Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan visited Sound Valley with the Yellow Spring Demon Saint and learned that the Spirit Clan was close to being destroyed by the Soul Clan. Valley Master Chen revealed the danger and shared what the Spirit Clan had discovered, leaving Xiao Yan determined to find another way to help despite not being strong enough to face the Soul Clan directly.

• Xiao Yan reached peak Fifth Turn Dou Venerable strength and received three Advanced Summoning Talismans and 300,000 Summoning Points.
• Xiao Yan asked the Yellow Spring Demon Saint to accompany him to Sound Valley, then left after briefly meeting Elder Yao.
• Venerable Jiuzhang welcomed Xiao Yan and led him through Sound Valley, where heavily armed soldiers patrolled an otherwise deserted settlement.
• Valley Master Chen told Xiao Yan that the Soul Clan sought the eight pieces of Tou She Ancient God Jade to open the Ancient Emperor Mansion.
• Valley Master Chen revealed that the Spirit Clan was barely holding on and feared an imminent assault by Soul Hall, then explained that he had summoned Xiao Yan to pass along the clan's findings in case he died.

Valley Master Chen told Xiao Yan that the Soul Clan sought the Dou Di Mansion and that the mysterious force behind the Heavenly Underworld Sect was also pursuing the Tou She Ancient God Jade. With the Soul Clan surrounding Sound Valley and the Spirit Clan, Xiao Yan vowed to destroy Soul Hall and urged Valley Master Chen to warn the ancient clans.

• Valley Master Chen explained the Soul Clan's plans for the Nihility Devouring Flame and the Heavenly Underworld Sect's search for rare treasures and the Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Valley Master Chen revealed that the Soul Clan had surrounded Sound Valley and the Spirit Clan, and the Yellow Spring Demon Saint sensed at least ten Dou Saints outside.
• The Yellow Spring Demon Saint said his soul power had recovered to half its former level and was enough to deal with the Soul Clan's forces.
• Xiao Yan declared that he would destroy every branch of Soul Hall, but Valley Master Chen warned that Hun Miesheng was a peak four-star Dou Saint.
• Xiao Yan urged Valley Master Chen to tell the ancient clans what he knew, and then Xiao Yan and his companions left.

Xiao Yan told Elder Yao and Old Monster Lin about Sound Valley’s connection to the Spirit Clan and the Soul Clan’s plans. He proposed attacking the Soul Hall to disrupt those plans, while revealing that the Heavenly Underworld Sect had recruited several Little Pill Tower elders.

• Valley Master Chen warned Xiao Yan to stay cautious, and Yellow Spring Demon Saint took him away from Sound Valley.
• Xiao Yan returned to Starfall Pavilion, heard that the Flame Alliance was preparing to expand into the Central Plains, and learned that Elder Yao was at the Pill Tower.
• Elder Yao and Old Monster Lin discussed the Soul Hall’s suspicious actions and the Heavenly Underworld Sect’s challenge to Elder Yao.
• Xiao Yan and Yellow Spring Demon Saint joined Elder Yao and Old Monster Lin in the Pill Realm, where Xiao Yan explained what he had learned at Sound Valley.
• Xiao Yan proposed smashing the Soul Hall and taking the souls it had collected to ruin its plans.
• Xiao Yan told Old Monster Lin that the Heavenly Underworld Sect had recruited several tier-nine Alchemists who were elders of the Little Pill Tower.

Xiao Yan led the Flame Alliance, Starfall Pavilion, and Pill Tower in an attack on the Soul Hall's Human Hall. The battle began with his forces overwhelming the hall's defenses, and Great Heavenly Venerable faced Xiao Yan, Elder Yao, Old Monster Lin, and Xuan Kongzi.

• Xiao Yan persuaded Old Monster Lin to have the Pill Tower join the Flame Alliance and announced an attack on the Human Hall in seven days.
• Great Heavenly Venerable ordered Bone You to stop provoking the Flame Alliance and prepare to send the Human Hall's collected soul bodies to Heaven Hall.
• Xiao Yan and nearly ten thousand allies broke through the Human Hall's barrier and began slaughtering its defenders.
• White Fang, Protector Mo, Yun Potian, Fei Tian, Iron Sword Venerable, and Heavenly Fire Venerable led their forces against the Soul Hall's defensive lines.
• Elder Yao confronted Great Heavenly Venerable, while Old Monster Lin and Xuan Kongzi joined him on Xiao Yan's side.

