Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan met Xuan Kongzi to ask for an early chance to refine the Three Thousand Burning Flame, but learned that the decision belonged to the Little Pill Tower’s Elder Council. Xuan Kongzi noted that Xiao Yan’s Tier 8 alchemy skills and confidence did not guarantee him the Pill Gathering championship.

• Xiao Yan demonstrated his four Heavenly Flames, impressing Venerable Qingfeng, the guards, and the alchemists.
• Xiao Yan met Xuan Kongzi, who discussed Venerable Qingfeng’s Tier 5 alchemist progress and possible future vice presidency.
• Xiao Yan asked to refine the Three Thousand Burning Flame before the next Pill Gathering, which was still at least four years away.
• Venerable Qingfeng explained that the Little Pill Tower’s rules required the Elder Council to decide Xiao Yan’s request.
• Xiao Yan offered to prove he could win the next championship, and Xuan Kongzi replied that the Pill Gathering did not distinguish contestants by age.

Xiao Yan pressed Xuan Kongzi for a way to obtain the Three Thousand Burning Flame without waiting four years, explaining that he could not afford to delay. Xuan Kongzi brought him to Little Pill Tower to seek Elder Lin’s approval, leaving Xiao Yan to face the powerful elder.

• Xiao Yan insisted that he needed the Three Thousand Burning Flame soon, but Xuan Kongzi said the Elder Council would be difficult to convene.
• Xuan Kongzi suggested Xiao Yan return in four years, but Xiao Yan refused to wait and said his time was too precious.
• Xiao Yan revealed that Yao Chen was his master and offered his alchemy skills as proof; Xuan Kongzi agreed to ask Elder Lin for help.
• Venerable Qingfeng departed, and Xuan Kongzi transported Xiao Yan and Heavenly Fire Venerable to Little Pill Tower.
• Xuan Kongzi introduced Xiao Yan to the elders working in the medicinal fields, then presented him to Elder Lin, who remarked that the young man looked promising.

Xiao Yan asked the Pill Tower elders to let him subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame and was told to prove his skill by refining a pill. He chose to make an eighth-tier, five-color Ancient Body Creation Pill, and the chapter ended as the ingredients were prepared and he was about to begin.

• Xuan Kongzi explained Xiao Yan's request to Old Monster Lin, who agreed to seek the elders' approval if Xiao Yan demonstrated his alchemy skills.
• Xiao Yan chose the Ancient Body Creation Pill, and Old Monster Lin agreed to provide the ingredients while limiting him to two attempts.
• The Little Pill Tower elders gathered to watch Xiao Yan, questioned his ability, and examined his late Spirit Realm soul strength.
• Xiao Yan used the system to become an eighth-tier, five-color Alchemist, spending two hundred thousand Summoning Points.
• Xuan Kongzi quickly gathered the medicinal ingredients, and Xiao Yan reviewed the pill formula before preparing to refine the pill.

Xiao Yan refined a flawless pill for Elder Yao and earned permission to enter the Star Realm. After nearly a year, he refined the Three Thousand Burning Flame and rose to four-star Dou Zun with the Star-Adding Card.

• Xiao Yan used his Fire Controlling Cauldron to refine a pill while Old Monster Lin and Xuan Kongzi watched and recognized his alchemy skill.
• After ten days, Xiao Yan completed a pill that satisfied the elders, and Xuan Kongzi blocked its five-colored pill lightning.
• Old Monster Lin granted Xiao Yan permission to enter the Star Realm, and Xuan Kongzi took him there.
• Xiao Yan and Heavenly Fire Venerable found the sleeping Three Thousand Burning Flame, and Xiao Yan began refining it.
• After nearly a year, Xiao Yan completely refined the Three Thousand Burning Flame and reached four-star Dou Zun with the Star-Adding Card.

Xiao Yan broke through to Five-Star Dou Zun after absorbing the Three Thousand Burning Flame and preparing a pill for his teacher. He left the Star Realm with Heavenly Fire Venerable, declaring that Soul Hall would soon face his attack and promising to return to the Pill Tower in three years.

