiao Yan infiltrated a Soul Hall branch to rescue Yao Chen, while Wind Venerable and Iron Sword Venerable drew away the enemy forces. Jiang Han freed Yao Chen and learned that he still possessed the Bone Chilling Flame, but the two Venerables remained in danger.

• Xiao Yan followed Jiang Han into the Soul Hall branch as Wind Venerable and Iron Sword Venerable launched an assault to divert the defenders.
• Yao Chen sensed the familiar auras of his rescuers but could not warn them to leave because the Soul-Locking Chains suppressed his soul consciousness.
• Jiang Han defeated the Purple-Clothed Venerable and swiftly killed the other guards as he and Xiao Yan fought their way to the plaza.
• Jiang Han shattered Yao Chen's light prison and burned away the Soul-Locking Chains with his three-colored flames.
• Yao Chen revealed the Bone Chilling Flame while Jiang Han warned that Wind Venerable and Iron Sword Venerable were in trouble.

Jiang Han rescued Yao Chen and freed the trapped souls, but the group encountered the Hall of Souls Vice Hall Master outside. The Vice Hall Master badly injured Wind Venerable and Iron Sword Venerable, then attacked Jiang Han’s group, whose crimson Energy Shield left them unharmed in a massive crater.

• Jiang Han completed the replication and refinement of Bone Chilling Flame, freed the trapped souls, and led Xiao Yan and Yao Chen out of the hall.
• Jiang Han called for Wind Venerable and Iron Sword Venerable to retreat as they struggled against two Soul Hall Heavenly Venerables.
• The Hall of Souls Vice Hall Master appeared after a Heavenly Venerable crushed a jade slip and severely injured Iron Sword Venerable and Wind Venerable with his attacks.
• The Vice Hall Master launched a more powerful third attack at Jiang Han’s group, but a crimson Energy Shield protected them from the spatial explosion.
• The Vice Hall Master looked down at the unharmed group in the crater and called them interesting.

Jiang Han fought the Soul Hall Vice Hall Master to buy Wind Venerable, Iron Sword Venerable, Xiao Yan, and Yao Lao time to escape, but he was left exhausted and trapped. With the Vice Hall Master preparing another attack, Jiang Han summoned a black stone tablet.

• Jiang Han shielded Wind Venerable and Iron Sword Venerable, then trapped the Soul Hall Vice Hall Master and two Heavenly Venerables in a prison of four flames.
• Jiang Han shattered the Heavenly Venerables' chains and drove them back, then blocked the Vice Hall Master's soul attack and bone blade.
• Wind Venerable, Iron Sword Venerable, Xiao Yan, and Yao Lao escaped the Dead Souls Mountain Range as Jiang Han's battle caused a devastating energy storm.
• Jiang Han's gaze progress remained below halfway, and his gaze failed before he could defeat the Vice Hall Master.
• The Vice Hall Master sealed the space around Jiang Han and formed another bone blade, so Jiang Han summoned a black stone tablet.

Jiang Han escaped the Hall of Souls Vice Hall Master using the Void Escape Tablet and returned to Canaan Inner Academy to strengthen himself in the magma. After defeating two Half-Saint-level Lizardmen and raising his cultivation to Nine Revolutions Dou Zun, he continued deeper into the magma.

• The Hall of Souls Vice Hall Master failed to find Jiang Han after the Void Escape Tablet carried him away, then ordered the Great Heavenly Venerables to investigate his origins and capture him alive.
• Jiang Han emerged above Black Emperor City, recovered for three days, and headed to the Heavenly Flame Training Qi Tower.
• Jiang Han entered the magma and killed the weaker Lizardmen who approached him.
• Jiang Han fought two Half-Saint-level Lizardmen, and his strength rose as he completed his stare at one of them.
• Jiang Han defeated the two Lizardmen, took their Fire Pearls, and reached Nine Revolutions Dou Zun.
• Jiang Han ignored the Lizardmen's warning about God's Graveyard and continued deeper into the magma.

Jiang Han reached the Ancient Emperor Cave Abode and briefly gazed at the Old Dragon Emperor before escaping its attack with the Void Escape Tablet. He emerged in Saint Pill City, recovered, and visited the Pill Tower, where he reunited with Xiao Yan and asked to see the Three Thousand Burning Flame.

