Chapter Summaries

Liu Bai emerged from seclusion as a One-Star Peak Dou Saint, learned of the Ling Clan’s disappearance and the Soul Hall’s growing conflict with the Starfall Pavilion, and refined ten Bodhi Pills. He learned that Xiao Yan’s allies were under heavy attack and prepared to act as the Central Plains’ situation worsened.

• Liu Bai broke through to One-Star Peak Dou Saint and reunited with Zi Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin.
• Venerable Skyfire told Liu Bai that the Ling Clan had vanished and that the Soul Hall and Starfall Pavilion had repeatedly clashed.
• Venerable Skyfire reported that the Blood Fire Hall had grown as powerful figures joined, hoping to obtain Bodhi Pills.
• Liu Bai spent two months refining ten eighth-tier nine-colored pills and entrusted their distribution to Venerable Skyfire.
• Venerable Skyfire told Liu Bai that the Soul Hall’s attacks had put the Starfall Pavilion in danger despite the Pill Tower’s help and Yao Lao’s support.

Liu Bai tasked Qing Lin with watching Starfall Pavilion to keep the Ancient Emperor Jade from falling into the Soul Clan’s hands, then joined Zi Yan and the Ancient Void Dragon Clan in their campaign to unify the Beast Domain. The Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan was defeated and captured, while the Ancient Void Dragons brought the region’s other factions under their control.

• Liu Bai told Qing Lin to watch Starfall Pavilion and send Yao Ming and the others to help if Soul Hall threatened to breach its defenses.
• Liu Bai traveled with Zi Yan, Zhu Ying, and the Ancient Void Dragon Clan elders to the Beast Domain to conquer the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and unite the region.
• Zhu Ying destroyed the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s protective formation, and Zi Yan ordered the clan’s Half-Saint-level and stronger members captured alive.
• The Ancient Void Dragon experts overwhelmed the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, captured its five-star Dou Saint clan leader, and subdued its other powerful members.
• Ancient Void Dragon Dou Saints spread across the Beast Domain, compelling many Magical Beast families to submit and crushing those that resisted.

Liu Bai and Zi Yan brought the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan under the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s control and discovered the clan’s Heaven Phoenix Blood Pool. Liu Bai began absorbing its bloodline power, hoping to advance his cultivation.

• Liu Bai sealed Huang Tian and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s three Dou Saints and twelve Half-Saints, making them submit to him as their master.
• Zi Yan celebrated that the Ancient Void Dragon Clan now commanded the Beast Domain, and Liu Bai said they would prepare for the coming storm.
• Liu Bai, Zi Yan, and Zhu Ying searched the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s territory for valuable resources.
• Liu Bai found the Heaven Phoenix Blood Pool and learned from Zhu Ying that it preserved and purified the clan’s bloodlines.
• Liu Bai protected himself with Nether Prison Black Emperor Flame, sat beside the Blood Pool, and prepared to absorb its bloodline power.

Liu Bai absorbed most of the Heaven Phoenix Blood Pool’s power and advanced to Three-Star Dou Saint. He then traveled with Qing Lin and Yao Ming to the Nine Serene Deep Earth Python Tribe to seek the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s techniques and essence blood.

• Liu Bai entered the Heaven Phoenix Blood Pool and used his blood-affinity Martial Soul to absorb its power while Zi Yan and Zhu Ying watched.
• After a year, Liu Bai emerged at Three-Star Dou Saint, having absorbed nearly seventy percent of the pool’s bloodline power, and reunited with Zi Yan and Zhu Ying.
• Half a month later, Liu Bai, Qing Lin, and Yao Ming arrived at the Nine Serene Deep Earth Python Tribe, where Qing Lin had become its master and reached Two-Star Dou Saint.
• Yao Ming led the group to the Yellow Springs Stone Tablet and explained that it held the Yellow Springs Heaven Wrath and the Demon Saint Essence Blood.
• Liu Bai recognized the Yellow Springs Finger and Yellow Springs Palm carved into the tablet and sensed the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s remaining soul pressure.

