Chapter Summaries

Su Yun learned how the Flower Sect crisis ended and suspected the Soul Clan had secretly caused the deaths of the Yao Clan elder and Yao Ling. He reunited with his companions, learned about their progress, and promised Zi Yan more pills after dinner.

• Heavenly Flame Venerate told Su Yun that Xiao Yan became the Flower Sect's sect master after Gu Xun'er and two Ancient Clan Dou Sheng elders drove back the Yao Clan, and that the Yao Clan later discovered its elder and Yao Ling had died.
• Su Yun suspected the Soul Clan had framed the Ancient Clan and considered attacking Soul Hall branches while the Yao Clan's attention was elsewhere.
• Heavenly Flame Venerate reported that Xiao Yan had rescued Yao Chen from Soul Hall and that Hai Bodong had become a Dou Venerate; he also said Hai Bodong and Zi Yan were selling Soul Nurturing Dust in Holy Pill City.
• Zi Yan and the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python teased Hai Bodong, who felt outmatched despite his breakthrough to Dou Venerate.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin came out of seclusion, with Qing Lin reaching Nine-Star Peak Dou Venerate while Xiao Yi Xian still needed more time to advance.
• Zi Yan ran to Su Yun for pills, and he promised to refine some for her after dinner while urging her to cultivate more.

Su Yun’s group learned that an Ancient Ruin had opened in the Beast Region and traveled there to seek its treasures, while Xiao Yan learned it might contain a Soul Infant Fruit needed to restore Yao Chen’s damaged soul. The chapter ended with Su Yun meeting Commander Luo at the crowded Skeletal Mountain Range.

• Hai Bodong thanked Su Yun for the pill that helped him break through to Dou Venerate, while Xiong Zhan remained hidden in a nearby cave.
• Xiao Yan regretted failing to protect Yao Chen, who said he needed a Soul Infant Fruit to replenish his damaged soul origin.
• Venerable Feng told Xiao Yan that an Ancient Ruin in the Beast Region might hold a Soul Infant Fruit, and Xiao Yan rushed to gather helpers.
• Hai Bodong reported the ruin’s appearance to Su Yun, who set out with his group to pursue its Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and confront Nine Phoenix.
• Su Yun’s group reached the Skeletal Mountain Range, where Commander Luo greeted Su Yun and explained he was guarding Pill Tower disciples.

Su Yun learned which factions were heading to the Ancient Ruin and traveled there with his companions, intending to settle his grudge with Ice River Valley. They set up camp outside the still-sealed ruin, and a new faction led by a man carrying a large ruler arrived.

• Commander Luo told Su Yun that the Four Directions Pavilion, Burning Flame Valley, Ice River Valley, Flower Sect, and several Magical Beast clans were coming to the Ancient Ruin, while Sound Valley and Heavenly Underworld Sect had not sent anyone.
• Su Yun decided to target Tian Shuangzi first and later kill Ice River Valley's ancestor, Old Man Bing Chuan, to collect on their blood feud.
• Su Yun and his companions reached the Ancient Ruin, where its entrance remained sealed by a self-destruction mechanism until the Space Power dissipated.
• Su Yun's group chose a campsite and waited as more factions and unaffiliated people arrived over the next day.
• A faction led by a resolute-faced man carrying a large ruler on his back arrived and drew everyone's attention.

Su Yun’s camp drove off a group of Star-Galloping Tigers before Xiao Yan arrived to reunite with him and explain that he sought the Soul Infant Fruit to restore Venerable Yao’s origin power. After Su Yun discovered Xiao Yan carried a Space Jade Slip that could summon Elder Shennong, Xiao Yan asked about the Yao Clan and revealed he wanted the Heavenly Flames held by Yao Tian and Yao Xingji.

• The Star-Galloping Tigers demanded Su Yun’s camp give up its territory, so Su Yun sent Heavenly Flame Venerate and Hai Bodong to deal with them.
• Su Yun and the others returned to their tent, then Xiao Yan called out to Su Yun that night and met with him.
• Su Yun noted Xiao Yan had reached Two-Star Dou Venerate, and Xiao Yan said he had come to obtain the Soul Infant Fruit for Venerable Yao.
• Su Yun scanned Xiao Yan’s Ring of Holding and found a Space Jade Slip that could summon Elder Shennong.
• Xiao Yan asked Su Yun about the Yao Clan matter and declared that he wanted the Heavenly Flames held by Yao Tian and Yao Xingji.

Su Yun told Xiao Yan that the Soul Clan was likely behind the killings and warned him that Gui Li had joined the Soul Hall and might target his Heavenly Flames. The next morning, Hai Bodong announced that people from Ice River Valley had arrived.

