Chapter Summaries

Yao Xuan entered the Battle Saint Ruins with Xiao Yan, seized the Soul Infant Fruit, and headed to the main hall in search of more treasures. There, Star-Picking Old Ghost tried to use the Heaven Rank Battle Skill scrolls to draw attackers toward Yao Xuan, who effortlessly blasted them away and threatened the old ghost.

• Independent cultivators were dissolved by the energy at the fractured entrance, and the stone statues transformed into peak Dou Zong puppets that merged into a Three-Star Peak Battle Venerable captain.
• Yao Xuan destroyed the captain puppet with a gesture, then led Xiao Yan into the ruins and found the hidden entrance beneath the magma.
• Yao Xuan subdued the Heaven-Piercing Flood Dragon and took the Soul Infant Fruit, storing it for later refinement into a pill.
• Yao Xuan and Xiao Yan reached the main hall, where factions fought over ten blue light clusters believed to contain a Heaven Rank Battle Skill.
• Star-Picking Old Ghost threw three scrolls toward Yao Xuan to draw the others’ attacks and seize the Dou Saint skeleton, but Yao Xuan repelled everyone who charged him and warned Star-Picking Old Ghost that he had a death wish.

Yao Xuan overwhelmed Star-Picking Old Ghost, but the dying Soul Hall elder summoned Gu You Saint, who absorbed his soul and confronted Yao Xuan. Gu You pinned Yao Xuan with his Advanced Half-Saint pressure, and Yao Xuan defiantly insulted him.

• Yao Xuan revealed his Six-Turn Peak Battle Venerable strength and blasted half of Star-Picking Old Ghost's body apart with a palm strike.
• Star-Picking Old Ghost crushed a jade token to summon Soul Hall reinforcements, and Gu You Saint emerged from a spatial rift.
• Gu You dismissed Star-Picking Old Ghost as trash, absorbed his soul into the black mist, and offered Yao Xuan a chance to return to Soul Hall.
• Yao Xuan rejected Gu You's offer and attacked him with the Profound Flame Suppressing Wilderness Palm, but Gu You blocked the strike with a black mist shield.
• Gu You released his Advanced Half-Saint pressure and pinned Yao Xuan in place, but Yao Xuan declared that Gu You was still an ant.

Yao Xuan used the Three Mysterious Transformations of Heavenly Flame to reach the Half-Saint Realm and battled Elder Gu You. After countering Gu You’s soul attack and badly injuring him, Yao Xuan prepared to take his soul.

• Yao Xuan activated all three transformations of the Three Mysterious Transformations of Heavenly Flame and rose from peak Battle Venerable to the Half-Saint Realm.
• Yao Xuan’s Profound Flame Suppressing Wilderness Palm clashed with Gu You’s Netherworld Ghost Claw, forcing Gu You back.
• Gu You summoned a skeletal giant and attacked Yao Xuan’s soul with Dark Skull Extinction.
• Yao Xuan countered with the Golden Firmament Soul-Suppressing Seal, injuring Gu You’s soul and disrupting his Dou Qi.
• Yao Xuan struck Gu You with the Fire-Asura Thunder Astral Palm, shattering his Ten Thousand Souls Bone Armor and leaving him gravely injured.
• Yao Xuan approached Gu You and declared that he would take his soul.

Yao Xuan nearly killed Gu You, but the Great Heaven Venerable intervened and rescued him before disappearing. Alone afterward, Gu You resented the Great Heaven Venerable and vowed to avenge his defeat by Yao Xuan.

• Yao Xuan prepared to kill the wounded Gu You, but a powerful black claw struck from a spatial rift and forced him to defend himself.
• The Great Heaven Venerable rescued Gu You and vanished after scolding him for losing to Yao Xuan.
• Xiao Yan and the others joined Yao Xuan, who recovered with medicinal pills and told Xiao Yan to keep Uncle Chen at Starfall Pavilion.
• Gu You secretly cursed the Great Heaven Venerable as a Spirit Clan traitor and resolved to claim his position after reaching Dou Saint.
• Gu You took pills to ease his injuries and vowed to repay Yao Xuan for the humiliation.

