Chapter Summaries

Decades after defeating Hun Tiandi, Xiao Yan reunited with Xun Er and Cai Lin after they broke through to Dou Di, then prepared to leave the Dou Qi Continent for an unknown world. He and Gu Yuan, Zhu Kun, Xun Er, and Cai Lin entered a newly opened planar passage, while their family and allies watched them depart.

• Xun Er emerged from seclusion as a Dou Di and reunited with Xiao Yan at the back mountain of Wutan City.
• Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun arrived as Dou Di, and Cai Lin soon emerged from seclusion after achieving the same breakthrough.
• Xiao Zhan bid farewell to Xiao Yan, who then gathered with Xun Er, Cai Lin, Gu Yuan, and Zhu Kun at Twin Emperors Mountain.
• Xiao Yan sensed that the Dou Qi Continent was rejecting him and opened a passage to another plane above Twin Emperors Mountain.
• Xiao Yan gave the others Soul Jades and Ninth-grade Golden Pills, warned them to stay together, and led them into the passage with Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun following.
• Old Yao, Xiao Xiao, Zi Yan, and countless people across the continent watched the group depart and bade farewell to Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan fought a Black-robed Man from the Yu Family, who sought to capture him and learn his secrets. Xiao Yan overcame the man’s fire-powered sound-wave attack with his soul power and struck as the man tried to flee.

• The Black-robed Man halted his attack and offered to spare Xiao Yan if he revealed his secrets, but Xiao Yan refused.
• Xiao Yan and the Black-robed Man exchanged close-range blows, and Qing Wenshu noticed Xiao Yan’s fire-attribute Dou Xian Power was stronger despite his lower cultivation stage.
• The Black-robed Man unleashed his fire-attribute sound-wave Dou Technique, Mad Lion Roar, and Qing Wenshu warned Xiao Yan of its power.
• Xiao Yan summoned his formidable soul power, causing the sound waves to dissipate and alarming the Black-robed Man.
• The Black-robed Man tried to escape, but Xiao Yan used Youming Tianhuang to unleash a powerful soul attack that overwhelmed him.

Hun Nie entered the Qiankun Ancient Array seeking Dusha Demon Empress, while Xiao Yan and Xiao Gui followed and encountered her guardian, Di Dusha. As Hun Nie attacked Di Dusha, he exposed Xiao Yan and Xiao Gui and rushed toward the sealed Dusha Demon Empress, leaving Xiao Yan facing Di Dusha’s poison assault.

• Xiao Yan and the Soul Devouring Master suspected the Qiankun Ancient Array concealed a stronger seal, but Hun Nie rushed into the cracks in the Pillar Supporting the Heavens, followed by Xiao Yan and Xiao Gui.
• Outside the array, Mo Tianxing tried to enter, but Duan Qifei intercepted him while the Four Continents’ fighters remained locked in battle against the Hidden Soul Society’s forces.
• Inside the Pillar Supporting the Heavens, Hun Nie identified the cyan-green sealed space as the place where Dusha Demon Empress was held and called for Di Dusha to surrender her.
• Di Dusha appeared and attacked Hun Nie with poisonous energy, but Hun Nie empowered his black dagger with blood and destroyed Di Dusha’s first assault.
• Hun Nie sent his dagger toward Xiao Yan and Xiao Gui’s hiding place, forcing them to retreat, then dashed toward Dusha Demon Empress as Di Dusha’s venomous snakes surged against Xiao Yan and Xiao Gui.

The Soul Devouring Master overwhelmed the Dusha Demon Empress and Di Dusha in the Demon Suppressing Prison, easily absorbing their attacks with his devouring power. After her attacks failed, the Dusha Demon Empress realized why the Outer Realm Evil Clan’s kings feared him.

