Chapter Summaries

Zhang Yuan used fabricated memories and clues to convince Venerable Three Snakes that the Nine Abyss Mansion was a Yan Clan-backed probe into the Northwest Continent. The Venerable chose to avoid a conflict and report the supposed Yan Clan movements to Central Region.

• Xie Biyan recognized and claimed the Nine Abyss Token, allowing Zhang Yuan to plant the Mysterious Yellow Flame in his soul for later use.
• Zhang Yuan controlled Protector Ying and visited Venerable Three Snakes, who questioned him about the deaths of Protector Wu and Protector Tie.
• Protector Ying used Soul Reading to transmit altered memories that concealed Old Yao and portrayed Zhang Yuan as the one who defeated him.
• Protector Ying blamed the Hongtian Chamber of Commerce for backing the Nine Abyss Mansion and linked its Heavenly Flames to the Yan Clan.
• Venerable Three Snakes decided not to provoke the Nine Abyss Mansion and crushed a jade talisman to report to the Heavenly Venerable that the Yan Clan was making moves.

Mo Yu and Mo Feng reported that the Yan Clan was establishing Nine Abyss Mansion in the Northwest Continent, prompting the Soul Clan to consider how to protect its secret plans. Hun Tiandi heard the report and asked Nihility Devouring Flame for his opinion on striking the Yan Clan.

• Venerable Three Snakes told Mo Yu that the Mysterious Yellow Saint had been a Yan Clan member and that the Yan Clan was backing Nine Abyss Mansion in the Northwest Continent.
• Mo Yu ordered Venerable Three Snakes to reduce the branch hall’s activities and avoid clashing with Nine Abyss Mansion, then reported the intelligence to Mo Feng.
• Mo Feng relayed the news to Hun Miesheng, who praised the discovery and reported it to Hun Tiandi.
• Hun Tiandi recalled the Yan Clan’s interest in the Northwest Continent and listened as a Dou Saint elder proposed covertly striking the Yan Clan.
• Hun Tiandi asked Nihility Devouring Flame what he thought of the proposed attack.

Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame planned to target the Yan Clan, while Zhang Yuan used his disguise as Protector Ying to gain rewards and guide the Soul Hall-backed alliance into battle. At Black Mountain Fortress, Zhang Yuan revealed himself as the alliance attacked, leaving the fighting underway.

• Nihility Devouring Flame told Hun Tiandi and the Soul Clan elders to wait until he reached an Emperor Realm Soul before launching their clan-annihilation plan, and they chose the Yan Clan as their first target.
• Venerable Three Snakes rewarded the disguised Zhang Yuan with a Pure Beginning Venerable Origin Pill and ordered him to hinder Nine Abyss Mansion's expansion.
• Zhang Yuan planned to use the conflict among the Jia Ma, Chuyun, Luoyan, and Mulan forces to strengthen Nine Abyss Mansion, then sent messages to Jia Xingtian, Hai Bodong, and the others.
• Xie Biyan hosted Yan Luotian, the Mulan Three Elders, and other allies as Protector Ying arrived with three Soul Hall Dou Zong experts to oppose Nine Abyss Mansion.
• Zhang Yuan arrived with Medusa, Yun Shan, and other experts, and Protector Ying's group immediately attacked the gathered alliance.
• After the attacks began, Protector Ying told Xie Biyan that he was Zhang Yuan of the Soul Hall.

Zhang Yuan revealed that he had deceived Xie Biyan and the others, then led Nine Abyss Mansion in capturing or defeating them. After Medusa sealed the Green Winged Silver Eyed Python, Zhang Yuan sent it to the Ancient Void Realm for Qing Lin to control while promising to help restore the Snake People tribe’s territory.

• Xie Biyan realized Zhang Yuan had impersonated a Soul Hall Protector, and Zhang Yuan revealed his grudge over his grandfather’s death before ordering his allies to capture the gathered enemies.
• Zhang Yuan defeated Xie Biyan with soul power and stored his body, while Medusa, Yun Shan, Hai Bodong, the Nether Sea Flood Dragon Beast, and Old Yao subdued the remaining attackers.
• The Green Winged Silver Eyed Python offered to join Nine Abyss Mansion, and Zhang Yuan had Medusa seal its strength despite suspecting it could escape seals.
• Zhang Yuan promised Medusa that Nine Abyss Mansion would reclaim the Snake People tribe’s former territory and help its commanders become Dou Emperors.
• Zhang Yuan sent Medusa and the Green Winged Silver Eyed Python to the Ancient Void Realm, where Qing Lin began controlling the snake with her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.