• Jiang Han descended through the magma, found the Ancient Emperor Cave Abode, and used his Strange Fire to reveal the enormous Old Dragon Emperor below the stone gate.
• Jiang Han began gazing at the Old Dragon Emperor, but the dragon awoke, threatened him, and forced him to escape with the Void Escape Tablet.
• Jiang Han reappeared in Saint Pill City, learned where he was, and rested for three days to recover.
• Jiang Han entered the Pill Tower, impressed its Three Great Heads with his aura and a peak eighth-tier medicinal pill, and reunited with Xiao Yan.
• Jiang Han told the Three Great Heads he wanted to witness the Three Thousand Burning Flame, and they began discussing his request.

Jiang Han entered the Star Region with Xiao Yan and other alchemists to confront the Three Thousand Burning Flame, secretly copying and refining it as his fifth Strange Fire. When a black-robed alchemist revealed himself as an intruder, Jiang Han prepared to fight.

• Xuan Kongzi opened the Star Region early for Jiang Han and warned him to stop any Soul Hall members from trying to free the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Qiu Ling led Jiang Han, Xiao Yan, and the other alchemists through the Star Region to the sealed flame.
• Jiang Han copied and refined the Three Thousand Burning Flame, adding it as his fifth Strange Fire.
• A Bai Family alchemist tried to communicate with the sleeping dragon but was blasted away.
• A black-robed alchemist transformed amid black mist and declared that no ants could claim the flame, while Jiang Han eagerly readied himself to attack.

Old Man Mu Gu weakened the seal on the Three Thousand Burning Flame and tried to claim it for the Soul Hall, while Jiang Han waited for the right moment to act. The dragon broke free and attacked Old Man Mu Gu and the Pill Tower group, but Jiang Han's power stopped its strike against the alchemists.

• Old Man Mu Gu revealed himself as a Soul Hall elder and used black runes to weaken the Three Thousand Burning Flame's seal.
• The Three Thousand Burning Flame added droplets of black fire to the runes, overwhelming the Pill Tower's seal despite Xuan Kongzi, Xuan Yi, and Tian Leizi reinforcing it.
• Jiang Han declined to intervene while Qiu Ling waited for his help, and the Three Thousand Burning Flame's seal shattered.
• Old Man Mu Gu asked the freed dragon to accompany him to the Soul Hall, but it refused and threatened to settle its score with the Pill Tower.
• Old Man Mu Gu tried to take the dragon by force, and the Three Thousand Burning Flame attacked him and the Pill Tower group.
• Jiang Han's invisible power destroyed the dragon's flaming claw before it could strike the Pill Tower group, impressing Qiu Ling.

Jiang Han trapped the battlefield in a prison of Five-Colored Flames and swiftly killed Old Man Mu Gu and the three Soul Hall Venerable Elders. He crushed two Jade Tokens to summon more Soul Hall figures, one of whom he recognized as an old enemy.

• Old Man Mu Gu used a Jade Token to summon three Soul Hall Venerable Elders through a rift.
• Jiang Han enclosed the Pill Tower group, Three Thousand Burning Flame, and Soul Hall's four Venerable Elders in a prison of Five-Colored Flames, then burned Old Man Mu Gu to death.
• Jiang Han destroyed the three Venerable Elders' Soul Devouring Blades and killed them with three flaming spears.
• Jiang Han took the four Storage Rings and crushed two Jade Tokens found inside them, opening two more rifts.
• Two Soul Hall figures emerged, and Jiang Han recognized one of them as an old enemy.

Jiang Han killed two Soul Hall Venerables, restrained Three Thousand Burning Flame with the Five Fires Prison, and helped the Pill Tower restore its seal. As he prepared to leave, Xuan Kongzi revealed that the legendary Bodhi Ancient Tree had emerged, drawing Jiang Han and the others’ attention to a new contest.

• Jiang Han killed the Dead Souls Branch Hall Heavenly Venerable and the Hall of Souls Venerable Elder, taking a Jade Token from the first.
• Jiang Han used the Five-Colored Flames prison to suppress Three Thousand Burning Flame and lock it in a net of shackles.
• The Pill Tower Three Great Heads reopened the Star Region, and Xuan Kongzi and the others thanked Jiang Han for helping restrain Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Jiang Han told Xiao Yan and the Five Great Families’ alchemists that the Five Fires Seal would be lifted if someone subdued Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Xuan Kongzi told Jiang Han and the others that the Bodhi Ancient Tree had emerged.

