Chapter Summaries

Xiao Fan returned to the Jia Ma Empire and reunited with Yao Yue, now an eighth-tier high-grade alchemist leading the Alchemist Guild. Before he left again, Yao Yue gave him the Returning Lamp Pill she had made for him and promised to refine an even better pill when she reached the ninth tier.

• Xiao Fan met Yao Yue, who told him how she had overcome opposition and helped the empire’s people through her alchemy and guild reforms.
• Yao Yue showed Xiao Fan the Returning Lamp Pill, which let people dream of the home they most wanted to return to, and he praised her work but declined to take it.
• Xiao Fan attended a small welcome banquet with Yao Yue, Yao Ye, Fa Ma, and Hai Bodong.
• Yao Yue explained that the Alchemist Guild tower’s flame had once helped her imagine Xiao Fan finding his way home, then asked how long he would stay and learned he would leave soon.
• Yao Yue gave Xiao Fan the pill before he departed, and she stayed behind to guard the city and continue refining pills.

After Queen Medusa advanced to Dou Zun, she helped suppress Xiao Fan’s injuries, and Yao Ming recovered enough to confront Yao Xiaotian. The group entered the tribal hall to challenge Yao Xiaotian’s rule, where Yao Ming’s dramatic return left the elders stunned.

• Queen Medusa examined Xiao Fan’s injuries and used her Dou Qi to suppress the restless Void Black Pattern.
• Yao Ming recovered some of his strength and learned that Yao Xiaotian had sealed the tribal hall and branded him a disguised demon creature.
• Yao Ming promised Queen Medusa that Serene Water Snake Valley would belong to the Snake-People Tribe as an autonomous territory if he reclaimed his position.
• Xiao Fan, Queen Medusa, Qing Lin, and Yao Ming went to the tribal hall as Yao Xiaotian claimed that the real Yao Ming had died.
• Yao Ming emerged from the ancestral wall, shocking the elders gathered in the hall.

Yao Ming exposed Yao Xiaotian’s murder and imprisonment of him, then reclaimed the Clan Chief’s Blood Token with help from Xiao Fan and Medusa. The clan recognized Yao Ming as its rightful chief, while Yao Xiaotian remained a defeated usurper in the hall.

• Yao Xiaotian activated the Nine Python Blood Array against Yao Ming, but Xiao Fan disabled four formation cores and Medusa confronted him.
• Yao Ming used the ancestral scale to reveal Yao Xiaotian’s betrayal and imprisonment of him, prompting Yao Xiaotian to order the guards to attack.
• Medusa used the Yellow Spring Heavenly Wrath to break Yao Xiaotian’s bloodline control over the Nether Serpent Guards.
• Yao Ming and Yao Xiaotian fought as Dou Saints while Xiao Fan weakened the Clan Chief’s Blood Token by swallowing the heart’s blood sealing its crack.
• Yao Ming struck the Blood Token with the ancestral scale, causing it to reject Yao Xiaotian and fly into Yao Ming’s hand.
• Yao Ming announced his return as the rightful clan chief, and elders, branch experts, and guards knelt to welcome him.

Yao Ming reclaimed the Clan Chief’s Blood Token, broke through to the threshold of two-star Dou Saint, and defeated Yao Xiaotian, stripping him of his cultivation and sentencing him to a hundred years beneath the Yellow Spring. The clan welcomed Yao Ming’s return, and he granted Serene Water Snake Valley to the Snake-People Tribe as allies.

• Yao Xiaotian devoured the dead guards’ remnant souls and attacked the Ancestral Wall, forcing Yao Ming to defend it.
• Yao Ming fused the Clan Chief’s Blood Token into his body, reclaimed the stolen power, and broke through to the threshold of two-star Dou Saint.
• Yao Ming defeated Yao Xiaotian, stripped away his cultivation, and had the Clan Punishment Lock drag him beneath the Yellow Spring for a hundred years.
• The clansmen welcomed Yao Ming back as clan chief, and he promised to honor his thirty-year agreement with Xiao Fan.
• Yao Ming granted Serene Water Snake Valley to the Snake-People Tribe and said he would escort them there the next day.

