Chapter Summaries

The Ancient Body-Refining Tower’s first trial began in a scorching desert, where crimson sunlight burned the entrants and tempered their bodies. Xiao Yan held back with the Seven-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python Clan and reunited with Zi Yan, the True Dragon Clan’s princess, leaving their stunned clansmen watching.

• The twenty victors entered the Ancient Body-Refining Tower, and a Spiritual Seal displayed their positions as they arrived in its desert first level.
• The trial began, the protective shields vanished, and crimson sunlight burned the entrants; Xiao Yan blocked it with Flame Gauze before testing its body-tempering effect.
• Zong Pengfei used a golden feather relic to shield himself and two clansmen, then led them deeper into the level as the other clan prodigies followed.
• Xiao Yan stopped the Seven-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python Clan from moving, while a mysterious young woman held the True Dragon Clan back.
• The mysterious woman revealed herself as Zi Yan and embraced Xiao Yan, who teased her for pretending not to know him; the True Dragon Clan experts stared in disbelief.

Xiao Yan reunited with Zi Yan in the Ancient Body-Refining Tower and convinced her and their companions to temper their bodies rather than rush ahead. The group began enduring the crimson light, and the outside spectators wondered why their six points of light remained still.

• Zhu Hua calmed himself after Zhu Ming reminded him that Xiao Yan was Zi Yan's brother, while Medusa persuaded Zi Yan to let go of Xiao Yan.
• Zi Yan told Xiao Yan that Zhu Kun was training to regain his peak strength and explained how the Lord Progenitor Dragon had become a True Dragon Emperor before leaving the Great Thousand World.
• Zi Yan proposed using her spatial shuttling to race ahead, but Xiao Yan convinced her to stay and temper their bodies with Zhu Hua and Zhu Ming.
• Zi Yan removed the Purple-Gold Dragon Scale's protection, and Xiao Yan dispelled the flame barrier around the Seven-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python clan members.
• Xiao Yan had Bai Wushuang distribute Blood Spirit Pills, then he and the other five sat down to cultivate as the crimson light burned and the pills repaired their bodies.
• Spectators watched other clans advance on the screen, then focused on the unmoving points of light belonging to the six members of the Seven-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python Clan and the True Dragon Clan.

Xiao Yan and his five companions crossed the first two levels and tempered their bodies through the third while the other clans rushed ahead. At the Thunder Marrow platform, Xiao Yan confronted Zong Pengfei over the ten available baptism spots, setting up a fight for entry to the next level.

• Xiao Yan's group passed through the crimson barrier to the second level, prompting Zong Pengfei and the other clan prodigies to follow without their protective artifacts.
• The clan prodigies struggled through the icy second level while Xiao Yan's group flew past them toward the next passage.
• At the third level's thunder platform, the prodigies discovered ten Thunder-Light Meditation Cushions and debated who would claim the Thunder Marrow baptism spots.
• Zong Pengfei proposed eliminating four contenders before Xiao Yan's group arrived, but Kong Qing'er warned that the six would likely catch up.
• Xiao Yan and his companions reached the platform, and Xiao Yan challenged Zong Pengfei's plan, declaring that they would claim the baptism spots too.

Xiao Yan confronted Zong Pengfei of the Golden-Winged Peng Clan and overwhelmed his attacks, including a deadly feather sword that threatened even Xiao Yan’s Heavenly Sovereign-level body. After enlarging into a hundred-zhang Golden Giant, Xiao Yan launched a crushing punch at Zong Pengfei.

• Xiao Yan told Cai Lin and Zi Yan to drive every Golden-Winged Peng Clan member out of the competition, then faced Zong Pengfei.
• Xiao Yan’s aura forced Zong Pengfei back, and Xiao Yan knocked away his Golden Peng Dragon-Locking Spear with the Flame Splitting Wave-Severing Ruler.
• Zong Pengfei revealed his Eighth-Rank Peak Sovereign strength and used Spatial Movement to attack Xiao Yan from behind with a Dark Gold Feather Sword.
• Xiao Yan activated the Vajra Glazed Body and blocked the feather sword, stunning Zong Pengfei with his powerful physique.
• Xiao Yan grew into a hundred-zhang Golden Giant and sent a massive punch toward Zong Pengfei.

