Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan refined the North Dragon King and Huang Tian's bodies into Tribulation Lightning Battle Puppets, infused their souls, and sent them into the Void Lightning Pool to undergo tribulation. After recovering, he prepared two enormous magic cores and turned his attention to refining pills.

• Xiao Yan refined essence blood from the two corpses, purified their bodies, and forged spatial cores within them.
• Xiao Yan shattered the North Dragon King and Huang Tian's souls, fused the fragments into their bodies, and bound the resulting puppets to himself with his blood.
• Xiao Yan sent the battle puppets into the Void Lightning Pool to be tempered by Black Demon Lightning.
• Xiao Yan rested until he had recovered his strength, then produced two human-head-sized magic cores.

Xiao Yan refined the magic cores of Ying Huang and the South Dragon King with a Chaos Fruit to create a new pill. After protecting it from Black Demon Lightning, he named it the Dragon Phoenix Origin Pill.

• Xiao Yan placed Ying Huang's and the South Dragon King's magic cores in the Heavenly Flame Cauldron and began refining them with medicinal ingredients.
• Xiao Yan balanced the cores' energy and used a Chaos Fruit to bind their hostile energies into a merging mass.
• Xiao Yan continued refining the ingredients into the mass until it formed a purple-gold pill adorned with dragon and phoenix figures.
• Xiao Yan blocked the Black Demon Lightning from striking the pill and captured it when it tried to flee.
• Xiao Yan sealed the pill and named it the Dragon Phoenix Origin Pill.

Xiao Yan refined several Dragon Phoenix Origin Pills, then consumed his strongest pill to increase his power and physique. After a month of cultivation beside the Void Lightning Pool, he reached the peak of Six-Star Dou Sheng, just short of advancing further.

• Xiao Yan refined two Dragon Phoenix Origin Pills, with the second nearly reaching the threshold of a ninth-rank mysterious pill.
• Xiao Yan refined a powerful Dragon Phoenix Origin Pill from Huang Tian and the North Dragon King's magic cores, enduring ten days of pill lightning with the help of the nine-colored Jing Lian flame.
• Xiao Yan swallowed the pill and refined its energy, strengthening his Dou Qi and physique.
• After a month beside the Void Lightning Pool, Xiao Yan reached the peak of Six-Star Dou Sheng and produced three drops of blended azure, red, and silver essence blood.

Xiao Yan refined Ancient Heavenly Phoenix essence blood and advanced to Seven-Star Dou Saint, then entered the Void Lightning Pool to subdue the nearly sentient nine profound golden lightning. After extracting much of its power and giving it intelligence, he persuaded it to leave with him.

• Xiao Yan refined the three drops of Ancient Heavenly Phoenix essence blood and broke through to Seven-Star Dou Saint.
• Xiao Yan tested his Dragon Phoenix Ancient Armor and the Tribulation Lightning Battle Puppets refined from Huang Tian and the North Dragon King.
• Xiao Yan plunged into the Void Lightning Pool and found a powerful nine profound golden lightning in the form of a golden dragon.
• Xiao Yan offered the nine profound golden lightning a Spiritual Energy Seed, but it first resisted and tried to absorb more Black Demon Lightning.
• After the nine profound golden lightning was weakened, Xiao Yan extracted much of its power and placed the Spiritual Energy Seed in its head.
• Xiao Yan invited the newly intelligent nine profound golden lightning to travel with him, and it agreed.

Xiao Yan subdued the sentient Nine Profound Golden Lightning, then used its sealed energy and medicinal ingredients to refine a Lightning Tribulation Pill. After half a month of refining, he shrank the Heavenly Flame Cauldron and prepared to inspect the result.

• Xiao Yan made the sentient Nine Profound Golden Lightning his follower, but rescued it when Little Goofball tried to eat it and told his son to treat it as a friend.
• Xiao Yan returned to a secluded spot, released the sealed Nine Profound Golden Lightning, and tore its giant lightning-dragon form apart with enormous flaming hands.
• Xiao Yan absorbed the golden lightning plasma into the Heavenly Flame Cauldron and added medicinal ingredients to refine it into a Lightning Tribulation Pill.
• Xiao Yan spent half a month refining the mixture, then called out and shrank the Heavenly Flame Cauldron.

