Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan began refining a Fire Bodhi Pill to treat Tang Huo'er, impressing Burning Flame Valley with his speed and control. He used Yao Lao’s Spirit Ascension Technique to raise the pill from seventh grade to eighth tier, summoning three-colored pill lightning.

• Xiao Yan identified Tang Huo'er's condition and said a Fire Bodhi Pill would cure it, while Tang Zhen provided the ingredients.
• Xiao Yan began refining the pill in the hall, controlling all 888 ingredients with his soul power and tossing them into the Black Demon Cauldron together.
• Xiao Yan quickly melted the ingredients and condensed the Fire Bodhi Pill, drawing dark clouds and lightning above the hall.
• Xiao Yan used the Spirit Ascension Technique and a blood sacrifice to improve the completed pill's quality.
• The Fire Bodhi Pill ascended to eighth tier, and three-colored pill lightning appeared in the clouds, shocking everyone in the hall.

Xiao Yan refined an eighth-tier Fire Bodhi Pill for Tang Huo'er, whose strength and feelings for him grew. After he left the Burning Flame Valley, Tang Huo'er resolved to enter the perilous Burning Flame Trial to become stronger.

• Xiao Yan completed the Fire Bodhi Pill, absorbed and shattered its pill lightning, then gave the pill to Tang Huo'er.
• Tang Huo'er absorbed the pill and advanced from five-star Dou Zong to peak seven-star Dou Zong, thanking Xiao Yan for saving her life.
• Xiao Yan and his companions stayed as honored guests in the Burning Flame Valley for two and a half months before departing.
• Old Ancestor Huoyun revealed that Gu Xun'er came from the Gu Clan and tried to reassure Tang Huo'er that Xiao Yan's group was safe.
• Tang Huo'er decided to enter the Burning Flame Trial despite Old Ancestor Huoyun warning that failure meant death.

Xiao Yan traveled to the Beast Region with Zi Yan and his companions, hoping to find her clan and ancient ruins. In the Skeleton Mountain Range, he uncovered and opened the ruins of a Dou Sheng, then led the others inside.

• Xiao Yan and his companions crossed three Spatial Passages to reach the Beast Region, and he asked Zi Yan to watch for bloodline fluctuations that might lead her to her clansmen.
• Xiao Yan searched the Skeleton Mountain Range for the ancient ruins and found a hidden basin beneath a primeval forest.
• Xiao Yan struck the Space Seal with his Heaven-Splitting Giant Hand, but it only cracked.
• Xiao Yan unleashed the Heavenly Flame Ancient Finger, shattering the damaged Space Seal and causing a vast bone-filled basin and palace to rise from the earth.
• Xiao Yan recognized the palace as a Dou Sheng's ruins and vanished inside, inviting his companions to follow.

Xiao Yan and his companions explored the Dou Sheng ruins, claimed its puppets and medicinal treasures, and followed Zi Yan’s instincts to a hidden chamber. They found the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit on an altar, leaving its fate unresolved.

• Xiao Yan led the women through a lava trap, seized control of ten Earth Demon Puppets, and sent Xiao Xun'er and Xiao Yi Xian to search separate passages.
• Xiao Yan, Zi Yan, and Nalan Yanran entered an ancient forest of medicinal herbs and gathered its treasures, including the Soul Infant Fruit.
• Zi Yan sensed something valuable and guided Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran to a golden barrier that opened when she offered her blood.
• Xiao Yan brought Zi Yan and Nalan Yanran to an altar on a hidden plain, where they found the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit.

Xiao Yan and his companions plundered the ancient ruin, where Zi Yan absorbed the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and the group claimed a Dou Sheng’s remains and treasures. They emerged to find experts from various factions waiting outside, and Xiao Yan eyed the gathered crowd as potential enemies.