Zhang Yuan consolidated Nine Abyss Mansion’s influence, moved the Snake People tribe’s Sacred Hall into the Ancient Void Realm to use in a flying vessel, and spent the following years building his power. After Xiao Yan completed the Three Year Agreement with Nalan Yanran, he returned with her unusual personal compensation: a portrait declaring she was willing to be a maid.

• Zhang Yuan assigned the Golden Goose Mountain Range to the Misty Cloud Sect and placed the Chuyun and Luoyan Empires under the Jia Ma imperial family’s governance.
• Zhang Yuan told the Snake People elders that he had defeated the Mulan Three Elders and ordered them to attack the Mulan Empire, then transferred the Sacred Hall into the Ancient Void Realm to use its materials for a flying vessel.
• Over the next year and more, Nine Abyss Mansion expanded its influence, while Xiao Yan advanced to Peak Da Dou Shi after refining the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Xiao Yan returned after narrowly defeating Nalan Yanran in their Three Year Agreement, and Zhang Yuan urged him to attend Jia Nan Academy and seek the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Xiao Yan handed Zhang Yuan Nalan Yanran’s personal compensation, a portrait marked “Willing to be a maid,” and Qing Lin challenged him to spar.

Zhang Yuan rewarded Xiao Yan with a jade pendant that could purify the Fallen Heart Flame’s fire poison, while Venerable Feng reunited with Yao Chen and agreed to take Xiao Yan to the Black Corner Region. Yao Chen planned to remain with Zhang Yuan and eventually return Falling Star Pavilion to Nine Abyss Mansion, as Zhang Yuan prepared for seclusion and helped Xiao Yi Xian pursue a breakthrough to Dou Emperor.

• Xiao Yan complained after Qing Lin and her four Magical Beasts defeated him, and Zhang Yuan reminded him that he could use any power at his disposal.
• Zhang Yuan gave Xiao Yan a low-grade Rank 7 Dou Artifact jade pendant that could purify the fire poison from the Fallen Heart Flame and help him cultivate at Jia Nan Academy.
• Venerable Feng inspected the jade pendant, returned it to Xiao Yan, and asked Zhang Yuan whether he had reached Dou Emperor; Zhang Yuan said he was preparing to break through from Peak Dou Wang.
• Yao Chen chose to stay with Zhang Yuan rather than accompany Xiao Yan, and Zhang Yuan outlined a plan to give him a puppet body and help him pursue resurrection and Half-Saint strength.
• Yao Chen said he would return to Falling Star Pavilion and announce its merger with Nine Abyss Mansion, while Venerable Feng took Xiao Yan to the Black Corner Region.
• Zhang Yuan returned to the Inner Realm and told Xiao Yi Xian to prepare for their poison-taking session, which could help her break through to Dou Emperor.

Xiao Yi Xian asked Zhang Yuan to let her help Nine Abyss Mansion by recruiting poison masters in the Chuyun Empire, and he supported her ambitions. As she and Zhang Yuan began breaking through, Xun Er contacted Gu Yuan and proposed a bet on Zhang Yuan’s future growth.

• Xiao Yi Xian told Zhang Yuan she wanted to go to the Chuyun Empire, recruit poison masters, and help Nine Abyss Mansion expand, and Zhang Yuan promised to support her.
• Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yi Xian spent seven days together, after which energy gathered around them as they prepared to break through.
• Xun Er watched the energy cocoons surrounding Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yi Xian, then crushed a jade talisman to contact Gu Yuan.
• Xun Er described Zhang Yuan’s accomplishments to Gu Yuan, who acknowledged his talent but said that a genius who had not matured was still only a genius.
• Xun Er told Gu Yuan she wanted to bet on Zhang Yuan’s growth, and Gu Yuan asked how she intended to make the bet.

Zhang Yuan broke through to Dou Emperor, stirring the void and revealing his potential to become a Dou Zun. The Thunder God Diagram granted him the Divine Firmament Sect’s Thunder Method, and he appeared before Old Yao and Venerable Feng with a request tied to Venerable Feng’s desire for fine wine.

