Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan brought Yao Chen into the Ancient Treasure Pavilion, where they encountered Fairy Qing before the Spatial Trading Meet began. Xiao Yan won a Heavenly Grade Dou Skill, and the chapter ended as bidders began competing for a map of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.

• Xiao Yan recognized Fairy Qing as a Flower Sect elder and pulled Yao Chen into the pavilion to meet her.
• Fairy Qing spoke with Xiao Yan about the Flower Sect potentially joining the Heavenly Mansion Alliance, while Yao Chen offered to help her as a friend.
• Old Man Baoshan opened the Spatial Trading Meet and sold Demon Phoenix Wings to a black-robed bidder.
• Xiao Yan offered three Grade Eight Pills with Nine-Colored Pill Lightning and won the Adamantine Glazed Body Dou Skill.
• Old Man Baoshan began open bidding on a map of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and a bidder offered two Grade Eight Pills with Six-Colored Pill Lightning.

Xiao Yan and Yao Chen attended the Space Trade Fair to obtain a fragment of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame map, then acquired a Flower Lotus Seed to help Fairy Qing’s ailing sect leader. After Old Man Baoshan announced the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s return, they confronted the Scorpion Demon Three Ghosts, and Xiao Yan demanded to know where they had hidden the map.

• Fairy Qing questioned Yao Chen about his interest in the auction, and he explained that he had lost the Bone Spirit Cold Flame after Han Feng betrayed him.
• Heaven Scorpion outbid the others for the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame map fragment, and Fairy Qing identified him as one of the Scorpion Demon Three Ghosts, who had killed her disciple.
• Xiao Yan won the Flower Lotus Seed for five Eight-Colored Grade Eight Pills after Fairy Qing revealed that Hua Yu was near death.
• Old Man Baoshan announced that the Bodhi Ancient Tree had appeared in the Barren Ancient Domain, prompting Heaven Scorpion to leave with the map fragment.
• Yao Chen, Xiao Yan, and Fairy Qing intercepted the Scorpion Demon Three Ghosts at a cliff; Xiao Yan killed Human Scorpion and made Earth Scorpion reveal that the map was hidden elsewhere.

Xiao Yan killed Earth Scorpion and Heaven Scorpion, recovered the Ancient Map, and learned that the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame would descend in three years. A month later, Xiao Yu led a group into the Barren Ancient Domain to seek the Bodhi Ancient Tree, where they encountered poison mist.

• Xiao Yan killed Earth Scorpion and Heaven Scorpion and took the Ancient Map, while a black mist carried away the two Scorpion brothers' souls.
• Xiao Yu told Fairy Qing that a Grade Eight Pill could save Hua Yu and listed the ingredients needed to make it.
• Xiao Yan assembled and heated the Ancient Maps, revealing that the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame would descend in three years and sending a remnant image of the Netherworld Demon Sage into his brow.
• Xiao Yu explained that the remnant image would help Xiao Yan absorb the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and invited him to visit the Bodhi Ancient Tree in the Barren Ancient Domain.
• A month later, Xiao Yu led Yun Yun, Xiao Yi Xian, Xun Er, Qing Lin, and Gu Nan Hai toward the Barren Ancient Domain, where they entered despite reports of a party of Dou Zuns being wiped out.
• As the group traveled deeper into the forest, Xiao Yi Xian sensed poison mist approaching.

Xiao Yu and his companions crossed the poisonous miasma and entered the Barren Ancient Domain, where he trapped the Heavenly Nether Sect in a beast tide. After leaving Liu Cang and Demon Flower Evil Lord as the only survivors, Xiao Yu revealed his grudge and killed them.

• Xiao Yu used the Chaos Flame to destroy poisonous insects inside his companions as they crossed the miasma and reached the mountain range beyond the abyss.
• Xiao Yu and Xun Er spotted Liu Cang, Demon Flower Evil Lord, Elder Qiu, and the Heavenly Nether Sect fighting magical beasts.
• Xiao Yu scattered Heavenly Beast Powder and sealed the area with an array, drawing a massive beast tide onto the Heavenly Nether Sect.
• The beasts killed Elder Qiu and the other sect members, while Liu Cang and Demon Flower Evil Lord survived with serious injuries.
• Xiao Yu revealed that Chen Xian and Chen Tiannan had provoked him at the Pill Tower, then killed Liu Cang and Demon Flower Evil Lord with an irresistible force.

