Chapter Summaries

Using the alias Lin Yuan, Xiao Yi began the Pill Tower’s eighth-tier alchemist assessment by refining a Bone-Melting Blood-Replenishing Pill. His Heavenly Flame and skill impressed the Pill Tower’s leaders as the ingredients began to fuse, but the assessment remained unfinished.

• Xiao Yi asked Xuan Kongzi to provide three rare ingredients for his assessment, and agreed to join the Pill Tower if he passed.
• Xuan Kongzi brought Xiao Yi to the assessment area, where Xuan Yi, Tian Leizi, Cao Ying, and Song Qing watched him prepare to refine a peak seventh-tier Bone-Melting Blood-Replenishing Pill.
• Xiao Yi revealed the Myriad Beasts Cauldron and Fallen Heart Flame, surprising the Pill Tower leaders and deepening Cao Ying’s curiosity.
• Song Qing questioned Xiao Yi’s abilities, but Cao Ying rebuked him before Xuan Kongzi announced the start of the assessment.
• Xiao Yi refined the Blood Essence Demon Fruit, then added the Ten-Thousand-Year Azure Spirit Vine and Snow Bone Ginseng as their medicinal energy began to fuse.

Xiao Yi overcame a bottleneck in refining the Bone-Melting Blood-Replenishing Pill by revealing his Sea Heart Flame and combining it with the Fallen Heart Flame. His pill triggered five-colored pill lightning, and he began using a technique from Emperor Xiao as the lightning gathered overhead.

• Xiao Yi summoned the Sea Heart Flame to overcome the resistance between the medicinal ingredients, shocking Xuan Kongzi, Cao Ying, and Song Qing with his second Heavenly Flame.
• Xiao Yi used both Heavenly Flames to fuse the ingredients, and Xuan Yi recognized traces of Yao Chen in his control of the flames.
• Xiao Yi formed and polished the Bone-Melting Blood-Replenishing Pill, then opened the Myriad Beasts Cauldron to reveal the finished pill.
• The pill lightning intensified from four colors to five, prompting Xuan Yi to worry about whether Xiao Yi could withstand its power.
• Xiao Yi saw the five-colored pill lightning gather and began chanting a technique bestowed by Emperor Xiao.

Xiao Yi charged into the five-colored pill lightning from the Bone-Melting Blood-Replenishing Pill, intending to refine its energy with the Emperor Xiao inheritance’s [Primordial Origin Myriad Transformations Method]. As the Pill Tower’s experts watched in alarm, he began absorbing the lightning, leaving his body and soul in excruciating danger.

• Xiao Yi revealed his Dou Venerable cultivation and flew toward the descending five-colored pill lightning, shocking Xuan Kongzi, Xuan Yi, and Cao Ying.
• Xiao Yi activated the [Primordial Origin Myriad Transformations Method] and began devouring the pill lightning instead of merely resisting it.
• Xuan Kongzi recognized Xiao Yi’s attempt to absorb the lightning and held back from intervening, while Cao Ying pleaded for him to save Xiao Yi.
• Song Qing warned Cao Ying that Xiao Yi’s choice could destroy his body and soul, then tried to touch her shoulder, but she dodged him.
• Xiao Yi’s golden radiance intensified as his Heaven Realm soul emerged from his body and joined the absorption, while the lightning’s pain threatened to tear him apart.

Xiao Yi absorbed the five-colored pill lightning with the [Primordial Origin Myriad Transformations Method], gained lightning-attributed Dou Qi, and broke through to four-star Dou Venerate. Xuan Kongzi certified him as an eighth-tier alchemist and gave him the Bone-Melting Blood-Replenishing Pill, while Xiao Yi hesitated over his agreement to join the Pill Tower.

• Xiao Yi lost consciousness as the five-colored pill lightning struck him, and Emperor Xiao appeared in his soul, praising his grasp of the cultivation method.
• Xiao Yi regained consciousness and used the [Primordial Origin Myriad Transformations Method] to refine the pill lightning, gaining a trace of origin qi and lightning-attributed Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yi began breaking through, and Xuan Kongzi cleared the area and created a small world to protect him.
• Xiao Yi emerged as a four-star Dou Venerate, and Xuan Kongzi certified him as an eighth-tier alchemist and handed him the Bone-Melting Blood-Replenishing Pill.
• Xiao Yi thanked Xuan Kongzi for protecting him, then hesitated when Xuan Kongzi reminded him of his agreement to join the Pill Tower.

