Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan subdued the Three Thousand Burning Flame and accepted Xuankong Zi’s invitation to become a Pill Tower elder. He entered a quiet room to absorb the flame, with the Three Thousand Burning Flame eagerly awaiting him.

• Xiao Yan stored the subdued Three Thousand Burning Flame and told Xuankong Zi that his innate affinity for flames had helped him control it.
• Xuankong Zi invited Xiao Yan to join the Pill Tower as an elder, and Xiao Yan accepted after learning he could remain focused on his own faction and affairs.
• Xiao Yan and Xuankong Zi returned from the Star Region, surprising Xuan Yi and Tianleizi with the news that Xiao Yan had subdued the flame.
• Xuankong Zi and the others agreed Xiao Yan could become an elder, while Xuankong Zi urged him to absorb the flame and reach the Eighth Rank in alchemy.
• Xiao Yan asked for a quiet room, then sat on the Earth Fire Lotus Platform and prepared to absorb the Three Thousand Burning Flame.

Xiao Yan absorbed Three Thousand Burning Flame, advancing his Burning Mantra, physique, and cultivation while awakening the Heaven-Swallowing Talent [Rebirth]. The chapter left him with powerful healing and resurrection abilities, making him extremely difficult to kill.

• Xiao Yan swallowed Three Thousand Burning Flame's flame seed, and the Burning Mantra absorbed its energy and advanced to Mid Heaven Rank.
• Xiao Yan's physique advanced to First-Turn Dou Venerate, and he began cultivating with the energy gathered in the Pill Tower.
• Xuankong Zi, the other two Pill Tower giants, and Yao Lao redirected the surrounding energy into Xiao Yan's quiet room.
• Xiao Yan broke through to Six-Star Dou Venerate and then Seven-Star Dou Venerate, while his spatial techniques grew stronger.
• Xiao Yan gained the Three Thousand Star Body's rapid healing and awakened the Heaven-Swallowing Talent [Rebirth], which could restore him after his body was completely destroyed.

After stabilizing his breakthrough, Xiao Yan chose to demonstrate his alchemy by refining a Bodhi Pill for his rank appraisal. Xuankong Zi led him to a plaza packed with thousands of spectators, where Xiao Yan prepared to make a name for himself.

• Xiao Yan emerged from seven days of seclusion and learned that the Pill Tower Giants and Yao Lao had helped smooth the energy around his breakthrough.
• Xuankong Zi gave Xiao Yan his Pill Tower elder's robe and explained the two methods for appraising his Alchemist rank; Xiao Yan chose to refine a pill.
• Xiao Yan prepared to refine a High-Grade Tier 8 Bodhi Pill using the Bodhi Seed he had extracted from Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva.
• Xuankong Zi led Xiao Yan to a Pill Tower plaza where thousands, including Yao Lao, Dan Chen, Cao Ying, and Dan Hong, had gathered to watch him refine pills.
• Xiao Yan decided to use the public appraisal to build his reputation and help accelerate the Tian Shu Alliance's growth.

Xiao Yan began refining a Bodhi Pill before the Pill Tower's leaders and a vast crowd, drawing attention with his rare ingredients and Three Thousand Burning Flame. As his carefully controlled mixture approached completion, he used Yao Lao's Spirit-Raising Method to improve the pill's quality.

• Xiao Yan appeared on the floating platform with the Myriad Beast Cauldron and laid out hundreds of Medicinal Herbs, including a Bodhi Seed.
• The Alchemists recognized that Xiao Yan was refining a Bodhi Pill, while Xuankong Zi, Xuan Yi, and Tianleizi questioned Yao Lao about the risk.
• Xiao Yan used Three Thousand Burning Flame and his soul power to refine and merge the medicinal liquids, correcting flaws with the [Balance] Heaven-Swallowing Talent.
• Xiao Yan decided against using Heavenly Flame Manifestation and crushed a spiritual pill to apply Yao Lao's Spirit-Raising Method.

Xiao Yan completed the Spirit-Raising Method on his Bodhi Pill, transforming its Eight-Colored Pill Lightning into Nine-Colored Pill Lightning and astonishing the Alchemists gathered at the square. As the lightning threatened to strike, he sent out his Heavenly Demon Puppet to face it, revealing flame patterns that frightened the Alchemists’ Beast Flames.

