Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan spent a month resting with the women around him while Alchemists and factions gathered in Yan City for the Tian Shu Alliance’s exchange conference. As the conference neared, he organized the preparations and told Yao Lao he would help restore his life after the Ancient Clan fulfilled its promise.

• Xiao Yan relaxed for a month, and Medusa advanced from an Eight-Star Dou Zong to a Nine-Star Dou Zong while Xiao Yi Xian reached First-Turn Dou Venerate.
• The Tian Shu Alliance gathered the medicinal herbs Xiao Yan needed and built a vast Alchemy Square outside Yan City for the exchange conference.
• Xiao Yan instructed Hai Bodong, Xiao Ding, Yao Tianhuo, and Gu He to manage the conference, prepare the alliance, and prevent trouble from visiting factions.
• Yao Lao told Xiao Yan that the Tian Shu Alliance had grown into a first-rate faction, and Xiao Yan promised to help bring him back to life once the Ancient Clan sent what it had promised.

Xiao Ding enforced the Tian Shu Alliance’s queue rules when Liu Chang, a mid-level Seventh-Rank Alchemist, tried to cut in line and threatened him. After Xiao Ding restrained Liu with a Dou Venerate-level puppet, the Alchemists entered the square without further trouble, and the exchange conference began.

• Liu Chang cut in front of the Alchemists waiting to enter Alchemy Square and demanded that the guards admit him first.
• Xiao Ding told Liu Chang to return to the line, but Liu refused and threatened him with flames.
• Xiao Ding summoned the Heavenly Demon Puppet, which subdued Liu Chang so Xiao Ding could later hand him over to Xiao Yan.
• The Alchemists saw Xiao Ding’s puppet and stopped considering challenging the Tian Shu Alliance’s rules.
• The line cleared, all attending Alchemists gathered in Alchemy Square, and the exchange conference officially began.

Xiao Yan opened the Tian Shu Alliance’s Alchemist Exchange Conference and promised guidance to the refiners who produced the highest-quality and most unique pills. After watching Gu He refine an Ice-Fire Energy Gathering Pill over several days, Xiao Yan approved the completed pill and used his Heavenly Demon Puppet to destroy its Pill Lightning.

• Xiao Yan explained the conference’s pill-refining, discussion, and trading activities, then offered guidance to the two standout refiners.
• Alchemists began refining pills, and Xiao Yan noticed that Gu He was making the Ice-Fire Energy Gathering Pill with Ice Spirit Cold Spring and fire-attributed ingredients.
• As the conference continued for days, Xiao Yan answered questions from a few bold Alchemists while the Seventh-Rank Alchemists worked on their pills.
• Gu He persevered through the pill’s clashing energies and exhausted himself before completing a mediocre Ice-Fire Energy Gathering Pill.
• Xiao Yan nodded in approval and sent his Heavenly Demon Puppet to shatter the Pill Lightning gathering above the plaza.

After the alchemists completed their pills, Xiao Yan selected Gu He for the highest-quality pill and a Sixth-Rank Alchemist for the most unique one. He then began refining a Tier 8 Primordial Origin Pill, publicly revealing his Fusion Heavenly Flame and deciding he no longer needed to conceal his strength.

• Gu He absorbed the Pill Lightning with the Heavenly Demon Puppet and completed an Ice-Fire Energy Gathering Pill, while two other Seventh-Rank Alchemists dealt with Pill Lightning using a puppet and their own strength.
• Xiao Yan named Gu He the maker of the highest-quality pill and a disheveled Sixth-Rank Alchemist the maker of the most unique pill.
• Xiao Yan identified the Sixth-Rank Alchemist's blood-colored Beast Pill as a Peak Sixth Grade pill that temporarily transformed its user into the magical beast used to make it.
• Xiao Yan announced that he would refine a Tier 8 Primordial Origin Pill that could draw Five-Colored Pill Lightning.
• Xiao Yan summoned his Fusion Heavenly Flame before the assembled alchemists and resolved to stop hiding his power.

