Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan brought his family and companions into the Xiao Realm, where his parents met his daughter and his wives encountered Xun'er. After Xiao Yu and Xiao Mei helped ease the tension among the women, Xiao Yan gathered more companions and returned to Starfall Pavilion to take Yao Lao to the Yao Clan to demand justice.

• Yao Xian delightedly held her granddaughter Xiao Xiao, while Xiao Zhan struggled to approach the frightened child.
• Xiao Yan brought his women to the Flame Hall and introduced them to Xun'er, leaving him to manage the awkward first meeting.
• Xiao Yan persuaded Xiao Yu and Xiao Mei to help smooth relations among the women by offering them Bodhi Seeds and promising a Sect Breaking Pill.
• Xiao Yan fetched Tang Huo'er, Dan Chen, Cao Ying, Han Yue, and Han Xue and brought them into the Xiao Realm.
• Xiao Yan returned to Starfall Pavilion and told Yao Lao that they would go to the Yao Clan to demand justice.

Xiao Yan accompanied Yao Lao to the Medicine Realm to seek justice from the Yao Clan and bring Yao Ling with him. Backed by Xiao Shaobei and the Four Seas True Saints, Xiao Yan arrived in force and reunited with Yao Ling.

• Yao Lao accepted Xiao Yan’s offer to help him return to the Yao Clan and seek justice, and they traveled to the Medicine Realm.
• Xiao Yan met Xiao Shaobei and the Four Seas True Saints outside the Medicine Realm, then entered with them and Yao Lao.
• Yao Dan welcomed the group and led them to the Sacred Hall, where Xiao Yan and Yao Lao encountered Yao Wangui.
• Xiao Shaobei and the Four Seas True Saints released their auras across the Medicine Realm to announce the Xiao Clan’s arrival to fetch someone.
• Xiao Yan greeted Yao Tian and told Yao Ling that he had come for her on a Seven-Colored Auspicious Cloud, bringing tears to her eyes.

Xiao Yan brought Yao Lao back to the Yao Clan, where Yao Lao secured recognition for his parents and demanded an apology from Yao Wangui. After Yao Dan reshaped the clan’s leadership, Xiao Yan and Cai Lin set out for the Nine Netherworld Python Clan.

• Xiao Yan asked Yao Lao what justice he wanted, and Yao Lao demanded that his parents’ names be restored to the Clan Stele and that Yao Wangui apologize to them.
• Yao Wangui resisted, but Yao Dan backed Yao Lao’s demands and Xiao Yan threatened to kill Yao Wangui if he refused, so Yao Wangui agreed.
• Yao Lao left the Medicine Realm with Xiao Yan’s party, thanked his student, and said he would settle his personal grievances with Yao Wangui himself in the future.
• Yao Dan explained to Yao Tian that expelled Yao Clan descendants had produced many outstanding alchemists, then assigned Yao Tian to lead the Punishment Hall while Yao Wangui was sent to reflect on his mistakes.
• Three days later, Xiao Yan reassured Yao Ling and the other women, then departed with Cai Lin for the Nine Netherworld Python Clan.

Xiao Yan brought Cai Lin to the Nine Nether Yellow Springs so she could pursue the awakening of her ancient Nine-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python bloodline. He left her at the lake and dove in to search for Yellow Spring Blood Essence, promising to guard her evolution when he returned.

• Xiao Yan left little Xiao Xiao with Yao Xian and traveled with Cai Lin to the Beast Region.
• Xiao Yan and Cai Lin reached the Nine Netherworld Python Clan’s underground headquarters, the Nether Serpent Earth Vein.
• Cai Lin reflected on how the Seven-Colored Tribe and the Snake-People once shared ties with the Nine Netherworld Python Clan and other snake races.
• Xiao Yan bypassed the clan’s experts and brought Cai Lin to the Nine Nether Yellow Springs.
• Xiao Yan tested the lake’s freezing water, then leaped into it to search for Yellow Spring Blood Essence while Cai Lin waited.

