Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan found Xiao Meng imprisoned and badly weakened by Hun Yi, who had been extracting her Space Flame. He fought Hun Yi but failed to gain the upper hand, leaving their battle unresolved.

• The Soul Hall's Vice Hall Master continued fighting Yao Chen while trying to protect Soul Hall and keep Xiao Yan safe without revealing the clans' agreement.
• Xiao Yan reached Xiao Meng's cell, melted the iron gate with a Heavenly Flame, and found her chained and unconscious.
• Hun Yi admitted that he had tortured Xiao Meng by gradually extracting her Space Flame and challenged Xiao Yan to fight.
• Xiao Yan activated the Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Changes, while Hun Yi used his Soul Clan Clan Mark and struck Xiao Yan with a surprise attack.
• Xiao Yan countered Hun Yi's Soul Extinguishing Palm with a two-colored Fire Lotus, and the two prepared to continue their fight.

Xiao Yan and Hun Yi exchanged devastating attacks, leaving both gravely injured before Xiao Meng took control of the Three Thousand Burning Flame and helped Xiao Yan recover. As Xiao Yan tried to escape the Soul Hall, Hun Yi merged with the Soul Origin and aimed to possess him, but Xiao Meng intercepted the attack and was overwhelmed by the invading souls.

• Xiao Yan and Hun Yi's attacks collided, destroying the room and severely burning both of them.
• Xiao Meng recalled her marked silver flames from Hun Yi's soul, while the Three Thousand Burning Flame began restoring Xiao Yan's body.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Meng fled with Qing Meng's help as Iron Sword Venerable and the Starfall Pavilion elders held back the Soul Hall forces.
• Hun Yi merged with the Soul Hall's Soul Origin and launched a mass of chaotic souls at Xiao Yan, while Yao Chen blocked the Vice Hall Master from intervening.
• Xiao Meng shielded Xiao Yan from Hun Yi's attack and struggled to resist the countless minds that entered her.

Xiao Meng sacrificed herself to give Xiao Yan refined Soul Origin and her life-bound Beast Flame, warning him to watch out for Amon. As Soul Hall attacked the devastated Xiao Yan, Amon froze everyone and appeared, telling Xiao Yan that only he could save Xiao Meng.

• Xiao Meng gave Xiao Yan her refined Soul Origin and Space Flame, then died in his arms after warning him about Amon.
• A Soul Hall Protector attacked Xiao Yan, but Iron Sword Venerable cut the Soul Chain and defended him as Soul Hall surrounded them.
• When a Protector nearly struck Xiao Yan, a mysterious force froze everyone except Xiao Yan and Amon’s voice asked whether he could accept the outcome.
• Xiao Yan pleaded with the unseen speaker to save Xiao Meng, and Amon appeared and said only Xiao Yan could save her.
• Xiao Yan recognized Amon and realized Qing Meng feared him; Amon confirmed he was one of Xiao Meng’s people.

Amon told Xiao Yan that Xiao Meng’s True Spirit might be preserved, but restoring her would require knowledge from the Great Thousand World. He revealed his ties to the Amon Clan and his long involvement in Xiao Yan’s life, leaving Xiao Yan to face the truth about Xiao Meng’s sacrifice and Amon’s manipulation.

• Amon explained that Xiao Meng’s soul had fused with a mass and that he could preserve a fragment of her True Spirit, but said the Great Thousand World might hold a way to restore her.
• Xiao Yan realized Amon was connected to the Spirit Worms, and Amon confirmed he was an unusual member of the Amon Clan who had watched him through various identities and puppets.
• Amon explained that Xiao Meng had defied the clan leader for Xiao Yan, while her current condition arose from her involvement in Xiao Yan’s conflict with the Soul Hall.
• Amon admitted he had been Zhou Mingrui, Lord Ape, Gu Ni, Ya Fei, and Hai Bodong, and said he had given Xiao Meng the Sea Heart Flame and left the Green Lotus Core Flame in the Tagor Desert.
• Amon said he had sealed the Little Fairy Doctor’s Woeful Poison Body but had not caused her death, then admitted he had pushed women into Xiao Yan’s life simply because it amused him and he wanted to provoke Xiao Meng.

