Chapter Summaries

Gu Qingyang’s group fled a horde of Rock Demons while carrying a mysterious red heart, then threw it away to escape. Xiao Ze caught the heart, drawing the Rock Demons’ attention and leaving Gu Qingyang wondering who was concealed nearby.

• Gu Qingyang and his companions were pursued by Rock Demons after finding a beating red heart that could not be stored in a Storage Ring.
• A burly member of the group raised a stone wall to block the Rock Demons’ attacks, but a Nine-Star Rock Demon shattered it.
• The Nine-Star Rock Demons used their Linking Talent to strengthen one another, and Gu Qingyang’s group decided they could not risk fighting them for the heart.
• Gu Qingyang threw the red heart aside and led his group in the opposite direction while the Rock Demons rushed after it.
• Xiao Ze caught the heart, and Gu Qingyang’s group sensed a hidden expert nearby but could not identify him.

Xiao Ze used a powerful lightning Dou Technique to annihilate the Rock Demons pursuing the red heart, while Gu Qingyang and the Ancient Clan group watched from a distance. The Ancient Clan group fled after witnessing Xiao Ze’s strength, and Xiao Ze let them go because they were Xun Er’s clansmen.

• Gu Yao persuaded Gu Qingyang to stop and watch the mysterious expert, and Gu Qingyang led the Ancient Clan group to a distant mountain peak.
• Xiao Ze examined the red heart and suspected it might help the Rock Demons break through to the Dou Saint level.
• As the Rock Demons closed in, Xiao Ze released a lightning sphere that created a Thunder World and killed every Rock Demon within it.
• Gu Qingyang and the other Ancient Clan members were horrified by the lightning’s destructive power, and Gu Qingyang ordered them to leave.
• Xiao Ze watched Gu Qingyang’s group depart and let them go because they were Xun Er’s clansmen.

Xiao Ze defeated a group of powerful Rock Demons and collected their cores along with a mysterious red heart, which he believed was a treasure of the Rock Demon Clan. He gave the heart to Xun Er after refining it to remove hidden dangers, then began the refinement while she kept watch.

• Xiao Ze confirmed the area was clear and gathered six nine-star Rock Demon Cores from the lightning world he controlled.
• Xiao Ze sealed the mysterious red heart in a box made from an Origin Tree root and returned to Xun Er and the others.
• Xiao Ze told the group about defeating Gu Qingyang’s pursuers and showed them the Rock Demon Cores and red heart.
• Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Medusa encouraged Xiao Ze to give the red heart to Xun Er, and he agreed.
• Xiao Ze entered a cave to refine the Rock Demon Heart while Xun Er offered to guard the surroundings.

Xiao Ze began refining the Rock Demon Heart while Xun Er’s companions guarded him. Xun Er learned that powerful rock demons were uniting to take over the Inner Core Region and hurried back to warn her friends.

• Xiao Ze spent five days preparing medicinal ingredients, then placed the Rock Demon Heart in the Golden Fire Cauldron and suppressed its resistance with the Origin Emperor Flame.
• Xiao Yi Xian, Medusa, and the others finished refining Rock Demon Cores and guarded Xiao Ze while Qing Lin surveyed the area.
• Qing Lin sensed that members of Xun Er’s clan were fleeing from the depths of the Inner Core Region, so Xun Er went to investigate.
• Xun Er met Gu Qingyang, who told her that several powerful rock demons had joined forces to unify the Inner Core Region.
• Xun Er agreed to return to inform her friends, while Gu Qingyang’s group continued toward the central region.

Gu Qingyang left the Inner Core Region after finding its Rock Demon settlements engulfed in a strange uprising, while Hun Yu revealed the Soul Clan's wider plans against the Stone Clan. Xun Er and the others chose to defend Xiao Ze as he refined the Rock Demon Heart, leaving them braced for the advancing Rock Demons.