• Xiao Yan told Su Yun that the Ancient Clan had not killed the Yao Clan members, and Su Yun concluded that the Soul Clan was responsible for the deaths of Yao Ling and the elder.
• Su Yun reasoned that the Soul Clan stood to benefit from turning the Yao Clan against the Ancient Clan and from claiming the powerful souls and Heavenly Flames.
• Su Yun told Xiao Yan that Gui Li had joined the Soul Hall and warned that he might pursue Xiao Yan and his Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Yan left Su Yun, who decided to wait until they entered the Ancient Ruin before making his move.
• Hai Bodong woke Su Yun the next morning and said that people from Ice River Valley had arrived.

Su Yun confronted Ice River Valley in the Mountain Range of Corpses, where Xiao Yi Xian’s Half-Saint pressure overwhelmed the faction. He offered Tian Shuangzi a chance to live by fighting Hai Bodong, and the two prepared to battle.

• Tian Shuangzi lamented Ice River Valley’s decline and rebuked a disciple for blaming Su Yun.
• Su Yun arrived with his companions, and Tian Shuangzi forced the disciple to kneel and begged Su Yun for forgiveness.
• Su Yun called on Xiao Yi Xian, whose Half-Saint pressure crushed Ice River Valley’s people and left Tian Shuangzi pleading for mercy.
• Su Yun offered to spare Tian Shuangzi if he defeated Hai Bodong, and Hai Bodong accepted the fight.
• Tian Shuangzi and Hai Bodong released their auras and traded taunts before their battle began.

Hai Bodong defeated and killed Tian Shuangzi with his upgraded Mysterious Ice Dragon Soar, avenging Ice River Valley’s earlier attack. With Ice River Valley’s remaining members panicking, Su Yun ordered them killed.

• Tian Shuangzi saw Hai Bodong’s Eighth Tier Magic Core Weapon, Calamity Breaker, and realized it could erase their cultivation gap.
• Hai Bodong infused Calamity Breaker with Heavenly Cold Qi, revealing strength on par with a One-Star Peak Dou Venerate.
• Tian Shuangzi attacked with Ice River Valley’s Ice Venerate Force, but Hai Bodong answered with his upgraded Mysterious Ice Dragon Soar.
• Hai Bodong’s giant ice dragon destroyed Tian Shuangzi’s attack, froze him, and shattered him to death.
• Su Yun ordered the remaining Ice River Valley disciples and elders killed.

Su Yun punished Ice River Valley, met Tang Zhen and Tang Huo'er at the Ancient Ruin encampment, and learned that Soul Hall had arrived with a powerful group. The chapter left Su Yun preparing to face the nine Soul Hall figures descending on the Skeletal Mountain Range.

• Heavenly Flame Venerate burned the Ice River Valley disciples to ash, and Su Yun told Xiao Yi Xian they would destroy the valley after the trip to the Beast Region.
• Tang Zhen introduced his daughter Tang Huo'er to Su Yun, then regretted not building a closer relationship with him; Tang Huo'er rejected the idea that her father might arrange a marriage.
• Qing Lin sensed nine Soul Hall members approaching, including two Seven-Turn Dou Venerates, and Su Yun dismissed them as no threat.
• The nine black-robed Soul Hall figures descended upon the Skeletal Mountain Range.

Su Yun and his group watched Soul Hall arrive at the Ancient Ruin, then entered after the entrance opened and killed a Magical Beast clan that ambushed them. As a dangerous energy storm swept through the entrance, the crowd faced the ruin's first deadly trial.

• Nine Soul Hall Venerates arrived and discussed refining people inside the ruin into Soul Origin to make up their quota.
• Su Yun decided to kill the Soul Hall group later and use the opportunity to make his Gui Li alias appear to be from Soul Hall.
• When the ruin entrance opened the next day, Su Yun and his companions followed the crowds inside.
• A Three-Star Dou Venerate from a Magical Beast clan ambushed Su Yun's group, but Hai Bodong and Heavenly Flame Venerate killed him and his followers on Su Yun's orders.
• A violent energy storm mixed with Space Power surged through the entrance, killing people at the front of the crowd.

Su Yun discovered that Nine Phoenix had joined the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan's party and was scheming to get close to Feng Ruoxi through Feng Qing'er. He promised Xiao Yi Xian that Nine Phoenix would not leave the ruin alive as the group proceeded deeper into the cave.

• Su Yun and his companions followed the crowd into the ruin after an energy storm killed many of those at the front.
• Su Yun used his Soul Power and the system to identify Feng Qing'er, Nine Phoenix, and the other members of the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan.
• Nine Phoenix tried to ingratiate himself with Feng Qing'er, who moved behind the clan elder, while he privately plotted to use her to reach Feng Ruoxi.
• Venerable Lei asked Feng Qing'er about her return to the clan, and she said things had gone well after receiving resources and Ancient Heavenly Phoenix essence blood.
• Su Yun told Xiao Yi Xian what he had learned about Nine Phoenix and vowed to kill him in the ruin.
• Su Yun and Xiao Yi Xian continued deeper into the cave with the main group.