Xiao Yan questioned Amon about the Xiao Clan, his father, and the path to the Great Thousand World, but Amon refused or claimed not to know most of the answers. When Xiao Meng’s soul began to fail, Amon agreed to save her True Spirit after Xiao Yan promised that helping her would benefit the Amon Clan.

• Xiao Yan asked Amon about the Xiao Clan, the Xiao Tribe, his father, and the Amon Clan’s interest in him, but Amon withheld answers.
• Amon told Xiao Yan that becoming a Dou Emperor would let him break free of his world and reach the Great Thousand World.
• Seeing Xiao Meng’s soul grow unstable, Xiao Yan asked Amon to separate her True Spirit, but Amon initially refused because the clan leader had branded her a traitor.
• Xiao Yan promised to repay Xiao Meng for her investment in him, and Amon accepted the promise as a reason to help the Amon Clan.
• Amon pulled Xiao Meng’s fused, chaotic soul from her body, and Xiao Yan saw Xiao Meng and Hun Yi’s faces within it.

Amon took Xiao Meng’s soul, gave Xiao Yan the Space Flame she had left him, and made clear that freeing her would require a great price. After Amon departed, Xiao Yan killed a Soul Hall Protector and ordered a retreat from Soul Hall.

• Amon sealed Xiao Meng’s purified soul inside Xiao Yan and gave him the Space Flame, warning that freeing her would require an immense price.
• Amon told Xiao Yan that he planned to become the Amon Clan leader and wanted Xiao Yan as an ally in the Great Thousand World, then gave him his honorific name for contact.
• After Amon left, everyone else regained movement, and Xiao Yan killed the Soul Hall Protector who had been reaching for him.
• Yao Chen and the Soul Hall Vice Hall Master searched for the mysterious expert, while Xiao Yan noticed Xiao Meng’s remains had vanished.
• Xiao Yan ordered a withdrawal, and Yao Chen covered the group as they fled Soul Hall.

Xiao Meng’s True Spirit returned to the Celestial Worthy, while Amon revealed that he had manipulated Hun Yi before destroying the fused soul mass. Back at Starfall Pavilion, Xiao Yan mourned Xiao Meng’s death and blamed his weakness, ending with thoughts of the Great Thousand World and Dou Emperor.

• Xiao Meng’s True Spirit was drawn into a tentacle of the Celestial Worthy, where a lifeless figure resembling Amon gained vitality.
• Amon told Hun Yi that his avatar had planted obsessions in Hun Yi’s soul, then snapped his fingers and scattered the soul mass into insects that vanished into the gray mist.
• Hun Miesheng arrived at the ruined Earth Hall, learned that Xiao Yan and Yao Chen had taken the Soul Origin, and told the Vice Hall Master he would report the loss to the clan leader.
• Yao Chen returned to Starfall Pavilion with Xiao Yan and the others, thanked the Guest Elders, and asked Xiao Yan what had happened to Xiao Meng.
• Xiao Yan told Yao Chen that Xiao Meng had died protecting him and that her True Spirit might have been preserved, then blamed himself for being too weak.
• Xiao Yan recalled Xiao Meng’s pleading gaze, struggled to stay upright, and thought of the Great Thousand World and Dou Emperor.

Amon and his many avatars held a year-end meeting to review their progress and plans, including their schemes involving Xiao Yan, the Xiao Tribe, and Medusa’s evolution. The chapter ended with Amon confirming that the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit had been obtained for the upcoming Medicine Ceremony.

• Amon ordered Bai Lin to leave, then gathered his avatars to report on the year’s progress.
• The main body described his Mysteries Scripture, the four children of Cailin nearing evolution, and his agreement with Xiao Yan while concealing that all Amons were one.
• The avatars argued until Amon linked their emotions, then agreed to maintain the appearance of conflict between the main body and the Amon beside Xiao Zhan.
• Yao Feng reported that Nether Snake Space was stable and that the Amons had found ways to reduce the dangers of Medusa’s evolution.
• The second Purifying Lotus Demon Flame reported absorbing a Heavenly Scourge and gaining avatars, while the Amon in the Xiao Tribe said its members were becoming dependent on Spirit Worms.
• The Medicine Clan prepared to hold the Medicine Ceremony early, and an Amon presented the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit collected from a Dou Sheng ruin.

