Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan and Xun Er cleared the Ancient Prison and gathered the rescued Ancient Clan Elders to plan their next move. After Xiao Yan demonstrated his strength and demanded that Xun Er be made Clan Patriarch, the Elders agreed to follow her leadership and accept his help.

• Xiao Yan recovered after glimpsing a memory that revealed the Outer Realm Evil Clan had Evil Gods beyond the King Rank.
• Xun Er and the Peerless Heavenly Emperor wiped out or suppressed the Evil Person in the Ancient Prison, and Xun Er rescued the imprisoned elders’ soul bodies.
• Xiao Yan and Xun Er concluded that they would need to go to the Ancient Clan Core after gathering forces from the vassal cities.
• The Ancient Clan Elders hesitated to fight while separated from their physical bodies, and they doubted Xiao Yan could defeat the Evil Person.
• Xiao Yan injured an Elder with his soul power and demanded that the Elders recognize Xun Er as Clan Patriarch, or he would leave with her.
• The First Elder and the other Ancient Clan Elders agreed to Xiao Yan’s demand and accepted his help.

Xiao Yan began refining the Gu Ben Pei Yuan Pill, a complex heavenly-tier pill requiring 107 ingredients and rare materials. After carefully processing its first four main ingredients, he continued the slow first stage of refinement.

• Xiao Yan prepared the cauldron and reviewed the Gu Ben Pei Yuan Pill’s ingredients and exacting refining method.
• Xiao Yan refined the Snow Cream Ganoderma with several neutralizing ingredients while controlling multiple processes with his spiritual strength.
• Xiao Yan spent an hour extracting the Green Wood Fruit and began refining the Dragon Blood Immortal Vine with additional neutralizing ingredients.
• Xiao Yan added the Dragon Core from the Bloodthirsty Demonic Dragon Lizard and slowly melted all four ingredients in the cauldron.

Xiao Yan discovered that conflicting Dragon Clan bloodline auras in the scarlet essence blood and Dragon Blood Immortal Vine were disrupting his pill refinement. After an attempted remedy stirred the auras into greater resistance, he prepared to subdue them himself.

• Xiao Yan realized the scarlet blood and Dragon Blood Immortal Vine powder repelled each other because both carried activated Dragon Clan bloodline auras.
• Xiao Yan refined additional ingredients into a pale blue liquid and added it to the blood and powder, calming them briefly.
• The scarlet blood and powder produced miniature dragon phantoms whose hostile roars caused the mixture to boil again and briefly stalled Xiao Yan’s Dou Qi.
• Yue Yu and Yue Ru discussed the essence blood’s immense pressure and decided to watch, prepared to intervene if necessary.
• Xiao Yan declared that he would subdue the bloodline auras rather than let them resist his pill refinement.

Tang Tang’s group crossed deeper into the Death Desert toward a water source, while King Xuan Ling and the Dragon Devouring Legion prepared to enter the Snake People Tribe’s Divine Hall. King Xuan Ling revealed that a Medusa-blooded descendant might inherit the petrifying power that once killed the Xuan Ling Imperial Family’s founder.

• Tang Tang led her exhausted group toward a mapped water source and told Wu Yu to protect Yan Xiao as he went ahead to collect water.
• Mu Yingying sensed powerful flame-like fluctuations in the desert, while Great Mountain and Elder Great Water chose to keep following Tang Tang’s group.
• King Xuan Ling told the ten strongest experts of the Dragon Devouring Legion that they were heading for the Snake People Tribe’s Divine Hall to stop a one-star Dou Emperor with Medusa bloodline from inheriting its secrets.
• King Xuan Ling explained that Medusa’s Petrifying Eye had killed the Xuan Ling Imperial Family’s founder thousands of years earlier and that a new Medusa ruler could threaten the family again.

A powerful Pill Tribulation gathered over the Moon Family Estate as Xiao Yan prepared to face it. The Yue Family drove off the Mu Family, then readied the estate and watched as black lightning began to form above Xiao Yan.

• The Yue Family head revealed her restored Five-star Dou Di strength and ordered the Mu Family to leave within ten breaths.
• The gray-clothed Mu Family head withdrew with Muller, who vowed to make Xiao Yan suffer if he caught him.
• Yue Yu ordered the elders to activate the estate’s grand formation and sent the family members to the front courtyard.
• Yue Yu, Yue Ru, and the Third Elder worried that Xiao Yan might not withstand the unusually powerful Pill Tribulation and prepared to help him.
• A thick black bolt of lightning burst from the clouds as Xiao Yan stood atop the wooden hut and faced the gathering tribulation.

