Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan and his companions obtained the Soul Infant Fruits after Zi Yan subdued their guardian, then Xiao Yu led Zi Yan and Little Xiao Nian toward the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit. They reached a golden barrier that Zi Yan could sense, but had not yet entered.

• Xiao Yan explained that Aunt Xuan’s jade pendant had guided him and Yan Ran to the Soul Infant Fruits, which he intended to give to Yao Lao.
• Zi Yan drew the Sky-Piercing Flood Dragon from the lake and used her Ancient Void Dragon form to subdue it.
• Xiao Yan traded two medicinal pills and Shapeshifting Grass for the Sky-Piercing Flood Dragon’s permission to take the Soul Infant Fruits.
• Xiao Yan collected the two Soul Infant Fruits, and Xiao Yu took Zi Yan and Little Xiao Nian deeper into the Ancient Forest.
• Xiao Yu told Zi Yan that the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit might free her from her current body, and Zi Yan confirmed she could sense it.
• Xiao Yu, Zi Yan, and Little Xiao Nian stopped at a grassland, where Zi Yan touched empty space and revealed a golden barrier.

Xiao Yu explained how the Beast Spirit Barrier protected the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, and Zi Yan opened it with her bloodline so the group could enter. Inside, they found the altar and the fruit, while the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan set out for the Bone Mountain Range after learning Yao Ming was away.

• Xiao Yu explained that an Ancient Void Dragon and an Ancient Heavenly Phoenix had created the Beast Spirit Barrier to protect the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, and Zi Yan opened it with her blood.
• Phoenix confronted the Nine Nether Underworld Python Clan and learned that Yao Ming had regained control and was away at an Ancient Relic in the Bone Mountain Range.
• The Heavenly Demon Three Phoenixes led their group toward the Bone Mountain Range, intending to investigate the relic.
• Zi Yan led Xiao Yu and the others across the crimson plain to an ancient altar, where she heard the voice of an Ancient Void Dragon.
• Zi Yan found the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit atop the altar, and Nian'er told Xiao Yu that her forehead felt hot.

Little Xiao Nian’s Phoenix phantom destroyed the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix soul and transformed the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit into a more powerful golden form. After Zi Yan absorbed the fruit, Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan prepared to investigate Yao Ming’s clash with the Heavenly Demon Three Phoenixes outside the Beast Spirit Barrier.

• Little Xiao Nian’s Phoenix phantom forced the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix power out of the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and defeated its soul in battle.
• The Phoenix phantom entered the fruit, changing it into a completely golden form with even more energy.
• Zi Yan absorbed the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit into a pattern on her palm and said she would need her clan elders’ help to absorb its energy.
• Yao Ming’s enraged voice and a terrifying aura sounded beyond the Beast Spirit Barrier as he confronted the Heavenly Demon Three Phoenixes.
• Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan headed outside to investigate while Xiao Yu told Zi Yan, Xiong Zhan, Little Xiao Nian, and Nalan Yanran to stay behind.

Yao Ming confronted the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan over the Ancient Relic and refused Phoenix’s offer to make the Nine Nether Underworld Python Clan submit. When the Heavenly Demon Three Phoenixes moved to attack, Yao Ming revealed his strength and called for Xiao Yu, who emerged with Xiao Yan as Phoenix recognized the Beast Spirit Barrier and the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit within.

• Phoenix mocked Yao Ming for supposedly dying from Qi Deviation, while Yao Ming told the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan to leave the relic to his clan.
• Kun Huang and Ying Huang challenged Yao Ming over the Ancient Relic, and Phoenix proposed that the Nine Nether Underworld Python Clan submit to her clan.
• Yao Ming rejected Phoenix’s proposal and warned the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan not to pursue the relic’s contents.
• Yao Ming released the aura of a late Two-star Dou Sheng, shocking the Heavenly Demon Three Phoenixes, and Phoenix ordered her clan to attack.
• Yao Ming called for Xiao Yu, and Xiao Yu emerged from the Beast Spirit Barrier with Xiao Yan as Phoenix recognized the barrier and ordered Kun Huang and Ying Huang inside to seek the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit.

Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan confronted the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan over the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit while Yao Ming fought Phoenix. Xiao Yu overwhelmed Kun Huang and Ying Huang, leaving Ying Huang badly injured and Kun Huang's technique burning under Xiao Yu's Chaos Flame.

• Kun Huang and Ying Huang tried to enter the Beast Spirit Barrier for the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, but Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan emerged and challenged them.
• Phoenix ordered Kun Huang to hold Xiao Yu back and sent Ying Huang and the others toward the barrier, then clashed with Yao Ming.
• Xiao Yan charged at the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan members while Xiao Yu struck Kun Huang, sending him flying and forcing the two elders to join forces.
• Kun Huang and Ying Huang transformed and attacked Xiao Yu with the Great Splitting Demon Claw and Kun Huang Blood Stomach.
• Xiao Yu shattered Ying Huang's claws with a punch and wrapped Kun Huang's technique in Chaos Flame, causing Kun Huang intense pain.

Xiao Yu and his allies fought the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan in the Ancient Forest, where Xiao Yu killed Kun Huang, Ying Huang, and Phoenix. The battle ended with the clan’s three Phoenix elders dead, while the conflict with their clan leader, Huang Tian, loomed ahead.

• Xiao Yu refined Kun Huang’s essence with Chaos Flame, then beat Kun Huang and Ying Huang before crushing them with a palm strike and shattering their souls.
• Phoenix threatened Xiao Yu, while Cai Die, Xiao Yan, and the others fought the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan; Elder Ming and the Nine Nether Underworld Python Clan joined the battle.
• Xiao Yu and Yao Ming attacked Phoenix, who transformed and unleashed her Demon Phoenix Sacred Image.
• Xiao Yu summoned a giant dark-golden dragon, and it clashed with Phoenix’s true form as Yao Ming’s tail strike wounded her.
• Xiao Yu found Phoenix in a pit and killed her, leaving all three of the Heavenly Demon Three Phoenixes dead.

Xiao Yu planned to use the deaths of the Heavenly Demon Three Phoenixes and rumors of treasures to draw powerful factions to the Ancient Relic and delay the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan. He then led the group through the relic to its Pill Hall, where they found mostly dead pills and Ya Fei collected a few usable ones.

• Xiao Yu told Yao Ming to spread news of the Ancient Relic and the Heavenly Demon Three Phoenixes’ deaths, then ordered him to exaggerate rumors about rare treasures and pills to attract powerful figures.
• Zi Yan agreed to bring the Dragon Kings from the other three Dragon Islands, and Xiao Yu led everyone out of the ruined forest to search the relic.
• Xiao Yu closed the stone door behind them, and the group searched nearby rooms before heading toward the main hall’s Pill Hall.
• Yao Ming opened the Pill Hall, where Xiao Yu found a dead pill and Ya Fei collected third- and fourth-grade pills from the alchemy rooms.
• Xiao Yu embraced Ya Fei and promised her a reward, leaving her blushing as she slipped out of his arms.

Xiao Yu explored the Pill Hall’s third floor and found a clever Pill Beast hiding as a jade box. He fed and subdued it with pills, then promised Zi Yan she could eat a Ninth-grade Treasure Pill once he refined one.

• Xiao Yu burned away the poison on the Pill Hall’s second floor and led the group to the third floor.
• Xiao Yan found a pill formula scroll and a sealed bottle of pills, while Zi Yan took three bottles of pills and an ancient lingzhi.
• Xiao Yu discovered that the Pill Beast had devoured the other pills in its chamber and disguised itself as the last jade box.
• Xiao Yu fed the Pill Beast Seventh-grade Pills and a Grade Eight Heavenly Snow Spirit Transformation Pill, winning its trust and bringing it along.
• Xiao Yan and Zi Yan saw the Pill Beast, and Xiao Yu told Zi Yan he would let her eat a Ninth-grade Treasure Pill after he refined one.

Xiao Yu and his companions plundered the Ancient Relic’s main hall, defeated the lingering soul of its Dou Saint owner, and divided the relic’s treasures. After returning to the Nether Snake Mountain Range, Yao Ming spread rumors about a Heavenly Grade Dou Skill and a Ninth-grade Treasure Pill to lure others to the relic.