• Xiao Yan used the Spirit-Raising Method and his [Balance] talent to restore the Bodhi Pill’s form, then infused it with prepared spiritual energy and his blood.
• The lightning cloud gained a ninth color, and the gathered Alchemists celebrated Xiao Yan’s Nine-Colored Pill Lightning Bodhi Pill.
• Dan Hong and the Cao Patriarch realized Xiao Yan’s rising status made him valuable to befriend, while Dan Hong reconsidered his thoughts about Dan Chen’s apprenticeship.
• Xuankong Zi prepared to shield Xiao Yan from the lightning, but Yao Lao stopped him and told him to trust his disciple.
• Xiao Yan sent his Heavenly Demon Puppet into the sky to face the Nine-Colored Pill Lightning, and its flame patterns caused the Alchemists’ Beast Flames to recoil in fear.

Xiao Yan’s Heavenly Demon Puppet withstood Nine-Colored Pill Lightning, grew to Six-Star Dou Venerate strength, and attracted offers from powerful Alchemists. After recovering from refining the Bodhi Pill, Xiao Yan received his High Eighth Grade Alchemist badge and prepared to meet Dan Hong, who had come to see him through Dan Chen.

• The Heavenly Demon Puppet endured the Nine-Colored Pill Lightning, absorbed its power, and advanced to Six-Star Dou Venerate strength.
• Xiao Yan sealed the Bodhi Pill, entered seclusion for three days, and emerged with greatly improved soul power.
• Xuankong Zi told Xiao Yan that many Alchemists wanted to trade for the Heavenly Demon Puppet, and Xiao Yan said he might refine more for a future auction.
• Xuankong Zi gave Xiao Yan his High Eighth Grade Alchemist badge, Pill Tower token, and elder’s robes, then told him Dan Hong had come to visit.
• Dan Hong questioned Dan Chen about Xiao Yan, and Dan Chen sensed that her master had arrived.

Xiao Yan revealed his Yan Xiao identity to Dan Hong and discussed a future auction of Heavenly Demon Puppets before leaving the Pill Tower with Yao Lao and Dan Chen. They traveled to Music Valley and Star Meteor Pavilion, then set out toward the Northern Region and the Black-Corner Region.

• Dan Hong realized Yan Xiao was Xiao Yan, praised Dan Chen’s apprenticeship, and promised to support Xiao Yan’s future auction of Heavenly Demon Puppets.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao said farewell to the Pill Tower elders and left with Dan Chen.
• Xiao Yan visited Yun Yun at Music Valley and told her that the Tian Shu Alliance would need Music Valley’s support as it expanded into the Central Region.
• Cao Feng recognized Xiao Yan as Yan Xiao and pledged his loyalty to Yun Yun.
• Xiao Yan picked up Zi Yan and Xiao Yi Xian at Star Meteor Pavilion, where they suspected his motives for taking Dan Chen as a disciple and Xiao Yi Xian tried to lecture him.

Xiao Yan returned to the Northern Region, reviewed the Tian Shu Alliance’s expansion, and convened its leaders to set a course for growth across the Central Plains. After delegating the alliance’s development to Xiao Ding, he spent time with Medusa and Xiao Yi Xian before entering seclusion to absorb a medicinal pill.

• With support from the Wind Lightning Pavilion, the Tian Shu Alliance established branches across the Northern Region, while Venerable Skyfire and Xiao Li broke up a coalition of opposing factions.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Northern Region, praised Xiao Li’s work, and brought him back to Yan City in the Black-Corner Region.
• At the Yan City courtyard, Xiao Yan reunited with Medusa and Qing Lin and explained Dan Chen’s soul-crystal talent to the women.
• Xiao Yan met with the alliance’s high-ranking members, reported his support from Burning Flame Valley, Music Valley, and the Pill Tower, and discussed holding a large-scale auction.
• Xiao Ding proposed expanding through the Southern Region and then the southwest, and Xiao Yan gave him authority to lead the alliance’s development.
• After spending three days with Medusa and Xiao Yi Xian, Xiao Yan entered the annex’s quiet room to absorb a medicinal pill.

Xiao Yan absorbed a pill made from a Semi-Saint Fire Lizard’s remains and Crimson Orb, advancing his cultivation and physique, then helped Dan Chen finish refining a pill. Meanwhile, an Ancient Void Dragon Great Elder learned that a royal bloodline was inside Jia Nan City and confirmed a powerful Dou Sheng guarded the Black-Corner Region.

