Chapter Summaries

After driving Feng Qing'er and the other challengers away, Xiao Yu brought Tang Ying and Mu Qingluan into his plans against the Wind Thunder Pavilion and led his group into the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool. He then went with Jin Shi to the Gold Devouring Rat Clan to have his fire poison removed.

• Feng Qing'er conceded defeat and left Tianmu Mountain, and Xiao Yu asked Tang Ying and Mu Qingluan to stay while turning down Wang Chen.
• Xiao Yu told Xiao Yan that he intended to replace the Wind Thunder Pavilion and explained to Tang Ying and Mu Qingluan why he had kept them behind.
• Jin Shi led the group to the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool, where Xiao Yu gave Yao Yue and Huo Yue'er Chaos Flame to protect them from the fire poison.
• Xiao Bai arrived, filling the final spot, and the group entered the energy pillar when the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool appeared.
• Jin Shi brought Xiao Yu to the Gold Devouring Rat Clan to remove his fire poison, while his clansmen gave Little Xiao Nian fruit.

Xiao Yu treated Jin Shi’s fire poison and began searching for Heavenly Flame Venerate with the Gold Devouring Rat Clan. After Little Xiao Nian befriended the clan’s rats, Xiao Yu helped dozens of them break through to the Dou Emperor realm, earning the clan’s gratitude.

• Xiao Yu examined Jin Shi, prescribed rare ingredients for a Cold Heaven Pill, and asked the Gold Devouring Rat Clan to search for Heavenly Flame Venerate.
• Xiao Yu refined the pill and used it with the Chaos Flame to remove most of Jin Shi’s fire poison, leaving one more day of treatment.
• Little Xiao Nian played with the Gold Devouring Rats and declared them her little brothers.
• Xiao Yu shared medicinal liquid with the Gold Devouring Rats, causing at least fifty of them to break through to the Dou Emperor realm.
• Jin Gu thanked Xiao Yu for the favor, and Xiao Yu credited Little Xiao Nian for making the rats happy.

At the Heavenly Eye Mountain Range, Xiao Yu finished removing Jin Shi’s Fire Poison and learned that Heavenly Flame Venerate had left. Zi Yan then emerged from seclusion after a powerful breakthrough, leaving Xiao Yu surprised by how much she had grown.

• Feng Qing'er told Venerable Lei that a Dou Zun had appeared on the Heavenly Eye Mountain Range and planned to return to her clan for help.
• Venerable Lei decided to confront Fei Tian at the Wind Thunder Northern Pavilion.
• Xiao Yu removed the remaining Fire Poison from Jin Shi, and Jin Gu reported that Heavenly Flame Venerate had left the mountains.
• Xiao Yu took Little Xiao Nian to Tianmu Mountain and brought Zi Yan out of the system space as her cocoon began to crack.
• Zi Yan’s cocoon shattered, and she emerged from a purple beam in a tall, grown form while Xiao Yu quickly looked away.

After Zi Yan reverted to her child form, Xiao Yu returned with her and Little Xiao Nian to Bone Melting City and prepared to leave for the Wind Thunder Northern Pavilion and a branch hall of the Soul Hall. He then began cultivating his soul, which remained stuck at the Spirit Realm Peak, and set out to remove its impurities so he could break through.

• Zi Yan changed back into a little girl, and Xiao Yu promised to find the remaining ingredients for her Shapeshifting Pill at the Pill Tower.
• Xiao Yu told Zi Yan they would visit the Wind Thunder Northern Pavilion to settle old scores and then go to a Soul Hall branch hall.
• Xiao Yu asked Jin Shi and Jin Gu to watch over those in the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool before leaving the Heavenly Eye Mountain Range with Zi Yan and Little Xiao Nian.
• Xiao Yu returned to Bone Melting City, reunited Zi Yan with the women, and went to his room to cultivate his soul.
• Xiao Yu manifested his soul and discovered black impurities within it that he needed to remove before breaking through.

Yao Chen discussed the Pill Gathering and the threat Soul Hall posed to the Pill Tower with the Three Giants. They considered asking Xiao Yu to compete and help defend the Three Thousand Burning Flame, though his willingness remained uncertain.