Serene Water Snake Valley began recovering under the Snake-People Tribe’s protection, while Yao Ming gave Xiao Fan an ancient map marked with a Dragon Phoenix secret realm. Xiao Fan led Medusa, Xiao Yi Xian, Zi Yan, and Hei Qing into the Beast Region to seek it, where Zi Yan sensed something drawing her onward.

• The Snake-People Tribe settled into Serene Water Snake Valley as Xiao Fan and Medusa reflected on their newfound security.
• Yao Ming promised supplies for the valley and gave Xiao Fan a damaged map bearing the words “Dragon” and “Phoenix.”
• Xiao Fan departed with Medusa, Xiao Yi Xian, Zi Yan, and Hei Qing, leaving Qing Lin and Yao Tianhuo to guard the valley.
• The group secretly entered the Beast Region through an abandoned water vein, avoiding the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s patrols.
• Zi Yan sensed something alluring deeper in the Beast Region but held back until Xiao Fan gave her permission.

Xiao Fan led Zi Yan and the others into an ancient dragon-phoenix hidden realm, where they collected guardian puppets and followed Zi Yan’s summons to the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit. The realm emerged into the Beast Region as Zi Yan stood before the fruit and chose to enter the main hall.

• Xiao Fan used his Ancient Void Dragon blood aura and flames to open the hidden realm’s entrance, then led the group inside.
• Xiao Fan, Medusa, Xiao Yi Xian, Hei Qing, and Zi Yan subdued the outer hall’s puppets, including three Dou Zun-level puppets intended to guard Serene Water Snake Valley.
• The group collected useful herbs and materials as Zi Yan’s summons grew stronger, then reached the main hall and heard the withered corpse warn that entering would make the bloodlines contend.
• Zi Yan chose to enter the main hall despite knowing she would suffer and sleep for a long time, and the group saw the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit between the bones of an Ancient Void Dragon and a Heavenly Phoenix.
• The hidden realm officially emerged as a purple-gold pillar of light rose from the valley and dragon roars and phoenix cries spread across the Beast Region.

Xiao Fan helped Zi Yan claim the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit, whose barrier recognized her bloodline and opened for her. After Xiao Fan sealed the fruit away, Zi Yan thanked the ancient dragon and phoenix remains as their lingering power faded.

• Zi Yan examined the weakened barrier around the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit and asked Xiao Fan whether she could take it.
• Zi Yan pressed a drop of her blood to the barrier, causing it to melt away, and caught the fruit in a jade box when it fell from the tree.
• Xiao Fan sealed the fruit's aura with Colorless Fire and Bone Chilling Flame, while Zi Yan worried she would no longer be able to smell it.
• Hei Qing realized the barrier had recognized Zi Yan's bloodline and that the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit had been meant for her.
• The small tree and the remaining pressure from the Ancient Void Dragon skeleton and Heavenly Phoenix corpse faded, and Zi Yan thanked both remains.

The Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan broke into the hall and demanded Xiao Fan surrender the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit. Xiao Fan and his allies fought back, and as the battle began, Hei Qing protected Zi Yan at the rear of the hall.

• Xiao Fan set three dark-gold and six dark-silver puppets in formation to defend the outer hall.
• The Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan leader arrived with his experts and demanded the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit.
• Medusa challenged the clan’s claim to the fruit, while Xiao Fan prepared his Colorless Fire Lotus and the puppets faced the invaders.
• The middle-aged leader attacked Xiao Fan, but the three dark-gold puppets blocked his phoenix-fire claws.
• Xiao Fan empowered the puppets with Colorless Fire, and they pressed the leader while Hei Qing took Zi Yan to safety.

The battle over the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit intensified as Medusa and Xiao Yi Xian held off the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan while Hei Qing revealed his Ancient Void Dragon identity. Xiao Fan sent his puppets to stall Huang Xuan, while Hei Qing protected Zi Yan behind a spatial barrier.