After Yao Xuan destroyed the awakened Dou Saint Skeleton and claimed its three treasured ribs, Huang Xuan led the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan away from the main hall. They forced open a Beast Spirit Barrier to enter the Dragon Phoenix Ruins, and Yao Xuan followed them inside.

• Huang Xuan approached the Dou Saint Skeleton, triggered its defenses, and awakened it with his blood, causing it to kill the independent cultivators at the Dou Zong level.
• Huang Xuan attacked the puppet but was quickly defeated, then called on Yao Xuan to intervene.
• Yao Xuan shattered the skeleton with a palm strike, collected its three crystalline ribs, and noticed Huang Xuan and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan had disappeared.
• Huang Xuan led Feng Qing'er and two elders to a Beast Spirit Barrier, where he learned it had been formed by an Ancient Void Dragon and an Ancient Heavenly Phoenix.
• Huang Xuan, Feng Qing'er, and the two elders combined their essence blood to break through the barrier and enter the Dragon Phoenix Ruins.
• Yao Xuan tracked the group, emerged after they entered, and followed them through the opening.

Yao Xuan confronted Huang Xuan and Feng Qing'er over the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, which they discovered alongside the corpses of an Ancient Void Dragon and an Ancient Heavenly Phoenix. After overpowering Feng Qing'er, he refused Huang Xuan's attempt to claim the fruit and revealed that he had an Ancient Void Dragon friend.

• Huang Xuan and Feng Qing'er found the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit on the altar and decided it could benefit the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.
• Yao Xuan appeared and thanked Huang Xuan for finding the fruit for him.
• Feng Qing'er threatened Yao Xuan, who slapped her twice and forced her to kneel under his pressure.
• Huang Xuan restrained his anger and tried to persuade Yao Xuan to surrender the fruit to the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.
• Yao Xuan rejected Huang Xuan's appeal and said he had a friend who was an Ancient Void Dragon.

Huang Xuan sacrificed the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s blood essence to summon an ancestral soul, but Yao Xuan destroyed it with one palm. After Huang Xuan sent word to his clan, three Dou Saints arrived in the ruins, leaving Yao Xuan facing the Three Heavenly Demon Phoenixes.

• Huang Xuan refused to call for clan reinforcements at first because he wanted to claim the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and earn the clan’s greatest merit.
• Huang Xuan, Feng Qing’er, and the other Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan members sacrificed their blood essence to summon a Nine-Star Battle Venerable Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Ancestral Soul.
• Yao Xuan used the Fire-Asura Thunder Astral Palm to shatter the ancestral soul and destroy the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix skeleton.
• After Feng Qing’er urged him to summon help, Huang Xuan sent a spatial message to the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and threatened Yao Xuan.
• Three Dou Saints emerged from spatial rifts, and Yao Xuan recognized them as the Three Heavenly Demon Phoenixes.

The Three Heavenly Demon Phoenixes confronted Yao Xuan over the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, and Feng Huang and Ying Huang attacked him despite his defiance. As Ying Huang's palm strike descended, Yao Xuan summoned a figure from his Storage Ring that blocked it.

• The Three Heavenly Demon Phoenixes arrived, and Huang Xuan told them Yao Xuan had taken the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit.
• Ying Huang reprimanded Huang Xuan, then demanded that Yao Xuan hand over the fruit or die.
• Yao Xuan insisted the fruit had been ownerless, while Kun Huang showed interest in eating him and Feng Huang decided to kill him.
• Feng Huang attacked Yao Xuan with a demonic-flame claw, but Yao Xuan narrowly dodged and impressed Feng Huang, who offered to admit him into the clan if he surrendered the fruit.
• Ying Huang dismissed Yao Xuan as a lowly human and struck at him with a Dou Saint-grade palm, but Yao Xuan summoned a figure that blocked the attack.

Yao Xuan summoned the Four-Star Dou Saint puppet Yao Wangu to fight the Three Heavenly Demon Phoenixes while he prepared a nine-colored fire lotus. After Ying Huang was badly injured by the attack, Feng Huang and the others fled, vowing that the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan would return for the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit.

