Chapter Summaries

The Three Thousand Burning Flame’s seal broke, and Xiao Yu disrupted its weakened state while confronting Old Man Mu Gu and the Soul Hall reinforcements. Yao Feng transformed into Nihility Devouring Flame, who recognized Xiao Yu and ordered Mu Gu and the other Dou Zuns to seize the dragon while he faced Xiao Yu.

• Xiao Yu detonated the soul imprint he had planted in the Three Thousand Burning Flame, weakening its newly released aura, while Yao Chen took control of Xiao Yan to confront Yao Feng.
• Qiu Ling killed the Soul Hall experts hiding in spatial rifts, and Xiao Yu blocked Old Man Mu Gu from reaching the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Old Man Mu Gu summoned three Three-star Dou Zuns with a spatial jade token, and Xiao Yu prepared to fight them.
• Yao Feng revealed his hatred for Yao Chen and activated a hidden power that healed his injuries and shrouded him in black flames.
• Xiao Yu recognized the power as Nihility Devouring Flame, who revealed himself, greeted Xiao Yu, and ordered Mu Gu and the other Dou Zuns to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame.

Xiao Yu kept Nihility Devouring Flame occupied with a discussion about the Xiao Clan’s Dou Di bloodline and proposed a secret alliance based on knowledge of Tou She Ancient God’s Cave Mansion. Nihility Devouring Flame departed after offering the weakened Three Thousand Burning Flame as a gesture of goodwill, while Xiao Yan and Tian Lei Zi went to deal with it.

• Xuan Kongzi and Tian Lei Zi arrived, and Xiao Yu sent them to stop Old Man Mu Gu and help Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yu faced Nihility Devouring Flame while Xiao Yan and Tian Lei Zi headed toward the weakened Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Xiao Yu claimed Xiao Xuan had preserved the Xiao Clan’s Dou Di bloodline and used that revelation to explain the clan’s survival.
• Xiao Yu proposed that Nihility Devouring Flame cooperate with him, citing secrets about Tou She Ancient God’s Cave Mansion and the Flame’s wariness of the Soul Clan’s leader.
• Nihility Devouring Flame said he would consider the alliance, called the Three Thousand Burning Flame his goodwill, and dissolved Yao Feng’s body as he left.

Xiao Yu helped Xuan Kongzi and Qiu Ling kill Old Man Mu Gu and the other Soul Hall Dou Zuns in the Star Domain. Xiao Yan claimed the Netherworld Poison Flame and began trying to subdue Three Thousand Burning Flame as everyone evacuated the Star Domain.

• Xiao Yu told Old Man Mu Gu that Nihility Devouring Flame had left and no longer wanted Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Xiao Yu joined Xuan Kongzi and Qiu Ling in killing Old Man Mu Gu and the other Soul Hall Dou Zuns, and Xuan Kongzi destroyed Mu Gu’s soul.
• Xiao Yan took the ownerless Netherworld Poison Flame with Xuan Kongzi’s permission.
• Xiao Yan used Zi Yan’s Ancient Dragon Blood to activate the dragon seal and enter Three Thousand Burning Flame’s soul space to subdue it.
• Three Thousand Burning Flame erupted in purple-black flames, so Xuan Kongzi ordered everyone to leave the Star Domain.

After Xiao Yu left the Star Domain, he prepared to return to the Northern Region with Zi Yan, Xiong Zhan, and Bai Xiaoxiao. Back in his room, he collected his accumulated system rewards and received the Heavenly Tier Advanced Dou Skill, Star Divination Technique.

• Xiao Yan remained in the Star Domain absorbing the Heavenly Flame while Xiao Yu told Xuan Kongzi and Tian Lei Zi to oversee things and announced he would return to the Northern Region.
• Xiao Yu returned to Ye Academy and arranged for the group to visit the Pill Tower's medicinal storehouse before leaving the next day.
• Zi Yan urged Xiao Yu to refine pills to help her evolve, then teased him about her human form before running to her room.
• Xiao Yu invited Bai Xiaoxiao to accompany him to the Northern Region, and she agreed.
• Xiao Yu collected months of check-in rewards, including medicinal ingredients, cultivation methods, Dou Skills, five Dou Zun Level Guards, and the Star Divination Technique.