Xiao Yi accepted an honorary position in the Pill Tower while postponing his formal service for three years, then met the Pill Tower Ancestor, who discovered his true identity and warned him about the Soul Hall. The chapter left Xiao Yi protected inside Sacred Pill City but on his own once he ventured beyond it.

• Xuan Kongzi agreed to give Xiao Yi three years before joining the Pill Tower and named him an Honorary Elder, granting him an eighth-tier alchemist badge, robe, and token.
• Xuan Kongzi watched Xiao Yi leave and thought of Yao Chen as another alchemy genius worthy of becoming his disciple.
• Xiao Yi sensed a powerful soul beyond Sacred Pill City and found the Pill Tower Ancestor inhabiting the body of a child riding a green ox.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor recognized Xiao Yi's Heavenly Realm soul and praised his talent after learning that his Bone-Melting Blood-Replenishing Pill had drawn five-colored Pill Lightning.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor saw through Xiao Yi's Lin Yuan alias, and Xiao Yi revealed his true name and his conflict with the Soul Hall.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor promised Xiao Yi safety within Sacred Pill City, warned him to be careful outside it, and sent him back into the city.

After leaving Sacred Pill City, Xiao Yi headed toward Jia Nan Academy but detoured to investigate a powerful energy fluctuation. In Bone Transforming City, he learned that forces had gathered over rumors of a Dou Saint ruin.

• Xiao Yi left Sacred Pill City, and Xuan Kongzi lamented that the talented alchemist was not destined to join the Pill Tower.
• Xiao Yi told Skyfire Venerable that the Bone-Melting Blood-Replenishing Pill could not restore him without a suitable body, then sensed a familiar bloodline resonance from a sealed iron fragment.
• Xiao Yi detected a powerful energy fluctuation, concealed his identity as Lin Yuan, and settled in a nearby town to investigate.
• Xiao Yi learned in a tavern that the town was Bone Transforming City, ruled by the Bone Transforming Sect.
• Three men said Ice River Valley and Burning Flame Valley had arrived because of rumors of a Dou Saint ruin near the city.

Xiao Yi followed reports of Dou Saint Ruins to an ice cave near Bone Transforming City, where major Central Plains forces gathered. The entrance began to open, but its icy defenses killed several Dou Zong cultivators, leaving Xiao Yi to wait and watch from concealment.

• Xiao Yi learned that Ice River Valley and Burning Flame Valley had come to investigate the rumored Dou Saint Ruins, and decided to go there himself.
• Xiao Yi arrived at the ice cave and concealed his aura among experts from the Soul Hall, Burning Flame Valley, Ice River Valley, and other groups.
• Xiao Yi observed the Bone Transforming Sect Master ingratiating himself with powerful figures while they waited for the ruins to open.
• The entrance released powerful energy and triggered a blizzard, prompting several independent Dou Zong cultivators to rush toward it.
• The ruins' icy power turned the first cultivators who approached into statues and killed them, so Xiao Yi stayed hidden and waited for the major forces to enter first.

Xiao Yi entered the opened Dou Sheng ruin and cautiously crossed its deadly cold, which could pierce Dou Qi and suppress the Fallen Heart Flame. He reached the central region, where the gathered experts faced an enormous ice wall, and joined a scramble for the treasures above it, drawing a cultivator’s attack.

• The barrier opened, and the independent cultivators, Ice River Valley, Soul Hall, and Burning Flame Valley entered the ruin while Xiao Yi waited behind.
• Xiao Yi entered last and used his Dou Qi and Fallen Heart Flame to endure the ruin’s freezing cold as he explored past the frozen remains of dead cultivators.
• Xiao Yi reached the central region, where Ice Venerable, Tang Zhen, and other experts gathered before an enormous ice wall, ignoring the Earth-class Dou Skills and cultivation methods floating overhead.
• Xiao Yi disguised his strength as a one-star Dou Zun and joined the independent cultivators scrambling for the treasures.
• After Xiao Yi seized an Earth-class mid-level Dou Skill, an attacker demanded that he put it down and launched a sneak attack, which Xiao Yi evaded.