• Xuan Yi questioned Yao Chen about leaving the Yao Clan and founding Starfall Pavilion, and he explained that he wanted to return to the clan and demand justice for the two elders.
• Yao Chen learned that the Pill Tower would let the Pill Gathering’s top participants attempt to tame the Three Thousand Burning Flame, and he insisted his disciple be allowed to try.
• Yao Chen warned that Soul Hall would likely attack the Pill Tower or break the flame’s seal, prompting concern from Xuan Kongzi, Xuan Yi, and Tian Lei Zi.
• Xuan Yi raised the possibility of inviting Xiao Yu, and Xuan Kongzi described him as a Seventh-grade Advanced Alchemist and Dou Venerate in his twenties.
• Yao Chen suggested offering Xiao Yu medicinal ingredients and a favor in exchange for his help, and Xuan Kongzi agreed to discuss the matter further.

Xun Er left the Gu Realm to hurry toward Xiao Yu, who remained unaware as he cultivated in seclusion. Xiao Yu emerged after reaching the Heavenly Realm in soul power and eighth-grade alchemist status, then received a system mission directing him to the Yao Clan's Alchemist Tournament.

• Xun Er emerged from the Gu Realm and ordered her escorts to take her to the Northern Region to find Xiao Yu.
• The Han Family eliminated the Hong Family, took control of North Sky City, and considered joining the Underworld.
• Han Yue and Han Xue returned to Bone Melting City and learned that Xiao Yu was still in seclusion.
• Xiao Yu's soul pressure erupted across Bone Melting City before he merged his fully formed glass-like soul body with his physical body.
• Xiao Yu reached the Heavenly Realm and eighth-grade alchemist status, and the system assigned him a mission to attend the Yao Clan's Alchemist Tournament for the other half of the Pill Codex.

Xiao Yu set out with Xiao Yi Xian and Zi Yan to destroy the Wind Thunder Northern Pavilion and establish it as the Underworld's base. Meanwhile, Heavenly Flame Venerate warned Yun Yun that a powerful Soul Hall branch was suppressing something beneath an abyss, and waited for Xiao Yu to return.

• Xiao Yu told Zi Yan he would help her refine a Shapeshifting Pill before she returned to the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, then announced his plan to destroy the Wind Thunder Northern Pavilion.
• Xiao Yu left Bone Melting City with Xiao Yi Xian, Zi Yan, Little Xiao Nian, and three sect guards to attack the Northern Pavilion.
• Soul Hall's Venerable Elder pursued Heavenly Flame Venerate into Bone Melting City but withdrew to report to the Hall Master, allowing Heavenly Flame Venerate to evade him.
• Heavenly Flame Venerate went to the Xiao Residence and learned from Yun Yun that Xiao Yu was away destroying the Wind Thunder Northern Pavilion.
• Heavenly Flame Venerate told Yun Yun that a Soul Hall branch near the Heavenly Eye Mountain Range was suppressing a powerful presence beneath an abyss and had nearly three Dou Zun experts.

Xiao Yu forced Fei Tian and the Wind Thunder Northern Pavilion to abandon Qifeng Mountain, claiming it for the Underworld. He planned to use the Four Pavilion Grand Meeting to provoke Venerable Lei into striking first and then seize the Wind Thunder Mountain Range.

• Xiao Yu arrived at Qifeng Mountain with Xiao Yi Xian and others and demanded that Fei Tian hand over the Wind Thunder Northern Pavilion's territory.
• Fei Tian objected, but Xiao Yu threatened to destroy the pavilion and overwhelmed its disciples with his Dou Zun aura.
• Fei Tian agreed to withdraw, and Xiao Yu ordered the pavilion to leave its belongings behind.
• Xiao Yu explained that he wanted Venerable Lei to retaliate at the Four Pavilion Grand Meeting so the Underworld could respond and claim the Wind Thunder Mountain Range.
• Xiao Yi Xian asked whether they should bring people from Bone Melting City to Qifeng Mountain.