Xiao Yu received the Heavenly Grade Advanced Dou Skill Star Divination Technique and learned that it could locate treasures and create deadly star formations. After refining five Seventh-grade Pills, he set out with Zi Yan for the Pill Tower's Medicine Stockpile.

• Xiao Yu examined the Star Divination Technique and discovered its Star Seeking Scroll and Star Array Scroll, including the Ten Directions Annihilation Array.
• Xiao Yu refined five Seventh-grade Pills overnight, and Zi Yan burst into his room and swallowed them all.
• Xiao Yu arranged for Bai Xiaoxiao, Xiong Zhan, and Huo Yue'er to meet them at the White Jade Square before he and Zi Yan left for the Medicine Stockpile.
• Xiao Yu and Zi Yan reached the stone cave protected by powerful restrictions, where two Pill Tower elders greeted Elder Xiao Yu.

Xiao Yu and Zi Yan entered the Pill Tower’s Medicine Stockpile and took a large haul of medicinal ingredients, paying with two Grade Eight Pills. They escaped before the elders discovered how much was missing, leaving the Pill Tower elders to complain to Xuan Kongzi and the other presidents.

• Xiao Yu learned that Pill Tower elders could take medicinal ingredients in exchange for pills of equivalent value, and the two elders opened the Pill Treasury for him and Zi Yan.
• Zi Yan rushed into the treasury and began eating herbs, while Xiao Yu told her to collect ingredients instead.
• Xiao Yu and Zi Yan filled their Storage Rings with nearly three-tenths of the treasury’s medicinal ingredients before Xiao Yu stopped her.
• Xiao Yu handed the elders two Grade Eight Pills as payment and hurried away with Zi Yan.
• The elders discovered the Nine-Colored Foundation Cultivation Pill among the payment, checked the treasury, and shouted that Xiao Yu and Zi Yan were bandits.
• The green-robed elder went to complain to Xuan Kongzi and the other two presidents while Xiao Yu and Zi Yan fled.

Xiao Yu and Zi Yan escaped the Pill Tower with medicinal ingredients, and the Pill Tower’s leaders chose not to pursue them. A month later, Xiao Yu finished refining a pill for Little Xiao Nian, but a powerful force locked onto his room as the vessel left the Space Wormhole.

• Xiao Yu and Zi Yan returned to the spatial vessel, and Xiong Zhan hurriedly took it into the Space Wormhole.
• Xiao Yu told Bai Xiaoxiao and Zi Yan to help Xiong Zhan steer and guard him while Huo Yue'er watched him refine pills.
• Xuan Kongzi, Xuan Yi, and Tian Lei Zi decided to overlook Xiao Yu’s raid on the medicine vault and discussed their hopes for Xiao Yan and Yao Chen in the Star Domain.
• During the month-long journey, Xiao Yu refined a peak eighth-tier Yin Yang Soul Bone Pill for Little Xiao Nian while Huo Yue'er observed.
• After Xiao Yu completed the pill, a terrifying force locked onto his room, and he told Xiong Zhan to leave the Space Wormhole at a spatial node.

Xiao Yu and his companions reached Mo Feng City in the Northern Region after he refined a Grade Eight pill and overcame its Nine-Colored Pill Lightning. While practicing the Star Seeking Scroll that night, Xiao Yu spotted a treasure site marked on the map in the Death Plain.

• Xiao Yu overcame the Nine-Colored Pill Lightning and subdued the Yin Yang Soul Bone Pill as onlookers recognized his strength as that of a Dou Zun.
• Xiao Yu and his companions entered Mo Feng City, bought a map, and learned they were at the southern edge of the Northern Region, far from the Wind Thunder Mountain Range.
• The group stayed at an inn, where Xiao Yu gave Zi Yan Seventh-grade Pills after she said she had eaten all her pills.
• Xiao Yu practiced the Star Seeking Scroll, then studied the stars and discovered a treasure site marked in the Death Plain on the map.