Liu Bai entered the stele and defeated the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s remnant soul, obtaining Yellow Springs Heaven Wrath and the Demon Saint Essence Blood. He returned to Yao Ming with the Half-Emperor Essence Blood, whose power could help Liu Bai advance or raise Yao Ming’s cultivation.

• Liu Bai entered the stele’s inner world with his Emperor Realm Soul and easily overcame the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s lightning and techniques.
• The Yellow Springs Demon Saint appeared and challenged Liu Bai, but Liu Bai shattered his remnant body with his soul power.
• The weakened Yellow Springs Demon Saint gave Liu Bai Yellow Springs Heaven Wrath and his essence blood before fading away completely.
• Liu Bai left the stele and told Yao Ming that he had obtained both treasures.
• Liu Bai examined the Half-Emperor Essence Blood and sensed that it could help him advance one or two stars or bring Yao Ming to Three-Star Dou Saint.

Liu Bai refined the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s essence blood and broke through to Four-Star Dou Saint after a year in seclusion. He reunited with Zi Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin, then prepared to return to the Blood Fire Hall before the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame descended.

• Liu Bai swallowed the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s essence blood and spent a year refining its energy and bloodline power.
• Zi Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin sensed Liu Bai’s rising aura and hurried to see him emerge from seclusion.
• Liu Bai revealed that he had reached Four-Star Dou Saint and strengthened his physical body.
• Liu Bai told the women that the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame would descend soon and that he had gathered all its fragmented maps.
• Liu Bai and the women set out for the Blood Fire Hall so he could prepare to obtain the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.

Liu Bai returned to Blood Fire Hall, prepared to counter Soul Hall, and mastered the Yellow Springs Three Lives Arts while waiting for the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame to descend. When the Heaven and Earth Tide began, he set out with Zi Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin to investigate the flame.

• Venerable Skyfire reported that Soul Hall had grown bolder and Blood Fire Hall had more than doubled in size, so Liu Bai ordered his followers to monitor Soul Hall and prepare for action.
• Liu Bai decided to cultivate the Yellow Springs Three Lives Arts and warned Zi Yan and Xiao Yi Xian to prepare for the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame's arrival.
• Liu Bai mastered Yellow Springs Heaven Wrath, Yellow Springs Finger, and Yellow Springs Palm, then spent time at Blood Fire Hall while his scouts investigated the flame's region.
• Twin moons appeared and nine stars aligned, signaling the arrival of the Heaven and Earth Tide and the descent of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Liu Bai, Zi Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin left Blood Fire Hall to assess the situation, with Liu Bai warning them to retreat from enemies they could not defeat.

Liu Bai and his companions reached the desert scorched by the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and found the major factions gathered around the ruptured space. Hun Miesheng arrived and exchanged a tense challenge with Liu Bai, while the flame remained sealed inside.

• Liu Bai led Zi Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin toward the site of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, encountering many other factions on the way.
• Liu Bai and his companions reached the milky-white desert and saw that the flame's residual heat had burned the mountain range away.
• Liu Bai judged the ruptured space too dangerous to enter first as experts from the Ancient Clans, Soul Clan, Flame Clan, and Lei Clan gathered nearby.
• Hun Miesheng emerged from black fog with the Soul Hall Vice Hall Master and a strange black-eyed man, drawing the gathered factions' attention.
• Liu Bai and Hun Miesheng exchanged pointed remarks, with Liu Bai declaring that the Blood Fire Hall would keep the Soul Hall in check before Hun Miesheng withdrew his gaze.

Liu Bai met Xiao Yan and Yao Lao at the gathering for the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and Xiao Yan agreed not to compete with him for it. The Ancient Clan arrived with Xun Er, who reunited with Xiao Yan and said she would stay by his side.

