Chapter Summaries

Elder Mu Gu recognized Yao Chen and relived the history of his jealousy, betrayal, and role in Yao Chen’s supposed death. Realizing Yao Chen had likely survived and been hidden in the Jia Ma Empire by Wang Qinian, Elder Mu Gu feared the consequences as he faced his returned senior brother.

• Elder Mu Gu recalled how Yao Chen had outshone him, inherited their master’s legacy, and hunted him after he dug up their master’s grave.
• Elder Mu Gu joined Soul Hall and recruited Han Feng to betray Yao Chen in exchange for the Flame Mantra and protection.
• Han Feng stabbed Yao Chen with Elder Mu Gu’s poisoned blade, and Yao Chen apparently destroyed himself before the Soul Hall group could capture him.
• Elder Mu Gu remembered how Soul Hall searched for Yao Chen’s soul while Han Feng fled to the Black-Corner Region and claimed Yao Chen had died in an alchemy mishap.
• Elder Mu Gu connected Xiao Yan’s abilities to Yao Chen and concluded that Yao Chen had hidden in the Jia Ma Empire under Wang Qinian’s protection.
• Elder Mu Gu blamed Wang Qinian for concealing Yao Chen and feared he could no longer escape now that Yao Chen had returned.

Yao Lao confronted Elder Mu Gu and the Soul Hall Venerables, revealing that he had killed Han Feng and deliberately arranged the Pill Gathering as bait. After Mu Gu blamed Yao Lao for his downfall and failed to escape, he attacked with the Nether Demon Flame.

• The Soul Hall Venerables realized Yao Lao was a Dou Sheng, and Mu Gu warned that the Pill Gathering had likely been a trap.
• Yao Lao confronted Mu Gu and revealed that Xiao Yan had helped arrange Han Feng’s death.
• Yao Lao admitted he had advanced the Pill Gathering to lure Mu Gu into the Pill Tower and accused him of choosing betrayal and murder himself.
• A Soul Hall Venerable crushed a Space Jade Slip to flee, but Yao Lao effortlessly closed the spatial passage.
• Yao Lao challenged Mu Gu’s courage, and Mu Gu unleashed the Nether Demon Flame before charging at him.

Yao Lao defeated the Soul Hall elders and left the Star Domain with Elder Mu Gu, while Xiao Yan stayed behind to subdue Three Thousand Burning Flame. A mysterious rune pulled Xiao Yan into the flame’s inner space, where he transformed into an enormous Azure Fire Phoenix and confronted the Purple-Black Dragon.

• Yao Lao restrained Elder Mu Gu, knocked him unconscious, and killed a fleeing Soul Hall Venerable.
• Yao Lao ordered the two remaining Soul Hall Venerables to carry Mu Gu, then departed with them as Xiao Yan and the others bowed farewell.
• Qiu Ling led the remaining people out of the Star Domain, leaving Xiao Yan alone with Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Three Thousand Burning Flame refused to submit to Xiao Yan, but a matching rune appeared on its forehead and Xiao Yan pressed his palm against it.
• Xiao Yan and Three Thousand Burning Flame froze as a golden figure guarded them, and Xiao Yan appeared in a purple-black inner space.
• The Purple-Black Dragon challenged Xiao Yan to a soul battle, but Xiao Yan transformed into an Azure Fire Phoenix far larger than it and asked what it wanted to say.

Xiao Yan began a soul battle with the weakened Three Thousand Burning Flame while Yao Lao interrogated Elder Mu Gu and learned information about Soul Hall. Yao Lao then united the Four Pavilions with Pill Tower and other Central Plains powers to form Sky Mansion and declare war on Soul Hall, leaving the conflict at a stalemate.

• The Great Ming King pounced on the Purple-Black Dragon, and the two began a prolonged battle of souls as Xiao Yan faced the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Qiu Ling brought Yao Lao and the others out of the Star Domain, while Xuan Kongzi confirmed Xiao Yan had begun fighting the weakened Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Yao Lao used his Heaven Realm Great Perfection soul force to interrogate Elder Mu Gu, turning him into an idiot but obtaining useful information.
• Pill Tower declared all-out war on Soul Hall, and Yao Chen announced the merger of the four pavilions into the Four Square Pavilions, with Xiao Yan as Young Pavilion Master.
• Yao Chen formed the Sky Mansion alliance with Pill Tower, Flower Sect, Burning Flame Valley, and Ice River Valley, and Sky Mansion attacked several Soul Hall branch halls.
• Soul Hall reinforced its branches and fought Sky Mansion in a protracted war, with neither side committing Dou Sheng experts.