Xiao Yu agreed to accept the Han Family as an affiliate of the Underworld and prepared to expand the faction while postponing a raid on a Soul Hall branch until after the Four Pavilion Grand Meeting. He also promised Heavenly Flame Venerate a new body made from Bing He’s corpse and decided it was time to bring his Xiao Clan relatives from the Northwest Region.

• Xiao Yu kept Zi Yan and Xiao Yi Xian at Qifeng Mountain with Nian'er, promising Zi Yan access to the Wind Thunder Northern Pavilion's medicinal herbs if she found its treasure vault.
• After hearing that Fei Tian and the others had abandoned Qifeng Mountain, Han Fei, Han Chi, and Han Lin discussed joining the Underworld.
• Xiao Yu told Heavenly Flame Venerate they would investigate a Soul Hall branch after the Four Pavilion Grand Meeting and offered him Bing He's corpse as a body to refine.
• Han Yue and Han Xue asked Xiao Yu to accept the Han Family into the Underworld, and he agreed to make it an affiliate while inviting its younger members to join the faction.
• After the Han sisters left, Xiao Yu considered the Underworld's need to grow stronger and decided to bring his father and other Xiao Clan members from the Northwest Region.

Xiao Yu led Xiao Yan, Qing Lin, Zi Yan, and Little Xiao Nian to the Four Pavilion Grand Meeting at the Wind Thunder Mountain Range, where he challenged the Wind Thunder Pavilion’s attempt to keep the Underworld out. Venerable Lei confronted him alongside the chiefs of the Great Earth Tiger Clan and Silver Moon Wolf Clan, and the chapter ended as the two clan chiefs unleashed their auras.

• Xiao Yu assigned his allies to rebuild the Northern Pavilion and establish the Underworld at Qifeng Mountain, then chose who would accompany him to the meeting.
• Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan arrived at the Wind Thunder Mountain Range and declared that the Underworld might make it its headquarters.
• Xiao Yu’s group encountered four Eastern Pavilion elders, and Xiao Yu pressured them into reporting his arrival to Venerable Lei.
• Venerable Lei learned Xiao Yu had come and prepared to confront him with the Tiger Venerable and Wolf Venerable, who had agreed to help the Wind Thunder Pavilion.
• Venerable Lei challenged Xiao Yu’s right to enter the gathering, and the Tiger Venerable and Wolf Venerable released their auras as the crowd watched.

Xiao Yu brought the Underworld into the Four Pavilion Grand Meeting, where Xiao Yan and Zi Yan entered the melee. Feng Qing'er arrived with Huang Xuan, who recognized Qing Lin’s Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, and Xiao Yu warned him to stop staring.

• Venerable Wind assessed Xiao Yu’s strength and stopped Xiao Yu’s spatial force from escalating a confrontation with Venerable Tiger and Venerable Wolf.
• Venerable Wind proposed that the Underworld join the meeting, and Venerable Lei agreed to let its members compete.
• Venerable Lei announced a fifty-nine-person melee, with the final eight advancing, and Xiao Yan and Zi Yan entered the arena.
• Feng Qing’er arrived on a giant seven-colored crane with Elder Huo, Elder Mu, and Huang Xuan, who revealed she had received the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s inheritance.
• Huang Xuan noticed Qing Lin’s Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, and Xiao Yu warned him to watch his eyes.

Xiao Yu confronted Huang Xuan and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan during the Four Pavilion Grand Meeting, while Xiao Yan fought Feng Qing'er. Just as Xiao Yu was about to kill Huang Xuan, Xun Er arrived with the Ancient Clan’s Black Annihilation Army and reunited with him.

• Xiao Yu warned Qing Lin to keep Xiao Nian safe while the Four Pavilion Grand Meeting’s melee began, and Wang Chen killed a contestant who had not surrendered.
• Xiao Yan charged at Wang Chen, but Feng Qing'er intervened and fought him after accusing him of using a Heavenly Demon Phoenix’s bone wings.
• Xiao Yu revealed the Heavenly Demon Phoenix essence blood, then unleashed his Nine Revolutions Peak Dou Zun strength and sealed Thunder Mountain with spatial rifts and Chaos Flame.
• Xiao Yu ordered Xiao Yan to kill Feng Qing'er, while Zi Yan revealed herself as an Ancient Void Dragon and terrified Huang Xuan and his allies.
• Xun Er arrived through a spatial vortex with two elders and the Black Annihilation Army, embraced Xiao Yu, and reproached him for not visiting the Ancient Clan.