• The system rewarded Xiao Yan for reaching Dou Zun, raising his strength to Five-Star Dou Zun and improving his soul realm and alchemist rank.
• Xiao Yan and Heavenly Fire Venerable prepared to leave the Star Realm after absorbing the Heavenly Flame and making the pill for Xiao Yan's teacher.
• Xiao Yan contacted Xuan Kongzi, who opened the Star Realm and recognized that Xiao Yan had obtained the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Xiao Yan told Xuan Kongzi that Soul Hall would suffer after he left, and promised to return in three years to attempt a ninth-tier pill at the Pill Gathering.
• Xiao Yan and Heavenly Fire Venerable departed Pill City, and Xiao Yan said that major events were still some time away.

Xiao Yan confronted the Heavenly Underworld Sect’s delegation and severely injured Liu Cang with the Great Desolation Imprisoning Heaven Finger, while Heavenly Fire Venerable dealt with Demon Flower Evil Lord. Liu Cang called on the mysterious black-robed man to attack Xiao Yan, leaving the encounter poised for a clash.

• Xiao Yan discussed seeking essence from the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan for Heavenly Fire Venerable’s body, then the Heavenly Underworld Sect’s delegation appeared.
• Demon Flower Evil Lord and Liu Cang mocked Xiao Yan and demanded that he go with them to meet the person behind their sect.
• When Demon Flower Evil Lord provoked Xiao Yan, Heavenly Fire Venerable vanished, and Xiao Yan blocked Liu Cang as they fought.
• Xiao Yan struck Liu Cang with the Great Desolation Imprisoning Heaven Finger and grievously injured him, while Heavenly Fire Venerable reduced Demon Flower Evil Lord to ashes.
• Liu Cang threatened Xiao Yan and urged the black-robed man beside him to attack, but the man rebuked Liu Cang for failing to handle Xiao Yan himself.

Xiao Yan confronted Liu Cang and his mysterious Half-Saint ally, but Yellow Spring Demon Saint appeared and killed the man before he could attack. Yellow Spring recognized Xiao Yan as the world’s sole variable, and the system rewarded Xiao Yan with Yellow Spring’s three ultimate skills.

• Liu Cang revealed that factions planned to seize the Northwest Continent and warned Xiao Yan that his forces there would be uprooted.
• The Black-Robed Man was struck by a soul attack and exploded, while Liu Cang killed himself rather than reveal the identity of his ally’s clan.
• Yellow Spring Demon Saint appeared, and Xiao Yan introduced him to Heavenly Fire Venerable.
• Yellow Spring explained that he had fallen from the world he came from after failing to reach the Dou Di realm and said Xiao Yan could lead them beyond the limits of Emperor.
• The system rewarded Xiao Yan with the Yellow Spring Finger, Yellow Spring Palm, and Yellow Spring Heaven Rage.

Xiao Yan summoned Yellow Spring Demon Saint, whose remaining strength surprised him, and set out with him and Heavenly Fire Venerable to obtain Dou Zun-level essence from the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan. At the clan’s ancestral grounds, Nine Phoenix reported on Xiao Yan’s growing Flame Alliance and changes among the Ancient Void Dragons, prompting the elders to consider intervening against their old rivals.

• Xiao Yan checked his host panel and learned that Yellow Spring Demon Saint retained late One-Star Dou Saint strength despite being shattered.
• Xiao Yan told Yellow Spring Demon Saint that they were going to the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan to obtain Dou Zun-level essence for his teacher’s body.
• Yellow Spring Demon Saint took Xiao Yan and Heavenly Fire Venerable to the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s ancestral grounds.
• Nine Phoenix told Phoenix, Roc Phoenix, and Eagle Phoenix that Xiao Yan’s Flame Alliance had unified the Northwest Continent and destroyed Soul Hall branches there.
• Nine Phoenix reported that East Dragon Island had sealed itself off and might hold dragons with purer bloodlines than the Three Great Dragon Kings.
• Phoenix advised the elders to avoid human affairs and focus on the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, and Roc Phoenix and Eagle Phoenix agreed.

Xiao Yan and his companions invaded the Heavenly Demon Phoenix ancestral land to obtain bloodline essence for refining a body for his teacher. The clan’s elders refused his request, and Xiao Yan prepared to take what he wanted by force.