Xiao Yu decided to investigate a treasure map pointing to the Death Desert, despite warnings about its dangers. After confronting Ma San, an elder of the Heavenly Desert Sect, he learned the sect would enter the desert the next day under its sect master's leadership, prompted by rumors.

• Xiao Yu changed the group's plans and revealed that his treasure map pointed to the Death Desert.
• An inn waiter warned Xiao Yu and his companions that the desert was deadly and offered to introduce them to someone from the Heavenly Desert Sect.
• The waiter brought Ma San, whom Zi Yan and Xiong Zhan quickly intimidated into cooperating.
• Xiao Yu questioned Ma San and learned that the Heavenly Desert Sect would enter the Death Desert the next day with its sect master leading.
• Ma San said the sect master's decision followed rumors, and Xiao Yu asked him what those rumors were.

Xiao Yu and his companions joined the Heavenly Desert Sect’s expedition into the Death Desert, where rumors of a Ninth-stage Magical Beast and strange cries suggested great danger. As they traveled through blood-red sands, Xiao Yu spotted a magma-covered mountain range, while a hidden Sound Valley party searched for the second half of the Divine Demon Chronicle.

• Ma San told Xiao Yu that tremors and terrifying roars had been coming from the Death Desert, and that people claimed a Ninth-stage Magical Beast lived there.
• Xiao Yu, Bai Xiaoxiao, Huo Yue'er, Xiong Zhan, and Zi Yan decided to enter the Death Desert, and Ma San arranged for them to join the Heavenly Desert Sect’s expedition.
• Xiao Yu dismissed Ma San from their carriage to avoid drawing attention, and the convoy set off from Mo Feng City toward the Death Desert.
• As the group traveled deeper, the sand turned dark red and the wind grew so dense that Xiao Yu left the carriage to survey the surroundings.
• A veiled Sound Valley Saintess told her elders to search Death Canyon for the second half of the Divine Demon Chronicle, while Xiao Yu spotted a magma-covered mountain range radiating dense fire-attributed energy.

Xiao Yu and his companions reached a magma-filled mountain range where Zi Yan and Bai Xiaoxiao suspected an ancient mutant Phoenix was buried. Xiao Yu reunited with Yun Yun, Cai Die, and Little Xiao Nian, who had led them to the mountains because she had been feeling unwell.

• Xiao Yu sensed unusually dense fire-attributed energy in the mountain range and told Zi Yan he would investigate it.
• The convoy stopped near the mountains, where Zi Yan and Bai Xiaoxiao concluded the site might be the burial ground of an ancient mutant Phoenix.
• Xiao Yu spotted people from Sound Valley heading toward the mountains, then saw Yun Yun, Cai Die, and Little Xiao Nian flying there as well.
• Xiao Yu reached Yun Yun and Cai Die after a distorted space around Little Xiao Nian crushed Yun Yun's Wind Blade, and Little Xiao Nian joyfully called him Daddy.
• Yun Yun told Xiao Yu that Little Xiao Nian had been feeling unwell and had led them to the mountain range.

Little Xiao Nian sensed a phoenix calling to her from beneath a volcanic crater, and Xiao Yu realized an ancient phoenix might be buried there. After the Huoyan Sect master entered the deadly magma and disappeared, many people followed, while Xiao Yu prepared to investigate.

• Yun Yun and Cai Die told Xiao Yu that Little Xiao Nian's Phoenix Mark and Heavenly Flames had grown restless, and Little Xiao Nian said a phoenix below was calling to her.
• Xiao Yu suspected the crater held an ancient variant phoenix and told the others he would investigate, while Cai Die mistakenly thought Bai Xiaoxiao was her sister's child before Bai Xiaoxiao explained her bloodline.
• The Huoyan Sect master plunged into the magma, and Xiao Yu warned that the heat below could kill even a Dou Zong expert.
• Many people rushed into the crater after the Huoyan Sect master vanished, unknowingly preserving their lives by staying outside, and Xiao Yu announced he would go down too.

