Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan appeared trapped by the Spirit Clan’s Space Imprisonment, but Black Flame secretly restrained Ling Guan and let him break free. Xiao Yan killed Ling Han and watched Black Flame consume him, while remaining wary of the flame’s unexplained use of the Spirit Clan blood essence.

• Xiao Yan’s Red Lotus Core Flame injured Ling Han, but Ling Guan’s Space Imprisonment then immobilized him.
• Ling Han approached the trapped Xiao Yan and tried to stab him, but Xiao Yan seized his arm and began breaking free.
• Xiao Yan revealed that Black Flame had restrained Ling Guan and was draining his strength.
• Xiao Yan used the four stacked seals of the Emperor Seal Art to cripple Ling Han, then let Black Flame consume him.
• Xiao Yan collected Spirit Clan blood essence and questioned why Black Flame’s power had not grown more, while Black Flame finished consuming Ling Han.

Xiao Yan subdued Black Flame after it helped him kill two Spirit Clan Dou Zuns, then entered the Pill Tower's core hall and discovered Ling Haonan overseeing a formation that was forcing Spirit Clan essence blood into Xuan Yi, Xuan Kongzi, and seven other experts. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan identifying Ling Haonan as the mastermind behind the Spirit Clan's night assault.

• Xiao Yan used the Flame Mantra and Red Lotus Core Flame to restrain Black Flame, then took most of the essence blood it had seized.
• Xiao Yan reflected on how Black Flame had bypassed Space Imprisonment to help him kill two six-star Dou Zuns.
• Xiao Yan opened the doors to the Pill Tower's core hall and found Xuan Yi, Xuan Kongzi, and seven others trapped in pillars of light as Spirit Clan essence blood entered their bodies.
• Xiao Yan saw Ling He and an elderly man channeling Dou Qi into the confinement formation, then recognized the elder as Ling Haonan, the Spirit Clan's Supreme Elder.

After escaping the Pill Tower, Xiao Yi Xian and the others discovered that the Spirit Clan had sealed Holy Pill City inside a spatial barrier, trapping its inhabitants and cutting off outside help. They searched for a way to summon powerful allies and ended with Cao Ying urging everyone to work together to break the barrier.

• Xiao Yi Xian and the others left the Pill Tower after fighting Spirit Clan experts and rescuing Pill Tower members, then saw more than fifty Spirit Clan Dou Zun experts encircling Holy Pill City.
• Qing Lin explained that the Spirit Clan had begun forming the barrier when its attack started, and the group learned that the barrier’s counterattack could kill anyone below Dou Emperor and could not be overcome by Dou Zun experts alone.
• Mu Qingluan proposed breaking the barrier so the Ancestor could receive news, while Wei Jiangyuan urged Venerable Mingshui to use spatial jade to contact Old Man Shennong.
• Venerable Mingshui revealed that Old Man Shennong had never given him spatial jade, and Lei Jingxiao said he had no way to summon Thunder Clan experts.
• Cao Ying called on everyone to join forces to break the barrier so someone could resolve the Pill Tower’s crisis.

Xiao Yan reached the Spirit Clan’s captive Pill Tower experts and tried to save Xuan Yi, but Xuan Leizi attacked him and revealed himself as the Pill Tower traitor guarding the site. As Xuan Leizi prepared to kill Xiao Yan, Qing Lin and the others worked to break the spatial restriction outside.

• Cao Ying and the older generation identified the Pill Tower’s hidden guardian as a possible way to resolve their predicament, while Xiao Yi Xian focused the group on breaking the spatial restriction.
• Qing Lin said she had a way to break the barrier but needed everyone’s strength, and the group discussed how to cooperate.
• Xiao Yan saw the controlled Xuan Yi and charged toward her pillar, but a powerful Space Imprisonment froze him in place.
• An attack pierced Xiao Yan’s right shoulder, but he evaded a fatal blow and identified his attacker as Xuan Leizi.
• Elder Lin condemned Xuan Leizi for betraying the Pill Tower, while Xuan Leizi defended his alliance with the Spirit Clan and declared that he would kill Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan fought Xuan Leizi, a Half-Saint guarding the imprisoned Pill Tower experts, but was overwhelmed by his strength and Heavenly State Soul. When an unknown force briefly freed Xiao Yan from Space Imprisonment, he unleashed his full power and swallowed the Spirit Clan descendant’s blood essence.