Xiao Yan overwhelmed Zong Pengfei, took his Dark Gold Feather Sword, and stopped him from breaking through to the Ninth-Rank Sovereign realm. After destroying Zong Pengfei’s Golden-Winged Peng attack, Xiao Yan sent the Buddha Fury Reincarnation Disk’s final strike at him as Zong Pengfei desperately tried to withdraw.

• Xiao Yan shattered Zong Pengfei’s sword shadows, struck him down, and seized the Dark Gold Feather Sword.
• Zong Pengfei began breaking through to the Ninth-Rank Sovereign realm, but Xiao Yan attacked with Buddha Fury Reincarnation and forced him to abandon the breakthrough.
• Zong Pengfei summoned a giant Golden-Winged Peng phantom and launched his Peng Shadow Divine Fist at Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan turned the black ring’s pillars of light against the Golden-Winged Peng phantom and destroyed it, leaving Zong Pengfei gravely wounded.
• Xiao Yan unleashed Reincarnation Bind, and Zong Pengfei shouted that he wanted to withdraw.

Xiao Yan drove Zong Pengfei out of the Ancient Body-Refining Tower, then joined the other winners to undergo the Thunder Marrow baptism. As the group was carried out after three hours, Xiao Yan prepared to devour all the Thunder Marrow left behind.

• Xiao Yan blasted through the Thunder-Cloud Platform with his Reincarnation Bind, forcing Zong Pengfei to escape from the tower.
• Medusa and Zi Yan reported that the other Golden-Winged Peng Clan members had been eliminated, leaving nine people qualified for the Thunder Marrow baptism.
• Xiao Yan used the Nihility Devouring Flame to gather Thunder Marrow for his group, and Bai Wushuang and Zhu Hua began tempering their bodies with it.
• Xiao Yan and the others cultivated for three hours until their Thunder-Light Meditation Cushions carried them toward the exit passage.
• As the group prepared to leave, Xiao Yan announced that he would swallow all the remaining Thunder Marrow and invoked Swallow Heaven and Earth.

Xiao Yan devoured all the Thunder Marrow on the third floor, strengthening his body and advancing to the Eighth-Rank Peak Sovereign level before joining the others at the Strength Stele. On the fourth floor, Kong Qing'er and He Yi each lit seven lamps, while Huo Wu reached seven and a half.

• Xiao Yan absorbed nearly a thousand years of Thunder Marrow, strengthened his physical body, and left for the fourth floor.
• Medusa explained that the Strength Stele tested physical strength and rewarded successful challengers with the Heaven-Swallowing Divine Beast's essence qi and blood qi.
• Kong Qing'er punched the stele and lit seven Bronze Lamps, then swallowed the qi it released.
• He Yi also lit seven lamps and took his reward, though he was dissatisfied with matching Kong Qing'er.
• Huo Wu struck the stele with a wolf claw, briefly ignited the eighth lamp, and celebrated his result of seven and a half lamps.

Lu Ting, Zhu Hua, Xiao Yan, Medusa, and Zi Yan tested their strength on the stele, with Xiao Yan and the women lighting all nine lamps and leaving the others stunned. After Bai Wushuang completed the test with a weaker result, the nine participants advanced to the fifth level.

• Lu Ting summoned the Heaven-Reaching Great Ape King’s manifestation, lit eight lamps, and swallowed the resulting Chaos Qi.
• Zhu Hua struck the stele and lit eight lamps before challenging Xiao Yan to test his strength.
• Xiao Yan lit all nine lamps and absorbed crimson Chaos Qi, realizing the source’s true body had reached at least the Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereign level.
• Medusa and Zi Yan each lit all nine lamps, leaving Lu Ting and the others in stunned silence.
• Bai Wushuang reluctantly tested herself, lit eighty percent of the lamps, and swallowed the Chaos Qi she received.
• The nine participants who completed Tongtian entered the fifth level.