Yao Chen decided to attend the Medicine Ceremony to pursue its rewards and honor his parents, then met Xiao Zhan, who revealed his identity and asked Yao Chen to fulfill an old pill-refining agreement. Xiao Zhan explained that he had hidden his strength and the Xiao Tribe’s legacy from Xiao Yan to push him to grow, leaving Yao Chen troubled by the burden placed on his disciple.

• Yao Chen accepted that he would attend the Medicine Ceremony for the Tuoshe Ancient God technique, the Flame of Life, and a chance to honor his parents.
• A mysterious black-robed man appeared before Yao Chen and asked him to honor an agreement to refine a pill for his ancestor.
• Yao Chen agreed after the man promised to reveal his identity, then recognized him as Xiao Zhan.
• Xiao Zhan revealed that he was an ancestor of the Xiao Tribe and asked Yao Chen to keep their meeting and agreement secret, including from Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Zhan explained that he had concealed the truth from Xiao Yan because the Xiao Tribe’s revival depended on him and hardship would help him grow.

Xiao Zhan proposed that Yao Chen refine a Ninth-Grade Golden Pill at the Medicine Ceremony, and Amon offered Spirit Worms to overcome the limits of Yao Chen’s strength and Soul Power. After testing a Spirit Worm’s temporary enhancement, Yao Chen agreed to proceed with the plan.

• Xiao Zhan explained that Yao Chen could use Qing Meng to refine the pill’s ingredients, but Amon warned that Yao Chen still lacked sufficient strength and Soul Power.
• Amon appeared and revealed that Spirit Worms could merge with Yao Chen, provide Dou Qi, and briefly raise his Soul Power to the Emperor Realm through their self-immolation.
• Yao Chen recognized the Spirit Worms as the insects that had invaded his soul before and confronted Amon, who explained that he had been protecting Xiao Yan.
• Amon demonstrated the process with a Spirit Worm, which merged with Yao Chen, briefly enhanced his soul perception, and then died.
• After experiencing the Spirit Worm’s effects, Yao Chen agreed to use them for the Ninth-Grade Golden Pill refinement.

Xiao Yan mourned Xiao Meng and entrusted her silver Space Flame to Qing Meng, which transformed into a form resembling Xiao Meng. Elsewhere, Xiao Zhan revealed a Ninth-Grade Golden Pill formula to Yao Chen and disclosed his plan to use the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan and Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan as ingredients; Amon then released Cailin from the silver flame.

• Xiao Yan, overwhelmed by grief and doubt, gave Xiao Meng’s silver Space Flame to Qing Meng to refine with the Burning Mantra.
• Qing Meng transformed into a silver-white form that reminded Xiao Yan of Xiao Meng, and Xiao Yan lay down crying over her loss.
• Xiao Zhan presented Yao Chen with the Dragon-Phoenix Great Pill formula, whose ingredients included a Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit, a Taixu Ancient Dragon, and an Ancient Heaven Phoenix.
• Yao Chen realized that Xiao Zhan had caused the disappearance of both clans, and Xiao Zhan confirmed he planned to use them to refine the Ninth-Grade Golden Pill.
• Amon spat out the silver flame on an empty grassland, and Cailin emerged and remarked on the familiar sight.

Cailin returned from the time-distorted realm and left to deliver the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame to Xiao Yan, while Amon reunited with the girls. Xun'er found Xiao Yan grieving for Xiao Meng and promised to help him face the Soul Hall.

• Cailin learned that nearly twenty years in the realm had amounted to only four years outside, then asked Amon to let Xiao Xiao and the others choose their own paths after her evolution was complete.
• Amon told Cailin that Xiao Yan had killed Xie Biyan and gave her the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame to deliver to him.
• Cailin left Jiu Bao with Amon and traveled through a spatial rift to find Xiao Yan.
• Amon released Xiao Xiao, Xiao Huo'er, and the other girls, who asked where Cailin had gone and worried she might abandon them.
• Xun'er found Xiao Yan grieving on a peak in the Tianxing Mountain Range and comforted him after he told her Xiao Meng had died protecting him.
• Xun'er promised Xiao Yan that they would face the Soul Hall and settle the debt for Xiao Meng's death together.

Yao Chen agreed to refine a top-tier Ninth-Grade Golden Pill using resources from the captured Heavenly Demon Phoenix and Taixu Ancient Dragon clans, then learned of Xiao Meng and Little Fairy Doctor’s deaths. Amon fused Spirit Worms with Yao Chen, raising his strength and soul realm as the Medicine Ceremony approached.