Xiao Yu waited above the volcano as people feared the fate of those who had entered, while the Saintess of Sound Valley warned that the crater held lethal danger. A giant phoenix burst from the lava, and Xiao Yu suspected it was undergoing Phoenix Nirvana.

• Yun Yun and Cai Die persuaded Xiao Yu not to enter the crater, and Cai Die warned that others might accuse him of killing the people inside to seize treasure.
• The Saintess of Sound Valley told her elders that the Divine Demon Chronicle might lie beneath the lava and that the people who entered could already be dead.
• Xiao Yu probed beneath the lava with his Soul Power but found no trace of the missing Dou Zong experts.
• Xiao Yu sensed a powerful cry and warned everyone to retreat as a huge wave of lava erupted and swallowed many people.
• A crimson phoenix rose from the crater, then turned back toward it as Little Xiao Nian's Phoenix Mark shone.
• Xiao Yu realized that the phoenix might be undergoing Phoenix Nirvana as a pillar of lava surged toward it.

Xiao Yu rescued Little Xiao Nian from the magma and accepted the phoenix’s offer to grant her a cultivation opportunity. The phoenix merged its soul into her Phoenix Mark, and Little Xiao Nian’s breakthroughs triggered a Heavenly Tribulation.

• Xiao Yu explained that the magma chamber was the phoenix’s place of rebirth, but the phoenix began losing its struggle against the magma.
• A mysterious force pulled Little Xiao Nian toward the magma, and Xiao Yu broke free of his restraints to rescue her while Yun Yun used the Life Divine Tree’s power to resist.
• The phoenix asked Xiao Yu to bring Little Xiao Nian and Yun Yun closer so it could pass on an opportunity, and Xiao Yu agreed to watch over them.
• The phoenix and Yun Yun poured their energies into Little Xiao Nian, raising her cultivation from Dou Wang to Dou Zong before a Heavenly Tribulation gathered.
• The phoenix merged its soul into Little Xiao Nian’s Phoenix Mark, and Xiao Yu stored away the phoenix’s skeleton.

Little Xiao Nian’s accumulated Heavenly Tribulation descended, and Xiao Yu flew into the sky to draw its power away from the surrounding area. As both father and daughter faced the lightning, Xiao Yu suffered damage to his body and Soul Power while Yun Yun watched anxiously.

• The Phoenix’s sealed power calmed Little Xiao Nian’s surging Dou Qi, and she sensed the Heavenly Tribulation watching her.
• Xiao Yu gave Little Xiao Nian the Yin Yang Soul Bone Pill and told her to take it during the tribulation.
• The Saintess of Sound Valley recognized Xiao Yu and ordered the elders to gather information about the Underworld.
• Xiao Yu flew toward the thunderclouds to keep his Heavenly Tribulation from affecting the area, and lightning struck him.
• Little Xiao Nian began undergoing her own tribulation as Yun Yun worried beside Cai Die.
• Xiao Yu endured the lightning, which injured his body and Soul Power, while he absorbed its energy and gradually increased his Dou Qi.

Xiao Yu survived the final strike of his heavenly tribulation and advanced directly from Nine Revolutions Peak Dou Zun to Dou Saint, while Little Xiao Nian also completed her tribulation. The Sound Valley group approached to greet Xiao Yu, with Yin Ning introducing herself and seeking to address the Divine Demon Chronicle.

• Xiao Yu's Prison Suppressing Divine Body helped him endure the final lightning strike, and the Chaos Green Lotus turned its energy into nourishment that restored his body and Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yu released a Dou Saint aura after advancing directly from Nine Revolutions Peak Dou Zun, astonishing the Sound Valley group and everyone nearby.
• Xiao Yu found Little Xiao Nian after she passed her tribulation, gave her a Recovery Pill, and reassured Yun Yun that she would recover from her injuries.
• The Sound Valley Saintess, Yin Ning, led her group to greet Xiao Yu, who asked whether they had met before.