• Yao Xuan summoned Yao Wangu, whose Four-Star Dou Saint aura forced Feng Huang, Kun Huang, and Ying Huang to take him seriously.
• The three phoenixes joined forces against Yao Wangu, but his greater strength and inexhaustible puppet Dou Qi overwhelmed their attacks.
• Feng Huang and Kun Huang tried to hold Yao Wangu back while Ying Huang bypassed him to attack Yao Xuan.
• Yao Xuan raised his strength to the Half-Saint Realm and struck Ying Huang with a nine-colored fire lotus, shattering his Demon Phoenix Bell and destroying his left arm.
• Feng Huang withdrew with the others and warned Yao Xuan that the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan would return for the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit.

Yao Xuan secured the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and decided to bring it to Zi Yan to help her inherit the Ancient Void Dragon Clan. After learning that Zi Yan’s inheritance had stalled, he gave the fruit to Zhu Li and traveled with him to Dragon Island.

• The Three Heavenly Demon Phoenixes escaped the Dragon Phoenix Ruins, while Yao Xuan chose not to pursue them and stored the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit.
• Yao Xuan reunited with Xiao Yan, who showed him the Dou Saint arm Valley Master Tang had helped him obtain and passed along Tang’s invitation to Flame Valley.
• Yao Xuan returned to Starfall Pavilion with Xiao Yan, then activated Zhu Li’s Dragon Seal to summon him.
• Zhu Li told Yao Xuan that Zi Yan’s Ancient Dragon Inheritance had not gone smoothly, and Yao Xuan offered her the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit.
• Zhu Li accepted Yao Xuan’s offer to visit Dragon Island, opened a spatial passage, and brought him along to see Zi Yan.

Yao Xuan accompanied Zhu Li to Eastern Dragon Island, where Qingshan explained Zi Yan’s dangerous Ancient Dragon Inheritance and the pill needed to save her. Yao Xuan revealed that he was a Ninth-Rank Treasure Pill Alchemist and offered to refine it.

• Zhu Li explained that the Ancient Void Dragon Clan had split into four Dragon Islands after the previous Dragon Emperor disappeared, and that Eastern Dragon Island supported Zi Yan’s return as their ruler.
• Zhu Li introduced Yao Xuan to Qingshan, who thanked him for finding Zi Yan and received the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit he had brought.
• Qingshan explained that resentful souls and Primordial Ancient Dragon Origin had overwhelmed Zi Yan during her inheritance, leaving her sealed within the Ancestral Land.
• Qingshan said the Ninth-Rank Treasure Pill Dragon Marrow Meridian-Fixing Pill could stabilize Zi Yan and let her complete the inheritance, but the clan had no alchemist capable of making it.
• Yao Xuan offered to help and revealed that he was a Ninth-Rank Treasure Pill Alchemist.

Yao Xuan refined a Ninth-Rank Dragon Marrow Meridian-Fixing Pill to help Zi Yan complete the Ancient Dragon Inheritance. The pill tribulation tempered Yao Wangu, raising him to the peak of Four-Star Dou Saint, and Yao Xuan finished the pill successfully.

• Qingshan gave Yao Xuan the Dragon Marrow Meridian-Fixing Pill formula and ingredients and agreed to guard him.
• Yao Xuan summoned the Huan Yuan Heavenly Cauldron and used his Nine-Colored Heavenly Flames to refine the Dragon Clan ingredients.
• The pill’s tribulation drew in the thunder power and dragon aura of Dragon Island, creating a mutated Black Demon Lightning.
• Yao Xuan sent Yao Wangu to endure the lightning, which tempered the puppet and stabilized his strength at peak Four-Star Dou Saint.
• Yao Xuan called the pill forth from the cauldron and completed the Dragon Marrow Meridian-Fixing Pill.

Yao Xuan completed the Ninth-Rank Dragon Marrow Meridian-Fixing Pill and entered the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s Ancestral Land with Qingshan and Zhu Li to bring it to Zi Yan. His Zhu Kun Blood Essence stirred inside the Ancestral Land, drawing the attention of a powerful presence that wondered whether Lord Zhu Kun had returned.