• Gu Qingyang led the Ancient Clan group away after the Rock Demon uprising overwhelmed the Inner Core Region's settlements.
• Hun Yu dismissed the possibility of a Stone Clan Dou Saint intervening, punished a subordinate for questioning him, and left the Rock Demon Realm with his followers.
• Hun Yu regretted not encountering Xun Er, whom he identified as the Ancient Clan member with the most perfectly awakened bloodline in a thousand years.
• Xun Er told Xiao Yi Xian and the others that several Rock Demons were joining forces to unify the Inner Core Region.
• Medusa, Xun Er, and the others decided to hold off the Rock Demon army rather than disturb Xiao Ze while he refined the Rock Demon Heart.

Xiao Ze arranged for his Lightning Bodies to protect Xun Er and the others while he refined the Rock Demon Heart. A Half-Saint-led Rock Demon army passed nearby without detecting them, leaving Xiao Ze’s group concealed as the pill refinement continued.

• Xiao Ze contacted Xun Er and the others, then sent three Lightning Bodies to investigate the Inner Core Region and distract the Rock Demons while a fourth guarded the cave.
• Xiao Ze’s remaining Lightning Body concealed the cave with an Origin Tree Root and sealed the area with tens of millions of runes, and Xun Er and the others began cultivating.
• Xiao Ze continued refining the Rock Demon Heart, which had absorbed nearly a thousand medicinal ingredients and needed about three more days to finish.
• A black-eyed Rock Demon leading a powerful army marched through the Inner Core Region, crushing tribes that refused to join it.
• Xun Er and the others saw that the army included a Half-Saint Rock Demon, but the army passed through the spatial seal without noticing their concealed group.

Xiao Ze completed a crimson heart for Xun Er to refine, then confronted a Rock Demon army and recognized Nihility Devouring Flame’s influence among its strongest members. He attacked the army to disrupt the Soul Clan’s plans, and his Great Heaven Creation Palm tore apart the Half-Saint Rock Demon’s fist.

• Xiao Ze emerged from the cave with the refined crimson heart and sent Xun Er inside to refine it while the others guarded her.
• Xiao Ze left the sealed space and used his Lightning Bodies’ findings to locate the Rock Demon army in the Inner Core Region.
• Xiao Ze sensed Nihility Devouring Flame’s aura in a towering Rock Demon and suspected the Soul Clan was preparing to consume the Stone Realm.
• Xiao Ze decided to kill the six affected Rock Demons and attacked the army with Great Heaven Creation Palm.
• The Half-Saint Rock Demon struck at the black hole, but its fist was torn apart and swallowed.

Xiao Ze destroyed the Half-Saint Rock Demons and gathered their cores, finding no true fragment of Nihility Devouring Flame. Hun Yu sensed that a strand of seed-flame power had vanished and quietly withdrew to make secret arrangements in the Stone Realm, while Xiao Ze continued clearing the Rock Demon Realm.

• Xiao Ze overwhelmed the Half-Saint Rock Demon with the Great Heaven Creation Palm and swallowed it along with the crimson energy it wielded.
• Xiao Ze concluded that the vanished Nihility Devouring Flame power had been only a manifestation, then collected the Rock Demon Cores left in the basin.
• Hun Yu sensed that a strand of seed-flame power had vanished inside the Rock Demon Realm and quietly departed with two Soul Clan members to prepare secret arrangements in the Stone Realm.
• Xiao Ze used a vast wave of silver lightning to annihilate the remaining Half-Saint Rock Demon and a large army of Rock Demons.
• Xiao Ze collected the Rock Demon Cores, including six Half-Saint-level cores, and found no trace of the seed flame within them.

Xiao Ze’s battles in the Inner Core Region terrified explorers in the Central Region, who stayed away from the area while continuing to hunt smaller Rock Demon groups. He returned to Xun Er and the others with the Rock Demon Cores he had collected and shared out the six Half-Saint cores, while focusing on the far greater energy of the Rock Demon Heart.