Xiao Yan descended into the Nine Nether Yellow Springs, found the imprisoned former Nine Netherworld Python Clan chief Yao Ming, and freed him after securing his submission and a promise to help obtain the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s inheritance. Yao Ming was finally released from his chains, while Xiao Yan kept the Yellow Spring Blood Essence he had found.

• Xiao Yan fought off a swarm of strange snakes with a Four-Colored Fire Lotus and continued deeper into the Nine Nether Yellow Springs.
• Xiao Yan heard a faint plea for help, uncovered four chains, and found the skeletal Yao Ming imprisoned beneath the lakebed.
• Yao Ming offered the Nine Netherworld Python Clan’s submission and help obtaining the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s inheritance in exchange for his rescue.
• Xiao Yan required Yao Ming to accept a soul imprint, took his Yellow Spring Blood Essence, and discovered how to release the chains.
• Xiao Yan broke the chains by activating their mechanisms, freeing Yao Ming, who laughed in excitement.

Xiao Yan rescued Yao Ming from the Nine Nether Yellow Springs and confronted Yao Xiaotian after finding him pursuing Cai Lin. Xiao Yan revealed himself as the Xiao Clan Emperor’s Son and gravely wounded Yao Xiaotian, who begged for his life, but Xiao Yan demanded his magic core as compensation.

• Yao Ming thanked Xiao Yan for freeing him, and Xiao Yan gave him an Eighth-Tier Pill to recover his strength.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Ming headed toward the surface, where Xiao Yan found Cai Lin fleeing from a pursuing Nine Netherworld Python.
• Xiao Yan rescued Cai Lin, and Yao Ming identified the pursuer as Yao Xiaotian, his younger brother and the current Clan Chief.
• Yao Xiaotian threatened Xiao Yan and showed interest in Cai Lin, so Xiao Yan set her aside and attacked him with his Black Ruler.
• Xiao Yan’s strike shattered Yao Xiaotian’s armor and inflicted a massive wound, prompting Yao Xiaotian to plead for his life.
• Xiao Yan rejected Yao Xiaotian’s offer of compensation and said he would take his magic core for harassing Cai Lin.

Xiao Yan killed the Nine Netherworld Python Great Elder and helped Yao Ming defeat Yao Xiaotian, securing two ninth-rank magic cores. Yao Ming offered his clan’s gratitude and led Xiao Yan and Cai Lin toward the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s inheritance.

• Yao Xiaotian fled from Xiao Yan and called for the Great Elder to save him.
• The Great Elder tried to take Cai Lin hostage, but Xiao Yan intercepted and killed him with the Great Wilderness Heaven-Splitting Sword.
• Yao Ming confronted his injured brother Yao Xiaotian and killed him, taking his magic core.
• Xiao Yan destroyed the Great Elder’s soul and collected his magic core, while Yao Ming gave him Yao Xiaotian’s core.
• Yao Ming offered Xiao Yan the Nine Nether Earth Python clan’s gratitude and proposed guiding him to the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s inheritance.
• Xiao Yan took Cai Lin and followed Yao Ming toward the Yellow Springs Stone Tablet.

After restoring order among the Nine Netherworld Python Clan, Yao Ming led Xiao Yan to the Yellow Springs Stone Tablet so he could challenge the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s remnant soul for its inheritance. Xiao Yan endured the remnant soul’s devastating sonic attack and approached it as the remnant grew faint.

• Yao Ming settled the Nine Netherworld Python Clan’s unrest after Yao Xiaotian and the Great Elder died, then led Xiao Yan to the Yellow Springs Stone Tablet.
• Xiao Yan sent his soul into the tablet while Cai Lin and Yao Ming guarded his body outside.
• Inside the tablet, Xiao Yan brushed aside the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s trials and met the remnant soul, which demanded that he endure a strike from Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath.
• The Yellow Springs Demon Saint unleashed a massive sonic battle form, and Xiao Yan protected himself with Heavenly Soul Treasure Armor and heavenly flames.
• After surviving the strike, Xiao Yan walked toward the weakened remnant soul.