• Little Xiao Nian took the Pill Beast into her arms, and Xiao Yu let her keep it as the group left the emptied Pill Hall.
• Xiao Yu, Xiao Yan, Yao Ming, and the others reached the main hall and found ten scrolls and a Dou Saint’s skeleton.
• Xiao Yu broke the hall’s seal, erased the puppets’ soul imprints, and replaced them with his own.
• After the scrolls proved not to contain a Heavenly Grade Dou Skill, Xiao Yu destroyed the soul remnant in the skeleton.
• Xiao Yu’s group took the relic’s treasures, with Yao Ming claiming three items and Xiao Yu taking the rest.
• Yao Ming returned to the Nether Snake Mountain Range and spread rumors that the relic held a Heavenly Grade Dou Skill and a Ninth-grade Treasure Pill.

Xiao Yu prepared to refine a Ninth-grade Pill while Xiao Yan learned that the Dou Saint skeleton contained a Heavenly Grade Dou Skill. News of the Ancient Relic spread across the Central Plains, and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan began investigating the deaths of three Supreme Elders.

• Xiao Yu told Xiao Yan about the low-level Heavenly Grade Dou Skill hidden in the Dou Saint skeleton, which Xiao Yan had obtained for Yao Lao’s resurrection.
• Xiao Yu visited Yun Yun, learned that she was nearing the Half-Saint realm, and said he needed the Pill Beast’s blood to refine a Ninth-grade Pill.
• Xiao Yu drew too much blood from the Pill Beast, then fed it pills until it recovered and began preparing his Ninth-grade Pill.
• News of the Heavenly Grade Dou Skill and Ninth-grade Treasure Pill in the Ancient Relic spread throughout the Central Plains, while Zi Yan returned to her clan with Xiong Zhan to guard the Dragon Islands.
• Teng Huang told the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan elders that their Clan Chief was furious over the deaths of three Supreme Elders and ordered them to find out where the three had gone and what force had killed them.

Factions gathered forces to travel to the Ancient Relic in the Beast Region while Xiao Yu refined a Ninth-grade Treasure Pill and used its Black Demon Lightning to break through. He revealed to Xuan Kongzi and Xuan Yi that he had killed the Heavenly Demon Three Phoenixes, leaving them stunned.

• Elder Teng Huang ordered the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan elders to investigate the deaths of their missing members and punish whoever opposed the clan.
• Tang Zhen decided Fenyang Valley would visit the Ancient Relic with its allies, while Sound Valley, Pill Tower, Myriad Sword Pavilion, and Starfall Pavilion prepared to join; Hai Bodong said the Underworld forces were already in the Beast Region.
• Xiao Yu refined a Ninth-grade Treasure Pill, fought the Black Demon Lightning, and broke through to a higher level of the Dou Sheng realm before capturing and sealing the pill.
• Xiao Ding told Xiao Yu that representatives of the alliance had arrived, including Xuan Kongzi and Xuan Yi from Pill Tower.
• Xiao Yu told Xuan Kongzi and Xuan Yi that he had killed the Heavenly Demon Three Phoenixes, shocking Xuan Kongzi so badly that he pulled out one of his beard hairs.

Xiao Yu explained how he and Yao Ming killed the Heavenly Demon Three Phoenixes and warned Xuan Kongzi and Xuan Yi about Huang Tian’s strength. Meanwhile, Xiao Zhan arrived in Ancient Saint City and asked Elder Tong Xuan to take him into the Ancient Clan.

• Xiao Yu told Xuan Kongzi and Xuan Yi that he and Yao Ming killed the Heavenly Demon Three Phoenixes inside the Ancient Relic.
• Xiao Yu explained that Huang Tian, the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan leader, was a Late Five-star Dou Sheng and a major threat.
• Xuan Kongzi and Xuan Yi agreed to help Xiao Yu, who said his Two-star Dou Sheng strength was amplified by his multiple attributes.
• A black-robed Xiao Zhan demanded entry to the Ancient Clan and revealed his identity to Elder Tong Xuan.
• Elder Tong Xuan recognized Xiao Zhan as Xiao Yu’s father and agreed to take him into the clan.