Thousands of cultivators rushed into a ruin’s palace, where a blue-flame magma passage burned many of them. Su Yun’s group discovered that the apparent fire path was a decoy concealing a passage beneath the magma.

• The crowd entered the palace passage, but Su Yun followed Heavenly Flame Venerate’s advice and waited before advancing.
• Blue magma erupted from the floor and burned or injured many low- and mid-level Dou Zong cultivators.
• An Eighth Tier Magical Beast and the Dou Zun experts from powerful factions continued through the fire path, and Su Yun led his group after them.
• After flying for fifteen minutes, Qing Lin used her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils and spotted another passage beneath the magma.
• Su Yun explained that the visible fire path was a smokescreen ending at an earthen wall, while the real passage lay below.

Su Yun and his companions crossed the magma and reached the ruins’ true entrance, where they found the Pill Tower and Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan confronting Soul Hall. After Su Yun arrived, the Soul Hall members fled, and he chose not to pursue them to avoid provoking the Soul Clan.

• Su Yun led Xiao Yi Xian and the others through the magma, and they emerged onto a broad stone passage leading into the ruins.
• Su Yun’s group reached a square where Commander Luo and the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan were confronting Soul Hall over its attempt to attack Pill Tower disciples.
• Commander Luo hesitated to fight because he had to protect the Pill Tower disciples, while Xiao Yan suppressed his anger and waited for an opening.
• Su Yun joined the Pill Tower group, and Cao Ying greeted him with evident joy.
• Huntu and Hunshi ordered the Soul Hall members to flee, and Su Yun declined Xiao Yi Xian’s offer to pursue them because he feared provoking the Soul Clan.

Su Yun wondered why the Soul Hall had retreated and sent a hidden clone to follow them. As the groups split up among the ruin’s passages, the clone prepared to target the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan, while Huntu and Hunshi plotted to ambush the others.

• Commander Luo praised Su Yun after the Soul Hall withdrew, and Su Yun sent a concealed clone to follow the nine Soul Hall members.
• Su Yun and the others continued deeper into the ruin, where the Soul Hall’s destruction of several Heavenly Demon Puppets made the group wary.
• Huntu and Hunshi explained that they had retreated because they feared Su Yun, then planned to split into two teams and attack the other groups deeper in the ruin.
• Su Yun approved his clone’s plan to disguise itself as a Soul Hall member and use its Heavenly Flames to frame Gui Li for the killings.
• The groups reached several stone-door passages and chose different routes, and Su Yun told his clone which passage the Heavenly Demon Phoenix group had taken.
• The clone said Nine Phoenix would not survive.

Su Yun’s group followed Qing Lin through the ancient ruins, collected a medicinal forest, and headed toward the fighting nearby. At the lake, Xiao Yan struggled against an eighth-rank Sky-Piercing Flood Dragon guarding a Soul Infant Demonic Tree until a blazing sword suddenly attacked the beast.

• Su Yun trusted Qing Lin to choose a passage, and she led the group to a medicinal forest filled with precious ingredients.
• Su Yun collected the medicinal forest into the System Space while Zi Yan asked him to share some and resisted the idea of returning to Dragon Island.
• Xiao Yi Xian sensed a battle nearby, and Qing Lin confirmed that Xiao Yan’s group was fighting a Magical Beast; Su Yun decided not to help.
• Xiao Yan and his companions battled an eighth-rank Sky-Piercing Flood Dragon guarding a Soul Infant Demonic Tree, which Xiao Yan hoped to obtain for his teacher.
• As Xiao Yan prepared to risk everything with his Heavenly Flames, a two-colored Blazing Fire Longsword shot past him toward the Sky-Piercing Flood Dragon.

Su Yun killed the Sky-Piercing Flood Dragon with Setting Sun and joined Xiao Yan in claiming the Soul Infant Fruits. After Su Yun took the Soul Infant Demonic Tree and Xiao Yan gathered two fruits, the two parties separated to explore the Ancient Ruin independently.

• Xiao Yan recognized Su Yun’s two Heavenly Flames and watched as the Sky-Piercing Flood Dragon launched a desperate water attack.
• Su Yun’s Setting Sun burned through the water pillar and split the Sky-Piercing Flood Dragon in two, killing it in a single strike.
• Venerable Feng and Xiao Yan thanked Su Yun, who said he wanted a share of the Soul Infant Fruits.
• Xiao Yan took two Soul Infant Fruits, while Su Yun used his Soul Power to store the entire Soul Infant Demonic Tree in the System Space.
• Su Yun and Xiao Yan returned to their respective groups and parted ways to continue exploring the Ancient Ruin separately.