Xiao Yan received the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s inheritance and essence blood, then shared the blood with Yao Ming and Cai Lin. He and Cai Lin remained with the Nine Netherworld Python Clan to cultivate in the Nine Nether Yellow Springs, where Cai Lin began her refinement as Xiao Yan prepared to refine his share.

• The Yellow Springs Demon Saint gave Xiao Yan his inheritance and demon saint essence blood, and Xiao Yan returned nearly half after learning the Demon Saint might still have a trace of true spirit.
• Xiao Yan emerged from the stone tablet and divided the essence blood among himself, Cai Lin, and Yao Ming.
• Xiao Yan asked Yao Ming for permission to stay with Cai Lin and use the Nine Nether Yellow Springs, and Yao Ming agreed.
• Xiao Yan gave Cai Lin a Bodhi Sainthood Pill and essence blood to help her advance, and she entered the Nine Nether Yellow Springs as a Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python.
• Xiao Yan took out his share of the essence blood and prepared to refine it.

Xiao Yan refined the Yellow Springs Demon Saint's essence blood and advanced to the late-stage Two-Star Dou Saint level while Cai Lin continued cultivating in the Nine Nether Yellow Springs. He prepared to refine the Nine Yin Yellow Springs Pill, ending as he brought out the Heavenly Flame Cauldron in a cleared plain.

• Xiao Yan absorbed the Yellow Springs Demon Saint's essence blood and spent half a month refining its energy.
• Xiao Yan broke through to the late-stage Two-Star Dou Saint level as Yao Ming advanced to Three-Star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yan sensed Cai Lin still cultivating and decided to refine the Nine Yin Yellow Springs Pill using the Yellow Spring blood essence.
• Xiao Yan asked Yao Ming to clear the area near the Nine Nether Yellow Springs, and Yao Ming evacuated everyone within a hundred li.
• Xiao Yan chose a secluded plain and summoned the Heavenly Flame Cauldron.

Xiao Yan refined the Nine Yin Yellow Springs Pill in the Nine Nether Abyss, enduring its black demon lightning tribulation and capturing the pill when it tried to flee. After sealing it away, he saw Cai Lin emerge from the Nine Nether Yellow Springs.

• Xiao Yan melted the yellow spring blood essence with his Heavenly Flame while preserving its chilling power, then refined the pill’s other ingredients.
• Xiao Yan fused the medicinal essences over several days until they formed a crystalline yellow Nine Yin Yellow Springs Pill threaded with nine bloodlike lines.
• Black demon lightning struck as the pill took shape, and Xiao Yan faced the bolts head-on while the Nine Netherworld Python experts watched from afar.
• Xiao Yan caught the pill after it fled from the cauldron, sealed it in a specially made Jade Box, and put it away.
• The Nine Nether Yellow Springs churned, and Cai Lin emerged as Xiao Yan looked on in surprise.

Xiao Yan and Cai Lin discovered the buried remains of the ancient Seven-Colored Tribe beneath the Nine Nether Yellow Springs. The Nine-Colored Demon Emperor’s younger sister recognized Xiao Yan and prepared to pass the tribe’s inheritance to Cai Lin.

• Cai Lin sensed a summons beneath the Nine Nether Yellow Springs, and Xiao Yan joined her in searching for its source.
• Cai Lin cleared away the lakebed mud until they found enormous serpentine skeletons, including the skull of a Nine-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python.
• The bones emitted seven- and nine-colored light, and the spirits of the Seven-Colored Tribe appeared to welcome Cai Lin as their descendant.
• A powerful nine-colored spirit recognized Xiao Yan’s Flame Mantra and Jing Lian True Intent, then revealed she was the Nine-Colored Demon Emperor’s younger sister.
• The spirit warned Xiao Yan of the burdens tied to the True Flame Emperor’s inheritance and summoned Cai Lin to receive the Seven-Colored Tribe’s inheritance.

