Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan refined three Heavenly Monster Puppets, then helped Medicine Elder take control of a Heavenly Demon Phoenix skeleton to begin rebuilding his body through nirvana. After returning to Tianxia Guild, Xiao Yan reunited with Xiao Yixian and Medusa and prepared to accept the many people seeking to join the guild.

• Xiao Yan refined three Heavenly Monster Puppets in ten days and took two of them to guard a secluded cave.
• Xiao Yan used his Heavenly Flame to refine a Heavenly Demon Phoenix corpse, while Medicine Elder entered its skeleton to battle the lingering will.
• After two months, Medicine Elder subdued the phoenix phantom, and Xiao Yan used Demon Phoenix Blood Essence and Heavenly Flame to turn the skeleton into an egg.
• Medicine Elder told Xiao Yan that his phoenix nirvana would take at least a year, so Xiao Yan left the puppets to guard the egg and returned to Tianxia Guild.
• Xiao Yan reunited with Xiao Yixian and Medusa, then decided to refine pills for aspiring members who provided two sets of medicinal ingredients each.

Xiao Yan refined pills for Tianxia Guild members while his puppets absorbed heavenly lightning and grew stronger. He finished another Imperial Pill for a guild member as the waiting crowd remained eager for their turn.

• Xiao Yan's silver puppet endured an hour of heavenly lightning while he completed a pill, and Gu He and Fama discussed his extraordinary alchemy.
• Xiao Yan handed a finished pill to a waiting man and began refining an Imperial Pill for a green-robed guild member.
• The green-robed man explained that Imperial Pill ingredients had become scarce because Xiao Yan's pills greatly increased strength and healed hidden injuries.
• Xiao Yan's puppets charged into the heavenly lightning, raising the Steel Giant Scorpion to Eight-Star Dou Zong and the other puppet to Seven-Star Dou Zong.
• Xiao Yan finished the Imperial Pill and tossed it to the green-robed man.

After refining more than a thousand pills, Xiao Yan reached the point where he could no longer suppress his breakthrough to Dou Zong. He entrusted the Tianxia Guild’s defense to Medusa, Xiao Yixian, and Yun Shan, then entered a cave to cultivate with a Sect-Breaking Pill as a disaster quietly descended.

• Xiao Yan ended the pill-refining session and told those whose pills remained unfinished to leave their ingredients with Ya Fei.
• Xiao Yan summoned Nalan Yanran, Medusa, Xiao Yixian, and Yun Shan to the main hall and warned them that he would be in seclusion for two or three months.
• Medusa, Xiao Yixian, and Yun Shan agreed to guard the Tianxia Guild while Xiao Yan broke through, and he urged them to prioritize their safety.
• Xiao Yan entered a concealed cave, swallowed a Sect-Breaking Pill, and began absorbing energy to break through to Dou Zong.
• As Xiao Yan cultivated, a disaster silently descended.

Soul Hall forces arrived at Maple City to attack Tianxia Guild, while Han Feng tried to convince the visitors that Xiao Yan was a threat. Yun Shan, Medusa, and Xiao Yixian prepared to face them as Yun Yun organized the city’s formation, and the attackers demanded that Xiao Yan come out.

• Dark clouds covered Maple City, its emergency bell rang, and troops cleared the streets as Soul Hall figures poured through a passage in the sky.
• Yun Shan told Yun Yun to prepare the Myriad Phenomena Return-to-Origin Tai Chi Formation, then joined Medusa and Xiao Yixian above the city.
• Mu Gu questioned Han Feng about Tianxia Guild’s strength and whether Xiao Yan could have killed two Dou Zuns; Star Picking Old Ghost suggested Yao Chen might have helped him.
• Venerable Lei demanded Xiao Yan appear over his alleged theft of the Three Thousand Lightning Movement, while Han Feng reflected on how he had gathered the visitors to attack Tianxia Guild.