• Explorers in the Central Region felt terrifying auras from the Inner Core Region and watched the Half-Saint Rock Demon auras disappear, so they avoided entering the area.
• Xiao Ze returned safely to Xun Er and the others, explaining that the Soul Clan had caused the upheaval and then left the Rock Demon Realm.
• Xiao Ze explained that the Rock Demon Clan’s Linking Talent could not support unlimited numbers and that each Half-Saint’s army had reached its limit.
• Qing Lin, Xiao Yi Xian, and Medusa discovered that Xiao Ze’s Storage Ring held enormous numbers of Rock Demon Cores, including six Half-Saint cores.
• Xiao Ze gave the six Half-Saint Rock Demon Cores to Xiao Yi Xian, Medusa, and Qing Lin, and told them to divide the other cores with Xun Er.
• Xiao Ze concluded that the Rock Demon Heart contained far more energy than the six Half-Saint cores and expected its tenfold feedback from Xun Er’s refinement to greatly increase his strength.

Xiao Ze waited as Xun Er refined the Rock Demon Heart, while he prepared to refine the Saint Heart Glazed Pill. After Xun Er reached the Nine-Star Dou Venerate realm and began absorbing more Rock Demon Cores, Xiao Ze’s feedback upgraded his talent to Supreme Body Cultivation.

• Xiao Ze divided the Rock Demon Cores among his companions and organized the ingredients for the Saint Heart Glazed Pill, but decided to postpone refining it until they left the unstable Rock Demon Realm.
• Over the next month, Xiao Yi Xian, Medusa, and the others refined their Half-Saint-level Rock Demon Cores, while Xun Er completed the Rock Demon Heart and reached the Nine-Star Dou Venerate realm.
• Xun Er discovered that Xiao Ze had hunted nearly all the Rock Demons in the Inner Core Region, and Xiao Ze gave her the Rock Demon Cores he had reserved for her to refine.
• Xun Er’s progress triggered tenfold feedback for Xiao Ze, and he claimed the physique reward while saving the Dou Qi reward for his future breakthrough to Dou Saint.
• Xiao Ze’s Natural Body Cultivator talent upgraded to Supreme Body Cultivation, which gave his body nearly limitless potential, almost no bottlenecks, and the ability to strengthen through every movement.

Xiao Ze tested the newly awakened Supreme Body Cultivation talent, then gathered with Xun Er and the others, who had all reached peak Dou Venerate. With the half-year trial ending, they agreed to keep the Inner Core Region secret and left the Rock Demon Realm.

• Xiao Ze tested his physical strength in a mountain range and flattened every peak while discovering that ordinary movement now improved his physique.
• Xiao Ze saw that the spatial stone’s sealing power was weakening and warned that waiting too long could send them into the Endless Void or spatial turbulence.
• Xun Er, Xiao Yi Xian, Medusa, and the fourth member of the group awoke after cultivating, and Xiao Ze found that all four had reached peak Dou Venerate.
• Xiao Ze told the women to keep their accounts consistent and not reveal anything about the Inner Core Region.
• Xiao Ze and the women crushed their spatial stones and returned to the Circular Mountain Range as the Rock Demon Realm trial ended.

Xiao Ze revealed that he intended to refine a Tier 9 Treasure Pill for Xun Er, convincing Elder Tong Xuan to delay their departure and guard him. The chapter ended as Xiao Ze prepared the Saint Heart Glazed Pill’s ingredients and began setting up to refine it.

• Xun Er asked Elder Tong Xuan to postpone taking her back to the Ancient Realm so she could spend more time with Xiao Ze.
• Xiao Ze told Elder Tong Xuan that he planned to refine a Tier 9 Treasure Pill for Xun Er.
• Elder Tong Xuan took Xiao Ze and the others to a secluded area, sealed it off, and agreed to protect him while he refined the pill.
• Xiao Ze summoned the Origin Emperor Flame to form a Golden Fire Cauldron and laid out the ingredients for the Saint Heart Glazed Pill.
• Elder Tong Xuan recognized the flame’s extraordinary power and realized that Xiao Ze’s rare ingredients confirmed his plan to refine a Tier 9 Treasure Pill.