Cai Lin began receiving the Nine-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python’s inheritance while Xiao Yan arranged protection for her and returned to the Xiao Clan to care for their daughter. After Xiao Xuan warned that a great calamity was approaching and even he might fall, Xiao Yan rushed to Heavenly Flames Valley to refine the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame.

• Cai Lin entered seclusion to receive the inheritance and left Xiao Xiao in Xiao Yan’s care, while Xiao Yan promised to support her.
• Xiao Yan summoned Saint Tian Mu to guard Cai Lin and gave Yao Ming instructions before returning to the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Yan soothed Xiao Xiao after she cried for her missing mother, delaying his plans to refine the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame.
• Xiao Xuan warned Xiao Yan that a great calamity was approaching and that even Xiao Xuan was in danger of falling.
• Xiao Yan entrusted Xiao Xiao to Xiao Yi Xian and hurried to Heavenly Flames Valley to refine the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame.

Xiao Yan confronted the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame and demanded its origin, but Xiao Xuan intervened when the flame attacked. Xiao Yan then summoned the Pure Lotus Demon Saint’s remnant consciousness to erase the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame’s memories and violent emotions.

• The Purifying Lotus Demon Flame recognized Xiao Yan’s rapid rise in power and attacked him after learning his fused heavenly flames could threaten it.
• Xiao Yan called for Xiao Xuan, who froze the battlefield, moved Heavenly Flames Valley into a space he controlled, and restrained the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame.
• Xiao Yan awakened the Pure Lotus Demon Saint’s remnant consciousness and asked it to act against the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame.
• The Pure Lotus Demon Saint revealed his anger over the flame’s malicious rumors and began using his ultimate move to wipe its memories and emotions back to zero.

The Pure Lotus Demon Saint erased the purifying lotus demon flame’s intelligence and merged with it, while Xiao Xuan contained the resulting explosion by drawing most of its fire into the Heavenly Tomb. With the flame’s origin left unclaimed, Xiao Yan prepared to refine it as a looming threat from the Extraterrestrial Evil Race weighed on him.

• The Pure Lotus Demon Saint drew the demonic thought and memories from the purifying lotus demon flame, naming Xiao Yan as its new master and warning him that the Extraterrestrial Evil Race would target him.
• The purifying lotus demon flame rejected the Pure Lotus Demon Saint, and the two argued before merging and disappearing together.
• The purifying lotus demon flame swelled toward an explosion, so Xiao Xuan opened the Heavenly Tomb and drew in most of the flames to protect the Xiao Realm.
• Ownerless milky-white fire fell across Heavenly Flames Valley, where the other heavenly flames eagerly consumed it.
• Xiao Xuan told Xiao Yan that the purifying lotus demon flame’s origin was ready to refine and urged him to grow stronger quickly.
• Xiao Yan stepped toward the white lotus to begin refining the purifying lotus demon flame.

Xiao Yan prepared to refine the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame while Xiao Xuan subdued Nihility Devouring Flame and took it to the Heavenly Tomb. Xiao Yan swallowed the demon flame and began refining it, but its heat ravaged his body as the struggle continued.

• Xiao Yan steadied himself before refining the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame, while Xiao Xuan confronted and overwhelmed Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Xiao Xuan captured Nihility Devouring Flame's core origin flame and took it to the Heavenly Tomb to complete the Second-Generation Soul Emperor's soul form.
• After three days, Xiao Yan weakened the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame with precious liquids and the Nine Yin Yellow Springs Pill.
• Xiao Yan used Jing Lian True Intent to strengthen his heavenly flame, seized the demon flame's origin, and swallowed it.
• Xiao Yan invoked the Flame Mantra to refine the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame as it burned his meridians and flesh, and his expression changed as the struggle continued.

Xiao Yan endured the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame’s refinement until the Jing Lian True Intent made it docile, then remained in seclusion as the outside world changed. Demon Emperor Bo Kui led the evil races through a rift onto the Southwest Continent, where Xiao Xuan confronted him as the great battle began.