• Xiao Yan swallowed the crimson pill and used the Flame Mantra and Spirit Devouring Body Forging Mantra to raise his cultivation to Peak First-Turn Dou Venerate and his physique to the strength of a Two-Turn Dou Venerate.
• Xiao Yan learned that Zi Yan had taken the Snow Demon Sky Ape to Jia Nan Academy to visit Su Qian.
• Xiao Yan stabilized Dan Chen’s struggling Tier 6 pill with [Balance] and offered to teach her properly while they traveled aboard the Space Ship.
• An Ancient Void Dragon reported to the Great Elder that a royal bloodline had appeared in Jia Nan City and that its bearer had returned from the Central Plains.
• The Great Elder confirmed that a Dou Sheng was in the Black-Corner Region and was only slightly weaker than him.

Xiao Yan reviewed the Tian Shu Alliance’s expansion and resources with Xiao Ding, then arranged the Heavenly Flames and collected Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva and puppet materials. As he left the Vientiane Auction House, he sensed a Dou Saint’s aura coming from Jia Nan City.

• Qing Shan and Hei Qing discussed the strength of the person protecting the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s royal bloodline and worried about the clan’s future.
• Xiao Yan visited Xiao Ding at the Tian Shu Alliance headquarters and learned about the alliance’s expansion, captured corpses and souls, and newly acquired Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Ding to distribute soul-strengthening herbs among the alliance’s Alchemists, give the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame to Gu He, and auction the Mysterious Yellow Flame.
• Xiao Yan collected the Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva and the Storage Ring of corpses and souls from Hai Bodong at the Vientiane Auction House.
• Xiao Yan sensed a Dou Saint’s aura coming from Jia Nan City and looked toward it gravely.

Xiao Yan and Yao Lao confronted Qing Shan and Hei Qing, who had come from Eastern Dragon Island to bring Zi Yan back to the Ancient Void Dragon Clan. Zi Yan agreed to go after Xiao Yan promised they would meet again, and the chapter ended with Qing Shan learning that Xiao Yan was an Eighth-Rank Nine-Color Alchemist.

• Xiao Yan sensed a powerful Dou Saint heading toward Jia Nan City and rushed to protect Zi Yan, suspecting someone from the Ancient Void Dragon Clan had come for her.
• Yao Lao confronted Qing Shan and Hei Qing, who identified themselves as members of Eastern Dragon Island and revealed Hei Qing's Ancient Void Dragon form.
• Xiao Yan arrived with an Ancient Character Token, recognized the Eastern Dragon Island visitors as allies, and explained that the other three dragon islands sought to seize control of the clan.
• Xiao Yan asked Zi Yan whether she wanted to go with Qing Shan and Hei Qing, and she agreed after Qing Shan promised the clan would not overly restrict her freedom.
• Zi Yan asked Xiao Yan for medicinal pills before leaving, and Xiao Yan gave her a supply that included pills as high as the Seventh Tier.
• Qing Shan asked whether Xiao Yan was an alchemist, and Xiao Yan introduced himself as an Eighth-Rank Nine-Color Alchemist, Pill Tower Elder, Tian Shu Alliance Master.

Xiao Yan used his and Yao Chen’s alchemy status to win Qing Shan’s favor and secure Volcanic Rock Flame from the Ancient Void Dragon Clan. Less than three days later, Qing Shan delivered the Heavenly Flame to Xiao Yan in the Black-Corner Region.

• Qing Shan learned that Xiao Yan was an Eight-Rank Nine-Color Alchemist and welcomed him as an honored guest of Dragon Island.
• Yao Chen revealed that he could attempt to refine Tier 9 Precious Pills, prompting Qing Shan to recognize him as Saint Yao and treat master and disciple as family of the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.
• Xiao Yan asked about blood essence, Beast Flames, and Heavenly Flames, and Qing Shan offered the clan’s Volcanic Rock Flame in exchange for Xiao Yan refining pills.
• Xiao Yan agreed to refine pills for the clan in return for Volcanic Rock Flame and access to other treasury resources.
• After taking Zi Yan back, Qing Shan returned to the Black-Corner Region in less than three days and gave Xiao Yan the jar containing Volcanic Rock Flame.

Xiao Yan absorbed the Volcanic Rock Flame, gathered his twelve Heavenly Flames, and set out with his companions for the Nine Netherworld Python Clan. During the three-month journey, he trained Dan Chen in alchemy, tempered his soul, and accompanied Xiao Yi Xian and Medusa.