Su Yun led Zi Yan toward the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit after she sensed its bloodline summons. Elsewhere, the Heavenly Demon Phoenixes found nothing in a room and were confronted by Soul Hall’s Gui Li, whose composure unsettled their elder.

• Su Yun prompted Zi Yan to sense her surroundings, and she detected a strong summons from deeper in the ancient forest.
• Su Yun and the others followed Zi Yan toward the source of the summons.
• The Heavenly Demon Phoenixes discovered their room held only miscellaneous books, and Nine Phoenix was blamed for wasting their time.
• As the Heavenly Demon Phoenix group prepared to leave, Gui Li appeared and identified himself as a Soul Hall member.
• The Heavenly Demon Phoenix elder tried to pressure Gui Li, but Gui Li remained unfazed and detected that the elder was preparing to attack.

Gui Li fought the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan and overwhelmed its elder with four Heavenly Flames. He left the elder pinned beneath his foot as the clan disciples lay defeated.

• The Heavenly Demon Phoenix elder attacked Gui Li with the Demon Phoenix Claw Seal, but Gui Li remained calm.
• Gui Li revealed four Heavenly Flames, and the elder recognized him as the black-robed man who had attacked the Wind Lightning Pavilion and killed two Yao Clan members.
• Feng Qing'er recognized Gui Li as the man who had defeated her teacher and looted the Wind Lightning Pavilion, then felt powerless before him again.
• Gui Li's flaming handprint destroyed the Demon Phoenix Claw Seal and broke through the clan's Demon Phoenix Bells, severely injuring the elder and knocking down the disciples.
• Gui Li stepped on the elder's head, and the two struggled as the ground collapsed beneath them.

Gui Li unleashed four Heavenly Flame forms against the Heavenly Demon Phoenix disciples and focused the Black Flame Nether Phoenix on Nine Phoenix. Nine Phoenix fought back with his multicolored pupils and bloodline, then gathered his power for a desperate technique as Gui Li watched calmly.

• Gui Li pinned the Heavenly Demon Phoenix elder beneath his foot, and Feng Qing'er, Nine Phoenix, and the other disciples united to demand his release.
• Gui Li summoned four Heavenly Flame forms, while Nine Phoenix used his multicolored pupils to steady the panicking disciples.
• Gui Li sent the flame forms crashing into the group, and Nine Phoenix became locked in battle with the Black Flame Nether Phoenix.
• Nine Phoenix dodged a barrage of nine serene astral winds but realized he could not keep evading them indefinitely.
• Nine Phoenix gathered his Soul Power and most of his Dou Qi, then roared, "Shining Heaven Rotation, open!"

Gui Li defeated Nine Phoenix, captured his soul, and escaped the Heavenly Demon Phoenix elder’s self-detonation. The explosion killed the remaining Heavenly Demon Phoenix disciples and shook the ruin, while Xiao Yan and his companions chose to keep exploring.

• Nine Phoenix’s Pupil Power failed to sever his connection to the Nine Serene Wind Flame after Gui Li’s Heaven Realm Soul broke its effect.
• Gui Li’s black storm destroyed Nine Phoenix’s body, and Gui Li seized his fleeing soul.
• A Heavenly Demon Phoenix elder tried to self-detonate while restraining Gui Li, but Gui Li pierced his soul and escaped with Nine Phoenix.
• The elder’s self-detonation caused a huge explosion that killed the injured Heavenly Demon Phoenix disciples and shook the ruin.
• Xiao Yan inferred that the explosion came from a battle between experts and reassured Venerable Feng and the others that the ruin was unlikely to collapse.
• Xiao Yan and his companions decided to continue exploring despite the danger.

Su Yun and his companions discovered a Beast Spirit Barrier concealing an altar and the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit. After Zi Yan opened the barrier with her blood, they reached the fruit, and Su Yun scanned it.

• Su Yun learned from his clone that Nine Phoenix had died and decided not to rush to bring Ruoxi out of the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan.
• Zi Yan sensed the hidden location, and her Ancient Void Dragon bloodline revealed a Beast Spirit Barrier that Qing Lin could not see through.
• Su Yun identified the barrier as the remnant of a powerful Magical Beast and recognized its aura as that of an Ancient Heavenly Phoenix.
• Zi Yan opened the barrier with her blood, and the group entered and endured the pressure left by the dead High-Tier Dou Sheng.
• The group found a Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit on an altar, and Su Yun scanned it with his system.