Xiao Yu’s group subdued an Ancient Heavenly Serpent and helped Qing Lin break through to One-star Dou Sheng using its blood pool. They reached the Bodhi Ancient Tree, where Xiao Yu revealed that a sinister Dou Di aura had made the tree sick, and he intended to investigate it for a chance to break through.

• Xiao Yu led the group west, defeated the Ancient Heavenly Serpent, and helped Qing Lin tame it with her jade-green eye.
• Xiao Yu took Qing Lin to the serpent’s blood pool and used Chaos Flame and the Chaos Green Lotus to help her absorb its energy.
• After three days, Qing Lin broke through to One-star Dou Sheng and drew the Ancient Heavenly Serpent into her eye space.
• Xiao Yu led the group across the beast tide toward the Bodhi Ancient Tree, and they reached it ahead of the other experts.
• Xiao Yu and Qing Lin sensed a sinister aura within the Bodhi Ancient Tree, and Xiao Yu explained that it was sick from a Dou Di’s dark energy.

Xiao Yu and his companions reached the Bodhi Heart, where Qing Lin defeated five Half-Saint puppets before the Bodhi Ancient Tree drew them into its Illusion Realm. Xiao Yu and the others resisted their personal illusions, while Soul Clan members outside began preparing a deadly array around the tree.

• Xiao Yu sent Qing Lin to fight five Half-Saint puppets, and she destroyed them with her Sky Scale Strike before he healed her injuries.
• Xiao Yu warned the group that the Bodhi Ancient Tree would test their desires, and they entered its Illusion Realm as Soul Clan members arrived outside.
• The Soul Clan formed a black-chain array around the Bodhi Ancient Tree, drawing out a dark aura that belonged to a Dou Di.
• The Chaos Green Lotus shattered Xiao Yu's illusion, revealing the Bodhi Ancient Tree's original form, and Qing Lin broke free by rejecting an imagined life in which Xiao Yu was controlled by her desires.
• Xun Er rejected an idealized marriage in her illusion and chose the real Xiao Yu, then appeared beside him and embraced him.

Xiao Yu cleansed the Bodhi Ancient Tree of the Dou Di’s lingering evil aura, then received an extraordinary enlightenment that advanced him to Nine Star Dou Sheng. After the ancient tree shattered, its miniature form entered Xiao Yu’s dantian beside the Chaos Green Lotus.

• Xiao Yu used the Chaos Green Lotus to purge the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s black mist, and the grateful tree released Bodhi Seeds that the lotus absorbed.
• Xiao Yu asked the Bodhi Ancient Tree to show him the battle preserved in its Bodhi Heart, then received a system-granted opportunity for enlightenment beneath it.
• Xiao Yu’s enlightenment let those around him resolve cultivation difficulties, while he remained seated for nine months as his companions waited.
• Xiao Yu experienced a hundred lifetimes of reincarnation and developed a glass-like form of Dou Qi as his strength rose.
• Xiao Yu absorbed a hundred Bodhi Seeds and much of the tree’s accumulated energy, causing the Bodhi Ancient Tree to crack and explode.
• Xiao Yu awakened as a Nine Star Dou Sheng, and the miniature Bodhi Ancient Tree entered his dantian alongside the Chaos Green Lotus.

After leaving the Bodhi Ancient Tree, Xiao Yu defeated a Soul Clan ambush and decided to discuss striking against the Soul Hall. Back at the Underworld, he reunited with Yun Yun and Xiao Nian, then welcomed Mang Tianchi, who arrived to become a guest elder.

• Xiao Yu and the others emerged from the Bodhi Ancient Tree, which settled inside Xiao Yu's dantian, and Soul Demon Elder trapped them in the Four Demon Array of Heaven Burial.
• Xiao Yu broke the array, killed Soul Demon Elder and the three other Soul Clan attackers, and proposed moving against the Soul Hall after returning to the Underworld.
• Xiao Yu returned to the Di Fu Mountain Range, inspected the Xiao Clan, and told Yun Yun that many members still needed to advance their cultivation.
• Mang Tianchi arrived at the Underworld, where Xiao Nian challenged him before Xiao Yu and Yun Yun appeared.
• Mang Tianchi greeted Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan and said he had come to serve as a guest elder of the Underworld.

Mang Tianchi told Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan that the Spirit Clan’s realm had sealed itself and a disturbance had drawn investigators, prompting Xiao Yu to prepare for conflict with the Soul Hall. Later, Xiao Yu discussed cultivation and the Dou Di realm with Cai Lin and Cai Die, then coaxed Cai Die away so he could spend time alone with Cai Lin.