• Medusa used Yellow Spring power to repel the gray-robed elder and drive him away from the main hall.
• Xiao Yi Xian’s Nether Poison Fire stopped the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s Dou Zong experts from reaching Zi Yan and Hei Qing.
• Huang Xuan recognized Hei Qing as an Ancient Void Dragon and realized Zi Yan was also a member of the clan who had taken the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit.
• Hei Qing revealed his full aura and shielded Zi Yan with a spatial barrier after Huang Xuan threatened to seize her and the fruit.
• Huang Xuan attacked Xiao Fan, but three puppets blocked him and counterattacked under Xiao Fan’s control.
• Zi Yan asked Hei Qing to make the dragon phantom around her barrier fiercer, and he strengthened its killing intent.

Xiao Fan and his allies battled Huang Xuan and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan in the Dragon-Phoenix Ruins, preventing them from reaching Zi Yan and nearly stopping their warning from escaping. As both sides unleashed their strongest attacks, the outer hall erupted into a clash between the Heavenly Phoenix phantom and Xiao Fan’s three-flame lotus.

• Huang Xuan broke through the puppets with a Heavenly Phoenix Space-Rending Strike, but Xiao Fan’s Colorless Fire Lotus disrupted his phoenix fire and left him vulnerable to the puppets’ halberds.
• Huang Xuan split into three phoenix phantoms and sent one toward Zi Yan, but Hei Qing crushed it with his control over space.
• Medusa defeated the gray-robed elder’s aerial assault with a Yellow Spring Finger, while Xiao Yi Xian’s Nether Poison Fire poisoned him and helped Medusa knock him down.
• Huang Xuan tried to send a warning through a feather token, but Xiao Fan burned away most of its phoenix blood imprint before a trace of light escaped.
• Xiao Fan’s allies surrounded the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, and Huang Xuan ordered his clansmen to form a Heavenly Phoenix fire phantom as Xiao Fan raised his three-flame lotus against it.

Xiao Fan and his allies retreated from Jiu Feng, a Nine-Star Dou Zun, into an ancient hall after he activated a hidden mechanism. They hid behind its pillars as the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan pursued them, and Jiu Feng realized the hall was dangerous.

• Jiu Feng entered the outer hall and attacked Hei Qing while the others moved toward the stone corridor.
• Xiao Fan led the group into the corridor, saying they needed the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan to follow closely so they could trap them.
• The group reached an ancient hall containing a Dou Saint's remains, and Xiao Fan directed everyone to hide behind eight pillars.
• Xiao Fan activated a faint marking on the floor with Colorless Fire as Jiu Feng and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan entered the hall.
• Jiu Feng sensed something was wrong, noticed the remains, and abruptly realized they were in danger.

Xiao Fan’s group escaped the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan after the Dou Saint remnant unleashed its Great Desolation Heavenly Imprisoning Finger, and Xiao Fan took the remnant with them. They arrived safely in a hidden spatial crevice, while Jiu Feng ordered the Beast Region sealed and began searching for Xiao Fan.

• The Dou Saint remnant cast the Great Desolation Heavenly Imprisoning Finger, badly disrupting Jiu Feng and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s forces while Xiao Fan’s group sheltered behind stone pillars.
• Xiao Fan used his flames to free the Dou Saint remnant from the earth veins and stored it in his Storage Ring as Medusa and Xiao Yi Xian held Jiu Feng back.
• Hei Qing and Xiao Fan opened a spatial fissure, and the group escaped with the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit as the ancient hall began to collapse.
• Jiu Feng ordered the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan to seal off the Beast Region, search for the Ancient Void Dragon spatial passage, and identify Xiao Fan.
• Xiao Fan’s group emerged in a hidden spatial crevice, where Zi Yan asked about the fruit and confirmed that Xiao Fan was unharmed.