Lin Zhu wondered about the man with the Heavy Ruler before leaving to find her senior sister, while Bing Xin confronted Tu Xingzhe over the Fire Qilin Pill poison outside Xuan Ling City. As hidden factions watched and some withdrew toward the Desert Zone, Bing Xin formed a poisonous sword phantom and continued the battle.

• Lin Zhu reflected on the man with the Heavy Ruler and left her room to meet her senior sister.
• Bing Xin met Tu Xingzhe on a rocky path outside Xuan Ling City, where he said the item she carried had attracted many people.
• Tu Lang and the woman with him decided to leave and prepare for the Desert Zone, while Tu Lang used his soul power to give Xiao Yan a meeting point.
• Pill King Chen Xin watched the fight with Master Lu, and Elder Zhu briefly appeared nearby before vanishing.
• Bing Xin's poison attack corroded Tu Xingzhe's rock defense, so she shaped her Dou Qi into a green sword as two men from the Ten Thousand Sword Gate watched.

Xiao Yi possessed Xiao Yan, combining their power with the Dou Qi from Nine Soul Tablet and Chang Yu to raise Xiao Yan to early Seven-star Dou Di. As Mu Yingying and the Heavenly Fire Sacred Tiger distracted Yin Xie, the rescued captives awakened and looked to Xiao Yan as he prepared to fight.

• Mu Yingying and the Heavenly Fire Sacred Tiger agreed to distract the Blood Vortex while Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi handled the rest.
• Xiao Yi merged with Xiao Yan, lending him spiritual flames and helping his strength surge to early Seven-star Dou Di.
• Xiao Yan formed flame armor as Mu Yingying and the Heavenly Fire Sacred Tiger attacked the Blood Vortex from opposite sides, but Yin Xie continued absorbing Ghost Qi and healing.
• Hu Du, Wu Jiang, Yue Ru, and the others cleared Ghost Qi from the captured tournament participants and lowered them safely to the ground.
• The captives woke and watched Xiao Yan in his flame armor as he called for his sword.

Xiao Yan killed the Twin Ghost Emperor, Yin Xie, but You Quan swallowed its remaining soul and escaped as his power surged. Chang Yu and the others were left facing the danger while Xiao Yan and Mu Yingying recovered from the battle.

• Chang Yu and the Nine Soul Tablet tried to stop the black-clad attackers from taking the Twin Ghost Emperor's soul, while Chang Yu protected Xiao Yan and Mu Yingying.
• Hong Ye refused to fight Chang Yu's group, explaining that she had been paid to help and would not attack unless they intervened.
• Chang Yu realized Xiao Yan had killed Yin Xie, leaving only its illusory soul behind.
• You Quan broke past the Nine Soul Tablet and swallowed Yin Xie's remaining soul, causing his aura to surge.
• Xiao Yan thanked Mu Yingying for helping him and sent gentle flame energy into her to steady her aura.
• Chang Yu warned that You Quan was getting away as the group prepared to pursue him.

After winning the Points Plunder Tournament, Xiao Yan heard the Nine Super Sects compete for his allegiance with valuable offers. Purgatory Hall offered him an Immortal-tier Dou Ji, and the chapter ended as the rival sect experts reacted to the prize.

• A Solomon expert proposed that the sects reveal their offers before Xiao Yan chose where to join.
• Solomon offered Xiao Yan a Dou Soul, and the Golden Dragon King explained its power and rarity.
• The Ten Thousand Flowers Pavilion offered Xiao Yan a Myriad Flowers Baptism, which Mu Feng described as a way to purify Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yan thanked the Ten Thousand Flowers Pavilion but indicated he had no desire to join a sect filled with women.
• Purgatory Hall offered Xiao Yan an Immortal-tier Dou Ji, making the other sect experts frown at the valuable offer.

Xiao Yan and his companions fought off the Medusa Snake Guards as Xiao Yi’s flames dispersed their poisonous hurricane and the scarred man used ice-attributed Dou Qi against them. After the Snake Guards retreated, Xiao Yan sensed someone approaching and led the group deeper into the Desert Lands.

• The Snake Guard captain ordered two guards to capture the person carrying the Heavy Ruler, while Xiao Yan asked the scarred man to handle them and Xiao Yi to counter the poisonous miasma.
• Xiao Yi unleashed his flames and forced the poisonous miasma and emerald-green hurricane back.
• Tang Tang, Tu Lang, and Lone Wolf fought the Snake Guard captain, while the scarred man shattered the two guards’ energy serpents and attacked them with icy Dou Qi.
• The Snake Guard captain ordered a retreat after the battle turned against her, and one guard carried her injured companion away.
• Xiao Yan sensed someone approaching and led the group deeper into the Desert Lands.

Xiao Yan rejected Liu Ping’s offer to join the Heaven Hall and chose the Human Hall to pursue its mysterious Sky Shifting Ruler. Mu Xuzi accepted Xiao Yan and the three others into the Human Hall, where Xiao Yan hoped to uncover a battle skill linked to the Holy Flame.