Xiao Yan’s Flame Alliance crushed the Soul Hall’s Human Hall while the Yellow Spring Demon Saint held off the Vice Hall Master. After the Soul Hall forces fled toward the Heaven Hall, Xiao Yan planned to refine their captured souls and prepare the alliance for future battles.

• The Great Heavenly Venerable threw Bone You toward Xiao Yan and ordered him to reach the enemy before self-destructing, while Old Monster Lin and Elder Yao engaged the Great Heavenly Venerable.
• Xiao Yan burned through the Soul Hall’s reinforcements as Xuan Kongzi took on Bone You, and the Great Heavenly Venerable relied on the Vice Hall Master to rescue him.
• The Yellow Spring Demon Saint intercepted the Vice Hall Master outside the passage and drove him to retreat rather than risk being trapped.
• After three days, Xiao Yan killed the Great Heavenly Venerable with a fire lotus, and no Soul Hall member escaped the Human Hall.
• The Yellow Spring Demon Saint reported that the Vice Hall Master had abandoned the Earth Hall and fled to the Heaven Hall, while the alliance had captured the Soul Hall members’ soul bodies.
• Xiao Yan condensed the captured souls for refinement, asked Elder Yao and Old Monster Lin to guard him, and told the alliance to recruit more factions while postponing an attack on the Heaven Hall.

After strengthening the Flame Alliance and learning that the Soul Clan’s pressure on the Spirit Clan had eased, Xiao Yan sought the Bodhi Ancient Tree to help him reach the Dou Saint realm. The Flame Heart Origin Tree eventually gave him the tree’s location after Xiao Yan promised not to take its only Bodhi Heart.

• Xiao Yan refined the soul bodies over half a year, reached the late Heaven Realm in Soul Power, and gave Elder Yao the Seventh Turn Extreme Venerable Pill Formula.
• White Fang and the others took the pills, while the Flower Sect and Burning Flame Valley joined the Flame Alliance under Elder Yao and Old Monster Lin’s management.
• The Yellow Spring Demon Saint told Xiao Yan that the Little Pill Tower’s ancestor had helped repel the Soul Clan’s forces and that the Soul Clan’s pressure on the Spirit Clan had eased.
• Xiao Yan contacted the Flame Heart Origin Tree and learned that Tou She Ancient God had killed it after it refined him into a flame.
• The Flame Heart Origin Tree explained that Bodhi had only one Bodhi Heart left, and Xiao Yan promised to take only Bodhi Seeds if that was still the case.
• The Flame Heart Origin Tree gave Xiao Yan the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s location.

Xiao Yan learned that the Bodhi Ancient Tree was hidden in Hidden Sword City and traveled there with Yellow Spring Demon Saint. The Sword God gave him a direct place in the Sword Tomb, while the city’s young swordsmen began competing for entry.

• The Flame Heart Origin Tree asked Xiao Yan to find Tou She Ancient God and learn why he had abandoned it, and Xiao Yan promised to help if he could.
• Xiao Yan told Yellow Spring Demon Saint about the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s location and decided to travel to Hidden Sword City.
• At Hidden Sword City’s sword competition, the Sword God recognized Xiao Yan and granted him a place in the Sword Tomb.
• Xiao Yan greeted Tang Ying and watched He Feng defeat an Immortal Sword Sect disciple.
• He Kuang, the Demon Sword Sect’s leading young swordsman, appeared to face Spirit Speech Sword Venerable and insulted him.

He Kuang defeated Spirit Speech Sword Venerable, and Nangong Yi won the tournament selection in Hidden Sword City. Afterward, Commander Liu summoned Xiao Yan to meet the City Lord, while Nangong Yi watched him with renewed fighting spirit.

• He Kuang defeated Spirit Speech Sword Venerable after about twenty exchanges and won their match.
• Nangong Yi faced Immortal Heaven Sword Venerable and forced him to concede after only three moves.
• Xiao Yan dismissed Nangong Yi as far weaker than himself, drawing the audience's attention before Nangong Yi left.
• Nangong Yi was selected as the tournament's chosen candidate after the remaining matches concluded.
• Commander Liu summoned Xiao Yan alone on the City Lord's orders, and Nangong Yi showed growing fighting spirit toward him.