• Xun Er negotiated with Gu Yuan for time to remain with Zhang Yuan, and Gu Yuan agreed on the condition that she also reach Dou Zong before twenty-one and Dou Zun before twenty-five.
• Zhang Yuan completed his breakthrough to Dou Emperor and shared spiritual energy with Xiao Yi Xian, strengthening her soul and beginning her transformation.
• Zhang Yuan’s breakthrough stirred the power of the void, and he realized this marked him as someone with the potential to become a Dou Zun.
• The Thunder God Diagram granted Zhang Yuan the Divine Firmament Sect’s Thunder Method, including Palm Thunder, which he considered testing with Pill Lightning.
• Old Yao and Venerable Feng discussed Xiao Yan, Qingluan, and the prospect of Old Yao refining a Rank 8 Pill for her.
• Zhang Yuan appeared before Old Yao and Venerable Feng and offered Venerable Feng fine wine in exchange for a small favor.

Zhang Yuan demonstrated his growing Palm Thunder technique to Venerable Feng, then accompanied Xiao Yi Xian through the Chuyun Empire as she advanced toward becoming a Dou Zong. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan messaging Zhang Yuan about Zi Yan at Jia Nan Academy and urging him to lure her away.

• Zhang Yuan used Palm Thunder against Venerable Feng, demonstrating its wide-range and concentrated attacks and even striking off a strand of Feng Xian's hair.
• After Xiao Yi Xian broke through to Dou Emperor, Zhang Yuan accompanied her to the Chuyun Empire, where she absorbed Xie Biyan's poison power and reached Peak Dou Emperor.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Zhang Yuan discussed finding a Seventh-Rank poisonous creature, while Xun Er remarked that a Void-Devouring Rat would help locate things.
• Xiao Yan messaged Zhang Yuan that Zi Yan was an extraordinary girl at Jia Nan Academy's Inner Academy and asked him to find a way to lure her away.

Zhang Yuan cultivated with Venerable Feng and traveled toward Jia Nan Academy after learning that Xiao Yan had found someone with exceptional treasure-hunting abilities. At the academy, Xiao Yan built Yan Mansion into Nine Abyss Mansion’s recruitment center, but Zi Yan defeated him and became the focus of his search for Zhang Yuan.

• Xun Er asked Zhang Yuan whether he had found a Void-Devouring Rat, and he said Xiao Yan had discovered someone even more formidable.
• Zhang Yuan summoned lightning to cultivate, and Venerable Feng arrived to escort him toward Jia Nan Academy in exchange for wine.
• Xiao Yan entered Jia Nan Academy’s Inner Academy, established Yan Mansion as Nine Abyss Mansion’s recruitment center, and defeated Lin Xiuya to claim the Strong Ranking’s second position.
• Xiao Yan gave Su Qian a Dou Artifact and a Nine Abyss Token, and Su Qian then supported Yan Mansion’s recruitment efforts.
• Xiao Yan challenged Zi Yan for the Strong Ranking’s top position, lost, and was forced to call her Big Sister Boss.
• Xiao Yan learned that Zi Yan could seek treasures and travel through space, contacted Zhang Yuan, and asked whether she had found a tomb residence she could not enter.

Xiao Yan introduced Zi Yan to Zhang Yuan, whose Dragon Qi made her feel they were family. Zhang Yuan identified Zi Yan as an Ancient Void Dragon, leaving Feng Xian wondering whether Zhang Yuan was the Son of the Continent.

• Zi Yan told Xiao Yan that a barrier blocked her from reaching a tempting treasure in a Tomb Manor, and Xiao Yan decided to ask Zhang Yuan and Feng Xian for help.
• Zhang Yuan and Feng Xian arrived, and Zi Yan sensed a familiar power in Zhang Yuan before hugging him and asking whether he was her father.
• Zhang Yuan explained that he had refined Dragon Qi and guessed that Zi Yan’s true form was an Ancient Void Dragon.
• Feng Xian recalled Yao Chen’s remark about Zhang Yuan and wondered whether he was the Son of the Continent.

Zhang Yuan confirmed that Zi Yan was a Pure-blooded Primordial Ancient Dragon and told her about the Ancient Void Dragon Clan. Zi Yan accepted him as her brother, and as they set off to explore the tomb manor, Xiao Yan felt left out.

• Feng Xian explained the Ancient Void Dragon Clan's power, and Zhang Yuan confirmed that Zi Yan was a Pure-blooded Primordial Ancient Dragon after she demonstrated her ability to traverse space.
• Zi Yan asked Zhang Yuan about her origins, and he described the Ancient Void Dragon Clan and its four divided factions.
• Xiao Yan asked Feng Xian about Yao Chen's romantic past, then urged everyone to visit the tomb manor Zi Yan had found.
• Zi Yan asked Zhang Yuan if he could be her brother, and he agreed; she happily called him brother and asked him to teach her sword flight.
• Zhang Yuan offered Zi Yan a first-meeting gift, while Xiao Yan lamented that he had become the clown.