• Mang Tianchi visited the Underworld and invited Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan to investigate the sealed Spirit Realm after Spirit Clan members fled the Southern Region.
• Xiao Yu arranged for Hai Bodong and Heavenly Flame Venerate to attack the Soul Hall-aligned Heavenly Nether Sect with Yao Lao and the Flower Sect’s support.
• Cai Die asked Cai Lin why she had no child with Xiao Yu, and Cai Lin encouraged Cai Die to admit her feelings for him.
• Xiao Yu explained to Cai Lin and Cai Die that the Dou Qi Continent lacked Origin Qi and that reaching Dou Di required access to it.
• Xiao Yu gave Cai Die a Bodhi Pill to help her advance to Three-star Dou Sheng, and she left to cultivate.
• Xiao Yu embraced Cai Lin after Cai Die left, and Cai Lin struck him when she guessed he was thinking something improper.

Xiao Yu and his companions traveled to Spirit Valley in the Southern Region to investigate the Spirit Clan’s disappearance, where they caught Yao Clan members looting the abandoned settlement. Meanwhile, the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan sought Xiao Yu’s help with Zi Yan, and a mysterious black presence watched Dragon Island.

• Xiao Yu agreed to return with Cai Lin to the Snake People Clan after their trip to the Southern Region, while Cai Die entered seclusion to use a Bodhi Pill.
• The Great Elder learned that Zi Yan’s Dragon Phoenix power was trapped by another bloodline within her and decided to seek Xiao Yu’s help.
• A black mist appeared near Dragon Island and murmured about the relationship between the Taixu Ancient Dragons and Xiao Yu.
• Xiao Yu traveled with Mang Tianchi, Cai Lin, and Xiao Yi Xian to the abandoned Spirit Valley and captured two Yao Clan scouts.
• Yao Wan Gui and his followers began taking medicinal herbs from Spirit Valley, then confronted Mang Tianchi and Xiao Yu.
• Yao Wan Gui tried to overpower Xiao Yu with his Dou Sheng aura, but Xiao Yu caught and dispelled it, shocking Mang Tianchi.

Xiao Yu uncovered the Spirit Realm entrance and found the Soul Clan’s four elders sacrificing the Spirit Clan to restore their strength. After killing one elder and cutting off the blood sacrifice, he fought the remaining three, whose attack left the battle raging.

• Xiao Yu revealed his strength to Yao Wan Gui, learned the Yao Clan had found nothing in Lingxu Valley, and sent them away.
• Xiao Yu activated the formation at the Lingxu Valley stele, opening the entrance to the Spirit Realm, where he and his companions found a blood-soaked landscape.
• Xiao Yu discovered Hun Yuantian, Hun Shengtian, Hun Yao, and Hun Mo draining the Spirit Clan’s bloodline, then killed Hun Mo and confronted the remaining three.
• Xiao Yu shattered the Gate of Silence with his attack, and the Soul Clan elders recognized his Xiao Clan bloodline.
• Hun Yuantian, Hun Shengtian, and Hun Yao drew power from the blood pool, but Xiao Yu split it apart and attacked them with a Chaos Flame dragon.

Xiao Yu killed the Soul Clan elders who had destroyed the Spirit Clan, and news of the atrocity spread among the ancient clans, prompting them to consider how to respond. Back at the Di Fu Mountain Range, Xiao Yu agreed to refine a Nine-turn Rebirth Pill for Hua Yu, which could extend her life by ten years and help her reach the Dou Sheng realm.

• Xiao Yu killed Hun Yuantian, Hun Shengtian, and Hun Yao, then destroyed the Spirit Clan’s blood pool with Chaos Flame.
• Xiao Yu warned Yao Wan Gui to report the Soul Clan’s actions, while Mang Tianchi returned to the Thunder Clan to inform Lei Ying.
• Yao Wan Gui’s report spread news of the Spirit Clan’s destruction, and the remaining ancient clans began discussing how to respond to the Soul Clan.
• Yan Jin and Fairy Huo Ling discussed forming a response, and Fairy Huo Ling told Huo Xuan and Huo Zhi that Xiao Yu had killed four Eight Star Dou Sheng and likely reached Nine Star Dou Sheng.
• Lei Ying decided to travel to the Ancient Clan, while leaving Lei Dong to continue cultivating in the Black Demon Lightning Pool.
• Xiao Yu told Fairy Qing and Hua Yu that a Nine-turn Rebirth Pill could extend Hua Yu’s life by ten years, and Fairy Qing supplied the ingredients, including a Bodhi Seed and life force from the Life Divine Tree.