Xiao Yan entered the Sword Tomb, aided the Bodhi Ancient Tree, and received its Bodhi Heart. After cultivating beneath the tree, he broke through directly to the early One-Star Dou Saint realm and reached the Ninth-Tier Alchemist rank.

• Commander Liu opened the Sword Tomb and left Xiao Yan and Nangong Yi to explore it on their own.
• Xiao Yan used his late Heaven Realm Soul Power to locate the Bodhi Ancient Tree and helped it dissolve the Dou Emperor's resentment with Bodhi Seeds.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree gave Xiao Yan more than twenty Bodhi Seeds and a Bodhi Heart, then Xiao Yan used his Soul Power to reconnect it with the Flame Heart Origin Tree.
• Xiao Yan absorbed the Bodhi Heart over half a year, upgrading his constitution to the Heavenly Flame Bodhi Immortal Body.
• Xiao Yan cultivated beneath the Bodhi Ancient Tree for a year and broke through directly to the early One-Star Dou Saint realm, while advancing to Ninth-Tier Alchemist.

After a year and a half in seclusion, Xiao Yan broke through to Dou Saint and became a Ninth Grade Treasure Pill alchemist. He left the Sword Tomb with Yellow Spring Demon Saint and headed for the Pill Gathering, planning to refine a ninth-grade pill before leading an assault on the Soul Hall.

• The system rewarded Xiao Yan for reaching Dou Saint and Ninth Grade Treasure Pill Master, and he decided to save the Ninth Turn Saint-Making Pill until he could refine it at a higher grade.
• Xiao Yan found Nangong Yi still cultivating in the Sword Tomb, already at the peak of Ninth Turn Dou Venerable, then left to meet Yellow Spring Demon Saint.
• Yellow Spring Demon Saint told Xiao Yan that the Sword God had agreed to help them confront the Soul Hall if they provided a time and place.
• Xiao Yan learned that Starfall Pavilion was at the Pill Tower for the Pill Gathering, remembered his promise to refine a ninth-grade pill, and set off with Yellow Spring Demon Saint.
• At the Pill Gathering, Xuan Kongzi and Elder Yao wondered whether Xiao Yan would arrive and remarked that his strength had likely surpassed theirs.

Xiao Yan detected Mu Gu hiding among the contestants and removed him before the alchemist competition began. The competition then started with Xiao Yan warning the participants about the dangers ahead.

• Elder Yao sensed something suspicious among the crowd but could not identify Mu Gu, who was concealed by a soul barrier.
• Xiao Yan arrived with the Yellow Spring Demon Saint and sensed an obscured aura among the contestants.
• After Elder Yao confirmed his suspicions, Xiao Yan spent one million Summoning Points to raise his Soul Power to Heaven Realm Great Perfection.
• Xiao Yan exposed Mu Gu's aura and made him vanish with a tap of his finger.
• Xiao Yan warned the contestants about the dangers inside, and the competition began.

After learning the Soul Clan might attack the Spirit Clan within one to three months, Xiao Yan planned to strengthen the Flame Alliance and prepare for the coming war. While watching the Pill Realm competition, he learned that Ye Fan, the Ye Clan’s grandson-in-law, had defeated Cao Ying and Bai Chen.

• Xuan Kongzi described the Flame Alliance’s clashes with the Soul Hall, and Xiao Yan discussed the need to build stronger forces before the Soul Clan acted.
• The Yellow Spring Demon Saint warned that the Soul Clan might attack Spirit Clan members within one to three months, and Xiao Yan decided to strengthen his allies with pills and weapons.
• Xiao Yan arranged to refine Bodhi Great Restoration Pills in the Little Pill Tower and prepared resources to help White Fang, Fei Tian, Yun Potian, the Iron Sword Venerable, Protector Mo, Heavenly Fire Venerable, and Old Hai advance.
• Xiao Yan and the Yellow Spring Demon Saint agreed that they would try to rescue people from the Sound Valley but could not save the Spirit Clan if Nine-Star Dou Saints attacked it.
• While watching the Pill Realm competition, Xiao Yan learned from Elder Yao that Ye Fan, the Ye Clan’s grandson-in-law, had defeated Cao Ying and Bai Chen in the Five Great Families’ internal test.