Xiao Yan completed the Primordial Origin Pill before the gathered Alchemists, overcoming Five-Colored Pill Lightning with the Heavenly Demon Puppet. The gathering ended with the Tian Shu Alliance poised to dominate the Northwest Continent, while Xiao Yan expected his age to cause an uproar.

• Xiao Yan revealed his youthful face and used his Fusion Heavenly Flame to begin refining the Primordial Origin Pill.
• Xiao Yan spent seven days refining the ingredients into pure medicinal liquid while the Alchemists watched his precise flame control.
• Five-Colored Pill Lightning descended, but Xiao Yan sent out the Heavenly Demon Puppet to withstand it until the lightning ended.
• Xiao Yan formed the Primordial Origin Pill, contained it in a jade bottle, and stored it in his Storage Ring.
• Xiao Yan declared the gathering over, and he recognized that the Tian Shu Alliance's rise had begun and that his age would provoke widespread shock.

After the exchange meeting, Xiao Yan rewarded Gu He and assigned duties to the Tian Shu Alliance’s leaders as he prepared the alliance for rapid growth. He gave Qing Lin a Primordial Origin Pill to stabilize her foundation, leaving her closer to keeping pace with him.

• Xiao Yan guided Gu He and Feng Lao for half a day, and Feng Lao joined the Tian Shu Alliance.
• Xiao Yan gave Feng Lao a fire-control technique and rewarded Gu He with an Earth Demon Puppet that could absorb Pill Lightning and evolve.
• Xiao Yan assigned Gu He to recruit Alchemists, urged Hai Bodong and Xiao Li to strengthen themselves, gave them medicinal pills, and set tasks for Mo Tianxing, Venerable Skyfire, and Xiao Ding.
• Xiao Yan gave Qing Lin a Primordial Origin Pill to stabilize her foundation, and she accepted it.

The Tian Shu Alliance rapidly expanded across the Northwest Continent, overcoming rival factions and the challenges of governing its vast territory. With Tier 7 Magical Beasts managing its branches and stable spatial passages connecting them, the alliance became the continent’s leading faction, while a shocking report revealed Xiao Yan was under twenty years old.

• The Tian Shu Alliance expanded through the Northwest Continent, winning over many residents and factions with its trade and limited oppression.
• Xiao Yi Xian defeated the Waning Moon Sect’s Eight-Star Dou Venerate ancestor with the Nether Poison Flame after Venerable Skyfire fought the sect master.
• Zi Yan discovered the Waning Moon Sect’s hidden treasures, received pills from Xiao Yan, and then fell unconscious after eating too many at once.
• Xiao Yan assigned Tier 7 Magical Beasts to manage the Tian Shu Alliance’s branches and used Venerable Skyfire’s spatial passages to connect its territories.
• The Tian Shu Alliance became the Northwest Continent’s leading faction, and an unknown faction exposed that Xiao Yan was under twenty years old.

Xiao Yan reflected on how his revealed age and the Tian Shu Alliance’s growth were changing the Northwest Continent, while awaiting Gu Yuan’s promised Dou Saint Skeleton and Ninth-Rank Magical Beast Blood Essence. As Xiao Xun’er comforted him at Jia Nan Academy, Xiao Yan sensed a faint spatial fluctuation overhead.

• Xiao Yan walked through Yan City as locals discussed his identity and his extraordinary age and strength.
• Xiao Yan considered how the Tian Shu Alliance’s growing influence was drawing factions to join and helping it gather resources, including information on two Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Yan planned to obtain the Mysterious Yellow Flame and Myriad Beast Spirit Flame and considered rewarding Gu He for his devoted work for the alliance.
• Xiao Yan went to Jia Nan Academy to wait with Xiao Xun’er for Gu Yuan to deliver the promised Dou Saint Skeleton and Ninth-Rank Magical Beast Blood Essence.
• Xiao Yan sensed a faint spatial fluctuation above Jia Nan Academy.

Elder Tongxuan delivered Xiao Yan the Dou Saint skeleton and Ninth-Rank Magical Beast Blood Essence promised by Gu Yuan, along with a message that the Ancient Clan would judge Xiao Yan’s potential in two and a half years. Xiao Yan resolved to prove himself to the clan and left to revive Yao Lao, while Xiao Xun'er promised to wait for his return.

