Chapter Summaries

Yao Xuan rushed to the Ancient Dragon Ancestral Land and used his Nine-Colored Heavenly Flames to save Zi Yan from the rampaging power of the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit. Zi Yan awakened as a Five-Star Dou Saint and Supreme Dragon Phoenix, and the Ancient Void Dragons welcomed her.

• Hei Qing found Yao Xuan in the Void Thunder Pool and told him that something had happened to Lady Dragon Phoenix.
• Yao Xuan reached the Dragon Emperor Platform and saw Zi Yan sealed inside Dragon Phoenix Crystal as her dragon and phoenix origins clashed.
• Yao Xuan used his Nine-Colored Heavenly Flames to dissolve the crystal and temper the opposing powers inside Zi Yan.
• Zi Yan awakened with a Five-Star Dou Saint aura and a perfect Dragon Phoenix bloodline.
• Qingshan and Zhu Li knelt to welcome Lady Dragon Phoenix, while the Ancient Void Dragons across Eastern Dragon Island hailed their Dragon Emperor.

After Zi Yan became a Dragon Phoenix and inherited the Dragon Emperor’s power, the Three Great Dragon Kings arrived to challenge her and claim her blood. They revealed an alliance with Huang Tian of the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, who appeared with three grand elders to seize her fresh dragon-phoenix blood essence.

• Zi Yan gave Yao Xuan a drop of her dragon-phoenix blood essence after completing her transformation.
• The Three Great Dragon Kings led an army from the western, southern, and northern islands to Eastern Dragon Island, where Zi Yan and Qingshan confronted them.
• The South Dragon King proposed killing Zi Yan and dividing her Dragon Emperor Bloodline, but Zi Yan asserted her authority and demanded the kings submit or die.
• Zi Yan’s Five-Star Dou Saint aura and Dragon Emperor bloodline pressure made the Three Great Dragon Kings retreat and left many of their followers wavering.
• The North Dragon King revealed his plan to take Zi Yan’s blood and summoned Huang Tian, who arrived with three Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan grand elders.

Zi Yan confronted the Three Great Dragon Kings and Huang Tian after they joined forces against her, while Yao Xuan refused to leave her side. She unleashed Dragon-Phoenix Power to repel the Dragon Kings, but Huang Tian remained unshaken and claimed she could not control it.

• Qingshan confronted Zhu Lie for conspiring with the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, but Zhu Lie immobilized him with his superior strength.
• Zi Yan released her Five-Star Dou Saint aura, forced Zhu Lie back, and declared that Huang Tian and the traitors would die for invading Dragon Island.
• Zi Yan told Yao Xuan to leave, but he stayed with her and summoned the Nine-Colored Fire Dragon.
• Zhu Lie called on Huang Tian to help attack Zi Yan and promised to share her blood so they could become Dragon Phoenixes.
• The Three Great Dragon Kings surrounded Zi Yan as Huang Tian unleashed phoenix flames, while Zi Yan ordered Qingshan to protect Yao Xuan.
• Zi Yan's Dragon-Phoenix Power blasted the Three Great Dragon Kings away, but Huang Tian said she could not control it.

Zi Yan fought Huang Tian while the Three Great Dragon Kings joined the attack, and Yao Xuan called for help as she began to struggle. Zhu Zhuo appeared above Eastern Dragon Island and confronted the attackers.

• The Three Heavenly Demon Phoenixes attacked Yao Xuan, who summoned Yao Wangu while Qingshan tried to protect him.
• Zi Yan met Huang Tian in battle and repelled his first attacks with her Dragon-Phoenix Power.
• Huang Tian unleashed Nine Heavens Phoenix Fall, but Zi Yan answered with a Dragon Phoenix phantom and clashed with him again.
• Huang Tian called on the Three Great Dragon Kings to attack Zi Yan, and their combined assault forced her onto the defensive.
• Yao Xuan crushed a Spatial Jade Slip to summon Old Man Shennong and called out to Zhu Kun’s descendant for help.
• Zhu Zhuo appeared in the sky, rebuked Zhu Lie and the other Dragon Kings, and challenged Huang Tian.

Zhu Zhuo emerged and overwhelmed the Three Great Dragon Kings and Huang Tian with his power. After killing and devouring Huang Tian, he left the onlookers to wonder whether he had reached Nine-Star Dou Saint.