• Liu Ping urged Xiao Yan to join the powerful Heaven Hall, while Mu Feng explained the three halls’ renowned battle skills and the Human Hall’s little-understood Sky Shifting Ruler.
• The Golden Dragon King told Xiao Yan to join the Human Hall, master the Sky Shifting Ruler, and investigate its connection to the Holy Flame.
• Xiao Yan declined Liu Ping’s offer and announced that he wanted to join the Human Hall to try its unusual battle skill.
• Liu Ping led about half the candidates to the Heaven Hall, and Huo Zhi led many of the rest to the Earth Hall.
• Mu Xuzi warned Xiao Yan, Mu Feng, Mu Yingying, and Xiao Yi that only two people in the Burning Incense Pavilion’s history had mastered the Sky Shifting Ruler, then welcomed the four into the Human Hall.

Xiao Yan let the Immortal Sword’s residual power invade him so the Golden Dragon King could help destroy it in one strike, but the sword’s green energy swallowed their attacks. The Voice of the Sea began gathering blue light at Xiao Yan’s brow as the residual power raced toward his brain’s control center and the sword pointed at the mysterious meteorite.

• The Immortal Sword’s residual power immobilized Xiao Yan and began invading the control center of his brain.
• The Golden Dragon King instructed Xiao Yan to stop resisting and let the residual power run wild so they could eliminate it at once.
• Xiao Yan allowed his power to recede, and green energy from the Immortal Sword surrounded him and devoured attacks from the Golden Dragon King and Long Yi.
• The Golden Dragon King noticed blue light emerging from the Voice of the Sea and told Long Yi to wait, sensing that Yu Xuan had made it respond to danger.
• The residual power rushed toward Xiao Yan’s brain, while the Immortal Sword gave a mournful cry and pointed toward the mysterious meteorite.

Poison Old Monster confronted the barefoot Poison Sect woman outside Xuan Ling City and used Plague Source Worms to devour her attack. Xiao Yan and his companions watched from hiding as Sun Dalong of the Sun Family arrived, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Poison Old Monster blocked the barefoot woman’s path and demanded the Fire Qilin Pill and Nine Yin Demonic Worm.
• The barefoot woman attacked with poisonous Dou Qi, but Poison Old Monster’s insects swallowed it.
• Lu Di identified the insects as Plague Source Worms and warned Xiao Yan’s group that they were nearly impossible to defend against or remove.
• Xiao Yan noticed a dark figure with an unconscious little girl nearby as Poison Old Monster urged the woman to surrender.
• Sun Dalong of Xuan Ling City’s Sun Family arrived, and Poison Old Monster recognized him as an Eight-star Dou Di.

Qin Tian escaped Liu Quan’s Soul Shattering Token and fled the black barrier with his group. As Liu Quan prepared to leave, Yang Wei suddenly attacked him to seize his power.

• Liu Quan unleashed the Soul Shattering Token at Qin Tian, confident that it could kill even a peak Dou Di expert.
• Qin Tian used Phasing to evade the token, which vanished after its failed strike, then counterattacked Liu Quan with Fire Dragon Roar.
• Qin Tian retreated and used Spatial Transfer to escape the barrier while Yao Xin blocked Liu Quan and helped the group get away.
• Liu Quan berated Song Li and Yang Wei, then agreed to forgive them and prepared to leave the barrier.
• Yang Wei asked to borrow Liu Quan’s power, then abruptly launched a terrifying attack against him.

Xiao Yan confronted the Three-winged Unicorn and decided to fuse the origins of his twenty-two Heavenly Flames, hoping to capture it and learn Qing Yuan’s whereabouts. The Three-winged Unicorn sensed the danger and retreated as Xiao Yan began combining the volatile flames.

• The Three-winged Unicorn mocked Xiao Yan and started retreating after deciding its interception mission was over.
• Xiao Yan summoned the Milky White Flame and separated it into twenty-two distinct flames, shocking the Three-winged Unicorn.
• The Three-winged Unicorn recognized the flames as separate origins and warned that combining them could cause a devastating explosion.
• Xiao Yan recalled his old Buddha's Rage Fire Lotus technique and moved the twenty-two Heavenly Flame origins together to capture the Three-winged Unicorn and find Qing Yuan.
• The Three-winged Unicorn cursed Xiao Yan as a madman and retreated after sensing the destructive energy building within the flames.

Jiang Yu and Jiang Yuan fled from Ghost Realm pursuers as Wu Jiang and Hu Du investigated the disappearances and Xiao Yan learned that Ghost Qi was present in Xuan Tian San. The group reached the testing building for their separate selection, while the cause of the disappearances remained unresolved.