• Xiao Yan sensed a Saint approaching and welcomed Elder Tongxuan, who arrived through a spatial crack and praised Xiao Yan’s cultivation and abilities.
• Elder Tongxuan gave Xiao Yan a Storage Ring containing a Soul Clan One-Star Dou Saint skeleton and five bottles of Ninth-Rank Magical Beast Blood Essence.
• Elder Tongxuan relayed that many Ancient Clan elders were willing to give Xiao Yan an opportunity and told him to reveal his full strength in two and a half years.
• Xiao Yan promised to show the Ancient Clan his true potential, while Xiao Xun'er affirmed her faith in him.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Xun'er he was leaving for the center of the Northwest Continent to revive Yao Lao, and she agreed to wait for him.

Xiao Yan returned to Yan City after obtaining what he needed and set out with Xiao Yi Xian to the central Northwest Continent to refine the Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill for Yao Lao’s resurrection. He began refining it in the Heavenly Snake Empire, leaving Yao Lao’s revival close at hand.

• Xiao Yan returned to Yan City and told Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Zi Yan that he had obtained what he was waiting for and was preparing to resurrect Yao Lao.
• Xiao Yan explained that the resurrection materials were ready except for the Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill, and he planned to refine it in the central Northwest Continent.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Xiao Yan that Medusa had returned to the Snake-People Empire to handle affairs and was preparing successors before eventually giving up the queen’s position.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian left Qing Lin to watch Zi Yan and traveled to the Heavenly Snake Empire’s capital to arrange a place for pill refining.
• Xiao Yan dismissed the Snake-People Tribe Great Elder, laid out the ingredients, and began refining the Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill while Yao Lao cultivated his soul power in the Bone Flame Ring.

Xiao Yan refined the Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill for Yao Lao’s resurrection, pushing its spirituality beyond its limits with the aid of his eight Heavenly Flames. The pill formed and summoned Nine-Colored Pill Lightning, though the chapter ended before its final quality was confirmed.

• Xiao Yan prepared the Myriad Beast Cauldron and used his eight Heavenly Flames to refine hundreds of medicinal herbs over seven days, infusing the liquid with his spirituality.
• Xiao Yan judged his own spirituality insufficient and called on the Fire Spirits to help gather energy from across the Northwest Continent.
• The eight Heavenly Flames revealed their manifestations and channeled the gathered energy into the Medicine Cauldron, greatly increasing the pill’s energy and spirituality.
• Xiao Yan used his [Balance] talent to harmonize the energy and medicinal properties, then formed the pill.
• Silver Pill Lightning gathered into a cloud that gained colors until Nine-Colored Pill Lightning appeared.

Xiao Yan refined a Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill that drew Nine-Colored Pill Lightning with help from the eight Heavenly Flames, then faced a gathering of powerful Dou Venerates drawn by the spectacle. The visitors learned Xiao Yan had made the pill, and an aged Eight-Star Dou Venerate began coveting it.

• Xiao Yan recognized that the eight Heavenly Flames had raised his pill from Seven-Colored to Nine-Colored Pill Lightning, and he let the exhausted flames rest in his Spirit Container.
• Xiao Yi Xian sensed approaching Dou Venerates, and Xiao Yan asked her to hide so they could identify anyone who tried to seize the pill.
• Xiao Yan sent the Heavenly Demon Puppet to withstand the Nine-Colored Pill Lightning, which strengthened the puppet as it repaired its cracked body.
• Shi Tian and other sect masters and ancestors arrived, recognized Xiao Yan, and reacted with shock when he confirmed he had refined the pill.
• An aged Eight-Star Dou Venerate realized the Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill might extend his life and help him advance, and greed took hold of him.

Xiao Yan stopped the Profound Nether Sect’s ancestor from stealing the Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill, then collected the pill after the Nine-Colored Pill Lightning empowered his Heavenly Demon Puppet. Once the other Dou Venerates had left and he had recovered, Xiao Yan contacted his teacher to begin his resurrection.