• Phoenix, Roc Phoenix, Eagle Phoenix, and Nine Phoenix discussed helping the Northern King attack East Dragon Island before a messenger reported that three powerful intruders had entered the ancestral land.
• Xiao Yan and his companions searched the Heavenly Demon Phoenixes for suitable bloodline material, while the Yellow Spring Demon Saint forced hundreds of them into their true forms for inspection.
• Roc Phoenix, Eagle Phoenix, and Nine Phoenix confronted the intruders, and Nine Phoenix recognized Xiao Yan as the leader of the Flame Alliance.
• Xiao Yan requested Heavenly Demon Phoenix bloodline essence to refine a body for his teacher and offered an eighth-tier, five-colored medicinal pill as compensation.
• Roc Phoenix and Eagle Phoenix rejected Xiao Yan’s request and warned him to leave, but Xiao Yan declared that he would take what he wanted by force.

Xiao Yan and Yellow Spring Demon Saint confronted the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan as Xiao Yan sought its essence. After Xiao Yan threatened the ancestral land with a powerful fire lotus, Phoenix stopped the battle and agreed to negotiate an exchange for the essence.

• Yellow Spring Demon Saint fought Roc Phoenix and Eagle Phoenix, while Nine Phoenix moved to attack Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan used his Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Bodies and gathered five Heavenly Flames into a fire lotus that frightened the Phoenix experts.
• Phoenix appeared and persuaded Xiao Yan to disperse the fire lotus before asking Roc Phoenix and Eagle Phoenix to withdraw.
• Phoenix agreed to trade the essence for an eighth-tier Five-Colored Pill, and then extracted a drop of red liquid from Nine Phoenix.

Xiao Yan accepted Nine Phoenix’s essence from Phoenix and left the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan. He then planned to find the Dou Saint remains needed to revive Elder Yao and decided to approach the Nine Nether Deep Earth Python clan with Yellow Spring Demon Saint.

• Phoenix gave Xiao Yan Nine Phoenix’s essence to settle the dispute, and Xiao Yan apologized before leaving with Yellow Spring Demon Saint and Heavenly Fire Venerable.
• Phoenix told Roc Phoenix and Eagle Phoenix that fighting Xiao Yan’s group would have left them injured, and warned them not to provoke the Flame Alliance.
• Xiao Yan assessed the materials for Elder Yao’s new body and concluded that he still needed the Dou Saint’s remains to make the revival successful.
• Xiao Yan told Yellow Spring Demon Saint about a Dou Saint cave abode near the Nine Nether Deep Earth Python clan and proposed seeking clues there.
• Xiao Yan planned to resolve the Nine Nether Deep Earth Python clan’s internal affairs and bring the clan to his side before pursuing the cave abode.

Xiao Yan and Yellow Spring Demon Saint visited the Yellow Spring Pool, where Heavenly Fire Venerable freed the imprisoned Yao Ming. Xiao Yan restored Yao Ming’s strength and secured his promise of future aid as they prepared to face Yao Xiaotian and the First Elder.

• Yellow Spring Demon Saint led Xiao Yan and Heavenly Fire Venerable to the Yellow Spring Pool and found Yao Ming imprisoned beneath it.
• Xiao Yan gave Heavenly Fire Venerable five kinds of Heavenly Flame to break Yao Ming’s seal while Yellow Spring Demon Saint recovered his stored blood essence from a stone monument.
• After Heavenly Fire Venerable freed Yao Ming, Xiao Yan offered to help him reclaim his position as chief in exchange for future aid from Yao Ming and his tribe.
• Xiao Yan used some of Yellow Spring Demon Saint’s blood essence to restore Yao Ming to the middle stage of the two-star Dou Saint level.
• Xiao Yan said he and his companions would handle the First Elder while Yao Ming faced Yao Xiaotian, and Yao Ming said he expected the tribe’s members to support him.

Yao Ming confronted and killed Yao Xiaotian while Yellow Spring Demon Saint held off the First Elder. After Yao Xiaotian’s death, Yao Ming caught the First Elder as he tried to flee.

• Yao Xiaotian learned that Yao Ming had escaped and hurried to the Yellow Spring Pool with his guards and the First Elder.
• Yao Ming attacked Yao Xiaotian, while Xiao Yan asked Yellow Spring Demon Saint to prevent the First Elder from interfering.
• Yellow Spring Demon Saint blocked the First Elder and overwhelmed him, while Yao Ming suppressed Yao Xiaotian.
• Older members of the Nine Nether Deep Earth Python clan recognized Yao Ming and stopped younger clansmen from joining Yao Xiaotian’s side.
• Yao Ming killed Yao Xiaotian, who threatened self-destruction but did not follow through.
• The First Elder tried to flee, but Yao Ming appeared in front of him.