• Zi Yan absorbed the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit into a mark on her palm, though its energy was too powerful for her to digest.
• Xiao Yan and his companions spent days collecting the ancient forest’s medicinal ingredients and stripping the ruin’s side halls, and Xiao Yan gave an intelligent Pill Beast to Xiao Yi Xian.
• In the main hall, Xiao Yan shattered a Dou Sheng’s remains before they could attack, while Zi Yan collected bones containing Dou Sheng marrow and Xiao Xun'er gathered ten clusters of light.
• Xiao Yan erased the soul imprints from the puppets and said his soul power was close to breaking through to the Heaven Realm before the group left the ruin.
• Experts from various factions gathered outside the ruin, and Xiao Yan emerged with his companions to face their hostile attention.

Xiao Yan baited the gathered experts into attacking him over the supposed treasures from the ruins, then revealed his overwhelming strength and began slaughtering them. As the battle raged, he killed a Heavenly Underworld Sect Dou Zun and took the threat against him as a reason to remember the sect.

• Qiu Di and experts from several factions demanded to inspect Xiao Yan's group's Storage Rings, but Xiao Yan claimed the treasures were all in his own ring and challenged them to take it.
• Greedy experts attacked Xiao Yan's group, and Xiao Yan protected Xiao Xun'er, Nalan Yanran, and Zi Yan with a flame barrier before summoning more than a dozen Dou Zun Puppets.
• Major-power experts joined the assault, leaving Xiao Yi Xian to fight five Dou Zuns while more than twenty surrounded Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan used the Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations and his Clan Mark to raise his strength, then blocked the attackers' combined assault with a flame canopy.
• Xiao Yan began killing the Dou Zuns one by one, and after a Heavenly Underworld Sect Dou Zun threatened him, Xiao Yan killed him and said he would remember the sect.

Xiao Yan wiped out the attackers and met Hei Qing’s Ancient Void Dragon Clan party, who recognized Zi Yan’s extraordinary bloodline and brought her and her companions to East Dragon Island. Elder Qi You sensed Zi Yan’s power and ordered the group to see the Third Elder while keeping the discovery secret.

• Xiao Yan killed the Eighth and Ninth Heavenly Venerates of the Hall of Souls and the other attackers, while Xiao Yi Xian finished her battle.
• Hei Qing and the Ancient Void Dragon Clan experts emerged from hiding, and Zi Yan sensed that they were her clansmen.
• Hei Qing suspected Zi Yan was connected to the Old Dragon Emperor and invited Xiao Yan and the others to East Dragon Island to protect her.
• Hei Qing led Xiao Yan, Zi Yan, and the others through a void passage to East Dragon Island.
• Qi You sensed Zi Yan’s immense Dragon Emperor bloodline and ordered everyone to meet the Third Elder while sealing off information about her arrival.

Xiao Yan brought Zi Yan to East Dragon Island, where Zhu Li and the others recognized her as the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s princess and learned she possessed the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit. After preparing the clan’s secret technique and materials, Zhu Li and Qi You began helping Zi Yan refine the fruit.

• Qi You introduced Xiao Yan and his companions to Zhu Li, and Xiao Yan revealed that he was a descendant of the Xiao Clan.
• Zhu Li tested Zi Yan’s blood, recognized her as the princess, and confirmed that her father had been the missing Dragon Emperor.
• Xiao Yan comforted Zi Yan about her missing father, while Zhu Li and the others hoped to secure Xiao Yan’s support for Ancient Dragon Island.
• Zhu Li and Qi You identified Zi Yan’s Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and explained that their secret technique could help her refine it.
• After Hei Qing gathered the required materials, Zhu Li and Qi You placed Zi Yan in a formation and told her to refine the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit.

Xiao Yan stopped Black Fang from warning the other Dragon Kings and proposed using the traitor to lure out his contact. When Zi Yan began crystallizing under the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit’s energy, Xiao Yan used his Heavenly Flame to melt the crystals and help her absorb the energy safely.

