Chapter Summaries

Xiao Ze returned to the Xiao Tribe after securing the Yellow Spring Demonic Saint’s inheritance and Zi Yan’s support, then spent six months strengthening the alliance. When Soul Hall launched coordinated attacks on alliance strongholds, Xiao Ze resolved to strike its Human Hall with Zi Yan and entrusted Xiao Yan with essence blood to help him reach Dou Saint.

• Xiao Ze left Cai Lin in the Nine Nether Yellow Spring to refine the Yellow Spring Blood Crystal and advance to Half-Saint, with Yao Ming’s clan protecting her.
• Zi Yan arrived, said the Three Great Dragon Islands were under her East Dragon Island’s jurisdiction, and joined Xiao Ze, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin on their return to the Xiao Tribe.
• Xiao Ze integrated the alliance’s forces, taught its core experts the Yellow Spring Finger and Yellow Spring Palm, refined the Demonic Saint’s essence blood, and guided Xiao Yan for half a year.
• Soul Hall’s forces attacked alliance strongholds, injured a stationed Dou Zun, abducted more than ten seventh-tier alchemists, and frightened neutral factions.
• Xiao Ze ordered a strike on Soul Hall’s Human Hall and said he and Zi Yan would go without mobilizing the alliance’s full forces.
• Xiao Ze gave Xiao Yan the Yellow Spring Demonic Saint’s essence blood to help him break through to Dou Saint, and Xiao Yan promised to defend the Xiao Tribe.

After breaking through to One-Star Dou Saint, Xiao Yan stayed behind to protect the Xiao Tribe while Xiao Ze and Zi Yan attacked Soul Hall’s Human Hall. They killed the Heavenly Venerable and many Soul Hall experts, then faced the Great Heavenly Venerable as he emerged to defend the hall.

• Xiao Yan emerged from seclusion as a One-Star Dou Saint, and Xiao Ze asked him to protect the Xiao Tribe.
• Xiao Ze and Zi Yan traveled to the Corpse Burial Mountain Range and sealed off Human Hall with Zi Yan’s dragon power.
• Xiao Ze shattered Human Hall’s spatial barrier and attacked its defenders while Zi Yan killed a Half-Saint protector.
• Xiao Ze killed the Soul Hall Heavenly Venerable after defeating him and his forces.
• The Great Heavenly Venerable emerged from Human Hall and confronted Xiao Ze.

Xiao Ze destroyed the Soul Hall’s Human Hall, killing the Great Heavenly Venerable and the Soul Hall Vice Master before returning to the Xiao Tribe. News of the victory spread across the Central Plains, prompting neutral factions to seek alliance with the Xiao Tribe and alchemists to offer their help.

• Xiao Ze killed the Great Heavenly Venerable with his Heavenly Flames and scattered his remaining soul after Zi Yan defeated the other Soul Hall experts.
• Xiao Ze exposed and killed the hidden Soul Hall Vice Master after burning through his Ten Thousand Soul Heart-Devouring Array.
• Xiao Ze and Zi Yan burned the Human Hall to ruins and returned to the Xiao Tribe, where Xiao Yan and the others awaited them.
• Xiao Ze ordered the alliance to spread news of the Human Hall’s destruction and investigate the Soul Hall’s remaining forces.
• Neutral factions sent envoys to submit to the alliance, while secluded Pill Tower alchemists volunteered to help resist the Soul Hall.

Xiao Ze led the Alliance toward the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s emergence in the northwest, where the major Central Plains forces gathered to compete for it. The chapter ended with the Soul Hall Master confronting Xiao Ze over the destruction of the Human Hall and the death of the Soul Hall Vice Master.

• Xiao Yan warned Xiao Ze that strange celestial signs foretold the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s emergence, and Xiao Ze ordered scouts to investigate the surrounding forces.
• Xiao Ze placed the Alliance on alert, assigned Xiao Yan and Yun Yun to guard the Xiao Tribe, and organized a northwest expedition with Zi Yan and other allies.
• After four days, Xiao Ze led the Alliance forces toward the northwest when twin moons and nine aligned stars appeared in the sky.
• Xiao Ze’s group reached a desert where the flame had scorched the mountains and waited at its edge alongside the Flame Clan, Thunder Clan, and Ancient Clan.
• The Soul Hall Master arrived with Soul Hall experts, recognized Xiao Ze, and accused him of killing the Vice Master and burning the Human Hall.