• Liu Bai saw Soul Clan leader Hun Feng and remained wary of the Soul Clan despite his own strength and allies.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao greeted Liu Bai, learned he had reached the Four-Star Dou Saint realm, and heard that he intended to claim the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Xiao Yan withdrew from competing for the flame and asked Liu Bai to let him witness it if Liu Bai obtained it.
• Liu Bai introduced Zi Yan as the Dragon Emperor of the Ancient Void Dragon, and Yao Lao recognized her and Xiao Yi Xian as formidable experts.
• Xun Er arrived with Gu Qingyang and Gu Nanhai, and Xiao Yan embraced her after they reunited.
• Xun Er told Xiao Yan she was free and would stay by his side.

Liu Bai joined Xiao Yan and the others as the gathered factions waited for the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame to emerge, while suspicion over the Ling Clan’s disappearance strained relations among the Ancient Clans. The Yao Clan arrived, and Yao Lao identified its powerful elder, Yao Wangui, just as the chapter ended.

• Xun Er greeted Yao Lao and apologized for having once suspected his intentions toward Xiao Yan.
• Liu Bai exchanged greetings with Gu Nanhai, then urged everyone to prepare for the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s emergence.
• Gu Nanhai questioned Elder Huo Yao about the suspicion that the Ancient Clan had caused the Ling Clan’s disappearance, but Huo Yao said the Ancient and Soul Clans were the main suspects.
• The Lei Clan and Stone Clan arrived and kept their distance from the Ancient and Soul Clans as the fractured space’s heat intensified.
• The Yao Clan arrived, and Xun Er described Yao Tian and Yao Ling before Yao Lao identified the elder as Yao Wangui, the clan’s powerful overseer of punishments.

Yao Wangui and Yao Chen confronted each other over Yao Chen’s expulsion from the Yao Clan, and Xiao Yan defended his teacher by overpowering Yao Tian in a soul-force clash. Fearing Xiao Yan’s potential, Yao Wangui launched a full-strength attack at Xiao Yan and Yao Chen, leaving them in immediate danger.

• Yao Lao recognized Yao Wangui as the man who had driven him from the Yao Clan, and Xiao Yan promised to kill him.
• Yao Tian mocked Yao Lao and belittled Xiao Yan, then attacked Xiao Yan with a wave of Soul Power.
• Xiao Yan crushed Yao Tian’s soul attack and struck back with a soul fist, revealing his Grand Perfection of the Heavenly Realm soul realm.
• Yao Wangui blocked Xiao Yan’s attack and became wary of his potential, while Xiao Yan dismissed the Yao Clan’s reputation.
• Yao Wangui launched a full-strength Dou Qi palm at Xiao Yan and Yao Lao, and Xiao Yan’s expression changed as the attack descended.

Liu Bai stopped Yao Wangui from killing Xiao Yan and revealed the overwhelming power of his Emperor Realm Soul. When the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame emerged, Liu Bai entered its illusion with Zi Yan and Xiao Yi Xian, unaffected by the flames and illusions.

• Yao Wangui attacked Xiao Yan, but Liu Bai shattered his Dou Qi palm and sent him flying with his Soul Power.
• Yao Wangui recognized Liu Bai's Emperor Realm Soul and threatened him on behalf of the Yao Clan, but Liu Bai intimidated him into silence.
• Liu Bai warned the gathered factions to focus on the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame as the fractured space opened and milky-white magma spread across the desert.
• Liu Bai entered the ring of light with Zi Yan and Xiao Yi Xian, followed by Xiao Yan, Xun Er, Yao Lao, Gu Nanhai, and the other experts.
• Inside the Flame's illusion, Liu Bai used his Emperor Realm Soul to see through the illusions and walked forward as the milky-white flames retreated from him.

Liu Bai and his companions crossed the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame's trials, destroying the Fire Slaves in their path. At the final hall, Liu Bai defeated a powerful Fire Slave and continued toward the place where the flame resided.