• Xiao Yan captured Black Fang after stopping him from sending a Soul Message outside.
• Zhu Li asked Xiao Yan to kill Black Fang, but Xiao Yan suggested keeping him as bait to lure out the person behind him.
• Zi Yan began crystallizing as her body struggled to absorb the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit’s energy, and Zhu Li warned she could be sealed inside.
• Xiao Yan used the Beast King Lotus Heart Flame to melt the crystals and return their energy to Zi Yan’s body.
• Xiao Yan said Zi Yan would need three to five months to refine the fruit’s energy and told Xiao Xun'er and the other two women to attend to their own affairs.

After refining the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, Zi Yan became the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s new Dragon Emperor and reached early five-star Dou Sheng. Xiao Yan and the others watched her ascend to power, while Nalan Yanran continued to lag behind in cultivation despite strengthening her physique.

• News of Xiao Yan’s slaughter at the Ancient Ruins spread, prompting rumors that he came from the Yan Clan or the Pill Tower.
• Zi Yan’s aura surged as she completed her refinement of the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, and she revealed that she had reached early five-star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yan draped a robe over Zi Yan, learned that the fruit’s energy would raise her strength to seven-star Dou Sheng within ten years, and agreed to rely on her protection.
• Three days later, the Ancient Void Dragons and their First Elder and Second Elder recognized Zi Yan as their Dragon Emperor.
• Nalan Yanran said Zi Yan had advanced in a single step, while Xiao Yan noted that Nalan Yanran’s fourth refinement had transformed her physique despite her slower cultivation.

Zi Yan and the elders lured the North Dragon King to East Dragon Island with a false report about the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, then trapped his forces with a space-sealing formation. As the North Dragon King realized the trap, Zi Yan moved to attack, revealing a power that left him overwhelmed.

• Zi Yan approved Xiao Yan's plan to lure the North Dragon King to East Dragon Island, and Zhu Li arranged for Black Fang to send him a misleading message.
• The North Dragon King believed the report about Zi Yan and the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, then marched to East Dragon Island without inviting the other kings.
• Zi Yan prepared for his arrival with the elders, Xiao Yan, and his companions, while Xiao Yan told Yao Lao that the North Dragon King's corpse could be used to rebuild his body.
• The elders activated a formation that sealed space as the North Dragon King and his forces entered East Dragon Island, and he realized they had been trapped.
• The North Dragon King sensed Zi Yan's overwhelming bloodline pressure, and Zi Yan vanished from her throne and declared, "Traitor, die!"

Zi Yan killed the North Dragon King, forced North Dragon Island to surrender, and ordered the West and South Dragon Kings to submit as well. Xiao Yan prepared to resurrect Yao Lao with a refined pill and the North Dragon King’s body, then began the process.

• Zi Yan killed the North Dragon King with a single sword strike and declared herself the new Dragon Emperor.
• North Dragon Island’s elites, including its First and Second Elders, surrendered to Zi Yan and agreed to hand over their accumulated treasures.
• Zi Yan ordered Zhu Li to summon the West and South Dragon Kings to confess their crimes within seven days, or face death.
• The West and South Dragon Kings learned of the North Dragon King’s death and traveled to Ancient Dragon Island to plead guilty.
• Xiao Yan refined a Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill with nine-colored pill lightning and prepared the North Dragon King’s body to make a new body for Yao Lao.
• Xiao Yan began melting the North Dragon King’s body with the Beast King Lotus Heart Flame and called for Yao Lao to act.

Xiao Yan resurrected Yao Lao in the North Dragon King's body, and Yao Lao emerged as a late Two-Star Dou Saint. After welcoming visitors and seeing the Ancient Void Dragon Clan strengthened by Zhu Huo's return, Xiao Yan traveled to the Void Lightning Pool to cultivate the Ancient Saint Body Tempering Art.

