Chapter Summaries

Hun Dai'er investigated Yao Yan and dismissed her suspicion that he was Xiao Yan, while Xiao Yan refined the Soul Hall Deputy Master's soul in seclusion. After absorbing the resulting Soul Force, Xiao Yan reached Heaven Realm Great Perfection and sent a powerful ripple through the Star Domain.

• Hun Dai'er read a report describing Yao Yan's background, talents, reputation, and supposed preference for younger girls.
• Hun Dai'er decided that Yao Yan could not be Xiao Yan, whom she had known for hundreds of years in a previous life.
• Xiao Yan returned to his secluded Star Domain and used the Nine Revolutions Soul Refining Art to remove impurities from the Soul Force he had absorbed.
• Xiao Yan imprisoned the Soul Hall Deputy Master's soul in the Soul Refining Tower and rejected his offer to reveal secrets in exchange for his life.
• Xiao Yan refined the Soul Hall Deputy Master's Heaven Realm soul and absorbed its energy, reaching Heaven Realm Great Perfection and shaking the Star Domain with his Soul Force.

After destroying the Soul Hall, Xiao Yan reached heaven realm great perfection and used Little Yao’s ability to locate the Life Spirit Flame in Ye City. The discovery stirred memories of his former disciple Ye Lingyu, and Xiao Yan set out for the Ye family.

• Xiao Yan refined the Soul Hall deputy hall master’s soul, reached heaven realm great perfection, and stored the remaining soul-light spheres inside Little Yao.
• Xiao Yan decided to search for the unclaimed Life Spirit Flame, which he hoped to obtain before Old Man Shennong.
• Little Yao used her ability to sense heavenly flames, and Xiao Yan combined his soul force with hers to locate the Life Spirit Flame in Ye City.
• Xiao Yan remembered taking Ye Lingyu as his only disciple across both lives and flew toward the Ye family.

Xiao Yan arrived in Ye City and met Ye Lingyu, the Ye Family head’s daughter, while buying herbs at her shop. He and Little Yao sensed that Ye Lingyu carried the aura of the Life Spirit Flame and planned to use her as a way to approach it safely.

• Ye Lingyu complained about being sent to a medicinal herb shop and herb fields because she had neglected her alchemy studies.
• Xiao Yan bought herbs from Ye Lingyu, who wondered whether they had met before and was pleased when he said he would return.
• Little Yao told Xiao Yan that Ye Lingyu carried the aura of the Life Spirit Flame, likely from recent contact with it or transformed herbs.
• Xiao Yan and Little Yao decided not to investigate the nearby herb field immediately because the Life Spirit Flame might sense them and flee.
• Little Yao suggested that Xiao Yan get close to Ye Lingyu so the Life Spirit Flame would not fear his presence, then joked that he should get her into bed and was struck by him.

Xiao Yan grew close to Ye Lingyu and offered to teach her alchemy, but her disastrous attempt at refining medicine made him question whether he could teach her at all. He ended by asking her not to tell anyone she was his disciple.

• Xiao Yan visited Ye Lingyu's herb shop daily, and the two grew familiar as he bought herbs carrying traces of the life spirit flame's aura.
• Ye Lingyu asked Xiao Yan about his alchemy, and he claimed to be a fifth-rank alchemist while recognizing that she had strong soul force.
• Xiao Yan learned that Ye Lingyu had barely practiced alchemy and offered to help her improve so she might return to her family.
• Ye Lingyu accepted Xiao Yan as her teacher, but her attempt to refine Blood-Clotting Powder produced a cauldron-shaped washbasin and corrosive black liquid.
• When Ye Lingyu excitedly asked whether her black pills made her a first-rank alchemist, Xiao Yan told her not to call him Teacher or claim to be his disciple.

Xiao Yan obtained the life spirit flame and drew it into his body, while Little Yao pointed out that Ye Lingyu’s failure at alchemy came from her lack of focus rather than a lack of talent. The chapter left Xiao Yan confronting Ye Lingyu’s latest, even more poisonous concoction and deciding to push her harder toward alchemy.

• Little Yao told Xiao Yan that Ye Lingyu was talented but unwilling to concentrate on learning alchemy.
• Xiao Yan learned that enough life spirit flame aura had accumulated and went with Little Yao to find it in the Medicinal Herb Field.
• Little Yao located the life spirit flame, and Xiao Yan drew its green flame form into his body and placed his soul imprint within it.
• Xiao Yan reflected that the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame was likely the last ownerless heavenly flame he could find for many years.
• Ye Lingyu rushed over with a blasted medicine cauldron and proudly showed Xiao Yan a foul, highly poisonous concoction, prompting him to resolve to correct her course.