Xiao Yu refined a Nine-turn Rebirth Pill that restored Hua Yu’s youth, then departed with the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan’s Great Elder to help Zi Yan. Meanwhile, Soul Clan forces appeared around East Dragon Island and launched an attack.

• Xiao Yu spent half a month refining the Nine-turn Rebirth Pill, using Yun Yun’s Breath of Life to complete it and dispelling the pill’s Black Demon Lightning tribulation.
• Fairy Qing fed the pill to Hua Yu, whose body returned to its youthful state before she entered seclusion to cultivate.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Yu that the ancient clans were gathering over the Soul Clan’s actions and that the Pill Tower planned to move against the Soul Hall.
• The Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan’s Great Elder told Xiao Yu that the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit had trapped Zi Yan, so Xiao Yu left with him to help her.
• As Xiao Yu and the Great Elder traveled toward the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan, Soul Clan forces surrounded East Dragon Island, where Elder Zhu Li and the Second Elder prepared to confront them.

The Soul Clan attacked Dragon Island, overwhelming the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan until Xiao Yu and the Great Elder arrived. Xiao Yu destroyed the attackers and captured Hun Qianmo’s remnant soul, but the crushed jade tablet had likely alerted the Soul Clan that its assault had failed.

• Hun Qianmo led the Soul Clan in an attack on Dragon Island, and Elder Zhu Li was badly wounded by a Dou Sheng elder.
• The Second Elder arrived, rescued Zhu Li, and ordered the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan to break out as Hun Qianmo unleashed a black python that devoured their fighters.
• Xiao Yu and the Great Elder reached Dragon Island, where Xiao Yu shattered Hun Qianmo’s spatial barrier and found the island drenched in blood.
• Xiao Yu severely injured Hun Qianmo and used his Chaos Flame and Wind Blades to kill the Soul Clan fighters.
• Hun Qianmo crushed a jade tablet and tried to self-destruct, but Xiao Yu contained the blast and captured his remnant soul.

The Soul Clan withdrew to recover after its recent losses, while Xiao Yu refined the Dragon Phoenix Crystal and awakened Zi Yan. Zi Yan prepared to absorb the remaining Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit energy with Xiao Yu’s help and the Bodhi Ancient Tree.

• Hun Tu ordered the Soul Clan to lie low, restore its strength, and investigate the Xiao Clan through Hun Miesheng.
• Xiao Yu used the Chaos Flame to refine the Dragon Phoenix Crystal covering Zi Yan and collected the energy in jade bottles.
• Zi Yan awakened at Half-Saint strength after Xiao Yu neutralized the Dragon-Phoenix bloodline power with his Xiao Clan bloodline.
• Xiao Yu scolded Zi Yan for swallowing the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit without guidance, then agreed to help her absorb its remaining energy.
• Xiao Yu brought out a Bodhi Seed and the Bodhi Ancient Tree to aid Zi Yan’s cultivation.

Xiao Yu learned from Bodhi that Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion lay beneath Fallen Heart Flame in the Black Corner Region, then investigated a disturbance in the Void Lightning Pool and found a crimson stone that absorbed all its lightning. He traveled to the Ancient Clan to discuss a matter and learned that the Soul Realm remained hidden despite the clans’ search.

• Bodhi told Xiao Yu that Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion was in the Black Corner Region beneath Fallen Heart Flame and urged him to go there soon.
• Xiao Yu followed a soul palpitation into the Void Lightning Pool and found a crimson stone surrounded by Black Demon Lightning.
• The crimson stone absorbed all the lightning in the pool, and Xiao Yu took it away; Mang Tianchi later arrived and found the pool gone.
• Xiao Yu told Great Elder Green Mountain that Zi Yan could cultivate safely, then left the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan for the Ancient Clan.
• Elder Tong Xuan welcomed Xiao Yu to the Gu Realm and said the Yan Clan and Stone Clan had arrived, while the Soul Realm’s location remained unknown.

Xiao Yu met the ancient clans’ leaders, helped establish an alliance against the Soul Clan, and revealed that Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion lay beneath Jia Nan Academy. He planned to return to the Northwest Continent with Xun Er, but Ling Ying announced that the clans’ younger members had gathered for a contest.