• Yao Chen was shocked to learn Xiao Zhan had taken control of the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Realm and the Four Great Dragon Islands to supply materials for the pill.
• Yao Chen agreed to undertake the refinement, then told Xiao Zhan about Little Fairy Doctor’s death and her importance to Xiao Yan.
• Yao Chen recounted Xiao Meng’s death during the rescue attempt, and Xiao Zhan became furious while Amon called her death a good thing.
• Amon explained that Xiao Meng had betrayed the Amon Clan, and Xiao Zhan told Yao Chen he had been unable to rescue her because of their alliance.
• Yao Chen asked to receive Spirit Worms before the Medicine Ceremony, and Amon fused more than ten of them with him.
• The Spirit Worms raised Yao Chen’s strength to seven-star Dou Sheng and his soul realm to Heaven Realm Great Perfection, and Xiao Zhan asked him to keep the secret.

Xun'er told Xiao Yan that Xiao Xuan had summoned a descendant to the Heavenly Tomb and invited him to her Coming of Age Ceremony, where he might face opposition from the Ancient Clan's younger generation. On Thunder Mountain, Xiao Qing revealed phoenix wings she had taken from the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan leader, leaving Feng Qing'er shaken before Xiao Qing departed on a collection errand.

• Xun'er told Xiao Yan that Xiao Xuan wanted a member of the Xiao Tribe to visit him in the Heavenly Tomb and asked Xiao Yan to attend her Coming of Age Ceremony.
• Xun'er warned Xiao Yan that people in the Ancient Clan might oppose their relationship and that the Four Commanders of the Black Nirvana Army matched his cultivation.
• Xiao Qing showed the Amethyst Winged Lion King her fiery red wings, and Thunder Venerable feared Feng Qing'er would recognize them.
• Feng Qing'er sensed the wings' powerful, familiar aura and asked Xiao Qing where they came from.
• Xiao Qing said she had taken the wings from the biggest bird she caught while Xiao Zhan and the others raided its nest, and Feng Qing'er realized they belonged to her clan leader.
• A voice summoned Xiao Qing to collect something for the clan leader, and Xiao Qing flew away with the Amethyst Winged Lion King.

Hun Xiao joined Hun Zhang and the Soul Clan’s young prodigies as they traveled to the Soul Hall to hand it over to the Xiao Tribe. Xiao Yu accepted the Soul Halls and their preserved contents in exchange for an Ancient Jade, completing the transfer.

• Hun Xiao agreed to join Hun Zhang, Hun Feng, Hun Yu, Hun Ya, and Hun Li on the trip to the Soul Hall.
• Hun Zhang led the Soul Clan delegation through the Space Wormhole, where Hun Miesheng and the Soul Hall’s senior fighters awaited them.
• Xiao Yu, Xiao Ning, and two other Xiao Tribe members arrived, startling Hun Zhang, Hun Feng, and Hun Yu with their strength.
• Hun Zhang flirted with Xiao Yu, but Xiao Ning intervened before the delegations turned to the handover.
• Xiao Yu reviewed the Soul Hall locations and accepted the preserved facilities and the souls of her clansmen in exchange for an Ancient Jade.

Hun Zhang challenged Xiao Yu and the Xiao Tribe’s younger generation to test their strength after the Soul Hall handover. Xiao Ning handed control of his body to a combat Spirit Worm to face Hun Zhang.

• Hun Miesheng gave Xiao Yu the Soul Hall Hall Master Token, and Hun Zhang proposed an exchange between the clans’ younger generations.
• Hun Zhang’s aura unsettled the Soul Hall members, then he left for the Void Ray with Xiao Yu, Xiao Mei, and Xiao Ning.
• Hun Zhang and Xiao Yu fought, and he gained the advantage despite her higher cultivation because her combat skills were poorly practiced.
• Hun Zhang invited Xiao Ning and Xiao Mei to attack him together, and Xiao Ning accepted.
• Xiao Ning used a hand seal to let a combat Spirit Worm take control of his body.

After the Xiao Tribe took control of the Soul Hall, Hun Zhang and Hun Miesheng reported their encounters to Hun Tiandi, who suspected Xiao Men was behind the tribe’s rise. The chapter ended with Hun Tiandi ordering the Soul Hall’s intelligence network rebuilt as Xiao Yu told Xiao Zhan that a woman had come looking for her “Xiao darling.”

