Chapter Summaries

After killing Soul Withered Elder, Xiao Yi faced Hun Linyuan, Hun Tiandi’s son and the Soul Clan’s Young Clan Master. Hun Linyuan spared the exhausted Xiao Yi, declaring that he was not yet worthy of a fight, and left while challenging him to become stronger before they met again.

• Xiao Yi froze and shattered Soul Withered Elder’s soul, but the effort left him nearly out of Dou Qi.
• Hun Linyuan appeared and overwhelmed Xiao Yi with the pressure of a Seven-Star Dou Saint and a powerful Nihility Devouring Flame sub-flame.
• Hun Linyuan introduced himself and said Xiao Yi had to pay for killing a member of the Soul Clan.
• Hun Linyuan deliberately missed Xiao Yi with his attack, saying Xiao Yi was not yet worthy of fighting him.
• Hun Linyuan vanished, leaving Xiao Yi alive and hoping their next encounter would find him in better condition.

After returning to the Xiao Realm with Xiao Kong’s mutilated body, Xiao Yi faced Xiao Xuan and Xiao Chen’s fury at the Soul Clan’s cruelty. Xiao Xuan and Xiao Chen vowed vengeance, and Xiao Chen urged the clan leader to act without delay.

• Xiao Yi returned to the Xiao Realm carrying Xiao Kong’s body and told Xiao Yi Xian he believed she would become his support.
• Xiao Xuan and Xiao Chen arrived, and Xiao Yi showed them Xiao Kong’s mutilated body.
• Xiao Xuan recognized that the Soul Clan had stripped Xiao Kong’s soul and refined him into a puppet, then erased the curse mark with his imperial power.
• Xiao Chen condemned the Soul Clan and vowed that the Soul Realm would pay for the Xiao Clan’s blood debt.
• Xiao Chen addressed Xiao Xuan as clan leader and demanded that they avenge Xiao Kong without delay.

After Xiao Kong’s death pushed the Xiao Clan toward war with the Soul Clan, Xiao Yi urged Xiao Xuan and Xiao Chen to seek allies rather than charge into a trap. He traveled to Dragon Island and entered the Void Thunder Pool, where he found the Nine Profound Golden Lightning Dragon gathering intelligence and entering a vulnerable state.

• Xiao Chen swore to follow Xiao Xuan into battle against the Soul Clan, and his pleas moved Xiao Xuan toward declaring war.
• Xiao Yi warned that Hun Tiandi had likely staged Xiao Kong’s unveiling to provoke the Xiao Clan and proposed seeking an alliance with the Ancient Void Dragon Tribe.
• Xiao Xuan accepted Xiao Yi’s plan, and Xiao Yi used the Dragon Seal Zi Yan had placed in his palm to travel to Dragon Island.
• Xiao Yi asked Zi Yan for permission to enter the Void Thunder Pool, and she readily agreed and led him there.
• Xiao Yi passed through the Black Demon Lightning and discovered the Nine Profound Golden Lightning Dragon gathering spiritual intelligence at the pool’s center.

Xiao Yi rescued the Nine Profound Golden Lightning Dragon from the backlash that threatened to erase its newly forming intelligence, helping it gather spiritual energy and submit to him. He then began replacing the Black Demon Lightning in his body with Nine Profound Golden Lightning, enduring severe pain as the process continued.

• The Nine Profound Golden Lightning Dragon suffered the laws' backlash while gathering spiritual energy, and its body and nascent intelligence began to collapse.
• Xiao Yi used the Flame Spirit Treasure to devour the vicious backlash lightning and used his Dou Qi and soul power to stabilize the dragon's intelligence.
• The Nine Profound Golden Lightning Dragon completed its spiritual awakening, then condensed into a golden lightning pattern coiled around Xiao Yi's arm.
• Xiao Yi decided to replace the Black Demon Lightning in his body with Nine Profound Golden Lightning to seek a breakthrough beyond Six-Star Dou Saint.
• Xiao Yi channeled Nine Profound Golden Lightning through his meridians, stripped away the Black Demon Lightning, and began replacing its traces while enduring intense pain.

Xiao Yi refined Nine Profound Golden Lightning and two powerful profound ices, advancing to the mid-stage seven-star Dou Saint realm before securing the Ancient Void Dragon Tribe’s support against the Soul Clan. Back in the Xiao Realm, he learned that Xiao Yan and Yao Lao had gone to the Yao Clan’s Medicine Ceremony.

