Chapter Summaries

Holy Spirit revealed how Nether's corruption destroyed the Ancient Ruins and asked Xiao Ze to lend her some of his power so she could oppose Nether and free them. Xiao Ze showed her his mysterious golden flame, which Holy Spirit recognized as the force she needed.

• Holy Spirit explained that she and Nether had once been one entity, but Nether's advancement and corrupted state of mind led her to destroy the Ancient Ruins and seek to devour Holy Spirit.
• Holy Spirit said the ancient Dou Saint had imprisoned Nether while she sealed herself inside the Glazed Bead, but Nether's confinement had weakened over time.
• Holy Spirit offered to borrow some of Xiao Ze's power to fight Nether, while Xun Er distrusted her and objected to giving him up.
• Xiao Ze revealed a golden flame, and Holy Spirit recognized it as the scorching, supreme power that could help her contend with Nether.
• Xun Er sensed that the flame frightened the Golden Emperor Incinerating Heaven Flame and wondered whether Xiao Ze had obtained the mysterious first-ranked Heavenly Flame.

Xiao Ze empowered the holy spirit with the Origin Emperor Flame, allowing her to confront Nether, and agreed to help her in exchange for the Vast Sea Saint’s inheritance. When a powerful aura erupted from the main hall, Xiao Ze and his companions hurried toward the central area.

• Xiao Ze infused the holy spirit with the Origin Emperor Flame, transforming her into the Golden Flame Holy Spirit and giving her power against Nether.
• The holy spirit gave Xiao Ze and his companions protective marks and asked them to help deal with Nether, offering the Vast Sea Saint’s inheritance as a reward.
• Xiao Ze recognized the Vast Sea Saint as a benefactor whose Illusion Sea Spirit Realm had caused his water-attribute mutation, and agreed to help contain Nether.
• The Grand Elder, Xun Er, the two Ancient Clan Dou Venerates, and Xiao Ze chose to stay and face the danger together.
• Xiao Ze and the others sensed a powerful aura rising from the central area, and the holy spirit identified it as likely belonging to the Vast Sea Saint.
• Xiao Ze and his companions hurried toward the central area to prevent complications.

The factions fought over the sealed treasures in a stone hall, unaware that their attacks were awakening a Dou Saint skeleton. After the skeleton massacred several experts, it unleashed the World-Extinguishing Torrent, leaving the fleeing Dou Venerates facing an overwhelming attack.

• Elder Huang Xuan and the assembled factions gathered outside a stone hall containing a Dou Saint skeleton and sealed treasures.
• Venerable Yellow Spring, Venerable Thunder, and Huang Xuan competed to enter first, triggering a battle among the experts that battered the hall’s seal.
• The seal shattered, and the Dou Saint skeleton awakened, killing experts with spatial rifts and absorbing their ghostly aura.
• The skeleton formed hand seals and summoned a hundred-mile river of azure energy as it unleashed the World-Extinguishing Torrent upon the fleeing Dou Venerates.

Xiao Ze and his companions fled the main hall as Nether unleashed Vast Sea Saint’s World-Extinguishing Torrent, whose bizarre Illusionary River swallowed those caught by it. Holy Spirit revealed that he could stop Nether by fusing with her again, but Xiao Ze remained doubtful as Holy Spirit showed the golden flame patterns on his hand.

• Holy Spirit warned Xiao Ze and the others that Nether had taken control of Vast Sea Saint’s body and was using the World-Extinguishing Torrent, so they fled the main hall.
• An earth-attributed cultivator flew above the Nether Giant Wave, but an Illusionary River appeared and swallowed him despite his attempts to escape.
• Holy Spirit explained that the Illusionary River, not the waves, was the true danger of the Heaven-tier Dou Technique.
• Xiao Ze questioned whether Holy Spirit could defeat Nether, and Holy Spirit revealed that they shared an origin and that he could fuse with her again if given an opportunity.
• Holy Spirit said he would no longer become nourishment for Nether and raised his hand to show golden flame patterns on his skin.