• Jiang Yu let Jiang Yuan escape, then fled from the black and white figures as they chased the brothers in different directions.
• Hu Du searched the suspicious area with Wu Jiang, who explained that earlier disappearances had been suppressed and that their authority to investigate the local sect's grounds was limited.
• Wu Jiang and Hu Du noticed that the local sect's only son had a strange aura, and Wu Jiang whispered something to Hu Du.
• The Golden Dragon King told Xiao Yan that the gloomy aura he had sensed was Ghost Qi from the Ghost Realm and warned him to be careful while focusing on passing the test.
• Mo Chen led Xiao Yan, Yue Ru, and the others into a luxurious testing building filled with crystal balls and unfamiliar equipment.

After rescuing Mu Yingying, Xiao Yan recovered in the Underground Palace, where a mysterious young man sensed a familiar aura inside him and examined him. Zhu Jin arrived and took Xiao Yan away to safety, while the black-clad man who had ambushed Xiao Yan met with Wen Zi in the Nine Fish Play Dragon Formation.

• Mu Feng supported the badly injured Mu Yingying and guarded her from the Xuan Ling Imperial Family as Elder Zhu descended toward the Underground Palace.
• Xiao Yan swallowed medicinal pills to restore his depleted Dou Qi, but a mysterious young man appeared and pulled him back when he tried to flee.
• The mysterious man examined Xiao Yan, then blocked Zhu Jin's lightning attack before vanishing from the Underground Palace.
• Xiao Yan told Zhu Jin that an Eight-star Dou Di Perfection expert from the Hall of Worship had ambushed him and Mu Yingying, and Zhu Jin confirmed that Mu Yingying was safe but exhausted.
• Zhu Jin led Xiao Yan out of the Underground Palace so he could recover.
• In the Nine Fish Play Dragon Formation, Wen Zi berated the black-clad man for failing and warned him to face King Xuan Ling's wrath.

Xiao Yan, Yue Ru, and Mu Feng decided to leave the first level of Yin Shi Forest for the second level to find more points. There, Yu Hui and Yu Jing summoned a Silver Azure Thunder Wolf King to fight the Heavenly Fire Sacred Tiger, setting the stage for a battle between powerful beasts.

• Xiao Yan, Yue Ru, and Mu Feng agreed to head to the second level after making little progress on the first.
• Yu Hui and Yu Jing used their blood and a Summoning Dou Ji to call forth the Silver Azure Thunder Wolf King.
• Mu Yingying watched the summoning and urged the Heavenly Fire Sacred Tiger to stay safe.
• The Heavenly Fire Sacred Tiger recognized the wolf as a king among its kind and realized it matched its own strength.

Yin Xie’s borrowed body began to reveal the white-clothed woman’s lingering obsession when Mu Yingying appeared, but Yin Xie devoured it and regained its full power. As ghost creatures attacked the humans below, Xiao Yan prepared to act against Corpse Yin.

• Mu Yingying’s appearance made the heart within Yin Xie’s borrowed body beat violently, revealing the figure of a woman in white and a pulsing mass of white energy.
• The Golden Dragon King told Xiao Yan that the white energy was the white-clothed woman’s obsession, while Mu Yingying reacted to it with confusion.
• You Quan ordered Hong Ye to prepare to move, and Muller led the ghost creatures and Red Valley forces in an attack on the humans below.
• Mu Feng freed Yue Yu as ghost creatures attacked, while Qiu Huo Bird, Luo Guang, and the others turned to defend against them.
• Xiao Yan asked four seniors to lend him their strength, then closed his eyes as they attacked Corpse Yin.
• Yin Xie devoured the white energy, completed its assimilation of the woman’s body, and returned as an Eight-star Ghost Emperor.

Xiao Yan used the Soul Devouring Talisman to strip Yin Xie of his defenses and strike him with the Nirvana Lotus, while Mu Yingying stopped a surprise attack on the exhausted Xiao Yan. Two black-clad enemies appeared, and one moved to protect Yin Xie's soul.

• Xiao Yan's Nirvana Lotus shattered Yin Xie's Blood Vortex, while the Soul Devouring Talisman devoured his Ghost Qi and neutralized his Ghost Emperor Armor.
• The Nirvana Lotus struck Yin Xie directly, leaving him immobilized and badly injured as the onlookers reacted to Xiao Yan's success.
• A black figure attacked the weakened Xiao Yan, but Mu Yingying blocked the Palm Print with azure flames and forced the attacker to deal with the flames inside his body.
• Mu Yingying and Xiao Yan regrouped as the black figure called for the others to hold them back and went to protect the Ghost Emperor soul.
• A second black-clad figure appeared, and Chang Yu recognized the pair as a Seven Star Dou Di and a Six-star Dou Di.