Xiao Yi fought Little Knife Venerable over a Dou Technique while the Soul Hall elder waited for the survivors to weaken. A deadly wave of cold energy swept through the ruin, and Star Seeker Old Ghost arrived, killed the elder, collected the fallen souls, and urged Ice Venerable and Tang Zhen to help break the ice wall.

• Little Knife Venerable demanded Xiao Yi's Dou Technique, and Xiao Yi fought him while concealing his strength.
• The Soul Hall elder prepared a spatial jade token and waited as the two men clashed.
• A powerful wave of thousand-year cold energy flooded the space, killing cultivators below three-star Dou Venerable; Xiao Yi revealed his four-star Dou Venerable aura to survive.
• The Soul Hall elder used independent cultivators as shields, then crushed his token and called for help, but Star Seeker Old Ghost killed him and gathered the dead cultivators' souls.
• Star Seeker Old Ghost proposed that Ice Venerable and Tang Zhen join forces to shatter the ice wall, and Ice Venerable agreed.

Xiao Yi and the other Dou Zun experts broke through the ice wall and entered the Small Profound Ice World, where a Half-Saint guardian attacked them. Their combined assault failed, leaving Xiao Yi to realize the guardian was a puppet made from a peak Nine-Transformation Dou Zun body and the ruins’ master’s spiritual consciousness.

• Star Seeker Old Ghost, Ice Venerable, and the others joined forces to shatter the ice wall and reveal the Small Profound Ice World.
• Xiao Yi followed the group inside, and the entrance sealed itself as the ice statue rose and revealed an old man who declared the intruders would die.
• Star Seeker Old Ghost attacked the Half-Saint guardian with black chains, but the guardian froze and shattered them before launching ice spikes at him.
• Star Seeker Old Ghost urged the others to fight, and Xiao Yi and the Dou Zun experts joined forces against the guardian.
• The guardian absorbed their attacks and hurled the fused energy back at them, shattering their defense and sending them flying, while some independent cultivators died.
• Xiao Yi realized the guardian was a Half-Saint-level puppet formed from a peak Nine-Transformation Dou Zun body and a powerful wisp of spiritual consciousness.

Xiao Yi and the others waited out the Half-Saint puppet’s spiritual awareness, then scrambled for a high-level Heaven-class Dou Technique hidden in its remains. Xiao Yi claimed the scroll with the Sea Heart Flame and confronted Star Seeker Old Ghost, whose attack collided with Xiao Yi’s spear.

• Xiao Yi and Tang Zhen stopped attacking the Half-Saint puppet and evaded it until its spiritual awareness faded, while Star Seeker Old Ghost remained its target.
• Star Seeker Old Ghost and the others stripped the weakened corpse, revealing a scroll wrapped in Heavenly Cold Qi, and they rushed to seize it.
• Tang Zhen and Ice River fought over the treasure as Star Seeker Old Ghost grabbed the scroll, froze his hand, and threw it away.
• Xiao Yi used the Sea Heart Flame to counter the Heavenly Cold Qi and claim the high-level Heaven-class Dou Technique.
• Star Seeker Old Ghost attacked Xiao Yi for the scroll, and Xiao Yi revealed his four-star Dou Venerate strength and met the black scythe-axe with his Dragon Abyss Formation-Breaking Spear.

Xiao Yi used the Three Mysterious Changes of Heavenly Flame and the Heavenly Dipper Annihilation Fist to defeat Star Seeker Old Ghost, but a mysterious force pulled him into a hidden ice-filled space. He suspected it was the true inheritance ground of the ruins and began exploring while his soul power remained sealed.

• Star Seeker Old Ghost attacked Xiao Yi with his Star-Shattering Slash, and Xiao Yi raised his strength to eight-star Dou Zun with the Three Mysterious Changes of Heavenly Flame.
• Xiao Yi countered with the Heavenly Dipper Annihilation Fist, which destroyed Star Seeker Old Ghost's attack and left him unconscious and gravely injured.
• Ice Venerable and Tang Zhen fled the collapsing ruins with their followers, while Tang Zhen assumed Xiao Yi and Star Seeker Old Ghost had perished.
• The high-tier Heaven-class Dou Skill flew from Xiao Yi's storage ring and released a suction force that pulled Xiao Yi into another space.
• Xiao Yi woke in a realm filled with mysterious ice and Heavenly Cold Qi, protected himself with the Fallen Heart Flame, and discovered that his soul power was sealed.
• Xiao Yi suspected the realm was the ruins' true inheritance ground and cautiously began exploring it.