• Xiao Yan attacked Xuan Leizi with his ruler, but Xuan Leizi caught the strike between two fingers and blasted him away with a Heavenly State Soul attack.
• Xuan Leizi shattered Xiao Yan’s Emperor Seal Art and broke his breastbone with a palm strike, while the clay puppet helped Xiao Yan recover.
• Xiao Yan summoned the Black Flame, but Xuan Leizi suppressed it with his flames and overwhelming force.
• An unknown force briefly freed Xiao Yan from Space Imprisonment, allowing him to erupt with all his Dou Qi and unleash his devouring power.
• Xiao Yan swallowed the Spirit Clan descendant’s blood essence from a jade bottle.

Xiao Yan swallowed more than seventy drops of Spirit Clan blood essence and endured its destructive power long enough to turn it against Xuan Leizi. He began fusing three Heavenly Flames in an attempt to break the Space Imprisonment and rescue Xuan Yi.

• Elder Lin confronted Ling Haonan, who admitted that he admired Xiao Yan, while Elder Lin warned that the Spirit Clan would be exterminated.
• Xiao Yan drank the blood essence he had collected from the Spirit Clan experts, and its violent energy tore through his body.
• Xiao Yan used his soul power, Three Thousand Lightning Phantom Body, Red Lotus Core Flame, and Flame Mantra to keep his body from collapsing and guide the energy.
• Xuan Leizi mocked Xiao Yan for absorbing more power than he could control, then moved to attack when Xiao Yan began to stabilize.
• Xiao Yan unleashed the Red Lotus Core Flame and four seals of the Emperor Seal Art against Xuan Leizi, but Xuan Leizi suppressed the attacks.
• Xiao Yan began merging three Heavenly Flames, hoping to break the Space Imprisonment and bring Xuan Yi safely back to Starfall Pavilion.

Xiao Yan evaded Xuan Leizi while fusing four Heavenly Flames into a Fire Lotus, using Spirit Clan blood essence to move freely despite Space Imprisonment. The fusion reached a precarious balance as Xuan Leizi prepared a Heaven-class Dou Technique to stop him.

• Xiao Yan recognized that Space Imprisonment had slowed Xuan Leizi and used the Three Thousand Lightning Movement to evade his attacks.
• After absorbing more than seventy drops of Spirit Clan blood essence, Xiao Yan completed the initial fusion of three Heavenly Flames and released the Wind Fury Dragon Flame from its ice crystal.
• Xiao Yan used the Flame Mantra to control the unruly Wind Fury Dragon Flame and began fusing it with the other three flames.
• Xuan Leizi stopped pursuing Xiao Yan and gathered Half-Saint-level Dou Qi to unleash a Heaven-class Dou Technique.
• Xiao Yan maintained the four-flame fusion while evading Xuan Leizi, but he declared that the Fire Lotus was still not powerful enough.

Xiao Yan fused five Heavenly Flames while using a series of attacks to disrupt Xuan Leizi’s Heaven Class Dou Technique. Xuan Leizi stopped the Shadow Piercing Needle, swallowed a speed-enhancing pill, and prepared to attack as Xiao Yan’s fire lotus neared completion.

• Xiao Yan began fusing five Heavenly Flames to create the Five-Colored Fire Lotus, alarming Xuan Leizi with its potential power.
• Xiao Yan used Devouring Power and Void Devours Heaven to swallow Xuan Leizi’s energy blasts, but Xuan Leizi shattered the vortex.
• Xiao Yan followed with the Chaotic Flow Black Vortex and a concealed Shadow Piercing Needle, forcing Xuan Leizi to abandon his Heaven Class Dou Technique.
• Xuan Leizi stopped the Shadow Piercing Needle with his heavenly state soul power, while Xiao Yan dodged the hastily launched Dou Technique.
• Seeing Xiao Yan’s fusion near completion, Xuan Leizi swallowed a Peak Eighth-Tier speed-enhancing pill and prepared to strike again.