• Xiao Yan struggled to refine the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame as his body and Dou Qi reserves neared exhaustion.
• Xiao Yan activated the Jing Lian True Intent, which eased the flame’s resistance and allowed the refinement to proceed.
• More than half a year passed while Xiao Yan continued his seclusion and his aura grew stronger.
• Tou She Ancient God reinforced the array binding the colossal red-haired creature beneath the underground magma sea.
• Demon Emperor Bo Kui rallied the evil races and led them through a huge spatial rift onto the Southwest Continent.
• Xiao Xuan confirmed the evacuation of ordinary people, sent the other experts to defend the continent, and appeared before the rift to face Bo Kui.

Xiao Xuan fought Demon Emperor Bo Kui as the Extraterrestrial Evil Race invaded the Dou Qi Continent and awakened hidden Demon Emperors. After Bo Kui summoned two more Demon Emperor-level enemies, Xiao Xuan used the Heavenly Tomb to capture the Third-Generation Soul Emperor and prepared to face the remaining two.

• Demon Emperor Bo Kui attacked Xiao Xuan while evil armies spread across the Dou Qi Continent and awakened Demon Saints struck cities and clashed with the continent's defenders.
• Xiao Xuan matched Bo Kui in battle, but Bo Kui summoned the Black Sea Demon Emperor and awakened the Third-Generation Soul Emperor, surrounding Xiao Xuan with three Demon Emperor-level foes.
• Xiao Xuan revealed that he controlled the Heavenly Tomb and summoned the Second-Generation Soul Emperor, who entered the Third-Generation Soul Emperor's body.
• Xiao Xuan moved the Third-Generation Soul Emperor into the Heavenly Tomb and faced Bo Kui and the Black Sea Demon Emperor, declaring that he would test the fruits of his thousand years of cultivation.

Xiao Xuan used the Heavenly Tomb to suppress Demon Emperor Bo Kui and the Black Sea Demon Emperor, then revealed the Heavenly Derivation Demon-Slaying Array when they tried to retreat. He unleashed the array against Bo Kui, and its golden pillar of light blasted toward him.

• Xiao Xuan strengthened himself with the Heavenly Tomb and struck Demon Emperor Bo Kui with enough force to send him staggering back.
• Xiao Xuan summoned the Great Tomb Heavenly Stele and battered both Demon Emperors with enormous stone steles.
• Demon Emperor Bo Kui and the Black Sea Demon Emperor burned their Saint Blood and fought Xiao Xuan, but they could not gain the upper hand.
• The two Demon Emperors decided to retreat, but Xiao Xuan activated the Heavenly Derivation Demon-Slaying Array.
• Xiao Xuan targeted Demon Emperor Bo Kui and sent a massive golden pillar of light crashing toward him.

Xiao Xuan killed Demon Emperor Bo Kui and suppressed the Black Sea Demon Emperor in the Heavenly Tomb. The destruction of the Myriad Demon Realm then sent a streak of demonic light through the Heavenly Derivation Great Array, exposing a trace of the Dou Qi Continent’s location.

• Xiao Xuan trapped Demon Emperor Bo Kui with ancient stone steles and killed him with the Heavenly Derivation Demon-Slaying Array’s golden pillar of light.
• Xiao Xuan used the Heavenly Tomb and his Dou Di origin to suppress the Black Sea Demon Emperor, intending to wear away his Demon Emperor origin over time.
• Xiao Xuan summoned Xiao Shaobei, Xiao Chen, and the other Peak Nine-Star Dou Saints, and told them to leave the next task to Xiao Yan if he awakened.
• The Myriad Demon Realm burst apart, releasing a black pillar of light that struck the Heavenly Derivation Great Array.
• The Nine Nether Saint Ancestor resisted the attack, but a streak of demonic light escaped through a crack in the array and carried a trace of the Dou Qi Continent’s location into the distance.