• Xiao Yi used Nine Profound Golden Lightning to refine and absorb Ancient Cold Abyss Crystal and Profound Bone Dragon Ice, breaking through to the mid-stage seven-star Dou Saint realm.
• Xiao Yi met Zi Yan and asked the Ancient Void Dragon Tribe to support the Xiao Clan against the Soul Clan, and Zi Yan pledged the tribe’s full aid.
• Xiao Yi returned to the Xiao Realm and learned that Xiao Yan and Medusa had become Dou Saints and that the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Tribe had allied with the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Yi brought back the Ancient Void Dragon Tribe’s alliance and asked Xiao Xuan where Xiao Yan and Yao Lao were.
• Xiao Xuan told Xiao Yi that Xiao Yan and Yao Lao had gone to the Yao Clan’s Medicine Ceremony.

Xiao Yi went to the Yao Clan’s Medicine Ceremony after Xiao Xuan warned that the Soul Clan might attack, while Xiao Xuan stayed behind to watch the Medicine Realm. At the Yao Clan’s entrance, Yao Wangu’s humiliation of Yao Lao provoked Xiao Yan to attack, but Yao Wangu repelled him and restrained Yao Lao.

• Xiao Xuan explained the Medicine Ceremony’s importance and sent Xiao Yi to watch for the Soul Clan, promising to arrive if they attacked.
• Xiao Yi departed for the Medicine Realm as Xiao Yan and Yao Lao reached the Yao Clan’s entrance.
• Yao Clan guards and disciples insulted Yao Lao, and Yao Wangu arrived to mock him and Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan attacked Yao Wangu with the Heaven-Burning Palm Seal, but Yao Wangu easily knocked him back.
• Yao Wangu restrained Yao Lao with a Dou Qi chain and threatened to deal with master and disciple as the Yao Clan crowd jeered.

Xiao Yi intervened when Yao Wangu i tried to kill Xiao Yan and overpowered the Yao Clan elder after freeing Yao Lao. Elder Yao Wanhu calmed the confrontation and led Xiao Yi, Xiao Yan, and Yao Lao into the Medicine Realm for the Yao Clan’s Medicine Ceremony.

• Xiao Yi arrived at the Yao Clan mountain gate, shielded Xiao Yan from Yao Wangu i’s attack, and freed Yao Lao from his restraints.
• Xiao Yi shattered Yao Wangu i’s counterattack, injured him, and pinned him beneath his foot while condemning the Criminal Hall’s treatment of the Xiao Clan.
• Elder Yao Wanhu arrived, rebuked Yao Wangu i, and asked Xiao Yi to spare him until after the Medicine Ceremony.
• Xiao Yi released Yao Wangu i and agreed to accompany Yao Wanhu into the Medicine Realm with Xiao Yan and Yao Lao.
• Yao Wanhu led the group through the Yao Clan’s inner grounds to the pill platform, where alchemy masters from across the Central Plains had gathered.

Yao Dan opened the Yao Clan's thousand-year Medicine Ceremony, where Yao Lao reunited with the clan and Elder Shennong appeared as Xiao Yi's grandmaster. The ceremony was interrupted by Hun Xuzi, whose arrival exposed the Soul Clan's presence and reignited Yao Lao's hatred.

• Yao Wanhu seated Xiao Yi, Xiao Yan, and Yao Lao among the distinguished guests at the alchemy platform.
• Yao Dan arrived, acknowledged that the Yao Clan had been wrong about Yao Chen, and officially began the Medicine Ceremony.
• Elder Shennong appeared and joined Xiao Yi's group after Xiao Yi addressed him as Grandmaster, surprising the gathered alchemists.
• Hun Xuzi arrived from the Soul Clan, and Yao Dan and the Yao Clan elders watched him warily.
• Xiao Yan asked Yao Lao about Hun Xuzi, and Yao Lao identified him as the Soul Clan's chief alchemist and the spy who betrayed the Little Pill Tower and stole its secret treasure.

Hun Xuzi arrived at the Yao Clan’s Medicine Ceremony, provoking Yao Lao and clashing soul pressure with Xiao Yi before Yao Dan allowed him to compete. As the contest for the continent’s number one alchemist began, Xiao Yi joined the contestants and summoned the Flame Spirit Treasure, leaving the crowd astonished.