Xiao Yan refined and consumed the Lightning Tribulation Pill, advancing to Late-Stage Seven-Star Dou Saint. He returned to Zi Yan and Zhu Kun with the Dragon Phoenix Origin Pill, then asked whether Zhu Kun knew of the Dragon Emperor Origin Fruit.

• Xiao Yan completed the Lightning Tribulation Pill and used two Battle Puppets to endure its pill lightning.
• Xiao Yan swallowed the pill and refined its energy with the nine-colored Jing Lian flame, reaching Late-Stage Seven-Star Dou Saint.
• Xiao Yan decided there was nothing more to gain on Ancient Dragon Island and flew to find Zi Yan and Zhu Kun.
• Zhu Kun was astonished by Xiao Yan's rapid breakthrough, and Xiao Yan presented the Dragon Phoenix Origin Pill to Zi Yan.
• Xiao Yan asked Zhu Kun whether he knew of the Dragon Emperor Origin Fruit.

Xiao Yan returned to the Xiao Clan, organized a broader campaign against the hidden Extraterrestrial Evil Race, and established the Flame Hall while settling matters from his past. He then took Shi Hao to the Stone Clan to fulfill his promise to help him seek justice.

• Xiao Yan told Zhu Kun where to find the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, gave Zi Yan a Dragon Phoenix Origin Pill, and left Ancient Dragon Island to return to the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Yan learned that the Extraterrestrial Evil Race had gone into hiding and offered pills as rewards for locating and killing its Demon Saints.
• Xiao Yan's rewards helped expose three more Demon Saints within half a month, and the allied forces killed a Seven-Star Demon Saint.
• Xiao Yan spared the Hun Clan members who accepted Hun Xue's leadership, confined the resistant members to the Small Soul Realm, and founded the Flame Hall with several branch halls.
• Xiao Yan met Shi Hao and promised to take him to the Stone Clan to settle the score and obtain justice.

Xiao Yan brought Shi Hao to the Stone Clan to confront Shi Hao’s father, Shi Jie, who had abandoned him and later tried to have him killed. After the Stone Clan’s Clan Chief stripped Shi Jie of his position and Xiao Yan struck him, the Clan Chief asked Xiao Yan to bring Shi Hao into the Stone Realm.

• Shi Hao told Xiao Yan he wanted to see the father who had abandoned him and then tried to kill him, so Xiao Yan took him to the Stone Clan.
• The Stone Clan’s Clan Chief greeted Xiao Yan and learned that Shi Hao carried the clan’s bloodline and had come to reunite with his family.
• The Clan Chief confronted Shi Jie, who admitted that Shi Hao was his son, while Shi Hao accused him of abandoning his mother and ordering an assassination.
• Shi Hao vowed to cripple Shi Jie’s dou qi and make him kneel at his mother’s grave once Shi Hao became stronger.
• The Clan Chief stripped Shi Jie of his Young Clan Chief position and ordered him locked in the Seclusion Tower; Xiao Yan struck him when he looked venomously at Shi Hao.
• Xiao Yan warned the Clan Chief not to obstruct Shi Hao’s future revenge, and the Clan Chief asked to bring Shi Hao into the Stone Realm.

Xiao Yan brought Shi Hao to the Stone Realm to test his bloodline, but the Stone Emperor's remnant appeared and revealed that Shi Hao possessed a supreme battle body. The Stone Emperor passed its potential to Shi Hao, leaving him in secluded cultivation and suggesting he might become a Dou Di through his body alone.

• Xiao Yan persuaded the reluctant Shi Hao to enter the Stone Realm and test his bloodline at the Stone Emperor's ancestral statue.
• Shi Hao's blood only turned the statue's eyes red, disappointing the Stone Clan Chief, but Xiao Yan argued that Shi Hao could grow without powerful bloodline support.
• The Stone Emperor's phantom manifested above the Stone Realm, and its imperial pressure forced the Stone Clan members to kneel while Xiao Yan and Shi Hao remained standing.
• The Stone Emperor recognized Shi Hao's supreme battle body and promised to pass its full potential to him, saying he might become a Dou Di through his body alone.
• The Stone Emperor's phantom transformed into streams of light and entered Shi Hao, forcing him into secluded cultivation as his body and aura began to change.
• The Stone Clan Chief ordered the area around the ancestral grounds sealed off, while Xiao Yan considered the possibility of becoming a Dou Di without relying on heaven and earth origin qi.