• Yao Xuan subdued the pill after it transformed into an Ancient Void Dragon and tried to escape, then showed the completed pill to Qingshan and Zhu Li.
• Qingshan apologized for doubting Yao Xuan and marked him so he could enter the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s Ancestral Land.
• Qingshan and Zhu Li led Yao Xuan through the Ancestral Land to the Dragon Emperor Platform, where Zi Yan was sealed.
• Yao Xuan concealed the surge of Zhu Kun Blood Essence within him with the Nine-Colored Heavenly Flames, keeping Qingshan from discovering that Zhu Kun might still be alive.
• A powerful presence above the Ancestral Land sensed the blood essence and wondered whether Lord Zhu Kun had returned.

Yao Xuan helped Zi Yan continue the Dragon Emperor Inheritance by giving her a pill that healed and strengthened her, then used the Human Emperor Banner to absorb the vengeful dragon souls attacking her. The inheritance resumed, and Yao Xuan expected the captured souls to help him reach the Mid-Stage Heavenly Realm.

• Qingshan used his essence blood to reach Zi Yan on the Dragon Emperor Platform, removed her seal, and fed her the Dragon Marrow Meridian-Fixing Pill.
• Zi Yan absorbed the pill's power, rose to Nine-Star Dou Zong, and resumed the Dragon Emperor Inheritance.
• Vengeful Dragon Souls awakened across the Ancestral Land and attacked Zi Yan, threatening to disrupt her inheritance.
• Yao Xuan offered to clear the vengeful souls, and Qingshan asked him to protect Zi Yan and the inheritance.
• Yao Xuan summoned the Human Emperor Banner and absorbed all the vengeful souls, allowing Zi Yan's inheritance to continue.
• Yao Xuan anticipated that purifying the captured souls would help him break through to the Mid-Stage Heavenly Realm.

Zi Yan completed the Dragon Emperor Inheritance, awakened her full Dragon Emperor bloodline, and became the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s new ruler. After greeting Yao Xuan, she learned he had obtained a Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, and he urged her to refine it and become a Dragon Phoenix.

• Yao Xuan returned to Qingshan and Zhu Li after gathering the resentful dragon souls into the Human Emperor Banner and explained how it purified souls.
• Zi Yan’s Dragon Emperor Inheritance proceeded smoothly, drawing the Ancestral Land’s dragon aura into her as the inheritance light faded.
• Zi Yan’s seals broke, her Dragon Emperor Origin awakened, and her body transformed into a mature form as her cultivation remained at Nine-Star Dou Zong.
• Qingshan and Zhu Li bowed to Zi Yan as their new Dragon Emperor, and she eagerly greeted Yao Xuan before thanking him for the pill that helped her inheritance.
• Qingshan presented the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, and Yao Xuan urged Zi Yan to refine it and become a Dragon Phoenix.

Zi Yan began refining the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit so she could grow strong enough to unify the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, while Yao Xuan went to the Void Thunder Pool to temper his body. There, a powerful Ancient Void Dragon recognized Zhu Kun’s essence blood in Yao Xuan and demanded to know where he had met Zhu Kun.

• Qingshan agreed with Yao Xuan that Zi Yan should refine the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, and Zi Yan began refining it on the Dragon Emperor Platform.
• Yao Xuan asked Qingshan to take him to the Void Thunder Pool, and Qingshan warned him to avoid its dangerous central region.
• Yao Xuan entered the Void Thunder Pool and was overwhelmed by a terrifying pressure from an unseen presence.
• A mysterious figure demanded to know where Yao Xuan had obtained the Dragon Emperor Essence Blood, and Yao Xuan said Zhu Kun had gifted it to him and was still alive.
• The old man revealed his devotion to Zhu Kun and asked Yao Xuan where he had encountered him.

Yao Xuan was threatened by Zhu Zhuo until Zhu Kun’s blood essence summoned the Dragon Emperor’s projection and revealed that Zhu Kun had left a safeguard to protect him. Zhu Zhuo accepted Yao Xuan as Zhu Kun’s chosen person, offered his help, and departed after warning Yao Xuan to keep their meeting secret.

