Chapter Summaries

After advancing to seven-turn Dou Zun, Xiao Yan organized a strike against the Heavenly Underworld Sect, wary that a Demon Saint might be hiding there. The allied factions found the sect’s headquarters and Lower Three Sects emptied of blood essence, and Xiao Yan suspected the Heavenly Underworld Old Demon was using it to break through to Dou Sheng.

• Xiao Yan absorbed the Ninefold Separation Divine Flame Pill and advanced three turns to seven-turn Dou Zun, impressing the Starfall Pavilion members and allied envoys.
• Xiao Yan announced that the factions would eradicate the Heavenly Underworld Sect in three days and asked Old Ancestor Huoyun and the Little Pill Tower's Great Elder to watch for a hidden Demon Saint.
• Xiao Yan assigned the Flower Sect, Sound Valley, and Burning Flame Valley to contain the Heavenly Underworld Sect's Lower Three Sects, promising extra Dou Zun support for Burning Flame Valley.
• The allied factions reached the Lower Three Sects and found their members drained of blood essence, then went together to investigate the Heavenly Underworld Sect's headquarters.
• Xiao Yan found the headquarters equally bloodless and discovered that the Heavenly Underworld Old Demon's corpse was missing, leading him to suspect the demon was using the stolen blood essence to break through to Dou Sheng.

Xiao Yan confronted the Heavenly Underworld Old Demon, who had used the blood essence and souls of tens of thousands of experts to awaken his master. Xiao Yan forced the Old Demon into battle and temporarily advanced to Half-Saint with a secret art, ending the chapter as he struck with his Heavenly Flames Eternal Ruler.

• Xiao Yan realized the blood essence was too impure to fuel a breakthrough and called the Heavenly Underworld Old Demon out of the sect headquarters.
• The Heavenly Underworld Old Demon sacrificed the blood essence and souls of tens of thousands of experts at an altar to awaken his master, then left to delay Xiao Yan and the other experts.
• The Heavenly Underworld Old Demon emerged to face Xiao Yan, and their first clash sent both of them staggering back.
• Xiao Yan accused the Old Demon of colluding with the Extraterrestrial Evil Race and accepted his challenge to fight alone.
• Xiao Yan used the Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations and a mysterious rune to reach Half-Saint, then attacked with his Heavenly Flames Eternal Ruler.

Xiao Yan overwhelmed the Heavenly Underworld Old Demon with ruler attacks and multiple Five-Colored Fire Lotuses, leaving him badly injured. As Xiao Yan pressed the attack, the old demon summoned his master with his remaining essence blood, unleashing a massive blood-energy tentacle from beneath the sect.

• The Heavenly Underworld Old Demon summoned a blood sea, forged the Heavenly Nether Asura Armor, and used the Heavenly Nether Asura Hand to oppose Xiao Yan's flaming ruler beam, but the beam cut through his defenses.
• Xiao Yan unleashed more than a dozen Flame Splitting Wave Ruler attacks, wearing down the old demon's dou qi and wounding his hands.
• Xiao Yan used a Five-Colored Fire Lotus as a smokescreen, then appeared behind the old demon and launched two more, whose explosions severely injured him and devastated the Heavenly Underworld Sect's headquarters.
• Xiao Yan caught the retreating old demon and struck until a ruler beam shattered his damaged armor and cut deeply into his body.
• The Heavenly Underworld Old Demon declared that he would take Xiao Yan and the watching experts down with him, then summoned his master with his remaining essence blood, causing a huge blood-energy tentacle to erupt from the ground.

Xiao Yan and the experts trapped at the Heavenly Underworld Sect faced the Blood Demon Underworld King, a monster whose power rivaled a five-star Dou Sheng. While Old Ancestor Huoyun and the Little Pill Tower's grand elder held it off, Xiao Yan created a Seven-Colored Fire Lotus and launched it at the monster.