• The Soul Devouring Master revealed that he had isolated the Demon Suppressing Prison from outside perception and dismissed the Dusha Demon Empress’s threats.
• Di Dusha attacked the Soul Devouring Master to buy time for the Dusha Demon Empress to escape, but was badly injured by a single blow.
• The Dusha Demon Empress launched her Dusha Demonic Bead, but the Soul Devouring Master drained its power and crushed it.
• The Dusha Demon Empress gathered blood mist into a thousand-zhang demonic claw and sent it at the Soul Devouring Master.
• The Soul Devouring Master’s black vortex swallowed the demonic claw’s energy, leaving the Dusha Demon Empress shocked by his devouring power.

Xiao Yan endured the four-star Dou Xian Tribulation inside the Xiangsi Tree, using his skills and elemental powers to resist its increasingly dangerous lightning. He destroyed the final thunder snake with Mutian Vine and the Third Finger of the Firmament, and the tribulation ended.

• Xiao Yan used the First Transformation of the Dragon God and faced the first lightning strike, which forced him back but did not seriously injure him.
• Xiao Yan resisted the second tribulation with the Three Fingers of the Firmament, while the lightning clouds gathered to unleash the third and fourth tribulations together.
• A powerful thunder snake overwhelmed Xiao Yan’s Holy Flame, Spiritual Power, and soul barriers, then pressed him back despite his Purgatory Array Chart and Creation Punches.
• Xiao Yan replaced the Purgatory Array Chart with green Wood Attribute energy and summoned Mutian Vine to bind the thunder snake.
• Xiao Yan struck the bound thunder snake with the Third Finger of the Firmament, destroying it and causing the thunder clouds to vanish.

Xiao Yan emerged from seclusion at the Ghost Moon Well after reaching the One-star Dou Xian Initial Stage and prepared to return to Ghost King Ridge with Qing Wenshu and Qinger. At the Moon Reflection Pool’s southern exit, Yu Quan confronted them and demanded everything they had obtained, but Xiao Yan moved to capture him.

• Qing Wenshu and Qinger worried that Xiao Yan had not emerged from seclusion, and Qing Wenshu considered returning for the coming auction.
• Xiao Yan emerged from the shattered barrier, and Qing Wenshu congratulated him on succeeding in his breakthrough.
• Xiao Yan, Qing Wenshu, and Qinger left the Ghost Moon Well and headed toward Ghost King Ridge after failing to find the Green Buffalo Heavenly Wood Soul Beast.
• Yu Quan learned that suspicious people had appeared near the Moon Reflection Pool’s southern exit and went to investigate with his men.
• Yu Quan confronted Xiao Yan and demanded everything from the Ghost Moon Well, but Xiao Yan and Qing Wenshu decided to capture him.
• Xiao Yan appeared beside Yu Quan with powerful fire-red Dou Xian Power, startling Yu Quan.

Xiao Yan had the eight-colored Dou Xian Tribulation moved into his Sacred Flame Space, where it grew into a nine-colored tribulation. After learning that the Soul Devouring Master had survived a ten-colored tribulation, Xiao Yan chose to attempt one himself.

• Yu Quan saw the eight-colored thunder cloud over the Moon Reflection Pool and resolved to kill the unknown tribulation-crosser before he could grow stronger.
• Xiao Yan sensed the tribulation from the Pill Hall and asked the Soul Devouring Master to transfer it into his Sacred Flame Space.
• The Soul Devouring Master absorbed the eight-colored thunder cloud and brought it into Xiao Yan's Sacred Flame Space without Yu Quan noticing.
• Xiao Yan activated the Flame Mantra and Dou Core, causing the thunder cloud to form a nine-colored Dou Xian Tribulation.
• The Soul Devouring Master urged Xiao Yan to use his third sacred flame and revealed that the Lord of Fierce Souls had crossed a ten-colored tribulation.
• Xiao Yan decided to attempt the ten-colored Dou Xian Tribulation despite its danger.

Xiao Yan, Qing Wenshu, and Qinger discovered that the skeleton in the Evil Pharmacist’s Pill Hall was still dangerous and fought it after it rose from its silver chair. Xiao Yan destroyed the chair by infusing his attack with Holy Flame power, revealing three golden treasure boxes as the skeleton lost its vitality.