Xiao Zhan visited the Ancient Clan to reclaim the Xiao Clan’s two Heavenly Tomb slots, which Gu Yuan agreed to arrange after Xun Er supported the request. Xiao Zhan then warned Xun Er that the Soul Clan might target Xiao Yu and asked her to stay by his side, leaving her alarmed.

• Elder Tong Xuan brought Xiao Zhan to the Gu Realm after Xiao Zhan said he had come to discuss the Heavenly Tomb.
• Gu Yuan learned of Xiao Zhan’s arrival and sent for Xun Er before meeting him at the Ancient Saint Mountain Range.
• Xiao Zhan recalled how a mysterious man in black had urged him to reclaim the Xiao Clan’s two Heavenly Tomb slots for Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Zhan asked Gu Yuan to return the two slots, and Xun Er backed his request, prompting Gu Yuan to say he would handle the matter.
• Xiao Zhan told Xun Er that the Soul Clan might move against Xiao Yu and asked her to stay beside him, causing her expression to change abruptly.

Xun Er learned that the Soul Clan might be targeting Xiao Yu and asked Gu Yuan to let her leave the Ancient Clan to help him. Gu Yuan approved her departure with Gu Nan Hai as her protector and announced that the Ancient Clan would return the Xiao Clan’s Heavenly Tomb quotas.

• Xun Er heard Xiao Zhan’s warning that the Soul Clan had taken an interest in Xiao Yu and hurried to find Gu Yuan.
• Xun Er asked to leave the clan to protect Xiao Yu, and Gu Yuan agreed despite the elders’ concerns.
• Gu Yuan assigned Gu Nan Hai to accompany and protect Xun Er.
• Gu Yuan told the elders that the Ancient Clan would return the Xiao Clan’s two Heavenly Tomb quotas, which it had held in trust.
• Gu Yuan warned the elders to investigate disturbances and guard against the Soul Clan before the Heavenly Tomb opened in a year.
• Xun Er left the hall, followed by Gu Nan Hai.

Xiao Yu discussed the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and the Soul Hall’s likely involvement in the Ancient Relic with his brothers, while fearing that the Bone Mountain Range gathering concealed a larger scheme. On North Dragon Island, the three Dragon Kings planned how to stop the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit from reaching East Dragon Island or the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.

• Xiao Yu told Xiao Ding, Xiao Li, and Xiao Yan that the Ancient Void Dragon Clan could restrain the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, but he worried that the Soul Hall and Hun Miesheng might also pursue the Ninth-grade Treasure Pill.
• The Northern Dragon King, Western Dragon King, and Southern Dragon King discussed news that Zi Yan had been named East Dragon Island’s Young Clan Leader and that the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit had appeared.
• The Northern Dragon King warned that the fruit could strengthen Zi Yan or help the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, and said they should wait to see whether East Dragon Island brought her to the Bone Mountain Range.
• The Western Dragon King proposed that he remain behind while the other two went, suggesting they could seize East Dragon Island, but the Northern Dragon King and Southern Dragon King accused him of seeking the Dragon Emperor’s position.

Zi Yan persuaded Elder Zhu Li to evacuate East Dragon Island and secretly set a trap for the other three Dragon Kings. Zhu Li agreed and awakened Great Elder Green Mountain to help carry out the plan.

• The Northern Dragon King ordered spies to keep gathering information and said the three Dragon Kings would interfere if East Dragon Island mobilized.
• Zi Yan argued that East Dragon Island had to act before the other Dragon Islands learned about the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and attacked.
• Elder Zhu Li agreed to move every clansman off East Dragon Island, keep the plan secret, and awaken Great Elder Green Mountain and Second Elder.
• Zi Yan told Elder Hei Qing that Xiao Yu had devised the trap and that it might let them eliminate the three Dragon Kings.
• Elder Zhu Li sent a seal into the hidden space where Great Elder Green Mountain was in death-seclusion, and Green Mountain emerged and asked why he had been awakened.