Xiao Yan left Shi Hao in the Stone Clan’s care under the protection of a powerful Battle Puppet, then visited Xiao Xuan at the Heavenly Tomb to ask about reaching the Emperor Realm. Xiao Xuan explained that Xiao Yan needed to cultivate the strength of his heart, while becoming an emperor through the flesh was possible in theory but extraordinarily difficult.

• Xiao Yan left Huang Tian, now a Battle Puppet rivaling a peak Six-Star Dou Sheng, to guard Shi Hao and warned the Stone Clan Chief to keep others away.
• The Stone Clan Chief ordered that no one enter the area around Shi Hao while he absorbed the Stone Emperor’s inheritance.
• Xiao Yan crossed the Spacetime Turbulence and saw the Southwest Continent scarred by the battle between Xiao Xuan and the two Demon Emperors.
• Xiao Yan met Xiao Xuan near the Heavenly Tomb and asked how he could overcome the gap between his soul power and the Emperor Realm.
• Xiao Xuan told Xiao Yan to quiet his heart and experience the Dou Qi Continent more fully, explaining that inner strength could carry his soul into a new realm.
• Xiao Xuan confirmed that becoming an emperor through the flesh was theoretically possible, but required a body capable of generating the power of an entire plane.

Xiao Yan began roaming the Dou Qi Continent to understand mortal life and find a path to the Emperor Realm. In Ice City, he learned an Extraterrestrial Evil Race demon was nearby and sensed its familiar aura approaching.

• Xiao Xuan told Xiao Yan he had nine years to reach the Emperor Realm before a new Demon Emperor brought catastrophe to the continent.
• Xiao Yan traveled to Ice City in the Northeast Continent and pondered how to transform his heart while experiencing the city’s food and customs.
• Xiao Yan overheard tavern patrons discuss a town where everyone had vanished and learned from Gao that an Extraterrestrial Evil Race demon was near Ice City.
• Xiao Yan realized his journey meant immersing himself in ordinary people’s lives and recognized the value of their individual experiences.
• Gao confronted Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan stopped him effortlessly and asked where the demon had attacked.
• Xiao Yan sensed a familiar evil aura racing toward Ice City and stopped Gao from giving directions.

Xiao Yan watched Ice City face an attack from an Extraterrestrial Evil Race Demon Saint, then revealed his overwhelming power by destroying it with heavenly flames. The city’s people celebrated their survival and thanked the unseen Saint, while Xiao Yan reflected that the ordeal had deepened his understanding of living beings.

• Xiao Yan left the tavern as a Demon Saint’s demonic clouds covered Ice City and its inhabitants panicked.
• Ice City’s old city lord urged the experts to flee, but most chose to stand with him as the city’s people revealed their feelings in the face of death.
• The Demon Saint sent demonic qi against Ice City, draining a fleeing Dou Wang before Xiao Yan’s heavenly flames burned away the attack.
• Xiao Yan formed a giant flaming hand, crushed the Demon Saint, and incinerated its escaping demonic qi.
• The old city lord and citizens thanked the Saint, while Xiao Yan sensed their joy and felt his understanding of living beings deepen.
• The sky began rumbling again as Ice City’s inhabitants celebrated their survival.

Five Dou Shengs arrived in Ice City to investigate the demon Xiao Yan had killed, then recognized and greeted him as the Emperor’s Son. Xiao Yan rewarded the city lord for reporting the demon and left to continue the campaign, while the tavern patrons who had underestimated him were left stunned.