Xiao Ze used his Woeful Poison Space to draw Nether away from the fleeing fighters and create an opening for the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit fused with Nether’s Dou Sheng Skeleton using the Origin Emperor Flame, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• Nether’s Heaven-tier Dou Technique destroyed the main hall and killed or injured many fighters as the survivors fled.
• Xiao Ze learned that Nether would never willingly absorb the Holy Spirit, so the Holy Spirit sealed herself inside the Glazed Bead.
• Nether emerged from the flooded ruins and charged toward Xiao Ze and his companions after sensing the Holy Spirit.
• Xiao Ze trapped Nether in his Woeful Poison Space and used his Origin Tree roots to distract her.
• Xiao Ze tossed the Glazed Bead onto an unprotected part of Nether’s skeleton, allowing the Holy Spirit to emerge and spread golden flames across her body.
• The Holy Spirit urged Nether to fuse with her, and Xiao Ze saw the Origin Emperor Flame begin to affect Nether.

Xiao Ze helped the Holy Spirit suppress Nether within the Dou Sheng Skeleton, using his Origin Emperor Flame and Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to stop Nether from self-destructing. The Holy Spirit completed the fusion and emerged in the saint realm as the Nether Holy Spirit Liquid.

• Xiao Ze burned away the black sludge on the Dou Sheng Skeleton with the Origin Emperor Flame, weakening Nether as she and the Holy Spirit began to merge.
• Nether tried to self-destruct, but Xiao Ze used his hundredfold Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to halt the skeleton and give the Holy Spirit the advantage.
• Xiao Ze left the Woeful Poison Space and reassured Xun Er, who embraced him while the Gu Clan Elders watched.
• The Woeful Poison Space shattered, and the Holy Spirit emerged from the skeleton as the Nether Holy Spirit Liquid, having entered the saint realm.

After ascending to Dou Sheng, the Holy Spirit thanked Xiao Ze and his companions, rewarding them with treasures from the Ancient Ruins. She gave Xiao Ze Nether Water and a Glazed Bead, then brought out the Vast Sea Saint’s Heaven-tier Dou Technique to fulfill her promise.

• The Holy Spirit cleared the nether energy from the Ancient Ruins’ entrance and told Xiao Ze and the others that the other intruders had fled.
• The Holy Spirit solidified the swamp and recovered clusters containing high-tier Dou Techniques, cultivation methods, and secret arts from the ruined hall.
• At the Holy Spirit’s suggestion, the two Gu Clan Elders and the Pill Tower Grand Elder each chose a useful item, leaving the rest for Xiao Ze.
• The Holy Spirit gave Xiao Ze Nether Water, which could mutate Dou Qi while preserving prior mutations, and a Glazed Bead, which could improve aptitude.
• The Holy Spirit brought out the Vast Sea Saint’s Heaven-tier Dou Technique, the World-Extinguishing Torrent, to honor her promise.

The Holy Spirit gave Xiao Ze the Heaven-Ranked Dou Technique World-Extinguishing Torrent, explaining that it was tied to the Vast Sea Saint and could only be inherited through a dangerous connection with its stele. As Xun Er received half of the recovered techniques, Xiao Ze began the inheritance and encountered the Endless River in the Endless Void.

• The Holy Spirit explained that the Nether Water and Glazed Bead were separate gifts of thanks, then offered Xiao Ze the promised Heaven-Ranked Dou Technique as a way to pass on the Vast Sea Saint’s legacy.
• The Holy Spirit warned Xiao Ze and Xun Er that cultivating World-Extinguishing Torrent was dangerous because it required communicating with its stone stele.
• Xiao Ze divided roughly half of the recovered Dou Techniques and cultivation methods between himself and Xun Er, who accepted them after he reminded her of their time at Jia Nan Academy.
• The Holy Spirit placed the stele on a stone platform, and Xiao Ze sat before it and used his soul power to communicate with it.
• Xiao Ze’s soul entered the Endless Void, where the Endless River contacted him and revealed that he could bind it with his soul to summon it against enemies.