• Hun Zhang and Hun Miesheng left the Soul Hall with the Soul Clan members and discussed how their young opponents had suddenly fought with extraordinary skill, leading Hun Zhang to suspect Xiao Men.
• Xiao Yu reported to Xiao Zhan that the Soul Hall handover was complete, its remaining Spatial Passages were intact, and captured Amons had joined Xiao Qing’s Spirit Worms voluntarily.
• Xiao Zhan explained that taking over the Soul Hall would reassure Hun Tiandi, repay a favor to the Amons, and disrupt the Soul Clan’s intelligence network.
• Xiao Yu told Xiao Zhan that a woman had arrived at the Soul Hall seeking her “Xiao darling.”
• Hun Zhang described the Xiao Tribe’s young experts and its rapid rise to Hun Tiandi, who also connected their unusual abilities to Xiao Men.
• Hun Tiandi ordered Hun Miesheng to rebuild the Soul Hall’s intelligence network, which Hun Miesheng estimated would take at least a month and about three months to fully restore.

Hun Tiandi and Void Devouring Flame prepared to target the Medicine Clan’s ceremony for Tuoshe Ancient God’s cultivation technique, while the Ancient Clan arranged protection for its alchemist. At Starfall Pavilion, Yao Chen invited Xiao Yan to attend the ceremony, and Xiao Yan eagerly agreed.

• Void Devouring Flame met Hun Tiandi and Hun Zhang, confirming he could consume the realms of the other Ancient Clans and hearing suspicions that the Xiao Tribe was connected to the disappearances of several clans.
• Hun Tiandi explained the Soul Clan’s alliance with the Xiao Tribe, and Void Devouring Flame asked about the Xiao Tribe’s recovered strength.
• Void Devouring Flame demanded to attend the Medicine Ceremony with the Four Demon Saints and seize Tuoshe Ancient God’s cultivation technique; Hun Tiandi agreed to keep Gu Yuan occupied.
• Gu Feng decided to represent the Ancient Clan at the ceremony, and King Hienie agreed to escort him.
• Yao Chen emerged from cultivation with increased power and invited Xiao Yan to attend the Medicine Ceremony; Xiao Yan accepted.

Yao Chen arrived at the Medicine Realm with Xiao Yan and Xun'er to take part in the Medicine Ceremony and settle old grievances with the Medicine Clan. When Yao Wangui insulted Yao Chen’s parents, Yao Chen attacked him, but an unknown figure intervened.

• Yao Chen brought Xiao Yan and Xun'er to the Shennong Mountain Range and entered the Medicine Realm using his invitation.
• A Medicine Clan guide took the three to the ceremony grounds, where Yao Chen recognized the familiar mountain and buildings.
• Yao Wangui mocked Yao Chen for returning, and Yao Chen said he had come to compete for the Clan Ancestral Tablet.
• Yao Wangui called Yao Chen’s parents trash, provoking Yao Chen to unleash his aura and demand an apology.
• Yao Chen struck Yao Wangui with a palm attack, but a figure appeared and blocked it.

Yao Dan intervened after Yao Chen threatened Yao Wangui, apologized for the insult, and invited Yao Chen to prove his alchemy at the Medicine Ceremony. Yao Chen, Xiao Yan, and Xun'er reached the summit of Medicine Mountain, where the gathering grew as they met representatives of the Ancient Clan.

• Yao Dan apologized to Yao Chen on Yao Wangui's behalf and offered him permission to honor his parents at the Clan Stele, but Yao Chen refused and said he would prove himself through alchemy.
• Yao Dan praised Xiao Yan's Heaven Realm soul, while Xiao Yan remembered that his strength came at the cost of Xiao Meng's life.
• Yao Chen explained that Xiao Yan could join the younger generation's warm-up display before the main Medicine Ceremony, and the three headed to Medicine Mountain's summit.
• Xun'er introduced Yao Chen and Xiao Yan to Gu Feng, the Ancient Clan's chief Alchemist, and Gu Lie, who had escorted him.
• Gu Feng and Yao Chen became engrossed in discussing alchemy as more guests arrived, including spectators from the Spirit Clan and Stone Clan.