• A blood-red tentacle drained the Heavenly Underworld Old Demon, and Xiao Yan warned everyone to flee as a powerful Demon Saint emerged beneath the Heavenly Underworld Sect.
• The Blood Demon Underworld King revealed himself, sealed the surrounding space, and declared that Xiao Yan and the other experts would become his blood food.
• Old Ancestor Huoyun and the Little Pill Tower's grand elder fought to hold off the monster while Xiao Yan asked them to buy him fifteen minutes.
• Xiao Yan swallowed Yao Lao's Heavenly Soul Pill and combined seven heavenly flames to form a Seven-Colored Fire Lotus, exhausting his soul power and dou qi.
• As Old Ancestor Huoyun neared his limit, Xiao Yan told the two Dou Sheng to move back and hurled the Seven-Colored Fire Lotus at the Blood Demon Underworld King.

Xiao Yan’s Seven-Colored Fire Lotus devastated the Heavenly Underworld Sect’s headquarters but left him unconscious with damage to his soul. The Blood Demon Underworld King survived and cornered the fleeing experts, until Blood Axe Xiao Chen appeared and immobilized him.

• Xiao Yan unleashed the Seven-Colored Fire Lotus, destroying the Heavenly Underworld Sect’s headquarters and forcing the experts to flee with him unconscious.
• Yao Lao warned that Xiao Yan’s soul had been damaged, while the Little Pill Tower’s Great Elder called for the continent’s strongest experts to intervene.
• The grievously wounded Blood Demon Underworld King emerged from the flames and pursued the fleeing group, threatening to kill them all.
• Old Ancestor Huoyun prepared to use a deadly Burning Flame Valley secret art to hold off the enemy while the Little Pill Tower’s Great Elder escaped with the others.
• An unknown man carrying a blood-colored battle axe appeared, immobilized the Blood Demon Underworld King and Old Ancestor Huoyun, and was identified as Blood Axe Xiao Chen.

Xiao Chen effortlessly killed the Blood Demon Underworld King but refused to directly help the unconscious Xiao Yan, whose soul was deteriorating. The Little Pill Tower Ancestor arrived and began treating Xiao Yan with his blood.

• Old Ancestor Huoyun recognized Xiao Chen, and the Blood Demon Underworld King tried to flee.
• Xiao Chen trapped and repeatedly crushed the Blood Demon Underworld King until he annihilated him.
• Xiao Chen refused to heal Xiao Yan, explaining that Xiao Yan was undergoing trials, but named the Pill Tower Ancestor's blood and Yao Ling as possible remedies.
• The Little Pill Tower's Great Elder agreed to ask the Ancestor to save Xiao Yan, while Yao Lao said he would seek help from Yao Ling if needed.
• As Xiao Yan's soul continued to worsen, the Pill Tower Ancestor arrived and fed him his blood to begin healing him.

After the Pill Tower Ancestor gave Xiao Yan three drops of essence blood, Xiao Yan recovered and refined their energy while healing his soul. He reached Spirit Realm Grand Perfection and broke through to nine-revolution Dou Zun.

• The Pill Tower Ancestor reluctantly gave Xiao Yan three drops of essence blood after Xiao Chen threatened him and persuaded him with the prospect of becoming an Emperor Grade Pill.
• Xiao Yan’s heavenly flames contained the essence blood’s energy as he gradually awakened and began healing his soul.
• Xiao Yan woke in the Little Pill Tower, thanked the Pill Tower Ancestor, and promised to repay him before resuming his cultivation.
• Over the following weeks, Xiao Yan healed his soul and advanced from seven-revolution to eight-revolution Dou Zun while refining the essence blood.
• When the essence blood’s energy ran out, Xiao Yan reached Spirit Realm Grand Perfection, drew in and refined energy from the surrounding thousand li, and broke through to nine-revolution Dou Zun a month later.

Xiao Yan broke through to Nine Revolutions Dou Zun but failed to reach the heavenly realm, then decided to head to the Yao Clan for a Nine Revolutions Half-Saint Pill and pursue Half-Saint. He promised to settle Yao Lao’s old grievances once he became a Dou Sheng, while Xiao Xuan watched from the Xiao Clan and marveled at Xiao Yan’s strength.