Zhang Yuan offered to use the Seven Dragon Thunder Gang Fire to refine Zi Yan’s unprocessed medicinal power, then led the group to investigate a powerful Tomb Manor near Jia Nan Academy. After Venerable Feng found that forcing its gate open could destroy the Tomb Manor and draw dangerous attention, they decided to wait a month while he worked on it; Zhang Yuan returned to the Ancient Void Realm with Zi Yan and Xiao Yan.

• Zhang Yuan explained the Seven Dragon Thunder Gang Fire’s unusual ability to absorb Dragon Qi, lightning, and other flames, and refused Zi Yan’s offer of essence blood.
• Zhang Yuan, Zi Yan, Xiao Yan, and Feng Xian found a hidden Spatial Portal beneath a lake and entered the Tomb Manor’s separate space.
• Feng Xian struck the enormous metal gate, causing the barrier to shake and alerting experts across the Black Corner Region, including the Qian Bai Er Lao at Jia Nan Academy.
• Feng Xian warned that forcibly opening the gate could make the Tomb Manor self-destruct and attract powerful rivals, but said he could slowly open it in a month.
• Zhang Yuan brought Zi Yan and Xiao Yan back to the Ancient Void Realm, then teleported with Zi Yan to the Inner Realm while Xiao Yan went to find his family.

Zhang Yuan brought Zi Yan to his home in the Ancient Void Realm and introduced her to his wives, who welcomed her with gifts and a lavish meal. Zi Yan grew fond of them, and the chapter ended with her making an affectionate remark that prompted Zhang Yuan to tease her and left the women speechless.

• Zhang Yuan told Zi Yan that his home was inside a wondrous artifact and that she could stay there whenever she wanted.
• Zhang Yuan introduced Zi Yan to Qing Yanjing, Medusa, Xun Er, and Xiao Yi Xian, and Medusa gave her a storage bracelet filled with pills.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Xun Er gave Zi Yan more pills, while Qing Yanjing served her delicious soup and promised to cook for her using any spiritual herbs she found.
• Zi Yan joined Zhang Yuan and the women for a feast, then declared that she liked Qing Yanjing and teased Zhang Yuan about his wives.
• Zi Yan sniffed the women and said she could imagine sleeping while hugging them, and Zhang Yuan replied that he dared to do that for real.

Zhang Yuan used the Seven Dragon Thunder Gang Fire to refine Zi Yan’s Shape-Shifting Grass, briefly transforming her into a mature woman before she reverted to her young form. After Zi Yan revealed her Ancient Void Dragon true form and began merging with space, Zhang Yuan realized they might be able to explore the tomb sooner than planned.

• Zi Yan asked to sleep beside Medusa, and Zhang Yuan agreed before deciding to refine Zi Yan’s Shape-Shifting Grass with the Seven Dragon Thunder Gang Fire.
• Zhang Yuan infused the Heavenly Flame into Zi Yan, and the medicinal power formed a purple cocoon that transformed her body.
• Zi Yan emerged as a tall, mature-looking woman, but she quickly shrank back into her thirteen-year-old form as the purple light faded.
• Zhang Yuan told Zi Yan she could grow naturally over the next three to five years and urged her to test whether she could transform into her true form.
• Zi Yan became a purple-golden Ancient Void Dragon over three hundred feet long and began merging with the surrounding space.
• Zhang Yuan realized Zi Yan’s command of space might let them explore the tomb before the month they had expected to wait.

Zi Yan explored her Ancient Void Dragon abilities in the Ancient Void Realm and fought the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King. She effortlessly overcame the Lion King’s flames and sealing technique, leaving Zhang Yuan impressed by her talent for finding and taking treasures.

• Medusa asked Zhang Yuan to help her become a Nine-Colored Sky Swallowing Python after she reached Dou Zun, and he promised to grant her wish.
• Zhang Yuan brought Zi Yan and the women into the Ancient Void Realm, where Zi Yan devoured a vast cloud of Dragon Qi.
• Old Yao confirmed that Zi Yan was an Ancient Void Dragon and recalled fighting an expert from her clan.
• Zhang Yuan ordered the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King to spar with Zi Yan, who charged through her Purple Fire and fought her in the air.
• The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King’s Purple Crystal Seal failed to trap Zi Yan, who passed through the void to attack her.