Xiao Yan completed the Five-Colored Destruction Fire Lotus while Xuan Leizi attacked, then detonated it toward Ling He and Ling Haonan. The blast devastated the Pill Tower and Holy Pill City, while Xiao Yan braced himself to survive its force.

• Xuan Leizi overcame most of Xiao Yan's Space Imprisonment and charged, but Xiao Yan let him pierce his chest to buy time to finish the Fire Lotus.
• Xiao Yan formed the Five-Colored Destruction Fire Lotus and frightened Xuan Leizi into dodging when he raised it toward him.
• Xiao Yan aimed the Fire Lotus at Ling He and Ling Haonan, triggered its explosion, and activated Phantom Shadow and his right arm's devouring power to defend himself.
• The Fire Lotus blast destroyed the Pill Tower hall, breached its defenses, and sent a vast sea of flames and shockwaves across Holy Pill City.
• The fire disturbed the Three Thousand Burning Flame in the Star Region, but the Pill Tower kept it contained as the city fell temporarily silent.

Xiao Yan survived the Five-Colored Destruction Fire Lotus explosion, while Xuan Leizi was left near death. The blast failed to weaken Ling Haonan’s formation, and Xiao Yan was left facing the full power of the five-star Dou Sheng.

• Xiao Yan endured the fire lotus explosion by using his defenses and the earth puppet, while Xuan Leizi was nearly killed by the blast.
• Black Flame returned to Xiao Yan and absorbed the surging Dou Qi and Spirit Clan essence blood inside him.
• Xiao Yan saw that all nine pillars still stood and continued to trap Xuan Kongzi, Xuan Yi, and the other Pill Tower experts.
• Elder Lin tried to break free from the central pillar, but his effort failed to change the formation.
• Ling Haonan and Ling He remained unharmed at the center, and Xiao Yan realized his attack had not shaken Ling Haonan’s seal.

Xiao Yan recovered from the backlash of his fire technique while Qing Lin and the others attacked the Spirit Clan’s super barrier. Qing Lin’s decisive slash shattered the formation and opened a huge breach in Holy Pill City.

• Xuan Leizi begged Ling Haonan for help, but Ling Haonan refused to spare his attention and left him to endure his injuries.
• Xiao Yan swallowed the Bodhi Marrow Cleansing Pill Dan Chen had given him to recover from the backlash of the Three Mysterious Changes of Heavenly Fire.
• Xiao Yi Xian stayed out of the attack while Venerable Mingshui, Tang Zhen, Kang Ning, Lei Jingxiao, and Wei Jiangyuan struck the barrier together to weaken it for Qing Lin.
• Qing Lin unleashed her Azure Frost Space-Severing Slash against the weakened formation, freezing and shattering it with a breach nearly a hundred zhang wide.

Qing Lin’s strike opened a gap in Holy Pill City’s formation, but a Spirit Clan ambush outside kept the people trapped. Ling Fengzhui arrived with Heavenly Nether Sect elites to seize control of the city, ordering them to capture the Pill Tower’s experts alive and assigning Tianming Old Demon to confront Xiao Yi Xian.

• People rushed toward the breach Qing Lin had opened, but a force outside crushed the first seven Dou Emperor experts into blood mist and drove the others back.
• Wei Jiangyuan discovered that the Spirit Clan had set an ambush outside and that the formation had not been completely broken.
• Ling Haonan told Xuan Leizi that the reinforcements had arrived and hinted that he intended to escalate the night’s events.
• Ling Fengzhui led Tianming Old Demon and the Heavenly Nether Sect elites into position outside the formation, ordering them to capture the Pill Tower’s experts rather than kill them.
• Ling Fengzhui tasked Tianming Old Demon with dealing with Xiao Yi Xian and promised to remember the Heavenly Nether Sect’s service even if the Spirit Clan did not.