Xiao Ze held off the Soul Hall Master as the factions gathered around the sealed Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. The Flame Clan and Ancient Clan allied with the Xiao Tribe against the Soul Hall, and the Yao Clan arrived as the standoff continued.

• Xiao Ze overpowered the Soul Hall Master's pressure and warned him not to interfere with the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame; the Soul Hall Master withdrew rather than fight.
• Huo Xuan arrived with the Flame Clan and proposed an alliance, which Xiao Ze accepted to guard against the Soul Hall.
• Xun'er arrived with Elder Gu Nanhai and offered the Ancient Clan's support; she reunited with Xiao Ze, while Gu Nanhai pledged to help keep the flame from the Hun Clan.
• Yao Chen exchanged greetings with Gu Nanhai as Xiao Yan and Yao Lao recognized the Ancient Clan's formidable strength.
• The Yao Clan arrived with a mid one-star Dou Saint youth, a blue-haired Half-Saint woman with remarkable soul power, and an elder in charge of punishments.

Xiao Ze led a small group into the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s Demonic Flame Space and broke through its illusions. The group reached the flame’s next trial, where thousands of powerful Fire Slaves emerged.

• Yao Lao recognized Yao Wangui as the man who had expelled him from the Yao Clan and crippled his soul power, but Xiao Ze urged him and Xiao Yan to put the Alliance’s mission first.
• The Thunder Clan and Stone Clan arrived as the cracked space expanded and formed a ring of light.
• Xiao Ze, Zi Yan, and Xun'er entered the Demonic Flame Space first, and Xiao Ze used his soul power to pierce the sea-of-fire illusion and clear a path through the mist.
• The Soul Hall Master’s illusion of Xiao Zhan failed to provoke Xiao Ze, who destroyed it with a burst of soul force.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao caught up as the mist dispersed, and thousands of Fire Slaves surged from the cracks ahead.

Xiao Ze led the group through the Fire Slaves and freed Xiao Chen, a Xiao Clan ancestor who had been controlled by the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame for thousands of years. At the altar, Xiao Ze overwhelmed the flame’s white-robed consciousness, which called on the Soul Hall Master for help as the fight continued.

• Xiao Ze swept aside the Fire Slaves guarding the halls and led the group to the final trial, where he recognized the Xiao Clan mark on a Fire Slave King.
• Xiao Ze used his bloodline and the Xiao Clan Bloodline Crystal to free Xiao Chen, who revealed he was Xiao Xuan’s cousin and pledged to fight for the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Chen led Xiao Ze and the others to the altar, where the white-robed consciousness of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame challenged them.
• Xiao Ze blocked the consciousness’s flaming spears and struck it down, then fought off the Dou Saint Fire Slaves it summoned.
• The injured consciousness tried to flee to the magma sea, but Xiao Ze hit it with a three-colored fire lotus, prompting it to offer the Soul Hall Master half the demonic flame source for help.

Xiao Ze defeated the Soul Hall Master and, with the Little Pill Tower Ancestor’s help, drove the Hun Clan forces from the Demonic Flame Space. They then confronted the White-Robed Figure, which tried to destroy the space, and Xiao Ze began suppressing it and drawing out the flame source.

• The Soul Hall Master ambushed Xiao Ze, but Xiao Ze repelled him and badly injured him.
• The Soul Demon Elder emerged to aid the Soul Hall Master, but the Little Pill Tower Ancestor arrived and sided with Xiao Ze.
• The Soul Demon Elder fled with the Soul Hall members after the Little Pill Tower Ancestor threatened him.
• Xiao Ze and the Little Pill Tower Ancestor turned to the White-Robed Figure, which tried to detonate the Demonic Flame Space.
• The Little Pill Tower Ancestor shielded Xiao Yan, Xun'er, Xiao Chen, and the others while Xiao Ze suppressed the White-Robed Figure and began extracting its flame source.