• Qing Wenshu explained that the skeleton belonged to an Evil Pharmacist, and Xiao Yan suspected its pills had turned the ten Dou Di peak puppets into guardians.
• Xiao Yan burned away the mist around the remains and led the group down the stairs toward the skeleton.
• When they reached the twentieth platform, the skeleton stood up and attacked Xiao Yan with a powerful energy strike.
• Xiao Yan and Qing Wenshu attacked the silver chair, but it remained intact until Xiao Yan infused his power with Holy Flame.
• The silver chair exploded, the skeleton lost its vitality, and three golden treasure boxes appeared in the pit beneath it.

After mastering the first tier of the Spirit-Devouring Blood Monument, Xiao Yan went to meet Wang Feng and the travelers waiting to depart for the Eastern Continent. Yu Xiaoye dismissed Xiao Yan as unremarkable, then collided with him in the street and sensed his imposing aura.

• Xiao Yan mastered the Spirit-Devouring Blood Monument First Tier during ten days of seclusion and gained the ability to seal foes two grades stronger than himself.
• The innkeeper told Xiao Yan that Wang Feng had asked to see him at the City Lord Mansion, and Xiao Yan set off there.
• Wang Feng and Yu Yifeng waited for Xiao Yan, whose alchemist skills and soul power were needed for their journey and a dangerous objective.
• Yu Xiaoye complained about waiting for Xiao Yan, then left the mansion and wandered through Ghost King City.
• Yu Xiaoye bumped into Xiao Yan and was startled by the oppressive aura of the man carrying a heavy ruler.

After recovering from the Ten-Color Tribulation, Xiao Yan began using the Heavenly Wood to awaken the Wood Attribute in his Dou Xian Power. He reached the required balance between Fire and Wood and prepared to complete the awakening.

• Xiao Yan woke after ten days unconscious in the Sacred Flame Space, and the Soul Devouring Master explained that the tribulation had left him injured but greatly strengthened his body.
• The Soul Devouring Master advised Xiao Yan to absorb the Heavenly Wood to separate and awaken the Wood Attribute in his Dou Xian Power.
• Xiao Yan opened the golden treasure box and absorbed the Heavenly Wood's life-rich Wood Attribute energy.
• Xiao Yan stopped absorbing when the Wood Attribute reached one-third of his Dou Xian Power, saving the remaining Heavenly Wood in case he needed more.
• Xiao Yan closed his eyes and began awakening the Wood Attribute.

Xiao Yan discovered that twelve Medicine Refining Cauldrons concealed a sunken space in the Pill Hall. After Qing Wenshu identified the arrangement as the Twelve Cauldrons Worship and the trio closed the cauldron rims, a skeleton appeared below, which Qing Wenshu recognized as an Evil Pharmacist.

• Xiao Yan cautiously explored the Pill Hall and found a hidden sunken space surrounded by Medicine Refining Cauldrons.
• Xiao Yan rejoined Qinger and Qing Wenshu, who reported finding treasures but no trace of the Pill Hall's master.
• Qing Wenshu identified the arrangement as the Twelve Cauldrons Worship, an ancient evil art used to protect remains.
• Qing Wenshu noticed the cauldron rims faced outward and proposed closing them to reveal the hidden mystery.
• Xiao Yan, Qinger, and Qing Wenshu sealed the twelve cauldron rims, causing mist and mechanisms to appear as a skeleton emerged below.
• Qing Wenshu recognized the skeleton as an Evil Pharmacist and reacted with terror.

Xiao Yan and Qing Wenshu opened the final treasure box and discovered the Evil Pharmacist’s Mad Demon Pill, which could temporarily raise its user’s strength by an entire major tier. Qing Wenshu took the pill to help protect the Qing Family, then invited Xiao Yan to Ghost King City as the two prepared to absorb the Corpse Pill and break through to Dou Di.