Xiao Yan spent several days teaching Ye Lingyu in Ye City, then arranged a day of rest and sightseeing before giving her a special ruler for her birthday. As several presences approached the medicine shop, Xiao Yan prepared for the performance he had planned.

• Xiao Yan taught Ye Lingyu cultivation methods and Dou Techniques, noting her talent despite her habit of slacking off.
• Xiao Yan invited Ye Lingyu to take a day off, and she guided him around Ye City.
• Xiao Yan gave Ye Lingyu Cold Pity, a ruler forged with a Heavenly Bone Python magic core and infused with a heavenly cold flame.
• Xiao Yan told Ye Lingyu the ruler needed her soul imprint and revealed that he knew it was her birthday through her family.
• Xiao Yan sensed several presences approaching the medicine shop, and Ye Lingyu watched outside with a grave expression.

Xiao Yan staged his own death to make Ye Lingyu take cultivation seriously, then left Ye City with Little Yao. Ye Lingyu began training diligently, but her desire for revenge eventually made her infamous as the Blood Calamity Witch.

• Black-clad Dou Emperors attacked Xiao Yan and Ye Lingyu at the herb shop, and Xiao Yan sent Ye Lingyu to fetch help while he fought them.
• After Ye Lingyu left, Xiao Yan easily killed the attackers and pretended to be mortally wounded when she returned with Ye Family experts.
• Xiao Yan gave Ye Lingyu his Storage Ring and staged his death, leaving her devastated and convinced that her teacher had died protecting her.
• Xiao Yan watched Ye Lingyu mourn at his grave, explaining to Little Yao that he hoped the shock would make her abandon her laziness and take cultivation seriously.
• Xiao Yan and Little Yao left Ye City, while Ye Lingyu's diligence and desire for revenge eventually led her to become the feared Blood Calamity Witch.

Xiao Yan returned to Starfall Pavilion and learned that Zi Yan had gone back to Ancient Dragon Island amid unrest within the Ancient Void Dragon Clan. He found Eastern Dragon Island under siege and prepared to fight his way to Zi Yan.

• Xiao Yan returned to Starfall Pavilion, discovered Zi Yan was gone, and learned from Yao Lao that she had returned to Ancient Dragon Island to help stabilize the clan.
• Xiao Yan suspected the other three Dragon Islands had joined forces against Zi Yan and followed his Soul Imprint to Ancient Dragon Island.
• Xiao Yan found Eastern Dragon Island surrounded by forces from the other three islands, with attempts to escape being driven back.
• Grand Elder Zhu Huo vowed to fight the traitors, while Elder Zhu Li urged Zi Yan to flee to Xiao Yan if defeat became inevitable.
• Zi Yan tried to reassure the elders, who were determined to protect her despite the overwhelming enemy forces.
• Xiao Yan assessed the besiegers and, despite Little Yao’s concern, drew the Xuan Heavy Ruler and prepared to attack.

Xiao Yan arrived at Ancient Dragon Island and used his Xuan Heavy Ruler to kill Xuan Mo with one strike. The Three Great Dragon Kings confronted him, and the North Dragon King urged them to attack together.

• Xiao Yan unleashed his strengthened Xuan Heavy Ruler at the forces surrounding Ancient Dragon Island, and it tore through their defenses.
• Xuan Mo tried to block the ruler with his Dragon Scale Armor, but it shattered his arms and chest and pinned him dead in the Dragon Hall.
• Zi Yan recognized Xiao Yan's weapon as he approached, and the elders realized he had risen from Dou Zun to Dou Sheng.
• The Three Great Dragon Kings confronted Xiao Yan, and the North Dragon King warned that his strength was unusual and called for a combined attack.

Xiao Yan fought the North, West, and South Dragon Kings at once, using his clan mark and a barrage of powerful techniques to hold them off. When the kings expected his energy to run out, Xiao Yan replenished himself with a Heaven Tier cultivation technique and prepared to attack again with Nine Calamity Demon Fist.

• Zi Yan cursed the Three Great Dragon Kings for ganging up on Xiao Yan, while Lie Shan and Zhu Mu blocked Grand Elder Zhu Huo and the other elders from intervening.
• Xiao Yan stunned the three dragon kings with Mad Lion's Roar, activated his clan mark, and drove them back with Ten Prisons Azure Flame Finger.
• The Three Great Dragon Kings launched a combined assault, but Xiao Yan countered their attacks with a series of powerful Dou Techniques.
• The North Dragon King realized Xiao Yan's repeated techniques were draining his Dou Qi, and the three kings hoped to wear him down.
• Xiao Yan absorbed heaven and earth energy to restore himself to peak condition, then lit ten demon marks and prepared to strike with Nine Calamity Demon Fist.