• Huang Tian accused the North Dragon King of luring him into a trap, while the North Dragon King denied knowing Zhu Zhuo was alive.
• Zhu Zhuo appeared from a vortex in the void, and his killing aura reduced the rebellious Battle Venerables to ash.
• Zhu Zhuo immobilized Huang Tian as he tried to flee, then killed the three Heavenly Demon Phoenix elders with a glance.
• Huang Tian attacked with all his strength, but Zhu Zhuo killed him with a single finger and devoured his body.
• Yao Xuan and the Three Great Dragon Kings watched in shock as Qingshan recalled Zhu Zhuo's past strength and suggested he might now be a Nine-Star Dou Saint.

Zhu Zhuo appeared on Eastern Dragon Island, revealed himself as a Nine-Star Dou Sheng, and crushed the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s rebellion. After Zi Yan recovered, she affirmed her claim as Dragon Emperor and offered Yao Xuan the Three Great Dragon Kings’ corpses to refine into puppets.

• Zhu Zhuo defeated Huang Tian, then condemned the Three Great Dragon Kings for betraying the clan and killed them with spatial power.
• Zhu Zhuo said Zi Yan resembled Zhu Kun but was not Zhu Kun, then vanished after telling Qingshan to serve the Dragon Emperor.
• Yao Xuan helped Zi Yan recover with pills, and Qingshan explained that Zhu Zhuo had been Zhu Kun’s Supreme Guardian and had advanced to Nine-Star Dou Sheng.
• Zi Yan declared that the Dragon Emperor Inheritance made her the Dragon Emperor and vowed to prove herself through her own strength.
• Zi Yan offered Yao Xuan the Three Great Dragon Kings’ corpses to refine into puppets.

Yao Xuan accepted the remains of the three Dragon Kings from Zi Yan and refined them into Dou Sheng puppets in the Void Thunder Pool. With the new puppets, he could fight an ordinary Five-Star Dou Saint, though Zhu Zhuo’s strength reminded him that he remained far below the continent’s strongest cultivators.

• Yao Xuan examined the three Dragon Kings’ remains and found that Zhu Zhuo’s attack had destroyed their source dragon qi and souls, leaving only bodies suitable for crude combat puppets.
• Zi Yan offered Yao Xuan the remains as thanks for helping her become Dragon Emperor, and Qingshan agreed that he had earned them.
• Yao Xuan thanked Zi Yan and accepted her invitation to refine the puppets in the Void Thunder Pool.
• Yao Xuan used Black Demon Lightning to turn the North Dragon King and the other two Dragon Kings into close-combat Dou Sheng puppets.
• Yao Xuan realized that the North Dragon King’s body could withstand attacks from a Five-Star Dou Saint and that his combined strength now let him fight an ordinary Five-Star Dou Saint.

After returning from Dragon Island, Yao Xuan learned about the Ancient Clan's Coming-of-Age Ceremony and reunited with Xiao Yan, who had advanced to Three-Star Battle Venerable. Yao Lao then began to tell Yao Xuan what had happened to Xiao Yi Xian.

• Yao Xuan left Dragon Island after Zi Yan gave him a Dragon Emperor seal and promised to help him if he needed it.
• Yao Lao told Yao Xuan that the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and Soul Hall had attacked Starfall Pavilion, but Shennong drove them away and then entered seclusion.
• Yao Lao said the Ancient Clan had invited Starfall Pavilion to its Coming-of-Age Ceremony and asked Yao Xuan to attend with Xiao Yan.
• Yao Xuan and Yao Lao found Xiao Yan emerging from seclusion at Three-Star Battle Venerable, and Yao Xuan gave him bones inscribed with the Great Heaven Creation Palm.
• Yao Lao began telling Yao Xuan about Xiao Yi Xian, and Yao Xuan demanded to know what had happened to her.

Yao Xuan learned that Xiao Yi Xian had gone alone to the Myriad Poison Ruins and lost contact, so he set out to find her. At the ruin’s center, Xiao Yi Xian met Gu Chi, who offered her a crystal core that could fully control her Woeful Poison Body.