Xiao Yu killed the Wind Thunder Pavilion and Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan members who had provoked him, while Xun Er and the Ancient Clan elders witnessed his strength. Zi Yan learned that the Ancient Void Dragon Clan had searched for her and left with its elders for East Dragon Island, and the chapter ended with the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan discovering Huang Xuan’s and Feng Qing’er’s shattered life tablets.

• Xiao Yu slaughtered Venerable Lei, Huang Xuan, and the Wind Thunder Pavilion disciples with Wind Blades after condemning their actions.
• Xiao Yu threatened Feng Qing'er, and Zhu Li and Hei Qing arrived to claim Zi Yan for the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.
• Zhu Li told Zi Yan that the clan had searched for her and her father, the missing Dragon Emperor, and Zi Yan agreed to return with him and Hei Qing.
• Xiao Yu gave Zi Yan cultivation pills and a Hun Yu so she could contact him, and she left with the two Ancient Void Dragon Clan elders.
• Xiao Yu crushed Feng Qing'er with spatial power, then removed the Spatial Lock slaughter array as the survivors fled Thunder Mountain.
• A Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan elder discovered that Huang Xuan's and Feng Qing'er's life tablets had shattered and rushed to report their deaths to the clan chief.

After Xiao Yu destroyed Wind Thunder Pavilion, the other visiting factions departed, leaving Starfall Pavilion behind. Xiao Yan reunited Venerable Wind with news of Yao Lao, and the group flew into Thunder Mountain to talk.

• Yellow Springs Venerable and Myriad Sword Pavilion left after paying their respects to Xiao Yu, while Venerable Wind and Mu Qingluan stayed with Starfall Pavilion.
• Little Xiao Nian praised Xiao Yu, then recognized and embraced Xun Er.
• The Ancient Clan elders recognized Qing Lin's Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils and marveled at Xiao Yu's strength and Little Xiao Nian's extraordinary aura.
• Xiao Yu asked Venerable Wind to stay, and Xiao Yan showed him Yao Lao's ring.
• Xiao Yan told Venerable Wind that Yao Lao was safe at the Pill Tower with Elder Xuan Yi, and Xiao Yu invited everyone into Thunder Mountain.
• Visitors spread news that Wind Thunder Pavilion had been destroyed, while avoiding mention of the Heavenly Demon Phoenix.

Xiao Yu spent time with Xun Er and agreed to visit the Ancient Clan’s Coming of Age Ceremony, though he planned to go to the Pill Tower first. He refined a Yin Yang Life Soul Pill for Heavenly Flame Venerate, who prepared to begin refining his body.

• Venerable Wind welcomed Xiao Yan and took him to look around Starfall Pavilion, while Xiao Yu and Xun Er teased each other and went for a walk.
• Xun Er told Xiao Yu that she had defied the Ancient Clan Council to find him and said she expected him to attend the Coming of Age Ceremony and enter the Heavenly Tomb.
• Xiao Yu agreed to visit the Ancient Clan but said he would go to the Pill Tower first, and Xun Er happily agreed to accompany him.
• Xiao Yu summoned Heavenly Flame Venerate and spent three days refining a Yin Yang Life Soul Pill using the Ghost Face Flower from Wind Thunder Pavilion’s medicinal treasury.
• Xiao Yu split the pill lightning with a slash, handed the finished pill to Heavenly Flame Venerate, and told him to prepare to refine his body.

Xiao Yu used Bing He's corpse, Heavenly Demon Phoenix blood essence, and the Yin Yang Life Soul Pill to help Heavenly Flame Venerate regain a body. Heavenly Flame Venerate awakened at the peak of Four-star Dou Zun, but Xiao Yu revealed that Bing He's poisonous qi remained sealed in his dantian and asked what he wanted to do with it.