• Xiao Yan broke through to Nine Revolutions Dou Zun and repeatedly tried, but failed, to reach the heavenly realm with his soul.
• Yao Lao reassured Xiao Yan that he had already touched the heavenly-realm barrier, and Xiao Yan said he planned to seek the Nine Revolutions Half-Saint Pill from the Yao Clan.
• Xiao Yan told Yao Lao he knew about his conflict with the Yao Clan and promised to get justice for him after becoming a Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yan left at once for the Yao Clan, leaving Yao Lao moved by his disciple’s loyalty.
• Xiao Xuan sensed Xiao Yan’s strength from the Xiao Clan and remarked that he could already kill Half-Saints.

Xiao Xuan arranged for Xiao Yan to seek the Bodhi Ancient Tree after his visit to the Yao Clan, where he was expected to reach Half-Saint and face a dangerous tribulation. Meanwhile, the Flame Alliance celebrated Xiao Yan’s victory, and Cai Lin spoke lovingly to their unborn child as Xiao Yan arrived at the Yao Clan.

• Xiao Xuan learned that Xiao Yan had reached the ninth revolution of Dou Zun and told Xiao Chen to take him to the Barbaric Ancient Region after he became a Half-Saint.
• Xiao Xuan ordered the Heavenly Derivation Sect Master to awaken the Bodhi Ancient Tree elder in three months, and the sect master was stunned by Xiao Yan’s rapid progress.
• Yan Shenzi told Bai Nian that Xiao Yan was nearing Half-Saint, leaving Bai Nian devastated by the comparison.
• News that Xiao Yan had slain the Heavenly Underworld Old Demon spread through the Southwest Continent, and the Flame Alliance celebrated its leader.
• Cai Lin stroked her swollen belly and told her unborn child that Xiao Yan was amazing as Xiao Yan arrived at the Yao Clan’s Myriad Medicine Mountain Range.

Xiao Yan entered the Yao Clan to seek a Nine Revolutions Half-Saint Pill and reunited with his grandfather, Yao Ji, who brought him into the Medicine Realm. Yao Ji led him to Yao Ling’s palace, where she appeared and froze at the sight of him.

• Two Yao Clan elders recognized Xiao Yan as the Xiao Clan Emperor’s Son and summoned Yao Ji to greet him.
• Yao Ji joyfully welcomed his grandson and guessed that he had come to see Yao Ling.
• Xiao Yan asked to borrow a Nine Revolutions Half-Saint Pill, and Yao Ji agreed to seek the clan chief’s approval.
• Yao Ji brought Xiao Yan through the Medicine Realm to Yao Ling’s palace and called her out before leaving to request the pill.
• Yao Ling came out annoyed at the interruption, then froze when she saw Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan reunited with Yao Ling at the Yao Clan and rekindled their intimacy, while Yao Tian arrived and found them together. In a council meeting, the Yao Clan elders unanimously approved giving Xiao Yan a Nine Revolutions Half-Saint Pill as part of Yao Ling’s dowry.

• Xiao Yan greeted Yao Ling after four years and embraced and kissed her despite her initial protests.
• Yao Tian arrived at Yao Ling’s residence, interrupted them, and reacted with irritation when Xiao Yan called him brother-in-law.
• Yao Dan proposed that the Yao Clan give Xiao Yan a Nine Revolutions Half-Saint Pill as Yao Ling’s dowry.
• Yao Wangui hesitated because of his past conflict with Yao Chen, but Yao Dan warned him that opposing the proposal would offend Xiao Yan.
• Yao Wangui and the other elders approved the proposal, making the decision unanimous.

Xiao Yan reunited with Yao Ling after four years and persuaded her to spend the night with him. The chapter ended with the pair alone in Yao Ling’s palace.

• Xiao Yan saw off a drunken Yao Tian after promising to support him in competing for the Yao Clan Chief’s position once Xiao Yan became a Saint.
• Xiao Yan teased Yao Ling about their past and drew her into his arms.
• Xiao Yan summoned the Yin-Yang Saint Flame, stirring Yao Ling’s desire.
• Xiao Yan carried Yao Ling into the bedroom, and they reunited in private.