Han Feng led Mu Gu, Star Picking Old Ghost, and Venerable Lei to attack the Tianxia Guild, hoping to draw out Xiao Yan. When the Guild’s formation absorbed Han Feng’s assault and grew stronger, the three Dou Zuns prepared to attack it themselves.

• Han Feng confronted Yun Shan and demanded that Xiao Yan appear, while Yun Shan stalled and denied that Guild Leader Xiongba was Xiao Yan.
• Mu Gu and Star Picking Old Ghost discovered that Maple City housed nearly a thousand Dou Huangs and several powerful Dou Zongs, and Star Picking Old Ghost ordered an assault on the Tianxia Guild.
• Yun Shan activated the Myriad Phenomena Return-to-Origin Tai Chi Formation, which raised a barrier around Maple City.
• Han Feng attacked the barrier with a giant black energy sword, but the formation absorbed the attack and strengthened.
• Mu Gu proposed that the Dou Zuns attack the formation, and Star Picking Old Ghost persuaded Venerable Lei to join them while telling Han Feng to seek a chance to break through.

Yun Shan, Medusa, and Xiao Yixian used the formation to strengthen themselves as the Soul Hall attacked the Tianxia Guild, but the arrival of powerful puppets temporarily evened the battle. Venerable Lei unleashed Thunder God Descends and targeted Xiao Yixian, who prepared to fight back with bottles from her Storage Ring.

• Yun Shan, Medusa, and Xiao Yixian activated the formation and raised their strength close to the Dou Zun level.
• Star Picking Old Ghost, Mu Gu, and Venerable Lei attacked the three defenders while Han Feng prepared to strike the formation.
• A Steel Battle Scorpion and two Earth Monster Puppets appeared, disrupted Han Feng's attack, and helped the Tianxia Guild withstand the Soul Hall.
• Star Picking Old Ghost persuaded Venerable Lei to stop holding back by promising the Soul Hall's puppet-refining method.
• Venerable Lei used Thunder God Descends to attack Xiao Yixian, who ordered a puppet to hold him off and took more than a dozen bottles from her Storage Ring.

Xiao Yixian consumed potent poisons and unleashed her Calamity Poison Body to battle Venerable Lei and protect Medusa. After saving Medusa from Star Picking Old Ghost’s attack, she stayed behind to face him while Medusa went to help fight Venerable Lei.

• Xiao Yixian drank the poisons Xiao Yan had prepared and revealed her Calamity Poison Body to Venerable Lei.
• Xiao Yixian trapped Venerable Lei in the Heavenly Poison Prison Realm, where her poison liquid corroded his lightning as they fought.
• Star Picking Old Ghost sent the Earth Monster Puppet away through a spatial rift and immobilized Medusa.
• Star Picking Old Ghost unleashed his Star-Shattering Blade at Medusa, but Xiao Yixian stopped it with Heavenly Yin Poison Hand and counterattacked with a blood sword.
• Xiao Yixian told Medusa to take the two puppets and fight the weakened Venerable Lei while she faced Star Picking Old Ghost.
• Xiao Yixian explained that she had saved Medusa because Xiao Yan would be sad if she died, and Medusa promised to repay the favor someday.

As Medusa, Xiao Yixian, and Yun Shan neared defeat, Yao Chen arrived and forced Venerable Lei to reconsider his retreat. Star Picking Old Ghost persuaded Venerable Lei to turn against Yao Chen, leaving the battle unresolved as Yao Chen took charge.

• Medusa, Xiao Yixian, and Yun Shan struggled against Venerable Lei, Star Picking Old Ghost, and Mu Gu while Xiao Yan remained focused on breaking through to Dou Zong.
• Yao Chen emerged from the mountain forest and confronted Mu Gu, shocking Han Feng, Venerable Lei, and Star Picking Old Ghost.
• Venerable Lei offered to compensate the Tianxia Guild and leave, while Yao Chen agreed to discuss the Three Thousand Lightning Movement later.
• Star Picking Old Ghost revealed that Medusa and Xiao Yixian were Xiao Yan's lovers and warned Venerable Lei that Xiao Yan might soon break through.
• Star Picking Old Ghost persuaded Venerable Lei to help kill Yao Chen, and Yao Chen gave healing pills to Medusa and Yun Shan before facing them.