Ling Fengzhui led Spirit Clan and Heavenly Nether Sect reinforcements into Holy Pill City, turning the Pill Tower’s fragile recovery into a bloody assault. As the Pill Tower’s forces regrouped around Xiao Yan, he planned another attempt to break the formation, but an enemy declared they had no chance left.

• Ling Fengzhui assigned the Spirit Guards to reinforce the formation, ordered the Heavenly Nether Sect to hunt people trying to flee, and sent Spirit Clan members to protect the Pill Tower headquarters.
• Ling Fengzhui tasked Senior Kong Qing and his wife with dealing with Lei Jingxiao without harming him, while Tianming Old Demon offered to capture Lei Jingxiao instead.
• Ling Fengzhui repaired the damaged formation and led more than fifty reinforcements inside; the Heavenly Nether Sect slaughtered those trying to escape Holy Pill City.
• Tang Zhen recognized the Heavenly Nether Sect among the attackers and warned the Pill Tower forces that the situation had worsened.
• Xiao Yan apologized to Yao Qingyu for failing to bring Xuan Yi back, then told the assembled allies they would make another surprise assault on the formation.
• An unidentified speaker told Xiao Yan and the others that they had no chance left.

Tianming Old Demon arrived as a Half-Saint and overwhelmed the defenders, while Qing Lin and the others fought to hold him back. The battle left Tianming Old Demon still standing against the group, with Wei Jiangyuan taunting him from behind Lei Jingxiao.

• Tianming Old Demon appeared and brushed aside Lei Jingxiao's attack before blocking the group's flames with jade-green fire.
• Qing Lin challenged Tianming Old Demon and forced him to take her seriously, but he sent her flying back.
• Tang Zhen and Kang Ning engaged Red Flame Evil Lord, while Venerable Mingshui was tied down by two Heavenly Nether Sect Dou Zun experts.
• Lei Jingxiao and Xiao Yan attacked Tianming Old Demon, but he knocked aside Lei Jingxiao's spear and crushed Xiao Yan's Four Seals.
• Wei Jiangyuan rushed in with emerald-green flames, then darted behind Lei Jingxiao and urged Tianming Old Demon to attack him.

Wei Jiangyuan used Tianming Old Demon's fear of injuring Lei Jingxiao to disrupt the Half-Saint's fight against Qing Lin. Lei Jingxiao overcame his humiliation and returned to protect Qing Lin, forcing Tianming Old Demon to hold back and shifting the battle toward a stalemate.

• Wei Jiangyuan drew Tianming Old Demon's attention to Lei Jingxiao, and Tianming Old Demon curved his spatial chains around Lei Jingxiao to attack Wei Jiangyuan instead.
• Wei Jiangyuan survived the chains' attack with jade talismans, then told Lei Jingxiao that he could help by threatening to hurt himself.
• Lei Jingxiao charged at Tianming Old Demon with his spear aimed at his own collarbone, forcing Tianming Old Demon to pull him away and giving Qing Lin an opening.
• After stumbling into the scorched earth, Lei Jingxiao returned to the fight and began using his body to shield Qing Lin from Tianming Old Demon's attacks.
• Tianming Old Demon was forced to protect Lei Jingxiao while fighting Qing Lin, suppressing his strength and allowing the battle to approach a stalemate.

Qing Lin held off Tianming Old Demon in a prolonged fight, while Xiao Yan and Wei Jiangyuan chose to attack the damaged Spirit Clan formation rather than risk fighting the Half-Saint. They reached the breach as Ling Fengzhui tried to repair it, and prepared to strike him and the formation.

• Qing Lin used Lei Jingxiao as a shield and her seemingly inexhaustible strength to keep Tianming Old Demon at bay.
• Xiao Yan and Wei Jiangyuan decided to break the damaged grand formation instead of joining the fight against Tianming Old Demon.
• Xiao Yan and Wei Jiangyuan found Ling Fengzhui repairing the breach with a formation disk and help from the Spirit Guards.
• Wei Jiangyuan gathered jade-green flames into a palm attack while Xiao Yan formed a flaming ruler attack aimed at the breach.
• Ling Fengzhui continued repairing the formation as Xiao Yan and Wei Jiangyuan finished charging their attacks.