Xiao Yan completed the Great Ming King's devouring of the Three Thousand Burning Flame, then absorbed the Star Domain's remaining flames to advance his Flame Mantra and reach Late-Stage Two-Star Dou Zun. He returned to the Pill Tower, where Xuan Kongzi was astonished by his new strength.

• After a year of pursuit in the mysterious space, the Great Ming King swallowed the Purple-Black Dragon, and Xiao Yan summoned it to devour the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• A year later, the Great Ming King finished transforming, entered Xiao Yan's body, and propelled his cultivation to the edge of Peak One-Star Dou Zun.
• Xiao Yan absorbed the purple-black flames throughout the Star Domain while Xuan Kongzi, Yao Lao, and Zi Yan waited outside.
• After half a month, Xiao Yan consumed the last flame, broke through to Late-Stage Two-Star Dou Zun, and evolved the Flame Mantra to Initial Heaven-Tier.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Pill Tower and told Xuan Kongzi that he had drained the Star Domain's flames; Xuan Kongzi then discovered Xiao Yan's new cultivation after he withdrew the Azure Sky Flame.

Xiao Yan discussed his plans with Yao Lao, promised Zi Yan a Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit, and helped her and Hei Qing locate its hidden ruins. After they left, he prepared to give Old Monster Qing Hua a Child Flame, while the Great Ming King revealed its growing intelligence and attachment to Xiao Yan.

• Xiao Yan learned from Yao Lao that their plan had succeeded but reached a temporary stalemate.
• Xiao Yan told Zi Yan that a Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit lay in hidden ruins and promised to help her find it.
• Hei Qing arrived, confirmed the fruit's importance, and left with Zi Yan and Xiong Zhan to mobilize the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.
• Venerable Skyfire told Xiao Yan that Yao Lao would return to Star Fall Pavilion the next day after spending one last day with Xuan Yi.
• Xiao Yan summoned the Great Ming King and discovered it could speak and considered itself his child.

Xiao Yan sent a Child Flame of the Three Thousand Burning Flame to Old Monster Qing Hua, then returned to Star Fall Pavilion and arranged for his brothers to bring Medusa, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin to the Central Plains. After a delay, the three women arrived, and Medusa said the circumstances behind the delay were complicated.

• Xiao Yan had Great Ming King separate a Child Flame of the Three Thousand Burning Flame and gave it to Old Monster Qing Hua, warning him not to refine it yet.
• Xiao Yan, Yao Lao, Venerable Skyfire, and Old Monster Qing Hua returned to Star Fall Pavilion, where Xiao Yan asked Yao Lao to search the Beast Domain for the Saint of Reincarnation's ruins.
• Xiao Ding and Xiao Li agreed to return to the Xiao Tribe and bring Medusa, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin to the Central Plains, while Xiao Yan entered seclusion to consolidate his cultivation.
• Xiao Yan emerged from seclusion a month later and found his brothers had not returned, then went back into seclusion until Yao Lao summoned him two months later.
• Xiao Yan reunited with Medusa, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin in the Sect Master Hall, and Medusa explained that the delay was not his brothers' fault and that the situation was complicated.

Xiao Yan reunited with Medusa, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin and learned why the two women had been delayed. He planned to help Xiao Yi Xian resolve her Woe Poison Body at the Ye Family, while Qing Lin prepared to explore the Beast Domain as Xiao Qing underwent a powerful evolution.