Ye Fan won the Pill Gathering with an eighth-grade five-color pill before Xiao Yan demonstrated his ability by refining a ninth-grade Bodhi Great Restoration Pill. After completing further preparations, Xiao Yan gave his subordinates pills and soul bodies, then asked Iron Sword Venerable and Yun Potian about the Sword Tomb in Hidden Sword City.

• Elder Yao announced the final round, and Ye Fan told Cao Ying he planned to refine an eighth-grade five-color pill.
• Xiao Yan praised Ye Fan, then displayed the Black Demon Cauldron and announced he would refine a ninth-grade pill.
• Ye Fan won the gathering with his pill, while Xiao Yan spent more than ten days refining the Bodhi Great Restoration Pill and Fei Tian withstood its Black Demon Lightning.
• The system rewarded Xiao Yan with Summoning Points and Intermediate Summoning Talismans, and the gathered alchemists resolved to join the Flame Alliance's Pill Hall.
• Xiao Yan gave pills to Heavenly Fire Venerable and Old Hai, and he gave Protector Mo the Great Heavenly Venerable's soul and other soul bodies.
• Xiao Yan asked Iron Sword Venerable and Yun Potian about the Sword Tomb in Hidden Sword City, then showed them two ancient swords.

Xiao Yan and his allies used a month to strengthen their cultivation ahead of a battle against the Soul Hall. With the group now largely at Half-Saint or higher, Xiao Yan prepared to break through the siege outside Sound Valley and rescue its people.

• Xiao Yan gave Iron Sword Venerable and Yun Potian their swords, then split the remaining Demon Saint Essence Blood with Yellow Spring Demon Saint so they could cultivate in seclusion.
• After a month, Xiao Yan reached the two-star Dou Saint realm, Yellow Spring Demon Saint reached early four-star Dou Saint, and Iron Sword Venerable and Yun Potian advanced to intermediate Half-Saint.
• White Fang evolved into an Ancient Lightning Dragon, and White Fang and Fei Tian reached advanced Half-Saint; Protector Mo and Old Hai reached intermediate Half-Saint, while Heavenly Fire Venerable reached advanced Half-Saint.
• The system rewarded Xiao Yan with a minor breakthrough after his powerful subordinates reached Half-Saint or above, raising him to mid two-star Dou Saint.
• Xiao Yan warned that the Soul Clan might retaliate against their plans and arranged for only Half-Saints and stronger to join the assault on the Soul Hall's forces outside Sound Valley.

Valley Master Chen prepared Sound Valley for an imminent Soul Clan attack while Hun Jin’s army assembled outside. Xiao Yan learned that Hidden Sword City would send seven swordsmen, but the strength of their support remained uncertain.

• Valley Master Chen ordered Sound Valley’s Dou Zun experts to fight and told weaker members to remain inside, revealing his fear that the Soul Clan would capture them.
• Hun Jin learned that the Soul Clan planned to attack Sound Valley at dawn and worried that the valley might have a hidden defense.
• Yellow Spring Demon Saint told Xiao Yan that the Soul Clan had already formed its attack formation and that Hidden Sword City would send seven swordsmen.
• Yellow Spring Demon Saint explained that most people in Sound Valley were vassals or descendants, not influential Spirit Clan members, because the ancient clans excluded those without strong bloodlines.

Xiao Yan prepared to rescue Sound Valley survivors and confront the Soul Hall, then summoned Xiao Chen, a powerful ancestor of the Xiao Clan. With Xiao Chen joining his forces, Xiao Yan led thirteen experts toward their first direct clash with the Soul Clan.

• Xiao Yan decided to rescue the Sound Valley survivors and bring them into the Flame Alliance, despite Yellow Spring Demon Saint warning that the Soul Clan might target them.
• Xiao Yan used a Special Grade Summoning Talisman and summoned Xiao Chen, a mid-phase Five-Star Dou Saint who had been trapped in the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame's cave estate.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Chen about the Xiao Clan's destruction and the Soul Clan's plans, and Xiao Chen vowed to fight the Soul Clan for Brother Xiao Xuan's sake.
• Yellow Spring Demon Saint gathered White Fang, Elder Yao, Old Monster Lin, Fire Cloud Ancestor, and the other experts to join Xiao Yan and Xiao Chen.
• Xiao Yan warned the thirteen assembled fighters to obey his orders and be ready to withdraw, then led them out to confront the Soul Hall.