Xiao Ze negotiated with the Endless River, trading a golden root containing his origin power for a droplet that let him summon it. He stored the soul trace and droplet in the root as a future weapon and left the stele with a path to revisit the Endless River when he grew stronger.

• Xiao Ze examined the Endless River's contract and suspected it devoured the bodies and souls of enemies it killed.
• Xiao Ze negotiated with the Endless River, offering a Golden Sapling instead of forming a contract with his soul.
• The Endless River accepted the Golden Sapling and gave Xiao Ze a black droplet that let him summon it.
• Xiao Ze placed the soul trace and droplet inside a golden root, intending to use it as a reusable killing move.
• Xiao Ze left the Black Stone Stele, reassured the Holy Spirit that things had gone well, and kept the root in a separate Storage Ring.

Xiao Ze said goodbye to Xun Er before refining the Nether Water under the Holy Spirit’s protection. He absorbed its immense energy and broke through to Two-Star Dou Zun, while Xun Er returned to the Ancient Clan.

• The Holy Spirit offered to protect Xiao Ze as he refined the Nether Water, and predicted that he would break through after absorbing it.
• The Ancient Clan elders urged Xun Er to return, so Xiao Ze took her aside to say goodbye.
• Xun Er gave Xiao Ze the rest of the Emperor Seal Technique, and Xiao Ze gave her precious pills and the Golden Sapling before they parted.
• The Holy Spirit helped Xiao Ze begin refining the Nether Water, while the First Elder watched over them from a nearby platform.
• Xiao Ze absorbed the Nether Water and the surrounding energy of heaven and earth, breaking through to Two-Star Dou Zun after half a day.

Xiao Ze and the Grand Elder left the Nether Sea after Xiao Ze reached two-star Dou Venerate with the Holy Spirit’s help. The Holy Spirit stayed behind to cleanse the Nether Sea, while Xiao Ze returned toward the Pill Tower with a Space Jade Slip granting her aid in an emergency.

• Xiao Ze thanked the Holy Spirit for helping him break through, and she said her own rise to Dou Saint had depended on his fortune.
• The Holy Spirit explained that she would remain in the Nether Sea to stop intruders, dissolve the Nether Qi, and free the Nether Slaves, then gave Xiao Ze a Space Jade Slip to summon her help.
• The Holy Spirit sent Xiao Ze and the Grand Elder away and resealed the Ancient Ruins to deal with the Nether Qi inside.
• Xiao Ze and the Grand Elder returned to the Pill Tower encampment, where Elder Mu explained that he had evacuated the disciples after hearing a Dou Saint had revived.
• Xiao Ze and the Grand Elder set off for the Pill Tower, and Xiao Ze chatted with Xun Er through a Golden Sapling while they traveled.

Xiao Ze and the Grand Elder returned safely from the Deep Sea Ruins and reported their dangerous expedition to the Pill Tower’s Presidents. After exchanging their gains and installing a portable Dou Venerate-level formation on his Elder Tower, Xiao Ze prepared to study new pill formulas as two nearby auras neared breakthroughs.

• Xiao Ze and the Grand Elder returned to the Pill Tower and told Xuan Kongzi about the Deep Sea Ruins, including the Nether Slave, the Vast Sea Saint, the Holy Spirit Saint, and a Heaven-tier Dou Technique.
• Xuan Kongzi, Xuan Yi, and Tian Leizi discussed rewarding Xiao Ze and decided he could qualify for the Little Pill Tower through his own alchemy ability by refining an eighth-tier pill with seven-colored pill lightning.
• Xiao Ze exchanged some of the expedition’s gains for merit points and four eighth-tier pill formulas, keeping the resources he needed.
• Xiao Ze activated a portable Dou Venerate-level formation and spread its runes across the Elder Tower, greatly strengthening its defenses.
• Xiao Ze sensed two nearby auras nearing breakthroughs, destroyed the information he had kept, and began studying the new pill formulas.