• Xiao Yan used the Beast King Lotus Heart Flame to temper the North Dragon King's body while Yao Lao's soul merged with it, then destroyed the North Dragon King's lingering consciousness and fed Yao Lao a Soul Infant Pill.
• Yao Lao completed his resurrection, thanked Xiao Yan, and revealed that he had reached the late Two-Star Dou Saint stage.
• Xiao Xun'er and the other women visited to congratulate Yao Lao, while Zhu Huo returned to Ancient Dragon Island as an Early Six-Star Dou Saint.
• Xiao Yan asked Zhu Li where the Void Lightning Pool was and traveled there alone.
• Xiao Yan endured the pool's lightning with his body and began cultivating the Ancient Saint Body Tempering Art.

Xiao Yan tempered his body with black demon lightning in the Void Lightning Pool, rapidly advancing his strength before returning to Ancient Dragon Island for more pills. There, he reunited with Zi Yan and recruited Yao Lao to help him refine pills, while both master and disciple astonished the Ancient Void Dragon Clan with their speed.

• Xiao Yan entered the depths of the Void Lightning Pool and endured repeated strikes from black demon lightning, using pills to heal as his body and cultivation grew stronger.
• After another half year, Xiao Yan reached the 9,600th stage of Dou Qi and gained a body comparable to an ordinary One-Star Dou Sheng, but nearly ran out of Energy-Gathering Pills.
• Xiao Yan returned to Ancient Dragon Island and discovered that Zhu Huo had reunited the Four Great Dragon Islands and brought back several powerful elders.
• Xiao Yan reunited with Zi Yan, whose strength had reached Late Five-Star Dou Sheng, then learned that Xiao Xun'er and the other two women were in seclusion.
• Xiao Yan asked Yao Lao to refine pills, and the two of them produced enough pill lightning to appear above the palace several times each day.

Xiao Yan refined a ninth-grade Energy-Gathering Pill on Ancient Dragon Island, drawing the attention of the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s Dou Sheng elders. He successfully endured the pill’s black demon lightning and emerged as the Dou Qi Continent’s youngest Ninth-Rank Alchemist.

• Xiao Yan began refining a ninth-grade Energy-Gathering Pill in the Myriad Beast Cauldron, and dark thunderclouds gathered over Ancient Dragon Island as the pill took shape.
• Xiao Yan used the Condensed Object Pill-Nurturing Method to draw in natural energy while Yao Lao and Zhu Huo watched with the Ancient Void Dragon elders.
• Xiao Yan formed the pill and shielded it from black demon lightning by taking the strike himself, using the lightning to temper his body with the Ancient Saint Body Tempering Art.
• Xiao Yan endured the lightning storm, seized the newly formed Pill Beast, and returned it to pill form.
• Xiao Yan completed the ninth-grade pill and became the youngest Ninth-Rank Alchemist on the Dou Qi Continent.

After refining a ninth-grade Energy-Gathering Pill, Xiao Yan entered seclusion on Ancient Dragon Island and used it to break through to ten thousand stages of Dou Qi. The breakthrough brought a divine ability, Divine Fire Heaven-Burning Seal, while the island’s inhabitants wondered about his extraordinary origins.

• Yao Lao congratulated Xiao Yan on refining a ninth-grade pill and reminded him that the Pill Gathering would take place in a little over a year, with the Three Thousand Burning Flame as its prize.
• Xiao Yan entered seclusion the day after refining the ninth-grade Energy-Gathering Pill and swallowed it to cultivate with the Flame Mantra.
• Over half a month, Xiao Yan’s aura grew so powerful that Ancient Void Dragon elders speculated he was nearing Dou Sheng and praised his talent.
• Crimson radiance and a majestic phantom appeared above Xiao Yan’s hall, prompting the inhabitants of Ancient Dragon Island to wonder whether it was a Dou Di incarnation and Yao Lao to suspect Xiao Yan was a reincarnated Dou Di.
• Xiao Yan opened his eyes after reaching ten thousand stages of Dou Qi and gained the Red Emperor’s great divine ability, Divine Fire Heaven-Burning Seal.