The Great Elder approved Zi Yan’s plan to relocate East Dragon Island and unify the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, while the other Dragon Islands prepared to respond. At the Bone Mountain Range, Xiao Yu and the others saw the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan arrive above the Ancient Relic.

• Elder Zhu Li told the Great Elder about Zi Yan’s plan, and the Great Elder agreed that East Dragon Island should carry it out.
• The Great Elder reassured Zi Yan, who vowed to unify the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, and the elders planned a secret, staggered departure from East Dragon Island.
• The Northern Dragon King ordered Qing Yan and Huo Zhan to gather North Dragon Island’s Dou Zun-level experts, while the Western and Southern Dragon Kings also prepared their forces.
• Xiao Yu discussed the weakening seal on the Ancient Relic with Xiao Yi Xian, Cai Die, and Ya Fei, estimating his chances of success at fifty-fifty.
• More than a dozen Heavenly Demon Phoenixes arrived over the Bone Mountain Range, and Xiao Yu reached the site as the assembled experts reacted in alarm.

Xiao Yu reunited with Zi Yan as the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and the Ancient Void Dragon factions converged on the Ancient Relic. The Northern Dragon King challenged Xiao Yu over his relationship with Zi Yan, and Xiao Yu questioned why the Dragon Emperor’s daughter was called the Little Princess instead of being acknowledged as Dragon Emperor.

• Huang Tian and Great Elder Green Mountain exchanged taunts, then clashed with their powerful Dou Sheng auras and attacks.
• Zi Yan introduced Xiao Yu to Great Elder Green Mountain, who thanked him for looking after her.
• The Northern, Western, and Southern Dragon Kings arrived with their forces, joining the conflict between the Ancient Void Dragon factions and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.
• The Northern Dragon King asked Zi Yan to introduce Xiao Yu, but she refused and called him unqualified.
• The Northern Dragon King pointed out that Zi Yan was the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s Little Princess, and Xiao Yu asked why the previous Dragon Emperor’s daughter was not the Dragon Emperor.

Xiao Yu faced the Dragon Kings and Soul Hall members outside the Ancient Relic, then reunited with Xun Er, who had come with Gu Nan Hai after Xiao Zhan warned that the Soul Clan might target him. After the gathered forces entered the relic, Zi Yan told Xiao Yu that the Dragon Kings had gone searching for the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit.

• Zi Yan stepped in front of Xiao Yu when the Northern Dragon King showed killing intent, and Xiao Yu easily blocked the Southern Dragon King's attack.
• Three Soul Hall Dou Shengs led by Hun Mie Xing arrived, and Xiao Yu revealed an aura powerful enough to make even Huang Tian wary.
• Xun Er arrived with Gu Nan Hai and explained that Xiao Zhan had sent her because he feared the Soul Clan would attack Xiao Yu.
• Xiao Yu broke the seal, and the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, Soul Hall, Ancient Clan, and Heavenly Mansion Alliance entered the Ancient Relic.
• Zi Yan told Xiao Yu that the three Dragon Kings had gone elsewhere to seek the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, while Huang Tian had also led some of his people away.

Xiao Yu’s Shape-Shifting Illusion array trapped the three Dragon Kings in deceptive battles, killing Qing Yan and leaving the kings injured and distrustful. After revealing the trap, Xiao Yu split his allies’ targets and charged to hold off the Northern and Western Dragon Kings.

• Xiao Yu planted an array core in the relic’s central hall, then led Zi Yan, Great Elder Green Mountain, and Hei Qing to find the Dragon Kings.
• The three Dragon Kings entered an Ancient Forest illusion, where fake Dragon Kings attacked them and the real Qing Yan died protecting the Northern Dragon King.
• The Northern, Western, and Southern Dragon Kings emerged from the illusion injured and accused one another of betrayal before Xiao Yu’s group appeared.
• Xiao Yu revealed that his Shape-Shifting Illusion array had created replicas to provoke conflict and ordered Great Elder Green Mountain, Zi Yan, and Hei Qing to attack the Southern Dragon King.
• Xiao Yu faced the Northern and Western Dragon Kings alone and charged at them as the battle began.