Xiao Ze continued improving his alchemy and considered adapting the Primordial Nine Pills for the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python. After Xuan Kongzi offered him a chance to enter the Little Pill Tower, Xiao Ze chose to prove himself by refining an eighth-tier pill with seven-colored pill lightning.

• Xiao Ze studied an eighth-tier pill formula and continued collecting formulas to develop his Unified Alchemy Theory.
• Xiao Ze considered revising the Primordial Nine Pills for the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python and refining Zhu Yang's pill formula into an eighth-tier pill.
• Xiao Ze left the Elder Tower, checked on Medusa and Qing Lin, and thought about asking someone to investigate the Northwest Continent.
• Xuan Kongzi offered to recommend Xiao Ze for the Little Pill Tower and explained that refining an eighth-tier pill with seven-colored pill lightning could secure his entry.
• Xiao Ze accepted the challenge and agreed to refine the pill in the Black Giant Tower.

Xuan Kongzi brought Xiao Ze to the Little Pill Tower’s Grand Elder, who confirmed Xiao Ze’s alchemy skill and admitted him to the Little Pill Tower. The Grand Elder offered to guide him, while Xiao Ze planned to return to his friends rather than stay on Pill Tower Mountain.

• Xuan Kongzi led Xiao Ze through the Little Pill Tower’s medicinal gardens to meet the Grand Elder.
• The Grand Elder recognized Xiao Ze’s cultivation and praised his talent, explaining that only their vast difference in strength let him see through Xiao Ze’s concealment.
• Xuan Kongzi presented Xiao Ze’s eighth-tier pill with seven-colored Pill Lightning as proof of his alchemy skill.
• After verifying the pill and Xiao Ze’s Spirit Realm soul power, the Grand Elder made him a member of the Little Pill Tower.
• Xiao Ze said he would not stay on Pill Tower Mountain because he had friends to rejoin, and the Grand Elder offered him personal alchemy guidance and access to the other elders’ experience.

Xiao Ze joined the Little Pill Tower, earned the Grand Elder’s favor, and collected medicinal ingredients to refine Heaven Spirit Pills. Back at the Elder Tower, he sensed Medusa and Qing Lin breaking through, and contained the disturbance with his Illusion Sea Domain.

• Xiao Ze thanked the Grand Elder, who praised his talent and hoped he would help the Pill Tower rival the Yao Clan in alchemy.
• Xiao Ze met the Alchemy Grandmasters on Pill Tower Mountain and chose a stone house for future visits.
• Xuan Kongzi taught Xiao Ze how to enter and leave the Little Pill Tower, then explained his new privileges as a member.
• Xiao Ze claimed his monthly medicinal ingredient quota and collected herbs for Heaven Spirit Pills.
• Medusa and Qing Lin broke through their bottlenecks, releasing powerful energies that Xiao Ze contained with his Illusion Sea Domain.

Qing Lin and Medusa broke through to the Dou Venerate realm, drawing attention to Xiao Ze and the Honored Venerate Pill he had refined. After congratulating them and recognizing them as companions who could fight alongside him, Xiao Ze prepared to refine a Heaven Spirit Pill for his own breakthrough.

• Qing Lin and Medusa's breakthroughs in Xiao Ze's Elder Tower astonished the Pill Tower disciples and elders, who sensed the strength of their auras.
• Observers connected the breakthroughs to Xiao Ze's Honored Venerate Pill, and some began seeking ways to approach him for pills.
• Xiao Ze used the Origin Tree to communicate with Xun Er, Medusa, and Qing Lin while dividing his attention among them.
• Xiao Ze congratulated Medusa and Qing Lin, who said they now had the strength to fight alongside him, and he recognized them as companions.
• Xiao Ze prepared to refine a Heaven Spirit Pill to help him make his own breakthrough.