Xiao Fan took Zi Yan toward Jia Nan Academy so she could safely refine the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit, while honoring her anger toward Zhu Kun, her absent father. The chapter ended with Zhu Kun sensing the fruit and Zi Yan’s bloodline from deep within the Magma World.

• Xiao Fan returned to Serene Water Snake Valley with Zi Yan, Medusa, Xiao Yi Xian, and Hei Qing, and Yao Ming reported that the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan was searching for them.
• Xiao Fan left puppets to protect the valley and decided to take Zi Yan beneath Jia Nan Academy to refine the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit near Zhu Kun, rather than sending her to East Dragon Island.
• Zi Yan admitted that she did not want to see Zhu Kun, and Xiao Fan assured her she could remain angry and refuse to call him Father.
• Medusa and Xiao Yi Xian stayed behind to defend Serene Water Snake Valley while Xiao Fan and Zi Yan traveled through a spatial fissure to the Black-Corner Region.
• As Xiao Fan and Zi Yan headed toward Jia Nan Academy, Zi Yan decided she would call Zhu Kun Old Man, and Zhu Kun sensed the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit and his bloodline from the Magma World.

Xiao Fan and Zi Yan returned to Jia Nan Academy and reunited with Elder Huo and Su Qian before asking to descend into the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower. The academy elders sealed the tower’s lowest level, and Xiao Fan and Zi Yan entered together to go deeper into the Magma World.

• Xiao Fan and Zi Yan slipped into the Inner Academy and visited Elder Huo in the Alchemist Department courtyard.
• Elder Huo welcomed Xiao Fan and gave Zi Yan a bottle of pills, then learned that they planned to descend into the tower.
• Su Qian arrived, recognized Xiao Fan and Zi Yan, and agreed to seal the tower’s lowest level while they went deeper into the Magma World.
• Elder Huo gave Xiao Fan a Fire Vein Talisman, and Zi Yan promised not to take herbs unless he gave them to her.
• Su Qian opened the seal, and Xiao Fan took Zi Yan’s hand as they leaped into the lowest level; the seal closed behind them.

Xiao Fan and Zi Yan descended through the lava to meet Zhu Kun, who had been sealed away from his daughter. Zi Yan confronted him about the loneliness and hurt she had endured, and Zhu Kun promised not to force her to call him Father.

• Xiao Fan reassured Zi Yan that she could still blame Zhu Kun even though he had been trapped and had suffered too.
• Zi Yan sensed a spatial fault line, and she and Xiao Fan used it to evade the pursuing Fire Lizardmen and descend deeper into the lava.
• As they neared Zhu Kun, Zi Yan told Xiao Fan she wanted to speak for herself and did not want to pretend she had always been doing well.
• Xiao Fan and Zi Yan reached the enormous stone gate, where Zhu Kun awoke and recognized Zi Yan as his child.
• Zi Yan told Zhu Kun about growing up hungry, alone, and without parents, and said his apology could not restore those lost years.
• Zhu Kun accepted that Zi Yan did not want to acknowledge him as her father and promised no one would force her to do so.

Zi Yan refused to return to East Dragon Island or forgive Zhu Kun, but agreed to refine the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit with Xiao Fan and Zhu Kun's help. As she fell into a cocoon of light, Zhu Kun asked Xiao Fan to watch over her until she was ready to face him.

• Zi Yan told Zhu Kun she would not return to East Dragon Island, and he swore that neither he nor his clansmen would force her.
• Xiao Fan and Zhu Kun prepared to refine the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit, with Zhu Kun suppressing its dragon energy and Xiao Fan refining its phoenix power.
• Zi Yan ate the fruit after making Zhu Kun promise not to take it or claim it for the clan, then began to fall asleep as its powers stirred within her.
• Before closing her eyes, Zi Yan told Zhu Kun she had not forgiven him and that he would have to wait; Zhu Kun promised to wait as long as necessary.
• After Zi Yan became enclosed in a violet-golden cocoon, Xiao Fan told Zhu Kun how she had lived, and Zhu Kun asked him to keep watching over her.