Xiao Yi confronted the Heavenly Cold Demon Saint in his inheritance ground, but Xiao Xuan awakened and possessed him when the Demon Saint nearly crushed him. Xiao Xuan overpowered the Demon Saint’s suppression, and the two ancient experts prepared to clash as the chapter ended.

• The Heavenly Cold Demon Saint appeared and attacked Xiao Yi with a crushing palm after dismissing him as unworthy.
• Xiao Yi activated the Three Mysterious Changes of Heavenly Flame and used Fallen Heart Flame and Sea Heart Flame to defend himself, but his barrier shattered.
• Xiao Xuan awakened through Xiao Yi’s storage ring, took control of Xiao Yi’s body, and raised his aura to the six-star Dou Saint level.
• The Heavenly Cold Demon Saint increased his power to three-star Dou Saint and formed a massive python from Heavenly Cold Qi.
• Xiao Xuan destroyed the python with a single point, and the Heavenly Cold Demon Saint vanished before appearing above Xiao Yi to unleash his ultimate technique.

Xiao Xuan possessed Xiao Yi and defeated the Heavenly Cold Demon Saint’s remnant soul, then revealed himself to Xiao Yi and praised his growth. The Heavenly Cold Demon Saint introduced himself and claimed that no more Dou Di would ever appear in the world.

• The Heavenly Cold Demon Saint unleashed his Absolute Zero Domain and ice-law chains, but Xiao Xuan, possessing Xiao Yi, shattered them with his six-star Dou Saint aura.
• The Heavenly Cold Demon Saint’s remnant soul faltered, and Xiao Xuan withdrew from Xiao Yi’s body after ending the fight.
• Xiao Yi awoke, saw Xiao Xuan before him, and heard him praise his composure and recent progress.
• The Heavenly Cold Demon Saint introduced himself, while Xiao Yi and Xiao Xuan realized they had never heard of him.
• The Heavenly Cold Demon Saint recognized Xiao Xuan as a Di realm expert and declared that no more Dou Di would appear in the world.

Heavenly Cold Demon Saint explained that he had reached Half-Step Dou Emperor in the ancient era but could not advance without Origin Qi, which Tou She Ancient God used to become the last Dou Emperor. Sensing Origin Qi within Xiao Yi, he offered Xiao Yi his inheritance, and Xiao Yi accepted.

• Heavenly Cold Demon Saint revealed that Origin Qi no longer appeared in the world and that Tou She Ancient God had used the last of it to become a Dou Emperor.
• Heavenly Cold Demon Saint explained that he had gathered and refined the world's cold qi, reaching Half-Step Dou Emperor before losing his chance for lack of Origin Qi.
• Xiao Xuan and Heavenly Cold Demon Saint acknowledged that both had failed to reach Dou Emperor, while Xiao Xuan said Xiao Yi still had a chance.
• Heavenly Cold Demon Saint sensed Origin Qi within Xiao Yi and offered him his inheritance.
• Xiao Yi accepted Heavenly Cold Demon Saint's inheritance, and the Demon Saint laughed with relief at finding an heir.

The Heavenly Cold Demon Saint revealed the ten Mystic Ices of the Profound Ice Ranking and offered them as the key to his inheritance. Xiao Yi accepted the trial and successfully refined all ten, while the chapter left him surrounded by a newly awakened cold aura.

• The Heavenly Cold Demon Saint explained that he had gathered and sealed ten kinds of Mystic Ice, which formed the core of his inheritance.
• The Heavenly Cold Demon Saint warned Xiao Yi that refining the Mystic Ice would bring pain comparable to refining Heavenly Flames, and Xiao Yi agreed to try.
• The Heavenly Cold Demon Saint passed knowledge of the ten Mystic Ices to Xiao Yi and began the inheritance trial by sending them to him.
• Xiao Yi refined the Profound Frost Soul and Cangming Profound Crystal, using the Primordial Origin Myriad Transformations Art to process their natural energies.
• Xiao Yi endured and refined the remaining eight Mystic Ices, after which the cold mist around him surged and withdrew into his body.