Lu Ting, Medusa, Xiao Yan, Zi Yan, and their companions encountered the Blood Battle King’s trial on the fifth floor of the Ancient Body-Refining Tower. After his punch defeated four challengers, Xiao Yan, Cai Lin, and Zi Yan prepared to answer it together, while observers waited to see Xiao Yan’s power.

• The Blood Battle King introduced himself and offered to teach the first form of the Self-Sacrifice Demon Fist to anyone who could withstand one punch.
• Kong Qing'er and He Yi chose to leave, while seven others remained for the trial.
• The Blood Battle King unleashed his fist, and Lu Ting and three other super divine beasts were crushed and failed the challenge.
• The Blood Battle King’s attack continued toward Xiao Yan, Cai Lin, and Zi Yan, who agreed to join forces against him.
• Zi Yan transformed into a colossal purple-gold dragon and Medusa revealed her nine-colored python form as the onlookers awaited Xiao Yan’s transformation.

Xiao Yan manifested the Flame Emperor Dharma Body and joined Cai Lin and Zi Yan in overwhelming Blood Battle King, then emerged victorious without learning his divine ability. He and the others headed to the Ten Thousand Beast Tomb in search of treasure and reached its eerie graveyard, where Medusa planned to venture toward the God Tomb Plain.

• Xiao Yan summoned the Flame Emperor Dharma Body and merged with it before he, Cai Lin, and Zi Yan charged Blood Battle King together.
• The Spiritual Energy light screen collapsed during their attack, but Xiao Yan and the others emerged unharmed and confirmed they had not learned Blood Battle King's Self-Sacrifice Demon Fist.
• Xiao Yan explained that they had stayed to test Blood Battle King's strength, prompting the other experts to leave and Lu Ting to invite them to meet again at the Ten Thousand Beast Tomb.
• Zi Yan announced that an ancient Multi-Treasure Beast had fallen at the Ten Thousand Beast Tomb, and the True Dragon Clan and Seven-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python Clan set out together.
• Five days later, Xiao Yan's party arrived at the Ten Thousand Beast Tomb, where gray death qi and attacking Beast Spirits filled the graveyard.

Xiao Yan and his companions fought through the beast spirits surrounding Multi-Treasure Lake, where the ancient Multi-Treasure Beast had fallen. Xiao Yan awakened Great Ming King to destroy the horde, and the group flew toward the lake’s center as more beast spirits arrived.

• Xiao Yan wrapped the group in the Life Flame to shield them from the deathly aura, and they traveled to Multi-Treasure Lake.
• Xiao Yan and the others charged into the beast spirit horde but became bogged down as the spirits called for reinforcements.
• Xiao Yan ordered everyone to retreat and summoned Great Ming King, whose attack wiped out the beast spirits and the surrounding forest.
• Xiao Yan revealed that he had survived the blast on Great Ming King’s back, then brought the group aboard to fly toward the center of Multi-Treasure Lake.

Xiao Yan and his companions reached the ancient Multi-Treasure Beast’s remains, where they clashed with Huo Wu and Jin Zhan over the hidden trove. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan fighting Jin Zhan while Zi Yan and Medusa kept Huo Wu’s group from interfering.

• Xiao Yan and his companions arrived at the lake’s center, dismissed the Great Ming King, and prepared to search the skeleton for Divine Artifacts.
• Xiao Yan’s group encountered Huo Wu’s Moon-Swallowing Heaven Wolf Clan and Jin Zhan’s Golden Nine-Headed Lion Clan, and Xiao Yan refused to share the trove.
• Jin Zhan challenged Xiao Yan, who quickly struck him with a Mountain Leaning Strike and sent him flying.
• Xiao Yan used Three Thousand Lightning Movement to attack Jin Zhan in a fast-moving exchange of blows.
• Zi Yan warned Huo Wu not to interfere, and Huo Wu stayed back under her and Medusa’s watch.

Xiao Yan transformed into an Ancient Dragon Phoenix and defeated Jin Zhan in a brutal clash of super divine beast forms. Jin Zhan then launched his Lion Emperor Three-Swallow Fist against Xiao Yan’s Five Seals as One, and the chapter ended as their attacks collided in a blinding burst of Spiritual Energy.