Jiang Han’s group traveled into the Ancient Desolate Domain to seek the Bodhi Ancient Tree and endured deadly poisonous insects and ancient beasts along the way. After a Gu Clan elder probed Jiang Han’s soul, Jiang Han killed him with a flame blade, leaving Xiao Xun’er frightened and the surviving Gu Clan elder pleading that they meant no offense.

• Jiang Han agreed to travel to the Ancient Desolate Domain with Xuan Kongzi, Xiao Yan, Wind Venerable, and Iron Sword Venerable.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree’s aura spread across Central Province, drawing countless factions to Desolate Town and the Ancient Desolate Domain.
• Jiang Han protected his companions from poisonous insects with Five-Colored Flame Gauze Robes, while many other travelers died.
• Jiang Han’s group encountered several Dou Zun-level ancient ferocious beasts as they ventured deeper into the domain.
• A gray-robed Gu Clan elder probed Jiang Han’s soul, so Jiang Han killed him with a Five-Colored Flame blade and sent the surviving Gu Clan members fleeing.

Jiang Han reached the Bodhi Ancient Tree, but his attempt to replicate it failed and its power drew everyone into illusions. Inside, he struck a bargain with the tree to cleanse the Dou Di’s negative emotions in exchange for the Bodhi Heart and unused Bodhi Seeds, then began refining the seeds.

• Jiang Han killed the gray-robed Gu Clan elder after Xiao Xun'er’s clan investigated him, and Xiao Xun'er chose not to summon her clan’s experts because she feared his power.
• Jiang Han's group crossed the beast tide and reached the Bodhi Ancient Tree, where factions battled five Half-Saint puppets.
• Jiang Han tried to replicate the Bodhi Ancient Tree, but the System reported that the target was corrupted and replication had failed.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree enveloped everyone in light and transported them into separate spaces; Jiang Han entered a green space with a smaller version of the tree and watched images of the others’ illusions.
• The Bodhi Tree sent Jiang Han information, and he agreed to cleanse the Dou Di’s negative emotions in exchange for the Bodhi Heart and unused Bodhi Seeds.
• The Bodhi Tree presented twenty-four Bodhi Seeds, and Jiang Han used the Five-Colored Strange Fire to refine them and clear the black Qi from its trunk.

Jiang Han cleansed the Bodhi Ancient Tree, obtained its Bodhi Heart and Seeds, and was expelled with the other experts as the tree vanished. The surrounding factions moved to seize his treasures, and Jiang Han prepared to face the Scorpion Demon Three Ghosts.

• Jiang Han used ten Bodhi Seeds to remove the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s negative emotions, received its Bodhi Heart, and gained an identical tree in his Sea of Consciousness.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree expelled Jiang Han, Xuan Kongzi, Xiao Yan, and the other trapped experts, while Jiang Han put away the Bodhi Heart and remaining Bodhi Seeds.
• The tree emerged in the Ancient Desolate Domain, expelled the experts, and began sinking into the ground as Xiao Xun'er joined Jiang Han’s side.
• The Scorpion Demon Three Ghosts surrounded Jiang Han’s group and demanded the Bodhi Heart and Seeds, while Xuan Kongzi offered to fight beside him.
• Jiang Han told Xuan Kongzi to stand aside and unleashed Five-Colored Flames as he faced the three demons.

Jiang Han effortlessly killed the Scorpion Demon Three Ghosts, then confronted Hun Yu of the Soul Clan when he demanded the Bodhi treasures. Jiang Han used Hun Yu’s demand to lure him into an attack and pierced him with a Five-Colored Flames spear.

• The Scorpion Demon Three Ghosts attacked Jiang Han, but his Five-Colored Flames hands crushed their Dou Qi pillars and erased them despite their Thick Earth Bells.
• The watching factions feared Jiang Han, and no one challenged him as he prepared to leave with Xuan Kongzi, Wind Venerable, and the others.
• Hun Yu blocked Jiang Han’s path and demanded the Bodhi Heart and five Bodhi Seeds on behalf of the Soul Clan.
• Xiao Xun’er told Jiang Han that Hun Yu had a God Grade Bloodline and was a peak six-star Dou Zun.
• Jiang Han sent Hun Yu what appeared to be a gift, but it transformed into a Five-Colored Flames spear that shattered Hun Yu’s strongest palm strike and pierced him.