Xiao Yi refined the ten great mysterious ices and reached nine-star Dou Zun while suppressing their remaining power to protect his foundation. The Heavenly Cold Demon Saint passed on three Heaven-tier Dou Techniques before his remnant soul began to fade.

• The Heavenly Cold Demon Saint sent the remaining nine great mysterious ices into Xiao Yi, trapping him inside an ice sculpture as he refined them for nearly half a year.
• Xiao Yi emerged from the ice and restrained the surging power, stopping his cultivation from advancing beyond nine-star Dou Zun.
• Xiao Yi awakened with fire-, lightning-, and ice-attribute Dou Qi, then explained that he had limited his breakthrough to preserve his foundation.
• The Heavenly Cold Demon Saint gave Xiao Yi a soul imprint containing the Heavenly Cold Finger, Heavenly Cold Palm, and Heavenly Cold Prison Sealing Art.
• The Heavenly Cold Demon Saint said his mission was complete as his remnant soul began flickering.

After the Heavenly Cold Demon Saint’s remnant soul vanished, Xiao Yi claimed his Half-Step Dou Di corpse as a vessel for Xiao Xuan’s resurrection. Xiao Yi and Xiao Xuan left the ruins, and Xiao Yi later arrived near Ye City, where a black iron shard began reacting.

• Xiao Yi promised the Heavenly Cold Demon Saint that the continent would remember him as his remnant soul dissipated and the frozen space collapsed.
• Xiao Yi discovered the Heavenly Cold Demon Saint’s corpse on a throne and stored it in his ring as a potential body for Xiao Xuan.
• Xiao Yi learned that Xiao Xuan’s soul origin had weakened after fighting Hun Tiandi, then proposed reviving Venerable Yao to learn how to resurrect Xiao Xuan.
• Xiao Xuan urged Xiao Yi to cultivate and refine the Ten Mystical Ices so he could reach the Dou Saint realm and face powerful enemies.
• Xiao Yi arrived near Ye City and found that the black iron shard he had obtained in Sacred Pill City was reacting there.
• Xiao Xuan warned that forcing open the shard’s soul seal might damage what was inside, so Xiao Yi would have to unlock it himself.

After learning in Ye City that Ice River Valley had captured Xiao Yi Xian, Xiao Yi rushed to the sect to rescue her. He incapacitated Ice River Valley’s elders and declared that he would take the entire valley as compensation, leaving his attack on the sect underway.

• Xiao Yi discovered that he was in Ye City and heard that Ice River Valley had captured a Calamity Poison Girl.
• Xiao Yi suspected the prisoner was Xiao Yi Xian and immediately traveled to Ice River Valley.
• Tian Shuangzi and the other elders confronted Xiao Yi, who refused to identify himself or show respect to their Valley Master.
• Xiao Yi’s aura crippled the Dou Zong elders, then overwhelmed Tian Shuangzi and slammed him into the ground.
• Xiao Yi announced that Ice River Valley itself would be his compensation and denounced the sect as unworthy of its standing among the Three Valleys.

Xiao Yi attacked Ice River Valley while searching for Xiao Yi Xian, forcing Ice Venerable to emerge and fight him. Ice Venerable learned that Xiao Yi possessed the Profound Frost Soul and had reached nine-star Dou Zun, then hastily softened his attitude.

• Xiao Yi destroyed Ice River Valley’s mountain gate and killed its Dou Emperor disciples while searching for Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Yi began charging the Myriad Phenomena Converging Finger, drawing Ice Venerable out of hiding.
• Xiao Yi struck Ice Venerable, who used his acquired Calamity Poison Body and ice Dou Qi to block the attack.
• Xiao Yi demanded that Ice Venerable hand over the Calamity Poison Woman, but Ice Venerable denied having her.
• Ice Venerable attacked Xiao Yi, but the Profound Frost Soul froze his Ice Venerable Force and revealed its superior power.
• Xiao Yi revealed his nine-star Dou Zun aura, and Ice Venerable recognized his strength before calling the conflict a misunderstanding.