• Elder Tong Xuan brought Xiao Yu into the great hall, where Gu Yuan and the other clan leaders learned he had reached Nine Star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yu told the leaders that he had stopped the Soul Clan from attacking the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan, and they agreed to form an alliance against the Soul Clan.
• Gu Yuan told the leaders that the Soul Clan possessed the Tunling Clan’s devouring methods and urged them to locate the Soul Clan and secure spatial passages.
• Xiao Yu privately told Gu Yuan that the Bodhi Ancient Tree had revealed Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion was beneath Jia Nan Academy, and he planned to return there without sharing its location.
• Xiao Yu reunited with Xun Er and invited her to travel with him to the Northwest Continent; she happily agreed.
• Ling Ying told Xiao Yu and Xun Er that the younger members of the clans had gathered at the training grounds for a contest.

Xiao Yu and Xun Er visited the Ancient Clan’s training grounds to watch the younger generations of the clans spar, where Xiao Yu assessed the gathered fighters and discussed their strengths. The matches began with a Stone Clan victory over a Thunder Clan fighter, while Gu Qingyang said the Dou Shengs would not compete until later in the day.

• Xiao Yu gave Ling Ying two bottles of medicinal pills, and Ling Ying accepted them after Xiao Yu and Xun Er insisted.
• Xiao Yu and Xun Er discussed the Ancient Clan’s young fighters and arrived at the training grounds, where Xun Er introduced the Yao, Stone, and Thunder Clan members.
• Gu Qingyang, Gu Hua, Gu Xing, and Gu Yao greeted Xiao Yu and Xun Er, and Xiao Yu reassured Gu Xing that reaching Half-Saint was easy.
• The Stone Clan fighter defended against a Thunder Clan member’s repeated spear attacks, then knocked him out of the match with an earth dragon.
• Lei Dong told Lei Yun that he would take the field next, while Gu Qingyang told Xiao Yu that the Dou Sheng matches would likely begin in the afternoon.

Xiao Yu accepted Yao Tian’s challenge to a pill-refining contest after tensions rose between the Thunder and Yao Clans. With the clan leaders and Gu Dao watching as judges, Xiao Yu began refining alongside Yao Tian, Yao Ling, and Yao Xingji, and quickly reached the pill-fusion stage.

• Lei Dong declined Xiao Yu’s offer to spar, and Yao Tian mocked him before challenging the Pill Tower’s reputation for pill refining.
• Lei Yun steered the dispute toward Xiao Yu, who rebuked Yao Tian and accepted a contest against the Yao Clan’s pill refiners.
• Xiao Yu proposed that all Yao Clan participants compete against him, and Yao Ling agreed on the clan’s behalf.
• Lei Ying, Yao Dan, Yan Jin, and Gu Dao arrived to judge the contest after Xiao Yu rested for an hour.
• Xiao Yu summoned the Chaos Flame, refined all his ingredients together, and reached the pill-fusion stage in a single day, impressing Lei Ying and Yao Dan.

Xiao Yu won the alchemy contest against the Yao Clan, traded his Blood Phoenix Pill to Fairy Huo Ling for two Heavenly Grade Dou Skills and a favor, then returned to the Northwest Continent with Xun Er and their companions. The group split up to visit old friends, while Xiao Yu and Xun Er headed for Jia Nan Academy, where Su Qian and the others were reminiscing about him and Xiao Yan.

• Xiao Yu completed a Ninth-grade Treasure Pill and won the contest as Yao Tian, Yao Ling, and Yao Xingji finished their inferior pills.
• Yao Dan decided to hold the Yao Clan's Alchemist Tournament a year later and invite people from across the continent, including the Pill Tower.
• Xiao Yu gave Fairy Huo Ling the Blood Phoenix Pill in exchange for two Heavenly Grade Dou Skills and a favor she owed him.
• Xiao Yu told Gu Yuan he planned to visit the Northwest Continent, then traveled there with Xun Er and their companions.
• Cai Lin and Cai Die headed for the Snake People Clan, while Yun Yun, Nalan Yanran, Hai Bodong, and Ya Fei went toward the Jia Ma Empire; Xiao Yu and Xun Er continued to Jia Nan Academy.
• Su Qian, Hu Gan, Hu Jia, and Wu Hao welcomed new students at Jia Nan Academy and wondered when Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan would return.