• Medusa explained that she had quickly handed over the Snake-People Tribe’s affairs, while Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin had encountered unexpected complications.
• Xiao Yi Xian admitted that her Woe Poison Body had erupted after she reached Three-Star Dou Zong, and Medusa had used the Heavenly Capital Sealing Method to suppress it.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Yi Xian he would refine a poison pill using the Poison Pill Method in a few days, then asked Qing Lin about her delay.
• Qing Lin recounted that her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils had summoned a Nine-Headed Heavenly Snake soul, which Xiao Qing swallowed and absorbed while beginning a deep bloodline evolution.
• Xiao Yan advised Qing Lin to seek snake-bloodline power in the Beast Domain and warned her that the Nine Serenity Deep Ground Python Clan might target her.
• Xiao Yan announced that he and Xiao Yi Xian would travel to the Ye Family the next day to use the Yang Fire Ancient Altar for the Poison Pill Method, while Medusa flirted with him as he left.

Xiao Yan spent the night with Medusa, then traveled with Xiao Yi Xian and Venerable Skyfire to the Ye Family to use its Yang Fire Ancient Altar. After sealing themselves inside, he told Xiao Yi Xian to take off her clothes.

• Xiao Yan visited Medusa at night, and the two spent the night together.
• Qing Lin caught Xiao Yan leaving Medusa's room the next morning, and Medusa teased her into fleeing back to her own room.
• Xiao Yan joined Xiao Yi Xian and Venerable Skyfire, and they traveled to the Ye Family in the Pill Region.
• Ye Zhong welcomed Xiao Yan and agreed to let him use the Ye Family's Yang Fire Ancient Altar.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian entered the altar while Venerable Skyfire stood guard, and Xiao Yan told Xiao Yi Xian to take off her clothes.

Xiao Yan learned that Saint Creation’s ruins lay within the Skeleton Mountain Range and joined forces with Yao Lao and the Ancient Dragon Island group to reach them. The group prepared to break the spatial seal and enter before the Beast Domain’s clans could interfere.

• Venerable Iron Sword reported that Saint Creation’s ruins were atop a main peak in the Skeleton Mountain Range, but a spatial barrier still blocked entry.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao discussed breaking the seal early, while Zhu Huo explained that the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit could help Zi Yan mature and become the new Dragon Emperor.
• Zhu Huo and Yao Lao agreed to act immediately, and Xiao Yan went to gather Cai Lin and Xiao Yi Xian.
• Three days later, the Star Fall Pavilion and Ancient Dragon Island groups arrived secretly at the Skeleton Mountain Range.
• Zhu Huo failed to pass through the seal using spatial traversal, so he and Yao Lao entered the void to break it while Xiao Yan and the others moved toward the ruins.

Xiao Yan and his companions broke the seal on a crimson hall in the Skeleton Mountain Range and entered its ruins, where they overcame puppet guardians and found a medicinal herb forest. Meanwhile, Qing Lin continued gathering power for Xiao Qing, and the Beast Domain’s clans began converging on the ruins.

• Yao Lao and Zhu Huo broke the spatial seal, revealing a crimson hall and alerting magical beast clans across the Beast Domain.
• Yao Lao sent Venerable Skyfire to protect Xiao Yan’s group from the shadows, while Zhu Huo sent Hei Qing after them.
• A masked Qing Lin escaped the Nine Serenity Deep Ground Python clan’s pursuers and chose to keep gathering power to awaken Xiao Qing rather than investigate the explosion.
• Xiao Yan led Zi Yan and the others through an illusory magma passage and used his soul power to disable ten Earth Demon Puppets guarding a stone door.
• Xiao Yan’s group reached a medicinal herb forest and planned to obtain the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit before taking the herbs.

Zi Yan found the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit in the Ancient Forest and sealed it into her body. Xiao Yan then began extracting the essence from the remains of an Ancient Void Dragon and an Ancient Heavenly Phoenix, while Zi Yan delighted in being called the Great Ming King’s sister.

• Zi Yan used her bloodline to locate an Ancient Dragon aura and led Xiao Yan’s group through a golden barrier to a crimson plain.
• Zi Yan absorbed the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit and sealed it in the pattern on her palm.
• Zi Yan proposed extracting essence from the Ancient Dragon remains, and Xiong Zhan quickly agreed with her.
• Xiao Yan decided to extract essence from both the Ancient Dragon and Heavenly Phoenix remains and summoned the Great Ming King.
• The Great Ming King expanded his true body to nearly a thousand meters and began extracting the bones’ essence and the plain’s blood.
• Zi Yan heard the Great Ming King call her “Sister Zi Yan” and promised to protect him.