Xiao Ze refined the Source Blood Heart and Glazed Bead, then combined the medicinal ingredients to form a Saint Heart Glazed Pill young pill. As the young pill neared completion, Black Demon Lightning gathered above, and Elder Tong Xuan recognized Xiao Ze as a Ninth-tier Grandmaster Alchemist.

• Xiao Ze used the Origin Emperor Flame and Spirit-Nurturing Dust to refine the Source Blood Heart.
• Xiao Ze melted the Glazed Bead with nearly five hundred medicinal ingredients, surprising Elder Tong Xuan with his method.
• Xiao Ze refined the remaining ingredients and formed the Saint Heart Glazed Pill young pill inside the Golden Fire Cauldron.
• The young pill’s energy pierced Elder Tong Xuan’s Space Seal and summoned Black Demon Lightning.
• Elder Tong Xuan watched Xiao Ze and realized he had become a Ninth-tier Grandmaster Alchemist.

Xiao Ze refined the Saint Heart Glazed Pill for Xun Er while confronting the Black Demon Lightning himself. He destroyed the lightning bolts and slightly transformed his silver lightning, as the pill refinement continued below.

• Elder Tong Xuan offered to intervene, but Xun Er trusted Xiao Ze to act as he wished.
• Xiao Ze continued refining the Saint Heart Glazed Pill and told Elder Tong Xuan he wanted to test the Black Demon Lightning with his own thunder power.
• Xiao Ze rose into the sky and used silver lightning to wear down the first bolt of Black Demon Lightning.
• Xiao Ze met later bolts with the Origin Emperor Flame while Elder Tong Xuan protected those below with a Space Seal.
• After more than ten minutes, Xiao Ze destroyed the Black Demon Lightning, and a faint trace of black appeared in his silver lightning.

Xiao Ze subdued the escaped Saint Heart Glazed Pill and gave it to Xun Er before setting out with her and the others toward the Ancient Clan. On the journey, they heard that Dou Saint Ruins had been discovered in the Beast Domain, drawing major forces across the Central Plains.

• The Ninth-grade Pill broke out of the Golden Fire Cauldron, but Xiao Ze shattered its beast form and sealed it after it transformed into a girl.
• Xiao Ze identified the pill as the Saint Heart Glazed Pill and handed it to Xun Er, explaining that it could improve talent and forge a glazed body.
• Elder Tong Xuan praised Xiao Ze, gave him a Space Jade Slip for summoning aid, and suggested that Xiao Ze and Xun Er travel together toward the Ancient Realm.
• Xiao Ze and the women set out for the Central Plains Eastern Region, planning to take their time along the way.
• News spread that Dou Saint Ruins had been found in the Ten Thousand Mountains of the Beast Domain, and major forces sent people there.
• More than half a month later, Xiao Ze heard about the ruins in a human city, and the women smiled because they knew the details.

Xiao Ze and his companions celebrated their earlier exploration of the Dou Saint Ruins while listening to rumors about the powerful factions that had found the ruins already looted. After the meal, Xiao Ze gave Xun Er and the others Golden Spirit Saliva to prepare them to cultivate the Great Heaven Creation Palm, leaving their success uncertain.

• Xiao Ze and his companions ate a lavish Monster Feast in a private room in Wild Desolation City and listened to the hall below discuss the Dou Saint Ruins.
• Xiao Yi Xian, Xiao Ze, and Qing Lin joked about how they had explored the ruins first and left the powerful factions with little to find.
• People below speculated that the Pill Tower or another powerful faction had taken the ruins' treasures, while Xiao Ze laughed at their suspicions.
• After the meal, Xiao Ze gave Xun Er and the others bottles of Golden Spirit Saliva to temper their hands for the Great Heaven Creation Palm.
• Xun Er and the others began preparing to temper their hands in the private room as Xiao Ze wondered which of them would successfully cultivate the technique.