• Liu Bai used his Emperor Realm Soul to dispel the Illusion and led Zi Yan and Xiao Yi Xian toward the great hall.
• Liu Bai swept through the halls by crushing the Fire Slaves with soul pressure while Zi Yan and Xiao Yi Xian followed.
• Liu Bai broke open the door to the final hall, where he found a seemingly intelligent Four-Star Dou Saint Fire Slave.
• The Fire Slave attacked Liu Bai with a Blood-Colored Great Axe, but Liu Bai shattered it with the Yellow Springs Finger and sent him crashing to the ground.

Liu Bai confronted the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame at its altar and overwhelmed its avatar with his Emperor Realm Soul. The Flame summoned countless Fire Slaves, and Zi Yan charged into the horde while Liu Bai faced the challenge of reaching its true body.

• Liu Bai, Zi Yan, and Xiao Yi Xian entered the altar and found the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame waiting in a white-robed form.
• The Flame challenged Liu Bai to defeat it for the Demonic Lotus Flame Origin or remain forever as a Fire Slave.
• Liu Bai destroyed the Flame’s nine Fire Dragons and shattered its thousand-zhang Demonic Lotus True Form with his Emperor Realm Soul.
• Liu Bai dispelled the illusion trapping the experts and revealed his ten-thousand-zhang soul phantom, while the Flame’s avatar summoned its Fire Slaves.
• Zi Yan unleashed her Six-Star Dou Saint power and charged into the Fire Slave horde, destroying scores with her attacks.

Liu Bai trapped the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame in the Kunxu Realm, where the realm’s formations suppressed and refined him. With the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint’s remnant soul awakened, they began trying to erase the Flame’s intelligence and memories.

• Zi Yan used her Supreme Dragon Emperor bloodline to crush the Fire Slaves as Liu Bai searched for the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s true body.
• Liu Bai drew the Flame’s true body out of hiding and battled him, while Gu Nanhai ordered Xiao Yan, Xun Er, Yao Lao, and the others to retreat.
• Liu Bai transported himself and the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame into the Kunxu Realm, where his power increased and the Flame was suppressed by two formations.
• Liu Bai summoned the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint from the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame Map, and the Saint agreed to help erase the Flame’s intelligence.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame attacked Liu Bai and the Saint, but the Saint began forming a great formation to take back the intelligence and memories he had given the Flame.

Liu Bai helped the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint strip the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame of its memories and consciousness, then refined the purified flame in the Kunxu Realm. After months of seclusion, Liu Bai had reached the peak of the Six-Star Dou Saint level, while the Blood Fire Hall’s prestige spread across the Central Plains.

• Liu Bai supplied the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint with the Kunxu Realm’s power of heaven and earth so he could separate the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s consciousness from its body.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint destroyed himself and the flame’s consciousness, leaving behind a pure Heavenly Flame for Liu Bai to refine.
• Liu Bai entered seclusion in the Kunxu Realm, where Zi Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin stood guard as he absorbed the flame’s energy.
• Liu Bai’s cultivation rose through the Five-Star Dou Saint level and reached the peak of the Six-Star Dou Saint level during his months of refinement.
• News spread that Liu Bai had subdued the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and the Blood Fire Hall’s prestige rose to rival and even surpass the Soul Hall’s.

After the Ancient and Soul Clans reacted to Liu Bai claiming the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, Xiao Yan returned to Starfall Pavilion and accepted that he had not been strong enough to obtain it. Liu Bai completed his refinement in the Kunxu Realm and emerged as a late Seven-Star Dou Saint.

• Gu Nanhai led Xun Er and the others back to the Ancient Realm, where Gu Yuan praised Liu Bai and Xun Er asked where Xiao Yan was.
• Hun Miesheng returned to the Soul Realm with Hun Feng and the others, and Hun Feng declared that Liu Bai had to be eliminated.
• Xiao Yan returned to Starfall Pavilion with Yao Lao and resolved to improve himself rather than regret missing the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Liu Bai awoke from his refinement in the Kunxu Realm and discovered that he had reached the late Seven-Star Dou Saint stage.