Xiao Ze refined the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame, advanced to eight-star Dou Sheng, and helped the Nine Heavens Alliance prepare for war against the Hun Clan. As the Alliance and Soul Hall battled across Central Plains for a year, news arrived that the Stone Clan had vanished overnight.

• Xiao Ze extracted and refined the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame, breaking through to eight-star Dou Sheng and rallying Central Plains forces against the Hun Clan.
• After Xiao Ze's victory spread across Central Plains, the Soul Hall attacked more than thirty Nine Heavens Alliance cities, and Xiao Ze assigned Xiao Chen, Zi Yan, Yao Lao, and Elder Huo Yao to defend three fronts.
• Xiao Ze rescued Xiao Chen at Antai City, defeated the Soul Hall Vice Master, and drove the Soul Hall to fight more cautiously.
• The Nine Heavens Alliance and Soul Hall fought to a year-long stalemate as the Alliance expanded its forces and drew in more allies.
• News spread that the Stone Clan had vanished in its entirety overnight.

After the Hun Clan’s destruction of the Stone Clan, Xiao Ze resolved to stop Hun Tiandi’s plans and raise his strength further. The Soul Hall challenged him to a fight to the death at Peak of the Fallen, where its seven Dou Shengs arrived as the crowd awaited the Nine Heavens Alliance.

• Xiao Ze recognized the Hun Clan’s hand in the Stone Clan’s disappearance and resolved to reach nine-star Dou Sheng strength.
• The Soul Hall sent Xiao Ze a blood-red challenge letter naming Peak of the Fallen as their battleground three days later.
• News of the duel spread across the Central Plains, drawing countless powers and experts to the Fallen Mountain Range.
• At noon on the fourth day, the Soul Hall Master, Soul Demon Elder, Vice Master, and four Hun Clan experts appeared at Peak of the Fallen.
• The crowd saw that the Soul Hall had brought seven Dou Shengs as they waited for the Nine Heavens Alliance to show itself.

Xiao Ze confronted the Soul Hall Master and the Soul Hall’s allies at the Peak of the Fallen, then rejected a best-of-three match and challenged all three to fight him at once. The battle began as Xiao Ze met their combined Soul Qi with the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame.

• Xiao Ze and the Nine Heavens Alliance appeared before the Soul Hall, revealing thirteen Dou Saints in their ranks.
• The Soul Hall Master proposed a best-of-three fight to the death, but Xiao Ze refused and declared he would fight the Soul Hall Master, Soul Demon Elder, and the Hun Clan expert alone.
• Xiao Chen and Yao Lao warned Xiao Ze against taking on all three, but he stood by his challenge.
• Soul Demon Elder attacked Xiao Ze, who dodged and demanded that all three opponents attack together.
• The Soul Hall Master, Soul Demon Elder, and the Hun Clan expert unleashed their combined Soul Qi, and Xiao Ze countered with the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame as their battle began.

Xiao Ze fought the Soul Hall Master, the Soul Demon Elder, and Hun Qianmo at the Peak of the Fallen. He killed the Soul Hall Master with the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame, leaving the other two to face him.

• Hun Qianmo joined the Soul Hall Master and the Soul Demon Elder, alarming the onlookers with his reputation as a Seven-Star Dou Saint.
• Xiao Ze repelled the Soul Hall Master's attack, burned away the Soul Demon Elder's soul net, and dodged Hun Qianmo's corrosive Soul Qi.
• Xiao Ze summoned a giant fire phoenix and attacked all three opponents as they unleashed their strongest techniques against him.
• Xiao Ze used Purifying Lotus Demon Flame: Heaven Burning to break Hun Qianmo's soul wall and kill the Soul Hall Master.
• Xiao Ze turned toward the Soul Demon Elder and Hun Qianmo and declared that they were next.

Xiao Ze killed Soul Demon Elder and Hun Qianmo after slaying the Soul Hall Master, defeating all three Dou Shengs at the Peak of the Fallen. The Nine Heavens Alliance celebrated its victory as Xiao Ze claimed the Soul Hall’s territories and set his sights on the Hun Clan.