• Five Dou Shengs arrived in Ice City, sensed the demon’s lingering aura and the traces of Xiao Yan’s powerful heavenly flame, and questioned the city lord.
• After learning a flame-wielding Saint had destroyed the demon, the Four-Star Dou Sheng called out for the Emperor’s Son, and Xiao Yan stepped forward to meet the five Saints.
• The Yan Clan Dou Sheng invited Xiao Yan to visit, while two Yan Clan Dou Shengs called him their son-in-law; Xiao Yan then recommended the city lord for an important post.
• Xiao Yan awarded the city lord a Peak Eighth-Tier Heavenly Venerable Pill for reporting the demon, and the Ice Saint pledged to protect him.
• Xiao Yan reflected on how power could change people’s fates, then departed to continue the campaign; the five Saints left, and the burly man surnamed Gao regretted wanting to fight a Dou Sheng Expert.

Xiao Yan’s bounty triggered a continent-wide hunt that drove the remaining Extraterrestrial Evil Race into hiding, while he traveled to the Southeast Continent and settled in Cangwu City under the name Yan Xiao. Months later, he heard that the enemy had appeared nearby and asked for details.

• News of Xiao Yan’s reward spread across the Dou Qi Continent, sparking a frenzied hunt for the Extraterrestrial Evil Race and briefly restoring peace as its survivors hid.
• A Lei Clan Dou Sheng slew one Demon Saint and received a Peak Eighth-Tier Pill and a promise that Xiao Yan would refine a Ninth-grade Pill for him if he supplied the materials.
• A cautious Dou Emperor led stationed Dou Sheng Experts to another Demon Saint, then traded his reward for cultivation resources and protection.
• Xiao Yan traveled from the Far Northern Sea to Cangwu City, burned off his bear-hide coat, and began living there as the Fifth-Rank Alchemist Yan Xiao.
• Several months later, a young man told Xiao Yan that traces of the Extraterrestrial Evil Race had appeared on the Southeast Continent, and Xiao Yan asked him to explain.

Xiao Yan joined Zhi Bai and a hundred other experts searching the Cang River basin for the Extraterrestrial Evil Race, then discovered that an obvious trail of demonic qi led to a likely trap. He brought Zhi Bai with him to investigate the Demon Saint beneath a hill.

• Zhi Bai told Xiao Yan that Purple Gold Mountain had reported traces of the Extraterrestrial Evil Race near Cangwu City, and explained that he hoped to trade a Peak Eighth-Tier Pill for a sword art.
• Xiao Yan agreed to join Zhi Bai in the hunt, and the next morning they arrived among a hundred experts led by the Cangwu City Lord.
• The Cangwu City Lord directed the group to search along the Cang River and offered rewards to anyone who reported the Demon Saint's location.
• Xiao Yan used his soul power to survey the river basin and found faint demonic traces, then discovered a hill concealing a two-star Demon Saint and desiccated corpses.
• Xiao Yan realized the Demon Saint's conspicuous aura was bait for a trap and told Zhi Bai to go with him to investigate.

Xiao Yan discovered that an Extraterrestrial Evil Race member was hiding beneath a hill and let the Violet Fire Sect Master report its location to Purple Gold Mountain. As seven Dou Shengs attacked the hill, the demon emerged, and Zhi Bai realized Xiao Yan had known it was there all along.

• Xiao Yan led Zhi Bai to a hill where demonic qi surrounded the drained bodies of a settlement's inhabitants.
• The Violet Fire Sect Master tried to kill Xiao Yan and Zhi Bai, but fled after sensing the hidden Demon Saint beneath the hill.
• The Violet Fire Sect Master reported the demon's location to the Purple Gold Saint, who assembled a squad of seven Dou Shengs.
• Xiao Yan and Zhi Bai waited nearby while the seven Dou Shengs attacked the hill and forced a gigantic demonic figure out of the ground.
• Zhi Bai realized the Extraterrestrial Evil Race member had been beneath them and asked Xiao Yan how he had known.

Xiao Yan revealed his overwhelming power by rescuing seven Dou Sheng from an ambush and confronting an Eight-Star Demon Saint of the Battle Demon Race. He trapped the injured Two-Star Demon Saint in a flaming cauldron and prepared to face the stronger enemy alone, while Xiao Zhang led the others away to protect Zhi Bai.