Xiao Yan and his companions collected Ancient Dragon Essence, Heavenly Phoenix Essence, and rare medicinal herbs before meeting Feng Qing’er and Jiu Feng as new groups entered the ruins. Xiao Yan left to reach the Dan Hall, while Jiu Feng warned Feng Qing’er to keep her distance from him.

• Great Ming King burned the Crimson Blood Plain with Azure Sky Flame, revealing Heavenly Phoenix Essence, Ancient Dragon Essence, and mixed essence blood, which Xiao Yan collected.
• Xiao Yan gave Zi Yan the Ancient Dragon Essence and led the group to gather medicinal herbs before heading for the Dan Hall.
• Medusa heard newcomers arrive, and Xiao Yan said the beast clans could help occupy the Dou Zun puppets and the berserk Saint Remains.
• Xiao Yan and his companions encountered Feng Qing’er, Jiu Feng, Huang Xuan, and two beast-clan leaders at the stone door.
• Xiao Yan corrected Jiu Feng by saying Yao Chen had become a Medicine Saint, then left with Zi Yan and the others.
• Jiu Feng disparaged Xiao Yan after he left and told Feng Qing’er not to get close to him.

Jiu Feng and his group found a Beast Spirit Barrier containing traces of a Heavenly Phoenix and an Ancient Void Dragon, and entered hoping to claim a Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit. They found the ruin stripped bare and blamed Xiao Yan, while Feng Qing'er recognized his power but kept quiet.

• Jiu Feng promised Feng Qing'er a chance to undergo the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan's Bloodline baptism as they searched the forest for treasures.
• Jiu Feng discovered a Beast Spirit Barrier and learned from Huang Xuan that it contained the auras of a Heavenly Phoenix and an Ancient Void Dragon, raising hopes of finding a Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit.
• Jiu Feng opened the barrier with his blood, but the group found a scorched, empty altar and learned that someone had recently taken the fruit and the remains.
• The Earth Tiger Clan Leader suggested Xiao Yan had taken the treasure, and Jiu Feng urged Huang Xuan to pursue and kill him.
• Feng Qing'er recognized Xiao Yan's familiar power in the ruin but chose not to reveal what she knew.

Jiu Feng and Huang Xuan pursued Xiao Yan’s group while debating how to obtain the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit. In the Dan Hall, Xiao Yan’s group collected pills, and Xiao Yan drew out a timid Dan Beast with the Heavenly Soul Blood-Melting Pill he had refined for Medusa.

• Jiu Feng decided to seize the chance to kill Xiao Yan, while Huang Xuan urged trying diplomacy first, and their group followed Xiao Yan deeper into the corridor.
• Xiao Yan’s group entered the Dan Hall and collected pills from its first two floors, then began emptying the third floor of its rare Eighth-Rank pills.
• Xiao Yan searched for a Dan Beast but could not find one, so Medusa suggested using a pill to lure it out.
• Xiao Yan showed Medusa the Heavenly Soul Blood-Melting Pill he had refined for her, an Eighth-Rank pill tempered by Five-Color Pill Lightning.
• Medusa teased Xiao Yan about whether he wanted children with her, and a white Dan Beast appeared before he could finish explaining himself.
• Xiao Yan offered the open jade box to the Dan Beast, which stared at the pill with longing from a safe distance.

Xiao Yan coaxed the Dan Beast back after Jiu Feng knocked it into his arms, then refused the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan's demand for the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit. Huang Xuan revealed himself as a Five-Star Dou Zun and threatened Xiao Yan's group.

• Xiao Yan lured the Dan Beast with an Eighth-Grade Pill, but Zi Yan startled it and it fled toward the stairs.
• Xiao Yan tried to catch the Dan Beast, and it collided with Jiu Feng, who threw it away; Xiao Yan caught and soothed it.
• Xiao Yan told Jiu Feng that the Dan Beast had formed from a pill tempered by Eight-Color Pill Lightning, while Huang Xuan eyed it greedily.
• Jiu Feng accused Xiao Yan of taking the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit and demanded he return the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan's Sacred Object.
• Xiao Yan admitted taking the fruit but mocked the clan's claim that Saint Creation belonged to them, then refused to hand it over.
• Huang Xuan revealed that he was an elder and Five-Star Dou Zun, releasing his aura and warning Xiao Yan to regret his refusal.