• Yao Lao told Yao Xuan that Xiao Yi Xian had gone to the Myriad Poison Ruins and that he had received no word from her.
• Yao Xuan learned the ruin’s location from Yao Lao and left Starfall Pavilion to search for Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Yi Xian followed a strange presence through the poisonous ruin, overcame its Poison Puppets, and unknowingly absorbed their emerald miasma.
• Xiao Yi Xian reached the ruin’s central hall, where Gu Chi revealed that she also bore the Woeful Poison Body.
• Gu Chi offered Xiao Yi Xian a Woeful Poison Body Origin Crystal Core and said refining it would give her complete control over her constitution.

Gu Chi lured Xiao Yi Xian into a possession trap in the Myriad Poison Ruins, but Yao Xuan arrived and destroyed Gu Chi before rescuing her. Xiao Yi Xian remained in Yao Xuan's arms as he enclosed them both in a cocoon of heavenly flames.

• Gu Chi persuaded Xiao Yi Xian to absorb the poison origin crystal core, then activated a formation to seal her and began possessing her.
• Yao Xuan entered the Myriad Poison Ruins, protected from its poisonous fumes by the Little Dragon Man's heavenly flame armor.
• Yao Xuan sensed that Xiao Yi Xian was in danger, found her trapped in a poison cocoon, and broke into the hall.
• Gu Chi attacked Yao Xuan, but he overwhelmed her and annihilated her remnant soul with nine-colored heavenly flames.
• Yao Xuan freed Xiao Yi Xian and caught her in his arms as she continued absorbing the poison crystal's power.
• Yao Xuan formed a cocoon of heavenly flames around himself and Xiao Yi Xian.

Xiao Yi Xian formed a Poison Core, brought her Woeful Poison Body under control, and rose to Nine-Star Battle Venerable. She gave the Netherworld Poison Flame to Yao Xuan, who refined it into his Ten-Colored Heavenly Flame as the Flame Mantra neared High Heaven Rank.

• Xiao Yi Xian absorbed and refined the poison crystal, forming a Poison Core that drew in the ruins’ poison gas and boosted her to Nine-Star Battle Venerable.
• Xiao Yi Xian apologized to Yao Xuan for needing his help, and he comforted her as she celebrated controlling her Woeful Poison Body.
• Xiao Yi Xian severed her connection to the Netherworld Poison Flame and gave its origin power to Yao Xuan.
• Yao Xuan absorbed the Netherworld Poison Flame into his Nine-Colored Fused Heavenly Flame, forming the Ten-Colored Heavenly Flame.
• Yao Xuan sensed that the Flame Mantra had reached the limit of Mid Heaven Rank and needed one final opportunity to advance to High Heaven Rank.

Yao Xuan and Xiao Yan headed to the Gu Clan Coming-of-Age Ceremony after Xiao Yan gained a Heaven Rank Battle Skill, while Gu Xun'er defied the elders who opposed her feelings for Xiao Yan. At the Ancient Realm entrance, Ling Quan tried to bar Xiao Yan from the ceremony, and Yao Xuan challenged his right to judge Xiao Yan.

• Yao Xuan told Yao Lao that Xiao Yi Xian had formed a Poison Core and controlled her Woeful Poison Body, while Xiao Yan revealed he had found the Great Heaven Creation Palm in the relic's bones and reached Five-Star Battle Venerable.
• Yao Lao sent Yao Xuan and Xiao Yan to the Gu Clan Coming-of-Age Ceremony together.
• Gu Xun'er declared her relationship with Xiao Yan to the Gu Clan elders, and Gu Lie silenced their objections while asking her about Yao Xuan's accomplishments.
• Gu Xun'er unleashed the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame and told the elders she had come to inform them of her feelings, not seek their approval.
• Yao Xuan and Xiao Yan entered Ancient Emperor City with Starfall Pavilion's invitation, where Ling Quan tried to expel them and insulted Xiao Yan.
• Yao Xuan challenged Ling Quan, asking what made him more worthy of Gu Xun'er than Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan defeated Ling Quan with one palm after revealing his Five-Star Battle Venerable strength, but Ling Quan then tried to use the Black Annihilation Army to arrest him and Yao Xuan. Second Commander Lin Xiu stopped the military formation, heard both sides, and learned that Xiao Yan was the person the clan elders had mentioned.