• Jin Zhan summoned his Golden Nine-Headed Lion true body, and Xiao Yan transformed into the Ancient Dragon Phoenix using Zi Yan’s beast form.
• Xiao Yan and Jin Zhan fought hand to hand in their colossal beast forms until Xiao Yan knocked Jin Zhan out of his transformation.
• Jin Zhan stood back up and challenged Xiao Yan to withstand one more strike, then unleashed the Lion Emperor Three-Swallow Fist.
• Xiao Yan combined the Mountain Opening, Sea Overturning, Earth Covering, Sky Annihilation, and Ancient Emperor Seals into Five Seals as One and sent it against Jin Zhan’s golden torrent.
• The attacks collided, vaporizing much of the golden torrent as a blinding surge of Spiritual Energy filled the arena.

Xiao Yan defeated Jin Zhan and claimed the ancient Multi-Treasure Beast’s strongest quasi-Sacred Object, the Life-Extinguishing Pupil. After bonding with it, he discovered a hidden opening beneath the beast’s skull that led to the God's Sea, where the Demon Emperor’s remnant body was suppressed.

• Jin Zhan lost consciousness after his defeat, and Huo Wu carried him away with the Moon-Swallowing Heavenly Wolf and Golden Nine-Headed Lion Clan members.
• Xiao Yan led his companions to search the ancient Multi-Treasure Beast’s skeleton for Divine Artifacts and focused on finding the Life-Extinguishing Pupil.
• Xiao Yan bypassed several tempting quasi-Sacred Objects and retrieved the Life-Extinguishing Pupil from a trove of Divine Artifacts.
• Xiao Yan bonded with the Life-Extinguishing Pupil, which entered his forehead and granted him the Life-Extinguishing Divine Light.
• Xiao Yan used the pupil to see a hidden opening beneath the beast’s skull and identified it as the route to the God's Sea.
• Zi Yan recognized Xiao Yan’s Life-Extinguishing Pupil and marveled at his good fortune.

Xiao Yan and his companions cultivated at Multi-Treasure Lake before traveling to the God's Graveyard to seek its inheritances. After entering the inner region, they reached a vast altar guarded by three ancient statues.

• Xiao Yan, Medusa, and Zi Yan secluded themselves at Multi-Treasure Lake to improve their strength, and Xiao Yan cultivated with Sovereign Spiritual Liquid.
• After seven days, Xiao Yan led his group to the God's Graveyard, where they met the clans gathered at its entrance and waited for dawn to weaken the death aura.
• Bai Wushuang and Medusa refused Xiao Yan's offer to deal with the Ancient Heaven Snake Clan, insisting that the Seven-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python Clan handle its old rival itself.
• Once inside, Lu Ting led the Heaven-Reaching Ape Clan away to seek the inheritance of an Ancient Desolate Beast, while Xiao Yan's group hunted an Eighth Grade Sovereign Beast Spirit.
• Xiao Yan's group obtained the Beast Spirit's heart and entered the inner region, where they found a towering altar and statues of an ancient Immortal Bird, an Ancient Myriad Spirit Bird, and an Ancient Desolate Beast.

Xiao Yan and Zi Yan encountered Huang Qi of the True Phoenix Clan at the God's Graveyard, where Zi Yan challenged his attitude and declared the True Dragon Clan would compete for the Immortal Bird Beast Sovereign's inheritance. Huang Qi withdrew, and Zi Yan persuaded Xiao Yan to help her deal with him later.

• Medusa told Xiao Yan that the hidden Nine-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python senior could likely be summoned from the altar's empty southern position.
• Huang Qi arrived with the True Phoenix Clan, recognized Zi Yan as an Ancient Dragon Phoenix, and warned her against claiming authority over both dragon and phoenix clans.
• Zi Yan mocked Huang Qi and announced that the True Dragon Clan would compete for the Immortal Bird Beast Sovereign's inheritance.
• An Eighth Grade Sovereign reminded Huang Qi that the inheritance was about to open, and Huang Qi left with his people.
• Zi Yan told Xiao Yan that he would defeat Huang Qi for her, and Xiao Yan reluctantly agreed.