Xiao Yi Xian released her Woe Poison Body and frightened Huang Xuan into accepting a separate duel, while Xiao Yan’s allies faced Jiu Feng’s remaining clan leaders. Zi Yan and Feng Qing’er discovered they belonged to the Four Square Pavilions, and Feng Qing’er ended up reluctantly accepting Zi Yan’s snacks.

• Xiao Yi Xian released her Woe Poison Body, raised her strength to Five-Star Dou Zun, and forced Huang Xuan to leave for a separate battle.
• Jiu Feng sent the Earth Tiger Clan and Silver Moon Wolf Clan leaders to fight Xiong Zhan and Medusa, and their screams revealed their opponents’ powerful forms.
• Zi Yan and Feng Qing’er confronted each other until Feng Qing’er showed her Four Square Pavilions badge and Zi Yan compared it with her own elder’s badge.
• Zi Yan ordered Feng Qing’er to call her Elder Zi Yan, then shared warm golden snacks with her, leaving Feng Qing’er wanting to fight.

Xiao Yan and his companions defeated Jiu Feng’s group and captured all five of them. Feng Qing’er feared punishment if she returned alone, but Xiao Yan reassured her that he needed her to test the next stage.

• Xiao Yan used Three Thousand Lightning Phantom Body to evade Jiu Feng’s attack and struck him with Eight Extremities Collapse.
• Medusa and Xiong Zhan subdued their opponents and joined Xiao Yan as Jiu Feng fell.
• Xiao Yi Xian trapped Huang Xuan in Heavenly Poison Prison Realm and brought him back badly injured.
• Feng Qing’er asked Zi Yan to capture her too, and Zi Yan tossed her beside the others.
• Feng Qing’er pleaded with Xiao Yan to spare her, and he told her he needed her to test the next stage.

After driving Jiu Feng’s group away, Xiao Yan and his companions entered the ruins’ main hall and discovered the supposed Heaven-Tier Dou Techniques were decoys. As they waited for the seals to lift, Huang Xuan and Jiu Feng plotted to turn the Soul Hall against Xiao Yan’s group.

• Xiao Yan let Jiu Feng and his companions flee, then waited in the Dan Hall until more people arrived before continuing deeper into the ruins.
• Xiao Yan’s group entered an ancient hall filled with experts and saw ten sealed spheres containing apparent scrolls around a jade-white skeleton guarded by puppets.
• Xiao Yan told his companions that the ten scrolls were likely decoys and warned them to wait for others to clear the dangers before acting.
• Jiu Feng and Huang Xuan spotted Xiao Yan’s group and discussed using the Soul Hall’s presence to attack them indirectly.
• Huang Xuan planned to tell Heavenly Venerable Zhaixing, a Five-Star Dou Zun, that the Four Square Pavilions’ Young Pavilion Master was in the hall.

Zhaixing reached a suspected Saint Ruins in the Skeleton Mountain Range, where he encountered Xiao Yan’s group and learned the Four Square Pavilions were present. As the inheritance seal neared its end, Xiao Yan chose to avoid a premature fight with Soul Hall and the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan, planning to strike after securing the inheritance and Saint Remains.

• Zhaixing recalled how Venerable Sword and the other Four Square Pavilion masters had grown powerful enough to defeat Soul Hall Heavenly Sovereigns, then rushed to the ruins on orders from the Great Hall Master.
• Zhaixing arrived at the Inheritance Hall and examined ten floating light spheres while an unknown voice warned him that Xiao Yan and the Four Square Pavilions were there.
• Huang Xuan secretly told Jiu Feng that Zhaixing could not detect him, and Feng Qing'er sent another voice transmission from the Heavenly Demon Phoenix group.
• Xiao Yan recognized Jiu Feng, Huang Xuan, and Zhaixing, but told Medusa not to start a fight before they obtained the inheritance and Saint Remains.
• Medusa teased Zi Yan about behaving, frightening her into tears, while Xiao Yan and Medusa exchanged amused smiles.