Yao Chen fought Mu Gu and Venerable Lei while concealing the cost of defending against their attacks. As Xiao Yixian’s Calamity Poison Body fully erupted, she neared the loss of her reason, leaving Yun Shan and Medusa alarmed.

• Yao Chen blocked Venerable Lei’s lightning hammer with a soul barrier, revealing that his soul had reached the Heaven Mirror realm.
• Mu Gu and Venerable Lei attacked Yao Chen together, but he blocked Mu Gu’s scythe and cracked Venerable Lei’s hammer with a punch.
• Star Picking Old Ghost intensified his assault on Xiao Yixian as she struggled through severe injuries and a fully erupted Calamity Poison Body.
• Mu Gu recognized that Xiao Yixian was about to lose her reason, while Yun Shan and Medusa saw her sway and realized she was close to losing consciousness.

Xiao Yan emerged from seclusion and saved Xiao Yixian from Star Picking Old Ghost, then suppressed her erupting Calamity Poison Body inside the Tianxia Guild hall. He sent Yao Chen to fetch Skyfire Venerable, but Skyfire Venerable warned that his method might not work after the poison body had fully erupted.

• Star Picking Old Ghost tried to force Xiao Yixian's Calamity Poison Body to erupt, but Xiao Yan rescued her with dragon claws and attacked Soul Hall's forces with the Yin-Yang Twin Flame.
• Star Picking Old Ghost and Mu Gu fled through a spatial passage after the Heavenly Flame destroyed nearly all their subordinates.
• Xiao Yan held Xiao Yixian inside a barrier and suppressed the poisonous gas, while his hand was corroded down to the bone.
• Xiao Yan told Yao Chen to retrieve the soul at the bottom of Canaan Academy's Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower, promising to reconstruct his body in exchange for a way to suppress the Calamity Poison Body.
• Yao Chen returned with Skyfire Venerable, who said his method was meant for a Calamity Poison Body that had not fully erupted and might fail in Xiao Yixian's case.

Xiao Yan used Skyfire Venerable’s Heavenly Capital Flame Seal to suppress Xiao Yixian’s Calamity Poison Body, enduring severe injuries as the poison corroded him. The seal activated, and the poison that had clouded Xiao Yixian’s mind left her body.

• Skyfire Venerable explained the Heavenly Capital Flame Seal to Xiao Yan from outside the hall.
• Xiao Yan burned away Xiao Yixian’s clothes and began tracing the sealing points on her body, suffering wounds from the poison gas.
• Xiao Yixian woke and saw Xiao Yan being badly corroded, but stayed still so he could continue the seal.
• As the poison backlash intensified, Xiao Yan relied on his soul perception to finish the sealing patterns.
• A potent strand of poison gas left Xiao Yixian, clearing her mind, and Xiao Yan activated the seal with his Yin-Yang Twin Flame.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Yixian survived the sealing of the Calamity Poison Body, but the seal would last only about half a year after Xiao Yixian advanced to Dou Zun. Xiao Yan decided to travel with her and Skyfire Venerable to the Central Plains to find a Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast and refine the Poison Pill.

• Xiao Yan completed the seal on Xiao Yixian’s Calamity Poison Body, then collapsed after its poison engulfed him.
• Xiao Yixian absorbed the poison from Xiao Yan, healed him, and then swallowed the remaining poisonous gas in the hall, advancing to Dou Zun.
• Xiao Yan told the others that the seal would last only about half a year and that they still needed a seventh-rank Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast’s Magic Core.
• Yao Chen said they would likely find such a beast in Fallen God Ravine in the Central Plains, and Xiao Yan decided they had to leave immediately.
• Xiao Yan asked Medicine Elder to guard the Tianxia Guild against Soul Hall and invited Skyfire Venerable to guide him and Xiao Yixian through the Central Plains.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Yixian tracked the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast through Fallen God Ravine, and Xiao Yixian captured it with her spatial power. After Xiao Yan demanded its blood essence and Magic Core, the beast offered to show them the corpse of a member of its clan that had died attempting to reach the eighth tier.

• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yixian entered Fallen God Ravine and searched for the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast.
• Xiao Yixian sensed the beast fleeing and trapped it in a Spatial Prison.
• Xiao Yan demanded the beast's blood essence and Magic Core, then offered to spare it if it provided something of higher grade.
• The Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast revealed that its castle held the corpse of a clan member who had failed to break through to the eighth tier.
• The beast led Xiao Yan and Xiao Yixian to the long-rotted corpse in a concealed cave, and Xiao Yan asked why it had kept the body.

Xiao Yan arranged for the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast to gather poisonous ingredients and offered to refine them, then explained why he planned to revive Skyfire Venerable. After learning Xiao Yan needed his help guarding Xiao Yixian during her Poison Pill refinement, Skyfire Venerable agreed, and Xiao Yan began preparing to revive him.

• Xiao Yan promised to refine poisonous medicinal ingredients for the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast in exchange for its help and had it prepare for their seclusion in the cave.
• Xiao Yan told Skyfire Venerable that he would refine a body for him and explained that Skyfire's sealing method had helped him and Xiao Yixian reach the Central Plains.
• Xiao Yan offered Skyfire Venerable freedom after one year of service and pills as payment, then admitted he needed protection while refining Xiao Yixian's Poison Pill.
• Xiao Yan named the Soul Hall as his enemy and said he could use the Soul Hall Master's body to make a Heavenly Demon Puppet instead if Skyfire refused revival.
• Skyfire Venerable agreed to be revived, and Xiao Yan told Xiao Yixian to guard the cave entrance before beginning.

Xiao Yan used the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast's body and essence blood to revive Venerable Tianhuo. With Tianhuo reborn and pledging to help against the Soul Hall, Xiao Yan prepared to leave the stone fortress and find a place rich in Yang Fire to refine the Poison Pill.

• Xiao Yan revealed a Dou Zun corpse and used the Yin-Yang Twin Flame to extract the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast's Magic Core and essence blood.
• Xiao Yixian kept the Magical Beasts in the stone fortress from rushing after the essence blood while Xiao Yan prepared Tianhuo's body.
• Xiao Yan poured the essence blood over the skeleton, and Venerable Tianhuo entered it before Xiao Yan used Yang Fire to restore his flesh and revive him as Yao Tianhuo.
• Yao Tianhuo thanked Xiao Yan and promised to help stop the Soul Hall if its people came.
• Tianhuo warned that the Poison Pill needed to be refined somewhere rich in Yang Fire, so Xiao Yan led him out of the cave.

Xiao Yan brought Xiao Yixian and Skyfire Venerable to the Ye Clan, seeking its Sunfire Ancient Altar to suppress her Calamity Poison Body. He found the clan under attack by the Black Emperor Sect, killed its envoys, and left Ye Zhong terrified enough to offer the altar.

• Xiao Yan traded poisonous medicines for the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast's medicinal ingredients and left with Xiao Yixian and Skyfire Venerable.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Yixian they were heading to Ye City to seek the Ye Clan's Sunfire Ancient Altar, which could suppress her Calamity Poison Body.
• Xiao Yan and his companions arrived at the Ye Clan's residence and found Zhao Hei and Qin Mo threatening Ye Zhong and the clan.
• Xiao Yan killed Zhao Hei, Qin Mo, and the Black Emperor Sect members with flames before they could finish challenging him.
• Ye Zhong offered the Sunfire Ancient Altar in fear, and Ye Xinlan greeted Xiao Yan as her grandfather surrendered.

Xiao Yan borrowed the Sunfire Ancient Altar from the Ye Clan and drew out an Earth Core Pearl and fire-rich liquid to strengthen himself. He then prepared to help Xiao Yixian control her Calamity Poison Body by condensing its poison into a Poison Pill.