Xiao Fan continued protecting Zi Yan as she refined the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit, while Zhu Kun tried to make amends for the years he had missed. Seeing how much Zi Yan trusted Xiao Fan, Zhu Kun proposed him as a future son-in-law, leaving Xiao Fan to consider what Zi Yan meant to him.

• Xiao Fan and Zhu Kun watched over Zi Yan as she refined the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit, and Xiao Fan guided the restless phoenix energy through her body.
• Xiao Fan told Zhu Kun to earn Zi Yan’s trust by being there for her consistently instead of rushing her to return to Dragon Island or acknowledge him.
• Zhu Kun praised Xiao Fan for bringing Zi Yan and the fruit safely to him, then asked Xiao Fan’s age and said he found him more pleasing than before.
• Zi Yan mumbled in her sleep about wanting pills and warned Zhu Kun not to sell her off when he proposed Xiao Fan as his worthy son-in-law.
• Zhu Kun said Zi Yan would decide for herself and asked Xiao Fan whether his feelings for her were only because they had spent a long time together.

As Zi Yan refined the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit, Xiao Fan and Zhu Kun guided her through the conflict between her dragon and phoenix powers. The forces began to merge, while Zhu Kun started learning how to care for his daughter and Xiao Fan stayed by the cocoon as trouble gathered beyond the Magma World.

• Zhu Kun admitted that he had kept Zi Yan from growing up properly, and Xiao Fan told him not to rush her.
• When the phoenix power rebounded inside the cocoon, Xiao Fan used his Heavenly Flames to guide it while Zhu Kun reassured Zi Yan that the power belonged to her.
• Zi Yan calmed down by imagining she could use the phoenix power to burn those who stole her fruit, and the phoenix pattern fused into her body.
• Zhu Kun asked Xiao Fan how to treat Zi Yan, and Xiao Fan told him she disliked crowds, excessive compensation, and others deciding her path for her.
• Zi Yan sleepily told Zhu Kun to stop being noisy, then said he could keep one fruit; Zhu Kun quietly agreed as her dragon and phoenix qi stabilized.

While Zi Yan refined the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit, Zhu Kun taught Xiao Fan how to use spatial power more subtly and warned him about the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan. He gave Xiao Fan three treasures to strengthen him, leaving Zi Yan still asleep in her cocoon.

• Xiao Fan used his flames to suppress the phoenix energy inside Zi Yan’s cocoon while Zhu Kun watched over her.
• Zhu Kun criticized Xiao Fan’s crude use of spatial power and demonstrated folding space and hiding within it.
• Zhu Kun warned that the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan could trace Xiao Fan’s spatial trails and learn that Zi Yan was refining the fruit.
• Zhu Kun gave Xiao Fan a withered vine, a crimson-gold crystal, and a jade bottle containing two drops of liquid, saying Zi Yan needed him to be strong.
• Zi Yan praised Xiao Fan and Zhu Kun in her sleep, and Zhu Kun accepted her praise of himself.

Zhu Kun taught Xiao Fan to perceive and wield spatial folds while Xiao Fan refined an Earthcore Dragonflame Crystal and advanced to Two-Star Dou Zun. Zhu Kun then gave him half a drop of Dragon Emperor essence blood as Zi Yan continued sleeping in her light cocoon.

• Xiao Fan refined the Void Dragon Vine under Zhu Kun's guidance and learned to hide within a spatial fold without tearing space.
• Zhu Kun trained Xiao Fan to escape Space Locks and to control spatial power carefully enough to protect Zi Yan while she slept.
• Xiao Fan spent ten days guiding Zi Yan's phoenix power through Zhu Kun's spatial membrane using finely controlled Heavenly Flames.
• Zhu Kun gave Xiao Fan an Earthcore Dragonflame Crystal, which Xiao Fan refined to break through to Two-Star Dou Zun.
• Zhu Kun gave Xiao Fan half a drop of Dragon Emperor essence blood, while Zi Yan sleepily claimed the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit as hers.