• Xiao Ze killed Soul Demon Elder with the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame after Soul Demon Elder failed to defend against his attacks.
• Xiao Ze pursued Hun Qianmo as he tried to flee and killed him with a thrust of his flaming sword.
• The crowd hailed Xiao Ze after all three Dou Shengs fell, and Xiao Chen, Yao Lao, and Xun'er joined him in celebration.
• The remaining Soul Hall powerhouses fled, while Xiao Ze declared that the Nine Heavens Alliance would take over the Soul Hall’s spheres of influence.
• Xiao Ze vowed to face the Hun Clan and announced that those who submitted to the Nine Heavens Alliance would be forgiven, while resisters would be killed.

After the Nine Heavens Alliance defeated Soul Hall, Xiao Ze steered its growth while suspecting the Hun Clan was plotting in secret. A message revealed that the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan had attacked the Nine Netherworld Python Clan and trapped Cai Lin, prompting Xiao Ze to prepare to intervene.

• The Nine Heavens Alliance celebrated its victory over Soul Hall, then Xiao Ze ordered members to stay vigilant and avoid arrogance.
• Yao Lao and Xiao Chen helped organize the Alliance, which vetted new recruits and grew to eighteen Dou Shengs and nearly a hundred cities.
• Xiao Ze entered seclusion at Star Lake, where he pondered how to advance beyond early Eight-Star Dou Saint.
• Yao Lao warned Xiao Ze that the Hun Clan's silence after Soul Hall's defeat seemed suspicious and delivered a message from the Nine Netherworld Python Clan.
• Xiao Ze learned that the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan had brought three Dou Shengs and the Phoenix Fire Grand Array to attack the Nine Netherworld Python Clan, leaving Cai Lin trapped.
• Xiao Ze erupted with anger and declared that the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan had outlived its usefulness.

Xiao Ze rushed to the Nine Netherworld Python Clan after learning that Huang Tian had besieged it to seize Cai Lin. He arrived in time to stop Huang Tian, then confronted the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan patriarch as their battle began.

• Xiao Ze left the Nine Heavens Alliance headquarters alone after learning that Cai Lin was in danger.
• Huang Tian demanded that Yao Ming surrender Cai Lin and attacked him when he refused.
• Yao Ming and the clan elders formed the Coiling Snake Formation to defend the Nine Netherworld Python Clan, while the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan formed the Heavenly Phoenix Ancient Formation.
• Huang Tian tried to reach Cai Lin at the Nine Nether Yellow Spring, but Xiao Ze arrived and struck him with the Dragon Roar of the Nine Heavens.
• Xiao Ze appeared above the Yellow Spring, learned from Yao Ming that Huang Tian had tried to abduct Cai Lin, and threatened to kill him.
• Huang Tian charged at Xiao Ze with a storm of golden flame arrows.

Xiao Ze killed Huang Tian and wiped out the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan after it attacked the Nine Netherworld Python Clan. As he prepared to leave, Cai Lin emerged from the Nine Nether Yellow Spring as a Nine-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python.

• Xiao Ze overwhelmed Huang Tian, who begged for mercy and offered to submit, then burned him and his soul to ash.
• Xiao Ze shattered the Heavenly Phoenix Ancient Formation and ordered the Nine Netherworld Python Clan to kill the attacking Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan cultivators.
• After the battle, Xiao Ze told Yao Ming to take over the fallen clan’s territory and resources and stabilize the Beast Domain.
• A pillar of nine-colored light erupted from the Nine Nether Yellow Spring, and Xiao Ze sensed Cai Lin’s aura within it.
• Cai Lin emerged as a Nine-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python, astounding Yao Ming and the clan elders.

Cai Lin emerged from seclusion with the Nine-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python bloodline and reached Four-Star Dou Sheng. After the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan fell, Xiao Ze joined Xiao Yan and Yao Lao on a trip to the Yao Clan’s Medicine Ceremony, where guards stopped them at the entrance.