• The Profound Nether Sect’s ancestor tried to seize the pill, but Xiao Yi Xian poisoned him and Xiao Yan offered him a chance to serve in exchange for another pill before Xiao Yi Xian killed him.
• Xiao Yan captured the ancestor’s soul and corpse, intending to use them to create another Heavenly Demon Puppet.
• The Heavenly Demon Puppet absorbed the Nine-Colored Pill Lightning and grew to the strength of a four-star Dou Venerate.
• Xiao Yan suppressed the Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill’s spirituality and stored it, while the other Dou Venerates left, intimidated by his power.
• After recovering his Dou Qi and soul power, Xiao Yan sent a message through the Bone Flame Ring: it was time for his teacher to be resurrected.

Xiao Yan learned that Yao Lao had reached a Half-Step Heavenly Realm soul and discussed the possibility of using Heavenly Flames to refine Ninth Tier Pills across ranks. He began Yao Lao’s resurrection by combining a Dou Saint Skeleton, Ninth-Rank Magical Beast Blood Essence, and Fusion Heavenly Flame.

• Yao Lao emerged from the Bone Flame Ring and told Xiao Yan that his soul had advanced to the Half-Step Heavenly Realm.
• Yao Lao credited Xiao Yan’s search for soul-strengthening treasures for his progress, and Xiao Yan explained that his resurrection might let him become a Dou Saint.
• Xiao Yan showed Yao Lao a pinnacle Eighth Tier Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill and explained that his Heavenly Flames had raised its quality.
• Yao Lao theorized that Heavenly Flames might eventually let Xiao Yan mobilize the power of heaven and earth to refine Ninth Tier Pills across ranks.
• Xiao Yan took out a One-Star Dou Saint Skeleton, poured Ninth-Rank Magical Beast Blood Essence over it, and engulfed it in Fusion Heavenly Flame to begin Yao Lao’s resurrection.

Xiao Yan refined the Dou Saint Skeleton with Ninth-Rank Magical Beast Blood Essence and helped Yao Lao begin reviving in the strengthened body. After the Soul Spirit Emperor asked for a body of his own, Xiao Yan postponed his revival because he lacked materials and did not yet trust him fully.

• Xiao Yan spent three days using the Fusion Heavenly Flame to fuse the Ninth-Rank Magical Beast Blood Essence into the Dou Saint Skeleton, then balanced their energy with his [Balance] talent.
• Yao Lao swallowed the Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill and entered the prepared skeleton.
• Xiao Yan repeatedly burned the growing flesh with the Fusion Heavenly Flame until it could withstand the flames and formed a complete body.
• Xiao Yan judged that the body had reached at least the late stage of One-Star Dou Saint and expected Yao Lao to need about half a month to fuse with it completely.
• The Soul Spirit Emperor asked Xiao Yan when he would refine a body for him, and Xiao Yan postponed the plan because his materials were inadequate and he did not fully trust the Soul Spirit Emperor.

Xiao Yan sent Venerable Skyfire to the Star Meteor Pavilion with a letter for Venerable Wind. Feng Xian read the letter, whose contents were not revealed before the chapter ended.

• Xiao Yan left Xiao Yi Xian to protect their teacher and returned to the Tian Shu Alliance's main hall in Yan City.
• Xiao Yan gave Venerable Skyfire a letter for Venerable Wind of the Star Meteor Pavilion.
• Venerable Skyfire reached the Heavenly Star Mountains and revealed his Four-Star Dou Venerate aura to attract the pavilion's attention.
• Feng Xian sent Mu Qingluan to invite Venerable Skyfire inside, then received him at the Star Meteor Pavilion.
• Venerable Skyfire explained that he had come on behalf of the Tian Shu Alliance, and Feng Xian opened Xiao Yan's letter.

Feng Xian rushed to the Tian Shu Alliance after receiving news about Yao Chen, where Xiao Yan told him that Yao Chen’s soul had recovered and that he had prepared a body for his resurrection. With Yao Chen merging with the body and expected to wake soon, Xiao Yan invited Feng Xian to the Northwest Continent for their reunion.