Xiao Ze and his companions spent three months exploring the eastern Central Region while Xun Er and the others tempered their palms for the Great Heaven Creation Palm. After Xun Er returned to the Ancient Clan with Elder Tong Xuan, Xiao Ze continued traveling with his companions as he prepared to break through to Dou Sheng and searched for the Soul Clan's Soul-Devouring Life-Extinguishing Array.

• Xun Er finished tempering her palm, and Xiao Ze warned her to fully open its three smaller meridians before cultivating the Great Heaven Creation Palm.
• Xun Er asked Xiao Ze to accompany her to the Eastern Region, but he suggested they enjoy the prosperous Central Region a while longer.
• Xiao Yi Xian, Medusa, and Qing Lin finished tempering their palms, and the group explored Wild Desolation City and other cities for three months.
• Elder Tong Xuan arrived and told Xun Er it was time to return to the Ancient Clan, and she said goodbye to Xiao Ze and the others.
• After Xun Er left, Xiao Ze continued traveling with his companions while preparing for a Dou Sheng breakthrough and searching for the Soul-Devouring Life-Extinguishing Array.

Xun Er refined the Saint Heart Glazed Pill under Gu Yuan’s protection, while Xiao Ze’s companions mastered the Great Heaven Creation Palm. After claiming the energy feedback from Xun Er, Xiao Ze began his breakthrough in a remote mountain range and shattered the barrier to Dou Sheng.

• Xun Er returned to the Ancient Realm and asked Gu Yuan to protect her while she refined Xiao Ze’s Saint Heart Glazed Pill.
• Qing Lin mastered the Great Heaven Creation Palm, joining Xiao Yi Xian and Medusa as they trained to perfect the technique.
• Xiao Ze received tenfold energy and talent feedback after Xun Er refined the pill, then decided to attempt a breakthrough away from the Pill Tower.
• Xiao Ze gathered his companions in a secluded mountain range, prepared a Space Seal and concealment, and began absorbing the feedback energy.
• Xiao Ze’s Origin Tree reached a thousand-meter diameter, shattering his Dou Sheng bottleneck as the tree began growing taller again.

Xiao Ze’s Origin Tree began its transformation toward Dou Sheng as he entered a prolonged breakthrough, while the Holy Spirit Saint cultivated in the Nether Sea. The Grand Heavenly Venerable tried to force her into the Soul Hall, and she met his attack with a burst of golden power.

• Xiao Ze’s Origin Tree passed one hundred thousand meters, and Xun Er’s reward for reaching Dou Venerate triggered its transformation as Xiao Ze continued cultivating.
• Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Medusa agreed to take turns watching over Xiao Ze while he cultivated, and they continued the arrangement for half a year.
• The Holy Spirit Saint cultivated at the Nether Sea’s Sea Eye, reaching the late stage of One-Star Dou Sheng while balancing Nether power against her Holy Spirit power.
• The Grand Heavenly Venerable appeared and invited the Holy Spirit Saint to join the Soul Hall, but she refused.
• The Grand Heavenly Venerable declared that she would join by force and reached for her, so the Holy Spirit Saint released golden light that sent the Nether Sea surging.

After half a year in seclusion, Xiao Ze became an Early One-Star Dou Saint, and the Origin Tree greatly expanded and transformed the Void Space. He reunited with Xiao Yi Xian, Medusa, and Qing Lin, then sensed a battle between Dou Saint Experts near the Nether Sea.

• The Origin Tree grew to 129,600 meters, expanding the Void Space and giving it a hint of reality.
• Xiao Ze realized he had skipped the Half-Saint stage and reached Early One-Star Dou Saint.
• Xiao Ze determined he would need to reach Peak Nine-Star Dou Saint to claim Xun Er’s special reward for the Dou Saint stage.
• Xiao Yi Xian, Medusa, and Qing Lin stopped cultivating and congratulated Xiao Ze after he awoke.
• Xiao Ze sensed Dou Saint Experts fighting in the direction of the Nether Sea.