Xiao Yu negotiated with Sound Valley over its search for the lost half of the Divine Demon Chronicle and secured an alliance between Sound Valley and the Underworld. After Sound Valley left to search the other craters, Xiao Yu and his companions departed the Death Desert, aware that the Soul Hall and the Soul Clan might pose a future threat.

• Yin Ning told Xiao Yu that Sound Valley had come to the Magma Mountain Range to find the lost half of the Divine Demon Chronicle.
• Xiao Yu claimed the Magma Mountain Range and agreed to let Sound Valley search for its cultivation method in exchange for an alliance with the Underworld.
• Yin Ning accepted the alliance on Sound Valley's behalf, and Xiao Yu told her to arrange its formal establishment in the Northern Region.
• After Sound Valley left to search the other volcanic craters, Yun Yun voiced her hatred of the Soul Hall, and Xiao Yu explained that the Soul Clan stood behind it.
• Xiao Yu told his companions that the Phoenix's nest held no other treasures, then led them out of the Death Desert.

Xiao Yu returned to the Wind Thunder Mountain Range, reviewed the Underworld’s growth, and planned to bring its members from the Northwest Continent to Phoenix Perch Mountain. After Qing Lin prepared a meal for him, he promised she could stay by his side wherever he went.

• The system rewarded Xiao Yu with cultivation supplies and the combined combat skill Lightning Summoning Technique after he and the young master broke through.
• Xiao Yu learned that the Underworld had established itself in the Northern Region and had around five Dou Venerables and one Dou Saint.
• Xiao Yu returned to the Wind Thunder Mountain Range and reunited with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin.
• Xiao Yu proposed moving the Underworld members from the Northwest Continent to Phoenix Perch Mountain, and the others agreed to prepare for the move in three days.
• Xiao Yi Xian suggested building a Space Wormhole, and Xiao Yu considered seeking alliances with Sound Valley and Fenyang Valley.
• Qing Lin brought Xiao Yu Beggar’s Chicken, and Xiao Yu promised she could stay by his side wherever he went.

Xiao Yu returned to the Black Corner Region with Qing Lin and learned that the Heavenly Snake Mansion and Soul Hall had inflicted heavy losses on the Underworld. When Xiao Ding and Xiao Li mistook his imperceptible aura for signs of injury, Xiao Yu revealed the overwhelming pressure of his power.

• Xiao Yu told Qing Lin to travel with him to the Northwest Continent and left the Central Plains with her.
• Xiao Ding and Xiao Li discussed the Underworld’s losses, including Elder Hai’s injuries, and ordered their people to avoid going out because of Soul Hall attacks.
• Xiao Yu arrived at the Underworld’s main hall and learned from his brothers about the attacks by the Heavenly Snake Mansion and Soul Hall.
• Xiao Ding and Xiao Li thought Xiao Yu had been seriously injured because they could not sense his aura, and Xiao Li vowed to avenge him.
• Xiao Yu released a terrifying aura that made Xiao Li feel compelled to kneel and caused Xiao Ding’s chair to crack.

Xiao Yu tested Xiao Ding and Xiao Li with his pressure, helping them break through, then told them he would take the Xiao Clan to the Central Plains after their father finished his breakthrough. At a banquet with Su Qian and Hai Bodong, he proposed closer ties between Jia Nan Academy and the Underworld and promised to help Hai Bodong grow stronger.

• Xiao Yu suppressed Xiao Ding and Xiao Li until they entered cultivation, and both brothers broke through under the pressure.
• Xiao Yu revealed that he had reached the Dou Saint realm and said he had returned to take the Xiao Clan to the Central Plains once their father could travel.
• Xiao Ding and Xiao Li agreed that the Heavenly Snake Mansion’s lingering troubles needed to be handled, and Qing Lin said she would follow Xiao Yu’s decision.
• Su Qian and Hai Bodong joined Xiao Yu, Xiao Ding, and Xiao Li for a banquet after learning Xiao Yu had returned.
• Xiao Yu offered to establish a Space Wormhole and arrange sparring exchanges between Jia Nan Academy and the Underworld.
• Hai Bodong said he wanted to become stronger, and Xiao Yu promised to help him.