• Yao Lao warned Xiao Yan that Hun Xuzi was a dangerous Soul Clan alchemist linked to the Little Pill Tower tragedy and Soul Hall’s soul-gathering scheme.
• Hun Xuzi mocked Yao Lao, and Xiao Yi declared that Yao Lao was an elder of the Xiao Clan before confronting Hun Xuzi with his Great Perfection Heavenly Realm soul pressure.
• Yao Dan warned Hun Xuzi not to disrupt the ceremony, then allowed him to stay and compete in the Medicine Ceremony.
• Yao Wanhu, Elder Shennong, and Hun Xuzi took their places for the contest to decide the continent’s number one alchemist, displaying their respective Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Yi stopped Xiao Yan from joining the contest, said he would fulfill Yao Lao’s wish, and appeared on the pill platform with the Flame Spirit Treasure.

Xiao Yi joined Yao Wanhu, Elder Shennong, and Hun Xuzi in the final round of the Medicine Ceremony, where they demonstrated their different alchemy methods. After Hun Xuzi and Yao Wanhu began gathering the power of heaven and earth to refine ninth-tier Mystic Pills, Elder Shennong and Xiao Yi followed suit, leaving the Medicine Realm engulfed in an energy storm.

• Xiao Yi confronted Hun Xuzi over his use of a sub-flame, and Hun Xuzi claimed the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame would eventually belong to the Soul Clan.
• Yao Dan announced the final round’s judging criteria and warned that anyone who interfered with another contestant would be expelled and have their pill-refining ability abolished.
• Yao Wanhu, Elder Shennong, Hun Xuzi, and Xiao Yi began refining their ingredients with distinct flame-control techniques, drawing praise from the watching alchemists.
• After nearly a day, the four contestants finished extracting their ingredients into medicinal liquid.
• Hun Xuzi gathered the power of heaven and earth to refine a ninth-tier Mystic Pill, and Yao Wanhu, Elder Shennong, and Xiao Yi followed, triggering a massive energy storm.

Xiao Yi combined the pill embryos and natural energy from Hun Xuzi, Yao Wanhu, and Elder Shennong to refine a ninth-tier Mystical Pill. The pill’s completion triggered a powerful celestial phenomenon while Hun Xuzi was held back from attacking.

• After three days of refining, the four alchemists exhausted the Medicine Realm’s natural energy, leaving their pill embryos unfinished.
• Hun Xuzi used the sub-flame of Nihility Devouring Flame to steal energy from the other furnaces, but Xiao Yi’s Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame purified it and fed it into his pill.
• Yao Wanhu and Elder Shennong transferred their pill embryos to Xiao Yi, and Flame Spirit Treasure snatched Hun Xuzi’s embryo and placed it in Xiao Yi’s cauldron.
• Yao Wanhu and Elder Shennong blocked Hun Xuzi while Yao Dan warned that he would capture and kill him if he attacked.
• Xiao Yi purified the gathered energy and formed a point of light in his cauldron, then dark clouds, pill lightning, and a rich fragrance announced that he had succeeded.

Xiao Yi won the alchemy contest by refining a ninth-tier Profound Dan, and Yao Dan honored Yao Chen by having his name placed on the Yao Clan monument. Hun Xuzi then demanded the Tou She Ancient God Jade and revealed that the Soul Clan had sealed the Medicine Realm, leaving the Yao Clan trapped as its seven-star Dou Saint chief prepared to fight.

• Xiao Yi condensed a ninth-tier Profound Dan, securing victory in the alchemy contest and the title of the continent’s number one alchemist.
• Yao Dan acknowledged Yao Chen’s past talent and agreed to place his name on the Yao Clan monument, fulfilling Yao Chen’s long-held wish.
• Hun Xuzi demanded that Yao Dan hand over the Yao Clan’s Tou She Ancient God Jade, but Yao Dan refused and released his seven-star Dou Saint aura.
• Yao Wanhu attacked Hun Xuzi with Nine Netherworld Wind Flame, but Hun Xuzi used a child flame of Nihility Devouring Flame to devour the attack.
• Yao Dan tried to alert the Flame and Thunder Clans, but Hun Xuzi revealed that the Soul Clan had sealed the Yao Clan’s space and blocked every attempt to send a message.
• Hun Xuzi dismissed the threat of the Ancient and Xiao Clans, while Yao Dan rose into the air and unleashed his full power.

Hun Xuzi revealed the true Nihility Devouring Flame and slaughtered the onlookers who tried to flee. He then confronted Yao Dan, declaring that the Yao Clan would be destroyed.

• Hun Xuzi told the gathered observers that they could leave, but those who stayed would become enemies of the Soul Clan.
• The observers tried to flee, but black lights killed them and forcibly extracted their souls.
• Xiao Yi recognized the black flames as the true Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Hun Xuzi faced Yao Dan and announced that the Yao Clan would cease to exist.