Xiao Yan absorbed Demon Saint Essence Blood, advanced to seven-star Dou Venerate, and used system rewards to become an eighth-tier nine-colored Alchemist with early Heavenly Realm soul strength. After Yellow Spring Demon Saint found the cave estate, Xiao Yan prepared to open it with help from the Nine Nether Deep Earth Python clan and seek the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit for Zi Yan.

• Yao Ming killed the First Elder and took charge of consolidating the Nine Nether Deep Earth Python clan while Xiao Yan left to search for a cave estate.
• Xiao Yan absorbed a drop of Demon Saint Essence Blood over four months and advanced to seven-star Dou Venerate.
• Xiao Yan received the Seventh Turn Extreme Venerable Pill formula and system rewards that raised his alchemy level and soul strength.
• Yellow Spring Demon Saint found the cave estate but warned that its weakening barriers might soon draw other experts.
• Xiao Yan decided to enlist the Nine Nether Deep Earth Python clan, offering them most of the cave estate's contents while reserving its greatest treasures for his group.
• Xiao Yan planned to obtain the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit for Zi Yan so she could absorb its inheritance and potentially reach four-star Dou Saint.

Xiao Yan and Yellow Spring Demon Saint entered a hidden Dou Saint cave abode and began gathering its treasures and inheritance while the Nine Nether Deep Earth Python clan guarded the entrance. As outside factions crowded against the blockade, Tianming Zi and the Heavenly Underworld Sect debated whether to give up on the inheritance.

• Heavenly Fire Venerable brought Nine Nether Deep Earth Python experts to guard the cave abode’s location, and Yellow Spring Demon Saint broke through its defenses to reveal it.
• Xiao Yan entered the ancient tomb with Yellow Spring Demon Saint and discovered its vast stores of herbs, Dou Techniques, and treasure.
• Yellow Spring Demon Saint stopped the tomb owner’s remains from launching a final strike, while Xiao Yan took three ribs containing cultivation methods and began learning the Great Heaven Creation Palm.
• Yellow Spring Demon Saint collected the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and the corpses of an Ancient Void Dragon and an Ancient Heavenly Phoenix for Zi Yan.
• Ice River Valley, the Heavenly Underworld Sect, the Wind Lightning Pavilion, and other factions gathered outside, but the Nine Nether Deep Earth Python clan blocked them.
• Tianming Zi conferred with Ice Venerable and Thunder Venerable about the blockade, then declined to commit to abandoning the Dou Saint inheritance.

Xiao Yan and the Yellow Spring Demon Saint finished searching the Dou Saint cave dwelling and prepared to share its contents with Starfall Pavilion and Yao Ming’s side. Outside, Nine Phoenix and other factions pressured the Nine Nether Deep Earth Python Clan to let them enter, until Xiao Yan appeared and confronted Nine Phoenix.

• Nine Phoenix arrived with Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan experts and questioned Elder Yao Xin about the upheaval within the Nine Nether Deep Earth Python Clan.
• Xiao Yan mastered the Great Heaven Creation Palm, collected ingredients for a Seventh Turn Extreme Venerable Pill, and agreed with the Yellow Spring Demon Saint to divide the cave dwelling’s remaining goods.
• Nine Phoenix, Tianming Zi, and other faction leaders accused the Nine Nether Deep Earth Python Clan of monopolizing the cave dwelling and threatened to force their way in.
• Elder Yao Xin sent for the clan leader and urged Xiao Yan to hurry as the assembled forces grew more hostile.
• Xiao Yan and the Yellow Spring Demon Saint appeared, and Xiao Yan greeted Nine Phoenix by asking whether he had recovered so quickly.

Xiao Yan drove the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan and other intruders away from the contested site, then learned that Soul Hall had surrounded Starfall Pavilion and threatened to destroy it unless he appeared. He rushed there with Yellow Spring Demon Saint and Heavenly Fire Venerable as Elder Yao and Venerable Feng prepared to face the attackers.