• Cai Lin told Xiao Ze that her ancestors’ souls had helped her awaken her bloodline and reach roughly Four-Star Dou Sheng, though their souls still needed repair.
• Xiao Ze left Cai Lin with Yao Ming and returned with her to the Xiao Tribe, as news spread that the Nine Netherworld Python Clan would replace the destroyed Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan as Beast Domain overlord.
• Yao Lao reported that the Soul Hall had emptied its exposed branches, while Xiao Yan asked Xiao Ze to accompany him and Yao Lao to the Yao Clan’s Medicine Ceremony.
• Xiao Ze agreed to go, and Cai Lin promised to guard the Nine Heavens Alliance while the Soul Hall remained quiet.
• Xiao Ze, Xiao Yan, and Yao Lao reached the Yao Clan’s entrance in the Shennong Mountain Range, where four guards demanded their invitations and barred them from entering.

Xiao Ze and Xiao Yan accompanied Yao Lao back to the Medicine Clan for its Medicine Ceremony, where Xiao Ze’s power forced the clan to let them enter and protected Yao Lao from public insults. The ceremony began with three alchemy contests and a prize of the Ninth-Grade Profound Pill formula, while the conflict over Yao Lao’s return remained unresolved.

• Xiao Yan presented Yao Lao’s invitation, but the guards initially refused to admit him and his companions without elder approval.
• Xiao Ze used his eight-star Dou Sheng pressure to force Yao Wangui to let the three enter the Medicine Clan’s sacred grounds.
• Xiao Ze threatened a young Medicine Clan disciple who insulted Yao Lao, then joined Yao Lao and Xiao Yan in the guest quarters.
• Xiao Yan promised to help Yao Lao have his parents’ names carved onto the Clan Ancestral Stele, and Xiao Ze warned that Yao Wangui might sabotage the alchemy contest.
• Yao Dan opened the Medicine Ceremony and announced contests in ingredient identification, pill refining, and alchemy discourse, with the Ninth-Grade Profound Pill formula as the prize.

Xiao Yan, Xiao Ze, and Yao Lao attended the Yao Clan's Medicine Ceremony, where Hun Xuzi arrived and provoked them. Xiao Ze subdued Hun Xuzi with his strength, and the ceremony began as Xiao Ze suspected a powerful Hun Clan figure was behind the uninvited visit.

• Elder Wanhuo welcomed Xiao Ze, Xiao Yan, and Yao Lao to the Medicine Ceremony, where Yao Lao told Xiao Yan that winning the final alchemy contest could vindicate him.
• Yao Dan arrived, acknowledged that the clan had been wrong to exile Yao Lao, and took his place as clan chief.
• Elder Shennong arrived and praised Xiao Yan's soul power after Yao Lao introduced him to Xiao Yan and Xiao Ze.
• Hun Xuzi appeared uninvited, taunted Yao Lao, and was attacked by Xiao Yan's puppet before Yao Dan forbade fighting.
• Xiao Ze overwhelmed Hun Xuzi with his Eight-Star Dou Sheng pressure and warned him not to cause trouble, forcing Hun Xuzi to retreat.
• Yao Dan opened the Medicine Ceremony, and Xiao Ze wondered what powerful Hun Clan figure might be backing Hun Xuzi.

At the Yao Clan’s Medicine Ceremony, Xiao Yan joined Hun Xuzi, Elder Shennong, and Elder Wanhuo in a contest to determine the continent’s foremost alchemist. The contest began with Xiao Yan revealing a purple-gold flame that overwhelmed the other Heavenly Flames, leaving the competitors ready to start refining pills.

• The Yao Clan’s younger generation competed for several days, with Yao Tian taking first place after drawing Nine-Colored Pill Lightning.
• Yao Dan announced the main contest, and Hun Xuzi, Elder Wanhuo, Elder Shennong, and Xiao Yan entered the arena.
• Xiao Yan challenged Hun Xuzi on behalf of the Sky Mansion Alliance over Hun Xuzi’s theft of the Pill Tower’s techniques.
• Hun Xuzi summoned his Nihility Devouring Flame, while Elder Wanhuo and Elder Shennong brought out the Nine Nether Wind Flame and Life Spirit Flame.
• Xiao Yan revealed a purple-gold flame, placed it on his Heaven Burning Cauldron, and Yao Dan declared the contest underway.