Xiao Yan told Yao Ling about the life-or-death calamity awaiting him and received the Yao Clan’s Nine Revolutions Half-Saint Pill as part of her future dowry. He swallowed the pill and began refining its immense energy, with Yao Ling staying beside him as he entered prolonged cultivation.

• Xiao Yan told Yao Ling that a calamity would erupt in two years and that he would face another when he broke through to Dou Sheng, which he had to overcome without the Xiao Clan’s help.
• Yao Ji presented Xiao Yan with the Nine Revolutions Half-Saint Pill, explaining that the Yao Clan had unanimously agreed to give it as part of Yao Ling’s future dowry.
• Xiao Yan burned away the jade box’s seals, captured the pill after it transformed into an azure dragon, and compressed it back into pill form.
• Xiao Yan swallowed the Nine Revolutions Half-Saint Pill and began refining its immense energy with his heavenly flames.
• After three days, Yao Ji formed a barrier around Xiao Yan as he continued cultivating, while Yao Ling chose to remain by his side.

After months of absorbing the Nine Revolutions Half-Saint Pill, Xiao Yan broke through to Half-Saint, astonishing the Yao Clan. As he celebrated his new strength, the Medicine Realm’s Emperor Formation began to stir and a gigantic phantom appeared.

• News spread that the Bodhi Ancient Tree had appeared in the Barbaric Ancient Region, drawing the Central Plains’ experts with its legendary treasures.
• Xiao Yan remained in meditation for months as the Nine Revolutions Half-Saint Pill’s energy gathered within him.
• Xiao Yan’s breakthrough unleashed a pillar of light and pressure across the Medicine Realm, prompting the Yao Clan to realize he had become a Half-Saint.
• Yao Dan, Yao Tian, and the Yao Clan Elders recognized that Xiao Yan’s strength surpassed their expectations.
• Xiao Yan opened his eyes, tested his new power, and greeted Yao Ling as Yao Ji praised him.
• The Medicine Realm trembled, and an enormous phantom appeared as the Emperor Formation’s fluctuations spread.

The Medicine Emperor’s remnant soul appeared before the Yao Clan and praised Xiao Yan, then gifted him the Heavenly Flame Cauldron. The clan’s leaders were left bitter over their Ancestor’s favor toward an outsider, while Xiao Yan discovered the cauldron held a torrent of information.

• The Medicine Emperor’s remnant soul appeared in the Medicine Realm, forced the Yao Clan to kneel, and lamented how far the clan had declined.
• The Medicine Emperor looked toward Xiao Yan, praised him, and identified him as a successor with the potential to become an Emperor-Grade Alchemist.
• The Medicine Emperor summoned the Heavenly Flame Cauldron and gave it to Xiao Yan as a gift, urging him to contribute to the Dou Qi Continent.
• After the Medicine Emperor vanished, Yao Ji celebrated Xiao Yan’s talent and Yao Ling watched him with pride and emotion.
• Xiao Yan recognized the cauldron as a high-grade saint relic and touched it with his soul power, triggering a torrent of information.

Xiao Yan received the Medicine Emperor’s alchemy inheritance through the Heavenly Flame Cauldron, witnessing the Medicine Emperor’s rise from a young pill refiner to a master capable of refining an Emperor Grade Pill. As the inheritance reached its final stage, a fiery-haired figure appeared beside the Medicine Emperor, startling Xiao Yan.

• Xiao Yan endured the flood of memories and began absorbing the Medicine Emperor’s insights into alchemy from the Heavenly Flame Cauldron.
• Yao Ji and Yao Ling realized Xiao Yan had activated the inheritance, and Yao Tian arrived, congratulated him on reaching Half-Saint, then lamented that Xiao Yan had received the Ancestor’s inheritance.
• Xiao Yan witnessed the Medicine Emperor progress from refining first-grade pills to ninth-grade pills, gaining recipes and extensive alchemical insights.
• The Medicine Emperor used heaven and earth as his furnace to refine an Emperor Grade Pill, and Xiao Yan recognized the origin qi entering the embryonic pill.
• A fiery-haired figure appeared beside the Medicine Emperor just as the Emperor Grade Pill’s refinement neared completion, and Xiao Yan was shocked by the sight.