• Xiao Yan reassured Zhi Bai as seven Dou Sheng attacked a Two-Star Demon Saint, but he noticed that their formation left them vulnerable to an ambush.
• A hidden attacker unleashed a deadly saber strike, and Xiao Yan intercepted it with his flaming ruler after transforming his hand into a purple-gold dragon claw.
• Xiao Yan’s flames protected Zhi Bai from the clash, and Zhi Bai realized that the purple-gold figure fighting the demon was Yan Xiao.
• The seven Dou Sheng recognized Xiao Yan as the Emperor’s Son, and Xiao Yan trapped the Two-Star Demon Saint in a flaming cauldron.
• Xiao Yan sent Xiao Zhang and the other Dou Sheng away, then faced the Eight-Star Demon Saint of the Battle Demon Race alone.

Xiao Yan confronted an Eight-Star Battle Demon Race Demon Saint who had ambushed Dou Sheng experts, then used his new wings, Heavenly Flames, and secret arts to match and suppress him. The fight continued as Xiao Yan tested his strength, Little Goofball struck the Demon Saint with a Seven-Colored Fire Lotus, and Xiao Yan followed with Jing Lian Heavenly Wrath.

• The Battle Demon Race Demon Saint attacked Xiao Yan with three saber strikes, and Xiao Yan blocked them while sustaining only a minor injury.
• The Demon Saint tried to escape, but Xiao Yan used the Heavenly Phoenix Gold-Splitting Wings to catch him and unleashed a Fire Lotus on the Two-Star Demon Saint.
• Zhi Bai learned that his friend Yan Xiao was Xiao Yan and saw the Ten Thousand Swords Sect's Dou Sheng Ancestor defer to him.
• Xiao Yan used the Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations and a forehead pattern to raise his strength to late-stage Eight-Star Dou Sheng, then fought the Demon Saint head-on.
• The Demon Saint ignited black flames and intensified his attacks, while Little Goofball hurled a Seven-Colored Fire Lotus that broke through his saber defense.
• Xiao Yan summoned an illusory figure and launched Jing Lian Heavenly Wrath at the Demon Saint.

Xiao Yan defeated an Eight-Star Demon Saint of the Battle Demon Race with his heavenly flames and ruler, then destroyed the demon’s fleeing soul with Zhu Kun’s help. After burning away the remaining demonic qi and recovering, Xiao Yan returned to the Dou Qi Continent, where Zhi Bai and seven Dou Shengs awaited him.

• Xiao Yan immobilized the Eight-Star Demon Saint with Jing Lian Heavenly Wrath and smashed through his scales with the Heavenly Flames Eternal Ruler.
• Xiao Yan repeatedly attacked the grievously wounded Demon Saint, then split his body apart and destroyed his upper body with heavenly flames.
• The Demon Saint’s Demon Soul fled, but Zhu Kun blocked and crushed it, allowing Xiao Yan to burn it away completely.
• Zhu Kun praised Xiao Yan’s strength, told him to call for help against the remaining Eight-Star Demon Saint, and left to guard Zi Yan’s breakthrough.
• Xiao Yan burned away the lingering demonic qi, rested for half a day, and returned to the Dou Qi Continent.
• Seven Dou Shengs and Zhi Bai met Xiao Yan, who told Zhi Bai that he had dealt with the Demon Saint.

After Xiao Yan revealed his overwhelming strength and departed, Zhi Bai secured his dream of joining the Ten Thousand Swords Sect, while the Violet Fire Sect Master was sentenced to ten years of forced mining. Xiao Yan briefly returned, reflecting on how even the strongest competed for power, then vanished again.

• Xiao Yan told the gathered Dou Sheng Experts that only one Eight-Star Demon Saint remained, revealing he had killed the Demon Saint who attacked them.
• Xiao Yan arranged for Zhi Bai to become a direct disciple of the Ten Thousand Swords Sect and gave him a Peak Eighth-Tier Pill for discovering the Extraterrestrial Evil Race's trail.
• After Xiao Yan left, the Dou Sheng Experts tried to recruit Zhi Bai, but he chose the Ten Thousand Swords Sect because of his lifelong devotion to swordsmanship.
• The Ancestor of Ten Thousand Swords promised to train Zhi Bai personally and took him back to the sect.
• Xiao Yan reappeared briefly and reflected on how powerful beings still competed for what they desired before vanishing again.
• The Purple Gold Saint ordered the Violet Fire Sect Master to mine in the Purple Gold Mountain Range for ten years.