• Zhu Zhuo accused Yao Xuan of stealing Zhu Kun’s blood essence and threatened to kill him unless he revealed Zhu Kun’s whereabouts.
• Zhu Kun’s blood essence activated and manifested a Dragon Emperor projection that froze Zhu Zhuo and forced him to retreat.
• Zhu Zhuo recognized the projection, realized Zhu Kun had entrusted Yao Xuan with a task, and apologized for threatening him.
• Zhu Zhuo offered to help Yao Xuan and told him not to tell outsiders about their meeting.
• Zhu Zhuo gave his name before vanishing, and Yao Xuan judged that he was at least a Seven-Star Dou Saint.

In the Void Thunder Pool, Yao Xuan refined purified soul origins and risked using Black Demon Lightning to temper his soul. He broke through to the Mid-Stage Heavenly Realm, with soul power strong enough to rival a top Late Heavenly Soul Realm, and gained the lightning’s power.

• After Zhu Zhuo departed and the spatial zone vanished, Yao Xuan settled at the Void Thunder Pool’s outer edge to refine soul origins from the Human Emperor Banner.
• Yao Xuan absorbed the purified soul origins using the Divine Soul Canon, strengthening his soul power and drawing the surrounding Black Demon Lightning toward him.
• Yao Xuan recalled how the Ancient Void Dragon Clan used lightning to temper their bodies and decided to try forging his soul with Black Demon Lightning.
• Yao Xuan withdrew his protective Heavenly Flames and endured the lightning tearing at his soul as he used the Divine Soul Canon to suppress and refine it.
• With the lightning and dragon soul origins tempering his soul, Yao Xuan broke through to the Mid-Stage Heavenly Realm and reached a level comparable to a top Late Heavenly Soul Realm.
• Yao Xuan’s golden soul power drove back the Black Demon Lightning, while traces of its dark purple power remained fused with his soul.

Yao Xuan absorbed Black Demon Lightning in the Void Thunder Pool, transforming his Nine-Dragon Thunder Flame into the Nine-Chen Demon Lightning Flame. The power from the mutation pushed him to the peak of Nine-Revolution Battle Venerable, leaving him one final insight and source transformation away from becoming a Dou Saint.

• Yao Xuan began cultivating in the Void Thunder Pool, hoping to break through from Six-Turn Peak Battle Venerable.
• The Nine-Dragon Thunder Flame separated from his Fused Heavenly Flame and drew in the surrounding Black Demon Lightning.
• Black Demon Lightning transformed the flame into the Nine-Chen Demon Lightning Flame, whose power rivaled the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame but remained violent and difficult to control.
• Yao Xuan drew the mutated flame back into his body and absorbed the power it returned to him.
• Yao Xuan advanced through Seven-Turn and Eight-Turn Battle Venerable to Nine-Revolution Battle Venerable Peak.
• Yao Xuan sensed that one final insight into the laws and a transformation of his source stood between him and becoming a Dou Saint.

Yao Xuan met Mang Tianchi in the Void Thunder Pool after his breakthrough, and the two discussed the pool’s dangerous depths. Mang Tianchi left abruptly, while Yao Xuan remained unwilling to venture farther in.

• Yao Xuan reached Nine-Revolution Battle Venerable Peak and sensed a Half-Saint Realm cultivator approaching through the Void Thunder Pool.
• Yao Xuan fled the Black Demon Lightning pursuing Mang Tianchi, and they escaped through space to a cliff above the pool.
• Mang Tianchi introduced himself, and Yao Xuan revealed that he had once served as a guest elder at Jia Nan Academy.
• Mang Tianchi noticed Black Demon Lightning in Yao Xuan’s battle qi and wondered about his origins, but did not question him.
• Mang Tianchi invited Yao Xuan to explore the pool’s center, but Yao Xuan refused, warning that the Black Demon Lightning would overwhelm him.
• Mang Tianchi abruptly departed after telling Yao Xuan he would remember him.