Xiao Yan witnessed the Medicine Emperor willingly leave before completing an Emperor Grade Pill, then inherited his pill-refining insights and restored lost formulas to the Yao Clan. After spending time with Yao Ling, Xiao Yan prepared to leave for the Gu Clan to see his betrothed before his coming tribulation.

• Xiao Yan saw a memory of Tou She Ancient God arriving as the Medicine Emperor refined an Emperor Grade Pill; the Medicine Emperor abandoned the pill and left with him to face the Extraterrestrial Evil Race.
• Xiao Yan received the Medicine Emperor's alchemy insights and remained in enlightenment for another month while Yao Ling and Yao Ji watched over him.
• After awakening, Xiao Yan promised Yao Ji he would eventually return the alchemical knowledge to the Yao Clan and imprinted many ninth-grade pill formulas onto jade slips.
• Xiao Yan gave the jade slips to Yao Tian, restoring formulas the Yao Clan had lost and earning Yao Tian's renewed affection and the clan elders' approval.
• Xiao Yan told Yao Ling he would leave for the Gu Clan to see his betrothed before his great tribulation, and warned her that their next meeting might come after he became a saint or at his grave.

After leaving the Yao Clan, Xiao Yan learned from Ancestor Xiao Chen that the Bodhi Ancient Tree was his final trial before facing the Demon Emperor's Source. He reached the Gu Clan and confronted Ling Quan, announcing himself as Xiao Yan of the Xiao Clan.

• Yao Ling kissed Xiao Yan the night before his departure, and he promised to return for her.
• Xiao Yan said farewell to Yao Ling and the Yao Clan before leaving the Medicine Realm.
• Ancestor Xiao Chen revealed that he had secretly followed Xiao Yan and that Xiao Xuan had arranged for the Bodhi Ancient Tree to emerge as Xiao Yan's final trial.
• Xiao Yan traveled to Ancient Saint City, the Gu Clan's stronghold, and encountered Ling Quan and the Black Annihilation Army.
• Xiao Yan released his Half-Saint aura, forced Ling Quan's squad to the ground, and identified himself as Xiao Yan of the Xiao Clan.

Xiao Yan arrived at the Gu Clan to see his fiancée, Gu Xun'er, and Gu Zhen escorted him into the Ancient Realm while notifying the clan’s leaders. Ling Quan alerted Gu Yao and the other Black Annihilation Army commanders that Xiao Yan had come for Xun'er.

• Ling Quan recognized Xiao Yan and was pinned down by his overwhelming pressure until Gu Zhen arrived and asked his purpose.
• Xiao Yan identified himself and said he had come to see his fiancée, Gu Xun'er.
• Gu Zhen invited Xiao Yan into the Gu Clan and led him through the gateway into the Ancient Realm.
• Gu Zhen settled Xiao Yan at the guest quarters and left to inform the clan’s higher-ups.
• Ling Quan returned to the Black Annihilation Army camp and told Gu Yao and the other commanders that Xiao Yan had come for Xun'er.

After Xiao Yan arrived in the Gu Clan, Gu Qingyang gathered more than a hundred young clan members to confront him over his reputation for womanizing and his engagement to Gu Xun'er. As the crowd descended on Xiao Yan’s lodgings, Gu Xun'er dismissed their effort to change her mind about the marriage.

• Ling Quan remarked that the Gu Clan's young talents and elders were all unsettled by news of Xiao Yan's arrival.
• Gu Yao tried to rush off and challenge Xiao Yan, but Gu Qingyang stopped him and proposed gathering the Gu Clan's younger generation.
• Gu Qingyang sent word to other young talents, and more than a hundred members of the younger generation assembled in the Black Annihilation Army's square.
• The assembled youths charged toward Xiao Yan's lodgings while Gu Yuan watched the disturbance and allowed it to proceed.
• Ling Granny told Gu Xun'er that Gu Qingyang had led the younger generation to confront Xiao Yan, and Xun'er said it would not make her break off the marriage.
• The Gu Clan's younger generation surrounded Xiao Yan's bamboo house and called for him to come out.