• Ye Xinlan introduced Xiao Yan to Ye Zhong as the man who would represent the Ye Clan in the Pill Region assessment, and Xiao Yan asked to borrow the Sunfire Ancient Altar.
• Ye Zhong agreed to lend the altar, and Xiao Yan followed him to the ancient altar after promising to honor his earlier commitment.
• Xiao Yan moved the altar’s Black Stone Stele and drew out viscous fire-attributed liquid containing an Earth Core Pearl, which the Yin-Yang Twin Flame devoured.
• Xiao Yan had Xiao Yixian enter the Yang Fire and asked Skyfire Venerable to guard them while they worked on her Calamity Poison Body.
• Xiao Yan warned Xiao Yixian that removing her seal would trigger another eruption, and she promised to keep control of her mind for his sake.

Xiao Yan used Three Points Return to Origin Qi to contain Xiao Yixian’s Calamity Poison Body and prepare to refine it into a Poison Pill. With her vitality restored by the Bodhi Body-Transforming Saliva and Yang Fire, Xiao Yixian began fusing the poison with a Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast Magic Core, but the process remained slow and dangerous.

• Xiao Yan released Xiao Yixian’s seal and used Three Points Return to Origin Qi to force the spreading poison qi back into her body.
• Xiao Yan compressed the poison qi into Xiao Yixian’s Qi Sea, where it formed a viscous poisonous liquid and left her body without vitality.
• Xiao Yan used Yang Fire to sustain Xiao Yixian, placed the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast Magic Core in her Qi Sea, and refined the Bodhi Body-Transforming Saliva, setting aside the Bodhi Seed.
• Xiao Yixian regained her vitality and began condensing the Poison Pill, but the poison qi resisted and caused her to spit blood.
• Xiao Yan tightened the light barrier to help Xiao Yixian fuse the poison qi with the Magic Core, beginning a difficult struggle to control the Calamity Poison Body.

Star Picking Old Ghost and his allies recruited Ice River Valley to help capture Xiao Yan and seize Xiao Yixian’s Calamity Poison Body. After learning that Xiao Yan had gone to Fallen God Ravine for the missing Poison Pill ingredient, Xun'er learned of his danger and set out to leave the Ancient Realm.

• Star Picking Old Ghost and Mu Gu persuaded Ice River to join their plan to capture Xiao Yan and obtain Xiao Yixian’s Calamity Poison Body.
• Star Picking Old Ghost revealed that Xiao Yan and Xiao Yixian had gone to Fallen God Ravine to find a Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast’s Magic Core.
• Elder Ling told Xun'er that Xiao Yixian had only half a year left and that Xiao Yan was searching for the ingredient in Fallen God Ravine.
• Xun'er blamed the Ancient Clan elders for withholding the Magic Core and immediately left to depart the Ancient Realm.

Wind and Thunder Pavilion, Ice River Valley, and Soul Hall surrounded Ye City and demanded that the Ye Clan hand over Xiao Yan and the Calamity Poison Woman. While Xiao Yan continued refining the Poison Pill, Yao Tianhuo went out to stall the attackers, leaving Ye City panicked over the threat of the Calamity Poison Body erupting.

• The three factions sealed Ye City in ice and demanded that the Ye Clan surrender Xiao Yan and the Calamity Poison Woman.
• Ye Zhong and the Ye Clan panicked, but Skyfire Venerable told them the conflict was not their fault and went to check on Xiao Yan's refinement.
• Skyfire Venerable learned that the Poison Pill refinement was still underway and waited anxiously at the altar.
• Ice River threatened to attack the Ye Clan, and Xiao Yan asked Skyfire Venerable to stall the factions for half an hour.
• Yao Tianhuo appeared before the attackers and pretended he had come only to cultivate at the Sunfire Ancient Altar.
• Ice River warned Ye City that the Calamity Poison Body was about to erupt, sparking panic among the city's people and the Ye Clan.