• Xiao Yan absorbed the Volcanic Rock Flame, which made only a slight difference to his cultivation and body.
• Xiao Yan summoned his twelve Heavenly Flames, and the Three Thousand Burning Flame explained that they could draw on the power of heaven and earth with less recovery time.
• Xiao Yan left Yan City with Yao Lao, Xiao Yi Xian, Medusa, Qing Lin, and Dan Chen to travel toward the Nine Netherworld Python Clan.
• Xiao Yan taught Dan Chen alchemy and the Flame Control Technique during the three-month journey, improving her ability to refine high-grade Fifth Tier pills.
• Xiao Yan cultivated the Soul Refining Mantra until his soul power surpassed the peak of the Spirit Realm and began advancing toward the Heavenly Realm.
• Xiao Yan spent time with Xiao Yi Xian and Medusa aboard the Space Ship, while Medusa's cultivation rapidly improved through her [Yin-Yang] talent.

Xiao Yan and his companions secretly entered the Nine Netherworld Python Clan’s underground territory to reach the Nine Netherworld Yellow Springs and rescue the imprisoned former patriarch, Yao Ming. Xiao Yan reached the bottom of the Yellow Springs, where he heard a faint cry for help.

• Xiao Yan brought Qing Lin and Medusa into the underground world while Xiao Yi Xian and Dan Chen remained above with Fire Cloud Ancestor’s token.
• Yao Lao concealed their auras as the four crossed the Nether Serpent Vein and descended into the Nine Netherworld Yellow Springs ravine.
• Xiao Yan told Yao Lao to prepare to face the current patriarch, then covered himself in Heavenly Flame and plunged into the Yellow Springs.
• Xiao Yan burned through the attacking snake monsters and continued downward as the cold intensified.
• At the bottom of the Yellow Springs, Xiao Yan heard someone faintly cry for help.

Xiao Yan found and freed Yao Ming, the former Nine Netherworld Python Clan leader, from the Nine Netherworld Yellow Springs after binding him with safeguards. Yao Xiaotian sensed the broken seal and came to the springs, where Xiao Yan and Yao Ming encountered him with someone standing on him.

• Xiao Yan uncovered Yao Ming, who begged to be rescued and offered to make the Nine Netherworld Python Clan serve Xiao Yan.
• Yao Ming explained how Yao Xiaotian had stolen his position and imprisoned him, then agreed to Xiao Yan's bindings.
• Xiao Yan placed Myriad Beast Spirit Flame in Yao Ming's heart and Magic Core and a Soul Seal in his soul.
• Xiao Yan used twelve fused Heavenly Flames to melt through the rock and trigger the mechanisms, snapping Yao Ming's chains.
• Yao Xiaotian sensed the seal breaking and ordered the Great Elder to the springs before heading there himself.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Ming emerged from the springs and found Yao Xiaotian with someone standing on him.

Xiao Yan helped Yao Ming reclaim the Nine Netherworld Python Clan leadership, while Yao Lao killed Yao Xiaotian and the traitorous clan elders. After three days, Yao Ming visited Xiao Yan and asked whether he had heard of Huang Quan Demon Saint, introducing the opportunity Xiao Yan had come to seek.

• Yao Ming asked about Yao Lao, and Xiao Yan explained how Yao Xiaotian had poisoned and imprisoned his brother to steal the clan chief position.
• Yao Ming spared Yao Xiaotian temporarily so he could expose the traitors supporting him, then accused the grand elder of helping the betrayal.
• Yao Ming used the Nine Netherworld Scepter to stage a vote, identified Yao Xiaotian's supporters, and asked Yao Lao to deal with them.
• Yao Lao killed the fleeing traitors, Yao Xiaotian, and the grand elder, while Xiao Yan claimed their valuable corpses.
• Yao Ming reclaimed the clan chief position, and Xiao Yan stayed to await the clan's greatest opportunity.
• After three days, Yao Ming visited Xiao Yan and asked if he had heard of Huang Quan Demon Saint.

Xiao Yan reached the Yellow Springs Stone Tablet and entered its space to confront Huang Quan Demon Saint without first passing the soul trial. He challenged the ancient saint to admit whether he could accept falling short of becoming a Dou Emperor, and Huang Quan Demon Saint reacted with anger but spared him.