Xiao Ze refined a pill that summoned Eight-Colored Pill Lightning and used it to temper his physique. He absorbed the lightning successfully, while the Pill Tower presidents watched and prepared to intervene if needed.

• Xiao Ze found that Five-Colored Pill Lightning could no longer temper his body, though he absorbed its energy into the Origin Tree.
• Qing Lin reported that many powerful visitors had come seeking Xiao Ze, likely hoping to obtain Honored Venerable Pills; Xiao Ze told her to refuse them politely while he focused on his own alchemy and cultivation.
• Xiao Ze resumed refining pills, and Xuan Kongzi, Xuan Yi, and Tian Leizi sensed a powerful pill aura gathering near the Elder Tower.
• Eight-Colored Pill Lightning formed over the Elder Tower, astonishing the Pill Tower's elders and disciples, while the three presidents prepared to intervene if necessary.
• Xiao Ze weakened the descending lightning with protective methods, then used the Origin Tree's roots to absorb it and temper his body.

Xiao Ze overcame the Eight-Colored Pill Lightning and secured the Heaven Spirit Pill, while the Three Presidents discussed the Soul Hall’s continued harassment of the Pill Tower. He entered seclusion to cultivate with the pill and Medusa’s feedback, aiming to advance toward five-star Dou Venerate.

• Xiao Ze weakened and canceled the Eight-Colored Pill Lightning without showing signs of exhaustion, astonishing the Pill Tower disciples and the eight Grand Elders.
• After the lightning tribulation ended, Xuan Kongzi, Xuan Yi, and Tian Leizi discussed the Soul Hall’s provocations and the Pill Tower’s difficulty guarding against further attacks.
• Xiao Ze retrieved and sealed the Heaven Spirit Pill, then put away the Spirit-Nurturing Cauldron.
• Xiao Ze instructed Qing Lin and Medusa, informed Xun Er through the Origin Tree that he would enter seclusion, and considered the cultivation gains from Medusa’s feedback and the three Heaven Spirit Pills.
• Xiao Ze swallowed a Heaven Spirit Pill and began secluded cultivation, channeling its energy into the Origin Tree to increase its height.

Xiao Ze consumed another Heaven Spirit Pill and cultivated, while Qing Lin searched the Pill Region for powerful snake-type beasts. After discovering Soul Hall Protectors hunting Alchemists’ souls, Qing Lin led snake-type magical beasts in wiping out their squad.

• Xiao Ze ate another Heaven Spirit Pill and began cultivating to advance his Dou Venerate strength.
• Qing Lin searched the Pill Region for snake-type magical beasts and decided not to risk traveling to the Beast Domain yet.
• Qing Lin sensed Soul Hall members in the mountains and concealed herself to observe them.
• The Soul Hall Protectors discussed collecting souls, including those of Alchemists, to make up for a failed mission.
• Qing Lin summoned snake-type magical beasts and used her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to help them slaughter the Soul Hall squad.

Qing Lin destroyed two Soul Hall squads infiltrating the Pill Region and warned Elder Liu Tian, who urged her to stay in Holy Pill City. She then joined the Pill Tower experts in the Star Region to help suppress the rampaging Three Thousand Starry Sky Burning Flame.

• Qing Lin found and eliminated a second Soul Hall squad after destroying another in the mountains, then returned to the Pill Tower to report the infiltration to Elder Liu Tian.
• Elder Liu Tian explained the Pill Tower's limited response to Soul Hall's infiltration and warned Qing Lin to avoid leaving Holy Pill City alone.
• Elder Liu Tian summoned Qing Lin to the Star Region, where the Three Presidents accepted her help in suppressing the Three Thousand Starry Sky Burning Flame.
• Qing Lin entered the Star Region with the Pill Tower experts and saw the enormous purple-black dragon form of the Three Thousand Starry Sky Burning Flame.
• The flame roared at the arrivals, and Elder Liu Tian called on the experts to reinforce its seal.