Xiao Yan tested his newly awakened powers, reunited with his companions, and traveled with them to Sacred Pill City for the approaching Pill Gathering. As he arrived at the Pill Tower Testing Site to certify his alchemist rank, he unexpectedly met Ye Xinlan and Han Yue.

• Xiao Yan discovered that the Divine Fire Heaven-Burning Seal was tied to his inherited memories and demonstrated his extraordinary healing ability.
• Xiao Yan reunited with Yao Lao and the women, learned how much they had improved, and spent time with them on Ancient Dragon Island.
• Xiao Yan's party left Ancient Dragon Island with Zi Yan and reached Sacred Pill City, where Yao Lao recalled winning the Pill Gathering there.
• Xiao Yan decided to certify his alchemist rank at the Pill Tower Testing Site so he could enter the Pill Gathering.
• Ye Xinlan and Han Yue recognized Xiao Yan outside the testing site.

Xiao Yan and his companions met Yao Ling, a prodigious Yao Clan alchemist who planned to enter the Pill Gathering and help the Ye family. At the Pill Tower assessment facility, Elder Han Li recognized Yao Lao as the long-missing Venerable Yao, and learned that Xiao Yan would compete in the gathering.

• Zi Yan reunited with Han Yue, and Han Yue greeted Xiao Xun'er.
• Ye Xinlan introduced Yao Ling to Xiao Yan, who realized she was a Yao Clan prodigy and a likely Pill Gathering rival.
• Yao Ling explained that she had come to the Pill Tower to qualify for the Pill Gathering and earn a chance to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Ye Xinlan led Xiao Yan and the others to a reserved assessment room, where Elder Han Li recognized Yao Lao as Venerable Yao.
• Yao Lao told Han Li that Xiao Yan, his disciple, would enter the Pill Gathering and needed an alchemist rank badge.

Xiao Yan and Yao Ling certified their alchemist ranks, impressing Han Li with their abilities. Han Li reported Yao Chen’s return to the Pill Tower’s Three Giants, and Xuan Yi immediately went to find him.

• Yao Ling chose to take the Rank 7 Intermediate Alchemist examination first and completed it in about twenty minutes, earning Han Li’s praise.
• Xiao Yan passed the same certification in five minutes, astonishing Han Li and intensifying Yao Ling’s desire to compete with him at the Pill Gathering.
• Xiao Yan declined Ye Xinlan’s offer to arrange lodging, and he and his companions departed with Yao Lao.
• Han Li hurried to the Pill Tower’s central hall and told Xuan Yi, Xuan Kongzi, and Tian Leizi that Yao Chen was alive and Xiao Yan had passed certification in five minutes.
• Xuan Yi vanished to find Yao Chen, while Xuan Kongzi and Tian Leizi thanked Han Li for bringing them the news.

Xiao Yan took the women sightseeing in Sacred Pill City, then led them to the Alchemist Trade Fair, where Zi Yan found a brass fragment she wanted. Yan Fei offered it to her for a sixth-grade pill, but another buyer interrupted with a higher bid.

• Xiao Yan left Yao Lao and Xuan Yi alone and took Xiao Xun'er, Xiao Yi Xian, Zi Yan, and Nalan Yanran shopping around Sacred Pill City.
• Xiao Yan learned about the Alchemist Trade Fair and brought the women there, pinning on his seventh-rank alchemist badge.
• Zi Yan used her treasure-sensing gift to lead the group through the trade fair and find several valuable items.
• Yan Fei noticed Xiao Yan's group and treated them deferentially after sensing the women's formidable strength.
• Zi Yan chose an unremarkable brass fragment, and Yan Fei offered it to her for a sixth-grade pill.
• An unexpected buyer offered a seventh-grade pill for the brass fragment, irritating Yan Fei.