• Xiao Yu began refining Bing He's corpse with Chaos Flame and prepared Heavenly Flame Venerate to enter it.
• Xiao Yu used Heavenly Demon Phoenix blood essence to strengthen the corpse and sent Heavenly Flame Venerate's Soul Power into it.
• When Bing He's Calamity Poison Body released its toxins, Xiao Yu forced the poisonous qi into the dantian and continued refining the body.
• After two days, Heavenly Flame Venerate fully fused with the body and reached the peak of Four-star Dou Zun.
• Heavenly Flame Venerate discovered the poisonous qi in his dantian, and Xiao Yu asked whether he wanted to keep or remove it.

Xiao Yu helped Yao Lao refine Bing He's poison, raising him to the peak of Five-star Dou Zun. Xiao Yu then planned to revisit a Soul Hall branch with Yao Lao, but Xun Er insisted on joining them.

• Xiao Yu offered Yao Lao the chance to absorb the poison in his dantian and explained that it could help him break through.
• Yao Lao chose to absorb the Poison Dou Qi, and Xiao Yu used Chaos Flame to burn away the toxins and release their energy.
• Yao Lao advanced to the peak of Five-star Dou Zun, thanked Xiao Yu, and emerged to meet the others.
• Xiao Yu asked Yao Lao to guide him back to the Soul Hall branch he had encountered before, hoping to investigate what it guarded.
• Xun Er offered to go with Xiao Yu, but Xiao Yu said he and Yao Lao would be safer traveling alone.
• Xun Er insisted she had never gone adventuring with Xiao Yu, leaving him unable to refuse her.

Xiao Yu led Xun Er and the others into a poisonous mountain range to find a Soul Hall branch that Yao Lao had discovered before. After sneaking into the valley, Xiao Yu found a powerful seal and a palace guarded by twelve Dou Zun experts.

• Yao Lao used a magical Vermilion Bird to guide Xiao Yu, Xun Er, Elder Lin, and Elder Zhao through the poisonous mist.
• The group reached the valley, where Yao Lao warned them that Soul Hall sentries and a terrifying presence had forced him to flee before.
• Xiao Yu entered the valley alone, using his Heavenly Realm Soul Power to avoid detection.
• Xiao Yu sensed an unusually powerful sealing force and suspected a Dou Saint had created it.
• Xiao Yu found a massive palace surrounded by twelve Dou Zun experts seated on rune-covered boulders.

Xiao Yu discovered Soul Hall’s powerful seal and received the Chaos Green Lotus as a hidden check-in reward, then chose to enter alone. Inside, he learned that Hun Miesheng and a stronger figure were guarding two volatile flames beneath the hall, and the chapter ended as Xiao Yu attacked the seal’s guards.

• Xiao Yu found twelve Dou Zun experts guarding a grand seal and sensed a powerful presence inside the hall.
• The system rewarded Xiao Yu with the Chaos Green Lotus, and he decided to investigate the hall despite the danger.
• Xiao Yu told Xun Er and the others about the guards and entered the valley alone after Xun Er agreed to wait outside.
• Xiao Yu discovered that Hun Miesheng and three other figures were overseeing a seal containing two increasingly violent flames, while the strongest figure planned to devour them.
• Xiao Yu attacked the twelve guards, killing a One-star Dou Zun with Chaos Flame and provoking the remaining eleven to unleash their auras.

Xiao Yu defeated the Soul Hall Dou Zuns guarding the valley while Xun Er broke free of Elder Lin and Elder Zhao’s restraint to join him. The group realized a restriction formation sealed something powerful inside the hall, and Xiao Yu prepared to investigate alone despite Xun Er’s objection.

• Xun Er learned there were more than four Dou Zuns in the valley and broke Elder Lin and Elder Zhao’s spatial barrier with her Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame.
• Xiao Yu and his two Shadow Clones overwhelmed and killed the Soul Hall Venerable Elders guarding the valley.
• Xun Er, Elder Lin, Elder Zhao, and Heavenly Flame Venerate reached the ruined plaza, where Xun Er checked Xiao Yu for injuries.
• Xiao Yu explained that a restriction formation sealed something inside the hall and suspected it was trying to break free.
• Xiao Yu said he would enter the hall alone, but Xun Er refused to let him go by himself.