• Qing Wenshu opened the final treasure box, and its red light and dragon-and-phoenix cries blasted him and Xiao Yan backward.
• Xiao Yan tried to probe the jade bottle with his soul power, triggering the cries, while Qing Wenshu recognized the pill inside as the Mad Demon Pill.
• Qing Wenshu explained that the Mad Demon Pill could raise anyone below Three-Star Dou Xian by a major tier for one incense stick without harming their origin source, though it caused a month of weakness.
• Qing Wenshu asked to keep the pill so the Qing Family could defend itself against the Yu Family, and Xiao Yan agreed.
• Qing Wenshu invited Xiao Yan to Ghost King City for a large auction, and they prepared to absorb the Corpse Pill and break through to Dou Di.

Xiao Yan endured three days of refining the Corpse Pill and fused his power of life and death into milky-white pseudo Dou Xian power. He began condensing a Dou Core by forcing it together with his Dou Qi Cluster, leaving the combined energy transforming inside his Dou Qi Sea.

• Xiao Yan endured the Corpse Pill’s energy battering his power of life and death, while Mu Yingying’s azure flame healed him whenever he neared his limit.
• Xiao Yan refined the Corpse Pill’s final power and used it to erase the remaining black-and-white traces from his power of life and death.
• Xiao Yan drew his Dou Qi Cluster and the milky-white pseudo Dou Xian power into his Dou Qi Sea to begin condensing a Dou Core.
• Xiao Yan forced the pseudo Dou Xian power to devour the Dou Qi Cluster, then used the power of his twin flames to suppress their resistance as they transformed into a Gorgeous Light Spot.

Bai He destroyed Black-Faced Tiger’s Flame Giant Tiger, but Yu Qian was backlashed by the Blood Heaven Demon Ape and became a powerful, uncontrollable threat. Xiao Yan helped Bai He escape Yu Qian’s attack, then called on City Lord Wang to reveal himself as the battle grew more dangerous.

• Bai He used spatial power to destroy Black-Faced Tiger’s Flame Giant Tiger and demanded that Black-Faced Tiger show his true strength.
• Yu Qian appeared surrounded by red lightning and the Blood Heaven Demon Ape’s illusory form, while Black-Faced Tiger revealed that the backlash had raised Yu Qian’s strength to Three-star Early-stage Dou Xian.
• Bai He attacked Yu Qian, but the Blood Heaven Demon Ape’s tough defense withstood the blow, and Yu Qian struck back with a beam of red lightning.
• Xiao Yan used the Primordial Fire Ruler to hold back Yu Qian’s lightning long enough for Bai He to retreat, then escaped through a Spatial Teleportation Array.
• Xiao Yan called out to City Lord Wang, and the experts noticed something concealed in a patch of sky.

Yu Yifeng led Xiao Yan and the others into Ice Fire Island, whose treacherous volcanic interior was covered by a deadly force of ice and fire. As the group descended, powerful beings on the first and second floors sensed the Soul Devouring Master’s arrival.

• Yu Yifeng gave the group Ice Fire Grass, and everyone refined it to form barriers against Ice Fire Island’s ice-and-fire force.
• Yu Yifeng led the group down the Altar’s shaft, and the Soul Devouring Master revealed that he had once befriended powerful Guardians on Ice Fire Island’s first and second floors.
• The group emerged above a vast volcanic crater ringed with ice, and Yu Yifeng warned them not to touch or take anything inside.
• Yu Yifeng used Wind Binding to send the group plunging into the crater’s interior, where the oppressive force of ice and fire affected them despite their barriers.
• Powerful beings on the first and second floors sensed the Soul Devouring Master and recognized his Devouring power.

After recovering from the Ninth Layer’s guardian battle, Xiao Yan’s group prepared to continue toward the eighth floor, despite Lvyin’s warning that its guardian might be beyond their strength. At the Ninth Layer’s treasure box, Yu Yifeng recognized the dazzling object inside as a Xuan Crystal.

• Lvyin warned Yu Yifeng and Xiao Yan that the eighth-floor guardian radiated a deathly aura and urged them to retreat if they could not match it.
• Yu Yifeng explained that the group had to fulfill the Ghost Realm figure’s commission to rescue someone, then the group continued toward the treasure room.
• As they traveled through the passage, Xiao Yan sensed growing unease in his Soul Sea and suspected that an Immortal Realm Soul might be nearby.
• Yu Yifeng told Yu Xiaoye to open the golden Treasure Box, and she summoned her courage and touched it.
• Golden light filled the passage, and Yu Yifeng recognized the object inside the box as a Xuan Crystal.