• Ling Quan challenged Xiao Yan after realizing Yao Xuan was beyond his reach, but Xiao Yan revealed his Five-Star Battle Venerable aura and blasted Ling Quan into the city wall with a single palm.
• Xiao Yan mocked Ling Quan and his feelings for Xun'er, but Ling Quan rose and ordered the Black Annihilation Army to seize Xiao Yan and Yao Xuan.
• The Black Annihilation Army began forming a military formation, prompting Second Commander Lin Xiu and the other commanders to arrive and demand an explanation.
• Ling Quan accused Xiao Yan and Yao Xuan of insulting the Ancient Clan, while Yao Xuan explained that Ling Quan had tried to drive away their invited guests.
• Lin Xiu ordered the soldiers to withdraw and rebuked Ling Quan, who then revealed that Xiao Yan was the person the clan elders had specifically mentioned.
• Lin Xiu turned to Xiao Yan and asked whether he was Xiao Yan.

Yao Xuan stopped Lin Xiu from challenging Xiao Yan, then accepted Lin Xiu’s challenge until Gu Zhen intervened and offered to escort Yao Xuan and Xiao Yan to the Ancient Realm. During the journey, they reunited with Yao Ling and met another observer who had heard of Yao Xuan from Hun Ya.

• Lin Xiu recognized Xiao Yan as a five-star battle venerable and challenged him, but Yao Xuan offered to fight in his place.
• Lin Xiu accepted Yao Xuan’s challenge, but Gu Zhen arrived and ordered him to stand down before apologizing to Yao Xuan and Xiao Yan.
• Gu Zhen offered to escort Yao Xuan and Xiao Yan into the Ancient Realm, and they accepted.
• Aboard the Void Shuttle, Xiao Yan wondered how Xun'er was doing, and Yao Ling greeted Yao Xuan from another shuttle with Yao Tian beside her.
• Xiao Yan called Yao Ling his sister-in-law, making her blush and hug Yao Xuan.
• A refined figure watched Yao Xuan and remarked that he seemed less overbearing than Hun Ya had claimed.

Yao Xuan rejected Yao Tian’s invitation to return to the Yao Clan and explained the Heavenly Tomb to Xiao Yan as they approached the Ancient Realm. Gu Xun’er arrived to welcome Xiao Yan and offered to escort him and the others inside.

• Yao Xuan sensed a watcher and drove them back with his soul pressure before asking Yao Ling why she and Yao Tian had come to the ceremony.
• Yao Tian urged Yao Xuan to return to the Yao Clan as its young clan leader, but Yao Xuan refused because he no longer had affection for the clan.
• Huo Xuan and Huo Zhi approached Yao Xuan, and Huo Xuan expressed interest in befriending him and sparring over fire control.
• Yao Xuan told Xiao Yan about the Heavenly Tomb and revealed that Xiao Xuan’s Remnant Soul was inside, encouraging Xiao Yan to seek entry.
• As the Ancient Realm entrance appeared, Gu Xun’er arrived, greeted Xiao Yan, thanked Yao Xuan for helping him, and offered to take them into the realm.

Yao Xuan and Xiao Yan entered the Ancient Realm for the Gu Clan Coming-of-Age Ceremony, where Gu Qingyang intervened when elders tried to force them through a side gate. The Ancient Clan opened three Heavenly Tomb places to competition, giving Yao Xuan and Xiao Yan a chance to enter, but Yao Xuan sensed the Soul Clan's Hun Yu nearby.

• Gu Xun'er guided Yao Xuan and Xiao Yan toward the ceremony plaza, but Gu Qian and Gu Xu tried to make them enter through a side gate.
• Gu Xun'er objected, and Gu Qingyang arrived on the Black Annihilation King's orders and made the elders let them pass.
• Xiao Yan asked about the Heavenly Tomb, and Gu Xun'er said the Ancient Clan should return the Xiao Clan's quota but that some elders might interfere.
• Gu Qingyang explained that the Ancient Clan would return the Xiao Clan's place and let attendees compete for three vacant places, including two belonging to the absent Spirit Clan.
• Yao Xuan realized the Heavenly Tomb opportunity had come and suspected the Soul Clan had acted against the Spirit Clan.
• Yao Xuan sensed a sinister aura from Hun Yu, the Soul Clan member who had spied on him, and Gu Qingyang asked whether he knew him.