Medusa revealed a fourth Beast Sovereign statue and claimed its inheritance for the Seven-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python Clan, but Deng Min of the Ancient Heaven Snake Clan challenged her. As other clan prodigies fought over the remaining inheritances, Huang Qi claimed the Immortal Bird Beast Sovereign’s inheritance for the True Phoenix Clan, and Zi Yan objected on behalf of the True Dragon Clan.

• Medusa summoned a statue of a Nine-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python and claimed its inherited Essence Blood for her clan.
• Deng Min challenged Medusa’s claim, and they began fighting with their respective bloodline powers.
• Lu Ting and He Yi began fighting over the Ancient Desolate Beast’s inheritance, while Kong Qing'er and Zong Pengfei fought over the Ten Thousand Spirit Bird Beast Sovereign’s inheritance.
• Huang Qi claimed the Immortal Bird Beast Sovereign’s inheritance for the True Phoenix Clan.
• Zi Yan declared that the True Dragon Clan objected to Huang Qi’s claim.

Xiao Yan fought Huang Qi after Zi Yan challenged the True Phoenix Clan's claim to the Immortal Bird Beast Sovereign. Xiao Yan revealed the Flame Emperor's authority and seized control of Huang Qi's Golden Phoenix Flame, leaving the duel unresolved.

• Zi Yan claimed the Immortal Bird Beast Sovereign belonged to all clans and challenged Huang Qi to settle the dispute by force.
• Xiao Yan appeared before the stone statue, withstood Huang Qi's Ninth Grade Sovereign pressure, and shattered his golden Sacred Mountain with a punch.
• Xiao Yan blocked Huang Qi's God-Slaying Wings with Phoenix Wings inherited from the Ancient Dragon Phoenix.
• Huang Qi attacked with his Golden Phoenix Flame, but Xiao Yan invoked the Authority of the Flame Emperor and severed Huang Qi's control over it.
• Xiao Yan commanded the Golden Phoenix Flame to return to its place while Huang Qi cried out in alarm.

Xiao Yan absorbed Huang Qi’s Golden Phoenix Flame and defeated his attacks before countering the True Phoenix Clan’s Peerless Divine Art with the Gate of Dead Silence. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan revealing that the gate had slain more than ten Earthly Sovereign experts, leaving Huang Qi incredulous.

• Xiao Yan absorbed Huang Qi’s remaining Golden Phoenix Flame, ruining Huang Qi’s chance to restore his Life Fire and advancing Xiao Yan’s cultivation to the middle stage of Ninth Grade Sovereign.
• Huang Qi attacked Xiao Yan with Phoenix Thunder, but Xiao Yan swallowed the lightning and said his younger brother was the Thunder Emperor.
• Huang Qi unleashed the True Phoenix Clan’s Peerless Divine Art, Sun-Moon Heavenly Phoenix Wings, against Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan opened the Gate of Dead Silence and pulled Huang Qi’s sun-and-moon attack inside, extinguishing it.
• Xiao Yan said the Gate of Dead Silence had slain more than ten Earthly Sovereign experts, and Huang Qi doubted his claim.

Huang Qi unleashed the first three turns of the Nine Turns Saint-Making Art and struck Xiao Yan with three peerless divine abilities. Xiao Yan emerged unharmed from the Eternal Azure Heaven Lotus and declared that Huang Qi had lost again.

• Huang Qi activated the Nine Turns Saint-Making Art and formed its first three divine abilities: the Golden Soul Seal, Phoenix Flame Sword, and Phoenix Divine Feather.
• Huang Qi sent the three attacks crashing down on Xiao Yan, and golden light swallowed him from sight.
• Huang Qi claimed Xiao Yan had fallen, but Zi Yan calmly dismissed his boast.
• Xiao Yan emerged from a Green Lotus, which withered back into his body after he stepped out.
• Xiao Yan told Huang Qi that he had lost this round too.