After months of refining the Earth Dragon Blood Crystal, Xiao Yan used its essence to temper his body in the blood pool, enduring severe pain as he forced the dragon blood into himself. He began absorbing its power and showed early signs of dragon-like toughness, laying groundwork for cultivating the Nine Transformations of the Dragon God.

• Xiao Yan finished refining the Earth Dragon Blood Crystal, turning the blood pool crimson with its energy.
• Xiao Yan tested the blood pool, felt its scorching pain, then submerged himself to let the dragon blood temper his physique.
• Xiao Yan used his soul power to separate the concentrated Earth Dragon blood essence from the pool water.
• Xiao Yan forcibly fused the dragon blood into his body despite the danger, and his physique began slowly repairing and absorbing it.
• A brief golden flash appeared on Xiao Yan as faint, budding dragon-scale-like marks emerged on his skin.

Xiao Yan faced the tenth-color Dou Xian Tribulation after it cut him off from his Holy Flame power, and his Clan Mark awakened to destroy the lightning. The Xiao Clan’s Ten Clan-Protecting Yanluo appeared, while powerful figures in the Human Realm Center began plotting to find them and uncover the Garden of Eden.

• The tenth-color tribulation disrupted Xiao Yan’s control over the Holy Flame and Sacred Flame Space, and Soul Devouring Master warned him that enduring it would likely kill him.
• Xiao Yan refused to retreat, summoned his remaining Dou Xian Power, and struck at the tribulation as silver lightning invaded his body.
• As Xiao Yan struggled against the lightning, his bloodied Xiao Clan Mark awakened, and a voice from it declared that the Heaven Realm could not destroy the Xiao Clan’s descendants.
• The Ten Clan-Protecting Yanluo shattered the tenth-color tribulation, leaving ten golden lines around Xiao Yan’s Clan Mark as he collapsed from exhaustion.
• At the Human Realm Center, the Heavenly Emperor ordered an investigation into the Seven Realms, while another power demanded that the Realm Lord of the Four Dou Di Continents find the Ten Halls of Yama and sought the location of the Garden of Eden.

Xiao Yan began breaking through to Dou Di by refining and swallowing the Corpse Pill, using its power to fuse his Black and White Life and Death Power. As the power transformed toward fire red, he endured intense pain and continued forcing the fusion.

• Qinger began her own breakthrough while Xiao Yan and Qing Wenshu left the sunken ground.
• Xiao Yan set up barriers of Holy Flame Power and soul power before preparing to swallow the Corpse Pill.
• The Soul Devouring Master warned Xiao Yan to stabilize after his breakthrough before devouring the Dou Soul.
• Xiao Yan burned the Corpse Pill to remove its corpse qi, inhaled the resulting smoke, and then swallowed the pill.
• The Corpse Pill's power surged through Xiao Yan as he forced his Life and Death Power to fuse, enduring violent explosions and pain.

Yu Yifeng led the Eagle Eye Squad out of the tenth layer after defeating its Guardian, and they collected their reward. Xiao Yan claimed the dull scroll, recognizing it as a Wood Attribute defensive Dou Technique that could fill a gap in his abilities.

• Yu Yifeng told Xiao Yan that he had defeated the Frost Ancient Ape and that the dark aperture was the exit from the tenth layer.
• Yu Yifeng reunited with the Eagle Eye Squad, and the group left the tenth-layer space through the aperture.
• Yu Yifeng explained that Ice Fire Island’s Guardians and rewards were tied to dangerous places, while the Soul Devouring Master warned Xiao Yan about the power of the top three layers.
• Shuiyue opened the golden Treasure Box and found a faint, unidentified scroll.
• Xiao Yan claimed the scroll as a Fire Attribute technique, then secretly recognized it as a Wood Attribute defensive Dou Technique.