Xiao Yan and Wei Jiangyuan attacked Ling Fengzhui, but the ghost-masked man blocked their techniques with mysterious soul power and continued repairing the formation. As Xiao Yan prepared to fight at full strength, Haika arrived and delivered the newly forged Heavy Profound Ruler to him.

• Xiao Yan and Wei Jiangyuan unleashed powerful attacks on Ling Fengzhui, but a barrier of soul power stopped them without interrupting his work on the formation.
• Wei Jiangyuan wondered whether Ling Fengzhui possessed a Heavenly State Soul, and Xiao Yan resolved to break through their opponent’s defense.
• Xiao Yan activated the Three Mysterious Changes of Heavenly Fire, raising his strength from three-star to six-star Dou Zun, while Wei Jiangyuan prepared another powerful technique.
• Haika, injured from the night’s battles, found Xiao Yan and presented him with the Heavy Profound Ruler he had forged.
• Xiao Yan promised Haika that he would treasure the ruler and use it as one of his most important weapons.

Xiao Yan received the reforged Heavy Profound Ruler, whose Heavenly Demon Phoenix core and flame-resistant materials gave it formidable power. As Xiao Yan prepared to test it against the Spirit Clan's sealing formation, Wei Jiangyuan summoned his Mystic Wood Bloom technique to scout the way.

• The Heavenly Demon Phoenix core's resentment attacked Xiao Yan's soul, but he quickly overcame it with his soul power.
• Xiao Yan examined the heavier, enlarged Heavy Profound Ruler and praised its craftsmanship and powerful materials.
• Wei Jiangyuan jokingly offered three tier-nine medicinal pills for the ruler, prompting Haika to glare at him.
• Xiao Yan infused the ruler with Red Lotus Core Flame, awakening the Phoenix core and merging his aura with the weapon's.
• Wei Jiangyuan stepped forward and summoned a rapidly growing, burning tree with his Mystic Wood Bloom technique.

Xiao Yan exploited the opening Wei Jiangyuan created to strike Ling Fengzhui and disrupt the Spirit Clan’s formation before its repairs were complete. Ling Fengzhui ordered the Spirit Guards to hold their positions and prepared to face Xiao Yan and Wei Jiangyuan, who remained ready to attack.

• Wei Jiangyuan’s attack broke through Ling Fengzhui’s soul barrier and cleared the way for Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan unleashed the Flame Splitting Tsunami Ruler, sending a powerful wave of Heavenly Flames into the damaged formation.
• The strike burned a gap through the Spirit Clan’s healing barrier, weakened Ling Fengzhui’s formation disc, and injured ten nearby Spirit Clan Dou Zun experts.
• Ling Fengzhui admitted that the formation repairs were incomplete and ordered the Spirit Guards to hold their positions and prevent any aura from leaking out.
• Ling Fengzhui saw that Xiao Yan and Wei Jiangyuan had stayed to continue attacking, so he told the guards to go while he faced them himself.

Xiao Yan and Wei Jiangyuan faced Ling Fengzhui, a formidable Spirit Clan commander, in a three-way battle. After their opening attacks failed to gain an advantage, Ling Fengzhui drew a terrifying black saber, signaling the fight was about to intensify.

• Ling Fengzhui introduced himself and sent Haika away before facing Xiao Yan and Wei Jiangyuan.
• Wei Jiangyuan used Shadow-Riding Thousand Transformations to attack Ling Fengzhui and ignited his Dou Qi with emerald flames, but Ling Fengzhui extinguished them with Extreme Cold Crystal Armor.
• Xiao Yan struck with his four-layered Emperor Seal Art, and Ling Fengzhui met it with his dark crystalline fist in an evenly matched clash.
• Xiao Yan recognized Ling Fengzhui as an eight-star Dou Zun whose battle-tested skills made him a dangerous opponent.
• Ling Fengzhui laughed and summoned a menacing black saber.