At the Gu Clan Coming-of-Age Ceremony, Yao Xuan recognized the significance of Hun Yu representing the Soul Clan and warned Xiao Yan to stay cautious. Gu Xun’er’s bloodline test revealed a divine-grade bloodline, surpassing the Ancient Clan’s previous record and earning her the Seven-Colored Clan Mark.

• Yao Xuan saw Hun Yu among the Soul Clan’s delegation, learned he possessed a divine-grade bloodline, and warned Xiao Yan that the Soul Clan might scheme against him.
• Elder Tong Xuan began the Gu Clan ceremony, where Ling Quan tested at sixth rank and received a Golden Clan Mark.
• Gu Zhen tested at seventh rank and received a Purple-Gold Clan Mark, while Gu Yao tested at eighth rank and received an eight-stroke Purple-Gold Clan Mark.
• Gu Qingyang told Yao Xuan that his own ninth-rank record might soon be broken, then Xun’er stepped into the formation.
• Xun’er lit all nine stars before a seven-colored radiance revealed her divine-grade bloodline, and Elder Tong Xuan awarded her the Seven-Colored Clan Mark.

At the Gu Clan Coming-of-Age Ceremony, Yao Xuan won a Heavenly Tomb slot by defeating Gu Yao after the three grand commanders surrounded him. That night, Gu Yuan summoned Yao Xuan through his overwhelming soul power, and Yao Xuan recognized the Ancient Clan chief.

• Elder Tong Xuan announced that three vacant Heavenly Tomb slots would be awarded through a contest, and Hun Yu questioned whether the Xiao Clan deserved its slot.
• Yao Xuan entered the arena as the young talents competed for the Heavenly Tomb quota.
• After the other contestants fell, Gu Yao, Gu Hua, and Gu Xing joined forces against Yao Xuan, but his Profound Flame Suppressing Wilderness Palm eliminated Gu Yao.
• Elder Tong Xuan awarded the slots to Yao Xuan, Gu Hua, and Gu Xing, while Gu Xun'er stopped Gu Qingyang from challenging Yao Xuan on Gu Yuan's orders.
• That night, Gu Yuan's soul power drew Yao Xuan into a vision, where Yao Xuan greeted the Ancient Clan chief.

Gu Yuan met Yao Xuan in a private space and asked him to protect Gu Xun'er during the upcoming Heavenly Tomb journey. Yao Xuan agreed, learning that the Ancient Clan had changed the quota allocation to ensure he could enter and counter Hun Yu.

• Gu Yuan assessed Yao Xuan's strength and soul power, then reassured him that he meant no harm.
• Gu Yuan asked Yao Xuan to protect Gu Xun'er from Hun Yu and the Soul Clan inside the Heavenly Tomb.
• Yao Xuan agreed, citing Gu Xun'er's past help and promising to keep her safe.
• Yao Xuan asked whether the Ancient Clan had deliberately changed the Heavenly Tomb quota allocation, and Gu Yuan confirmed it was to give Xun'er protection against Hun Yu.
• Gu Yuan promised the Ancient Clan would reward Yao Xuan for protecting Xun'er, then returned him to his bed.
• Gu Yuan praised Yao Xuan's talent and compared him favorably to Xiao Xuan in his prime.

Yao Xuan entered the Heavenly Tomb with Xiao Yan, reunited with Yao Ling and Gu Xun'er, and led their group toward the third layer. When Hun Yu and Hun Li tried to attack Gu Xun'er after the group split up, Yao Xuan confronted them, and Lei Dong arrived to challenge Hun Yu.

• Lei Dong greeted Yao Xuan outside the Heavenly Tomb and proposed they spar again after recalling his earlier defeat.
• Elder Tong Xuan opened the Heavenly Tomb, and Yao Xuan and Xiao Yan entered its first layer.
• Yao Xuan used his soul power to find Yao Ling and Gu Xun'er, then joined them in heading for the third layer while Hun Yu and Hun Li followed secretly.
• The group reached the second layer and split up to hunt energy beings and gather crystal cores.
• Hun Yu and Hun Li moved to kill Gu Xun'er, but Yao Xuan blocked their way and confronted them.
• Lei Dong arrived and asked Yao Xuan to let him test Hun Yu's divine-grade bloodline.