• Feng Xian read Yao Tianhuo’s letter and hurried with him from the Central Plains to the Tian Shu Alliance in Yan City.
• Xiao Ding told Feng Xian that Xiao Yan was in the Pill Hall, where Feng Xian saw Xiao Yan’s powerful puppets and met him.
• Xiao Yan privately told Feng Xian that Yao Chen’s soul had recovered and recounted how they had obtained a soul cultivation technique.
• Feng Xian worried that the Star Meteor Pavilion had fallen behind the Tian Shu Alliance, and Xiao Yan assured him that the pavilion’s strength would be useful as the alliance expanded.
• Xiao Yan revealed that he had refined a body for Yao Chen and that Yao Chen’s soul was merging with it, then invited Feng Xian to come with him to the Northwest Continent.

Yao Chen was resurrected as a Two-Star Dou Saint and reunited with Feng Xian, while Xiao Yan revealed that he had already killed Han Feng and Mu Gu. Yao Chen’s strength surpassed Xiao Yan’s expectations, leaving him ready to move ahead with his plans involving the Nine Netherworld Python Clan.

• Xiao Yi Xian congratulated Yao Chen on his resurrection, and Yao Chen asked where Xiao Yan had gone.
• Feng Xian arrived with Xiao Yan and joyfully reunited with Yao Chen after years of searching for him.
• Xiao Yan gave Feng Xian Han Feng’s Soul Body and explained that he had killed Han Feng and destroyed Mu Gu.
• Feng Xian warned Yao Chen and Xiao Yan about Soul Hall’s powerful Dou Venerate and Dou Saint experts.
• Yao Chen demonstrated that he could command the power of heaven and earth, revealing that he had broken through to Dou Saint.
• Yao Chen told Xiao Yan that his cultivation had reached Two-Star Dou Saint, encouraging Xiao Yan to pursue his plans involving the Nine Netherworld Python Clan.

After Yao Chen’s breakthrough to Two-Star Dou Saint, Xiao Yan used his strength to secure the loyalty of the Northwest Continent’s sects and returned with his companions to Yan City. Yao Chen stayed to protect the Tian Shu Alliance, while Xiao Yan prepared to deal with the two Semi-Saint Fire Lizards in the Earth Core Magma World.

• Shi Tian and the other Dou Venerates learned that Yao Chen’s casual stretch had split the clouds and that he had become a Two-Star Dou Saint.
• Shi Tian offered Xiao Yan a congratulatory gift, but Xiao Yan praised the Lion Underworld Sect’s loyalty and promised it a place in the Northwest Continent and Central Plains.
• The other Dou Venerates asked to join the Tian Shu Alliance, and Xiao Yan directed them to discuss it with Xiao Ding in Yan City.
• Xiao Yan, Yao Chen, Xiao Yi Xian, and Feng Xian left the Heavenly Snake Empire and returned to Yan City, where Xiao Yan introduced Yao Chen to Xiao Ding, Xiao Li, and Hai Bodong.
• Yao Chen stayed with the Tian Shu Alliance to protect Xiao Yan, while Feng Xian returned to the Star Meteor Pavilion and said he would later yield the pavilion master position to Yao Chen.
• Xiao Yan turned his attention to the two Semi-Saint Fire Lizards in the Earth Core Magma World.

Xiao Yan returned to the Underground Magma World with Yao Lao to confront the two Semi-Saint Fire Lizards that had repeatedly obstructed his hunts. The Fire Lizards attacked as soon as they arrived, but Yao Lao intervened before their fists could hit Xiao Yan.

• Xiao Yan recalled how hunting Fire Lizards had raised his cultivation to Four-Star Dou Venerate and his physical strength to the level of Six-Star Dou Venerate.
• Yao Lao offered Xiao Yan his Bone Chilling Flame, but Xiao Yan asked him to help defeat the two Semi-Saint Fire Lizards first.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao traveled to Jia Nan Academy, where Su Qian evacuated the students from the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao descended into the magma, and Xiao Yan revealed his aura to draw the two Semi-Saint Fire Lizards toward him.
• The two Semi-Saint Fire Lizards attacked Xiao Yan, and Yao Lao moved to stop their fists before they struck.