Zi Yan proved she could contend with the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King, and Yao Chen revealed that the Tomb Manor was a giant pill cauldron designed to refine a Rank 9 Pill through the Method of Rebirth Through Pill. The group learned that its owner might be reborn through the pill, and Zhang Yuan asked how they could enter the Tomb Manor.

• Zi Yan fought the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King to a draw, then boasted to Xiao Yan that she could claim first place on the Inner Academy Strong Ranking.
• Zhang Yuan opened a Spatial Portal, and the group joined Yao Chen and Venerable Feng outside the Tomb Manor.
• Yao Chen explained that the Tomb Manor could only be entered through a route that preserved its treasures, and identified its owner as an Alchemist at least as skilled as he had been at his peak.
• Yao Chen revealed that the Tomb Manor was built like an enormous cauldron to use the earth's energy to refine a Rank 9 Pill and enable its owner to be reborn through it.
• Zhang Yuan asked Yao Chen whether they had to wait for the pill to be completed before the Tomb Manor opened.

Zhang Yuan chose to send Zi Yan’s Primordial Mirage Dragon Pearl into the Tomb Manor so the group could explore before deciding whether to help or seize its Rank 9 Pill. As Zi Yan prepared to act, a powerful creature deep beneath the mountain sensed her and roared at the Tou She Ancient God.

• Yao Chen explained that entering through the Tomb Manor’s portal would ruin the Rank 9 Pill, while waiting for it to finish could let the Alchemist who created the cauldron claim it.
• Zhang Yuan proposed using Zi Yan’s ability to merge with space to send the Primordial Mirage Dragon Pearl through the barrier and create a way into the Tomb Manor.
• Zi Yan said she could send an object no larger than three inches through the barrier, but doing so would leave her asleep; Zhang Yuan gave her a Teleportation Bead linked to the Ancient Void Realm.
• Zi Yan transformed into a hundred-zhang dragon and took the Primordial Mirage Dragon Pearl toward the barrier.
• A creature in a hidden space beneath the mountain sensed Zi Yan’s aura, called her its child, and attacked the spatial barrier before accusing the Tou She Ancient God.

Zi Yan infiltrated the Tomb Manor’s barrier and brought Zhang Yuan’s group inside, where they discovered a Rank 7 Life Devouring Pill formula. Zhang Yuan proposed a way to overcome the pill’s three-year lifespan cost, leaving Old Yao eager to investigate.

• Zi Yan used the Primordial Mirage Dragon Pearl to slip through the Tomb Manor’s weak point, then teleported into the Ancient Void Realm and reunited with Zhang Yuan.
• Zhang Yuan led the group out of the Ancient Void Realm into the Tomb Manor, whose fire- and wood-rich environment resembled a medicine cauldron.
• Xiao Yan found a pill bottle and scroll on a jade pillar and discovered that the scroll contained the Life Devouring Pill formula.
• Old Yao explained that the pill could raise a Da Dou Shi to Dou Wang but consumed the user’s lifespan, leaving them only three years to live.
• Zhang Yuan suggested that someone could use a lifespan-prolonging pill and break through to Dou Emperor before the three years ran out, prompting Old Yao to praise the idea and lament that Zhang Yuan was not an Alchemist.

Zhang Yuan and his companions followed the fire-attributed energy deeper into Tomb Manor, hoping to meet its Rank 8 Alchemist owner. They discovered a vast garden of seventh-tier Fire Fragrance Flowers and questioned whether the owner had diverted energy from refining a Rank 9 Pill to cultivate it.

• Yao Chen explained how the Life Devouring Pill and Azure Nether Longevity Pill could help young cultivators reach the Dou Emperor realm, and Zhang Yuan obtained both formulas to post ingredient-gathering missions through the Nine Abyss Token.
• Zhang Yuan decided the group would seek out Tomb Manor’s Rank 8 Alchemist, offering aid if he proved honorable, negotiating if he was greedy, or letting Yao Chen replace him if he was evil.
• Zhang Yuan used Mysterious Yellow Flame to identify the route toward the tomb’s deepest area, and Yao Chen explained that the Medicine Cauldron’s strongest fire-attributed energy would lead to where a pill formed.
• The group followed a passage built from Sixth-tier Firecloud Crystal Ore and found a medicinal garden containing tens of thousands of thousand-year-old Seventh-tier Fire Fragrance Flowers, along with a Fourth-level Spirit Array.
• Zhang Yuan asked Yao Chen whether a Rank 9 Pill’s lightning tribulation would leave Tomb Manor intact, after learning that the garden’s energy might have been diverted from refining one.