Xiao Yan and his allies arrived at Sound Valley as the Soul Clan attacked, shattered the clan’s barrier, and joined the battle. They fought to break through the Soul Clan’s encirclement, while Xiao Yan used a soul attack to disrupt the Vice Hall Master.

• Hun Jin and four other five-star Dou Saints breached Sound Valley’s formation, and Valley Master Chen led his people into battle rather than reveal the Spirit Clan’s plans.
• Xiao Yan’s group arrived and Xiao Yan shattered the Soul Clan’s barrier with a five-colored fire lotus.
• Hun Jin sent Hun Miesheng and the Vice Hall Master to attack Xiao Yan’s group, while Valley Master Chen led Sound Valley’s fighters toward them.
• Xiao Chen charged through Soul Clan troops toward Hun Jin, and the Yellow Spring Demon Saint overwhelmed Hun Miesheng with soul attacks.
• White Fang, Fei Tian, and the others fought the Soul Clan’s forces as Xiao Yan faced the Vice Hall Master.
• Xiao Yan struck with Great Heaven Creation Palm, then used Yellow Spring Heaven Rage to disrupt the Vice Hall Master’s attack and leave him in a strange state.

Xiao Yan killed the Soul Hall Vice Hall Master but struggled to turn the tide as Sound Valley faced defeat. Hidden Sword City’s sword cultivators arrived to reinforce the battlefield, where the Sword Demon and Hun Huo emerged as powerful new fighters.

• Xiao Yan used the Yellow Spring Palm to kill the Soul Hall Vice Hall Master.
• Xiao Yan saw Sound Valley’s forces being overwhelmed and charged into the Soul Clan army, drawing Hun Mu’s pursuit.
• Hun Mu struck Xiao Yan with a giant palm, but Sword Spirit split the attack with a sword strike.
• Sword Spirit arrived with six other Dou Saint sword cultivators, including the Old Sword King, and the group joined the battle.
• The Sword Demon blocked a powerful black sword light, while Hun Huo appeared before Hun Mu, Hun Shui, and Hun Tu with a sub-flame of the Nihility Devouring Flame.

Xiao Yan and his allies rescued survivors from Sound Valley during the Soul Clan’s attack, with Sword Demon and Sword Spirit holding off Hun Huo’s forces. The group escaped, while Hun Huo chose to report the failure to the Soul Clan.

• Sword Demon and Sword Spirit joined forces to hold back Hun Huo and the other Soul Clan experts while Xiao Yan moved to rescue Sound Valley’s survivors.
• Xiao Yan unleashed a five-colored fire lotus that wiped out the Soul Clan army blocking the survivors’ escape route.
• Venerable Jiuzhang led a group to Xiao Yan, and Valley Master Chen attempted to bring more people out before Hun Shui and Hun Tu intercepted them.
• Valley Master Chen self-destructed, seriously injuring Hun Shui and Hun Tu and allowing Xiao Yan to lead the rescued group away.
• Yellow Spring Demon Saint, Xiao Chen, White Fang, and the others joined Xiao Yan’s retreat as Sword Demon and Sword Spirit covered them.
• The system rewarded Xiao Yan with three Advanced Summoning Talismans, and Hun Mu persuaded Hun Huo to report the incident instead of pursuing the escapees.

After returning to Starfall Pavilion, Xiao Yan heard Venerable Jiuzhang’s proposal to rescue a Spirit Clan survivor and expose the Soul Clan’s plans, but he hesitated over the risk and the consequences. He also considered seeking the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame as a way to grow strong enough to confront the Soul Clan.

• Xiao Yan thanked Sword Demon and Sword Spirit before parting from the people of Hidden Sword City and returning to Starfall Pavilion.
• Venerable Jiuzhang privately asked Xiao Yan to rescue a Spirit Clan member so a true clan member could warn the other ancient clans about the Soul Clan’s plans.
• Xiao Yan questioned how he could rescue anyone from an army that might include Nine-Star Dou Saints and asked for time to consider the proposal.
• Xiao Chen agreed that rescuing Spirit Clan members would be dangerous and said the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame would be difficult to obtain and would not quickly increase Xiao Yan’s strength.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Chen that he needed more time to decide what to do.