• Nine Phoenix apologized to Xiao Yan and withdrew after Xiao Yan claimed the site for the Flame Alliance, Starfall Pavilion, and the Nine Nether Deep Earth Python Clan.
• Tianming Zi and the Black-Robed Men escaped with the help of a powerful nearby expert, despite Yellow Spring Demon Saint's efforts to detect them.
• The remaining groups left, and Xiao Yan asked Elder Yao Xin to guard the site until Starfall Pavilion's people arrived.
• Heavenly Fire Venerable reported that Soul Hall had surrounded Starfall Pavilion, so Xiao Yan, Yellow Spring Demon Saint, and Heavenly Fire Venerable traveled there through a spatial passage.
• Outside Starfall Pavilion, Third and Fourth Heavenly Venerables threatened to destroy it unless Yao Chen and Xiao Yan were handed over.
• Elder Yao offered to surrender himself, but Venerable Feng refused and prepared the pavilion's people to fight when the protective formation fell.

Xiao Yan arrived at Starfall Pavilion as Soul Hall’s Heavenly Venerables prepared to destroy its defenses, then unleashed two Heaven-tier Dou Techniques against Third Heavenly Venerable. Third Heavenly Venerable faced the attack while Bone You hid in the shadows and decided that only their eldest brother could handle Xiao Yan.

• Fourth Heavenly Venerable attacked Starfall Pavilion’s formation while Venerable Feng and the pavilion’s fighters prepared to defend their home.
• Heavenly Fire Venerable ambushed Fourth Heavenly Venerable and challenged the Soul Hall brothers, then Xiao Yan appeared and revealed himself as the Flame Alliance’s leader.
• Yellow Spring Demon Saint restrained Third Heavenly Venerable as Xiao Yan summoned the Great Heaven Creation Palm and Great Desolation Imprisoning Heaven Finger.
• Third Heavenly Venerable begged his hidden brother Bone You for help, but Bone You stayed concealed and concluded that only Eldest Brother could deal with Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan defeated the Soul Hall invaders at Starfall Pavilion and began forging a new body for Yao Chen. After three months of refinement, Yao Chen emerged as a two-star Dou Saint and a Ninth Grade Treasure Pill master.

• The Third Heavenly Venerable was killed, the Fourth Heavenly Venerable's body was captured, and Bone You escaped through a prepared spatial passage.
• Xiao Yan reunited with Yao Chen and Venerable Feng, then revealed that he had unified the Northwest Continent under the Flame Alliance.
• Xiao Yan prepared a one-star Dou Zun body and rare materials, and spent ten days refining an eighth-grade, nine-colored pill for Yao Chen.
• Xiao Yan spent three months forging Yao Chen's body while news of the Soul Hall defeat spread and raised the Flame Alliance's standing.
• Xiao Yan added Demon Saint Essence Blood at the last moment, allowing Yao Chen to reach two-star Dou Saint strength and become a Ninth Grade Treasure Pill master.

Xiao Yan absorbed the Bone Chilling Spirit Flame and refined a Seventh Turn Extreme Venerable Pill, advancing to the peak of the five-turn Dou Venerate realm while the Yellow Spring Demon Saint broke through to a mid-stage two-star Dou Saint. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan learning that Soul Hall and the Heavenly Underworld Sect had gone quiet, apparently while making preparations.

• Elder Yao was reborn as an early two-star Dou Saint, and Xiao Yan arranged for Venerable Feng to spread the news across the continent.
• Elder Yao gave Xiao Yan the Bone Chilling Spirit Flame, while he and the Yellow Spring Demon Saint built spatial passages connecting Starfall Pavilion and the Flame Alliance.
• Xiao Yan absorbed the Bone Chilling Spirit Flame and created a quasi-Heaven-tier Dou Technique as a tribulation appeared over him.
• After refining a Seventh Turn Extreme Venerable Pill and using Demon Saint Essence Blood, Xiao Yan reached the peak of the five-turn Dou Venerate realm.
• The Yellow Spring Demon Saint absorbed some of the essence blood and advanced to the middle stage of the two-star Dou Saint realm.
• The Yellow Spring Demon Saint told Xiao Yan that Soul Hall and the Heavenly Underworld Sect had gone quiet, and Xiao Yan suspected they were making preparations.