• Yao Ming told Xiao Yan that the Yellow Springs Stone Tablet held Huang Quan Demon Saint's knowledge and blood essence, then led him and the others to the altar.
• Xiao Yan ignored Yao Ming's warning and sent his Soul Spirit Avatar into the tablet, intending to persuade Huang Quan Demon Saint rather than pass the trial.
• Huang Quan Demon Saint appeared and told Xiao Yan to return once his soul reached the Heavenly Realm, while praising his potential.
• Xiao Yan asked Huang Quan Demon Saint whether he could accept failing to become a Dou Emperor and whether he still wanted to become one.
• Huang Quan Demon Saint struck the ground with lightning and rebuked Xiao Yan, but did not attack him, leaving Xiao Yan confident that persuasion might work.

Xiao Yan persuaded Huang Quan Demon Saint to join him by offering a chance to restore his soul and eventually pursue Dou Emperorhood. After returning to the Nine Netherworld Python Clan’s quarters, Xiao Yan received the Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath technique, and Yao Lao prepared to give him the Bone Spirit Cold Flame before Soul Spirit Emperor noticed another person’s Soul Mark inside it.

• Xiao Yan explained to Huang Quan Demon Saint that he could one day force Origin Qi into the Dou Qi Continent and break its seal.
• Xiao Yan offered to help Huang Quan Demon Saint recover his soul and refine a new body in exchange for his knowledge and Blood Essence, and Huang Quan Demon Saint agreed.
• Xiao Yan left the Stone Tablet Space with Huang Quan Demon Saint’s remnant soul and Blood Essence, then told the others about their agreement.
• Soul Spirit Emperor taught Huang Quan Demon Saint a method to restore soul power, while Huang Quan Demon Saint passed the Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath cultivation method to Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan sent the technique to Yao Ming, and Yao Lao offered Xiao Yan the Bone Spirit Cold Flame.
• Soul Spirit Emperor emerged from the Storage Ring and asked why someone else’s Soul Mark was inside the Bone Spirit Cold Flame.

The Soul Spirit Emperor discovered that a fading Soul Mark inside the Bone Spirit Cold Flame belonged to Han Shanshan, whose lingering obsession was to protect Yao Lao. Xiao Yan and Yao Lao resolved to revive her by using Soul Crystals made from the souls of Soul Hall criminals, while Yao Lao released the flame and it flew to Xiao Yan.

• The Soul Spirit Emperor found an unfamiliar Soul Mark in the Bone Spirit Cold Flame and determined that its owner had died and left it to protect Yao Lao.
• The Soul Spirit Emperor identified the mark’s owner as Han Shanshan, and Yao Lao realized his soul remembered her despite having no conscious memories.
• The Soul Spirit Emperor explained that restoring Han Shanshan would require immense soul power, and Yao Lao worried that gathering it would hinder Xiao Yan’s growth.
• Xiao Yan revealed that Dan Chen’s Heaven-Swallowing Talent and a secret art could produce Soul Crystals, and he and Yao Lao chose Soul Hall as their target.
• The Soul Spirit Emperor separated Han Shanshan’s Soul Mark and gave it to Yao Lao, who stored it in the Bone Flame Ring.
• Yao Lao erased his Soul Mark from the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, and the flame immediately flew to Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan absorbed the Bone Spirit Cold Flame while Yao Lao absorbed the infant-stage Fallen Heart Flame that Xiao Yan had saved for him, advancing the Flame Mantra and restoring some of Yao Lao’s strength. After refining ten puppets, Xiao Yan prepared to absorb blood essence from nine powerful magical beasts to raise his strength.

• Xiao Yan gave Yao Lao the infant-stage Fallen Heart Flame, explaining that he had kept it for his teacher rather than planning to sell it.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao absorbed the Bone Spirit Cold Flame and Fallen Heart Flame while Xiao Yi Xian guarded them.
• Xiao Yan’s Flame Mantra advanced from Mid Heaven Rank to Higher Heaven Rank, and he gained strength and confidence in his ability to refine a Tier 9 Medicinal Pill.
• Xiao Yan stayed with his companions in the Nine Netherworld Python Clan and delayed visiting the Ancient Void Dragon Clan or raiding the Soul Hall until he and Yao Lao grew stronger.
• Xiao Yan finished refining seven Earth Demon Puppets and three Heavenly Demon Puppets from corpses he had brought from the alliance.
• Xiao Yan extracted blood essence and magic cores from nine magical beast corpses, kept a Ninth-Rank magic core for auction, and prepared to absorb the blood essence to raise his strength.