Xiao Yan devastated the North Dragon King with the Nine Calamity Demon Fist, but the North Dragon King summoned reinforcements from the Nine Netherworld Python Clan and Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan. As the new enemies faced Xiao Yan, his Heaven Realm Great Perfection soul clone appeared to confront them.

• The North Dragon King attacked Xiao Yan with Heaven-Shaking Divine Dragon, but Xiao Yan shattered the golden dragon with the Nine Calamity Demon Fist and sent him crashing through a floating island.
• The wounded North Dragon King declared that Xiao Yan and his allies had to be eliminated, then called Yao Tianxiao and Kun Huang for help.
• Yao Tianxiao, Kun Huang, the Nine Netherworld Python Clan chief and Grand Elder, and three Heavenly Demon Phoenixes emerged from a spatial vortex.
• Xiao Yan dismissed the reinforcements as weak, then revealed that he had a soul clone to face them.
• Xiao Yan's Heaven Realm Great Perfection soul clone blasted the reinforcements back and intercepted them.

Xiao Yan fought the Three Great Dragon Kings while his soul clone battled Yao Tianxiao and the Three Heavenly Demon Phoenixes. After taking injuries from the Dragon Kings’ teleport-like pursuit, Xiao Yan revealed that his evasive steps had secretly formed a trap around them.

• The North Dragon King recruited Yao Tianxiao and the Three Heavenly Demon Phoenixes to attack Xiao Yan’s Heaven Realm Great Perfection soul clone, which blocked their combined assault with the God-Slaying Wheel.
• The Three Great Dragon Kings transformed into their true dragon forms and used the Instant Space Escape Art to pursue Xiao Yan, landing several blows despite his evasive movement technique.
• Xiao Yan endured the injuries and mocked the Dragon Kings as an illusory lotus formation enclosed them.
• Xiao Yan revealed that his earlier evasive movements had laid the formation, the Demonic Lotus Burial Step from the Demon Fury Nine Arts.

Xiao Yan used the Demonic Lotus Burial Step to trap the Three Great Dragon Kings in a deadly formation, but the North Dragon King broke it with the forbidden Dragon Transformation Demon Formation. After devouring the others, the North Dragon King reached peak Five-Star strength, leaving Xiao Yan to face a formidable opponent.

• Xiao Yan traced the Demonic Lotus Burial Step’s formation while dodging the Three Great Dragon Kings’ attacks, using their Dou Qi to complete it.
• The Three Great Dragon Kings formed the Dragon Emperor Bell to withstand the illusory lotus’s heat and corrosive power.
• The North Dragon King unleashed a sea of blood that dissipated Xiao Yan’s formation and transformed him into a three-faced monster.
• Zhu Huo identified the transformation as the forbidden Dragon Transformation Demon Formation, which devoured those caught within it to empower its caster.
• The North Dragon King absorbed the other dragon clan members and reached peak Five-Star strength, while Xiao Yan recognized that his own strength had limited the formation’s power.

The North Dragon King used the Dragon Transformation Demon Formation to devour his clansmen, gained power near the level of a Six-Star Dou Saint, and wielded a Fake Dragon Slaying Sword against Xiao Yan. As the elders fought Yao Tianxiao and his allies, Xiao Yan retrieved his Soul Clone and severely wounded the North Dragon King with Annihilation Flame Eyes before launching a multicolored Fire Lotus.

• The North Dragon King revealed his Fake Dragon Slaying Sword and boasted that devouring more Ancient Dragons could help him reach Seven-Star Dou Saint.
• The North Dragon King attacked Xiao Yan, and their weapons clashed with enough force to shatter the surrounding space and send Xiao Yan flying.
• Xiao Yan asked Zhu Huo and the other elders to hold off Yao Tianxiao and his companions, and Lie Shan and Zhu Mu stopped intervening on the North Dragon King's behalf.
• Xiao Yan retrieved his Soul Clone while evading the North Dragon King, then charged Annihilation Flame Eyes and pierced through the North Dragon King's defenses.
• A second Xiao Yan appeared behind the injured North Dragon King and sent a multicolored Fire Lotus toward him.

Xiao Yan battered the North Dragon King with a ten-colored Fire Lotus, then seized the Fake Dragon Slaying Sword and crushed the king’s final blood-energy attack with the Firmament Golden Hand. The North Dragon King was left horrified and seemingly out of options as Xiao Yan demanded to know what else he had.

• Xiao Yan entered the flame storm after launching the Demon Fury Fire Lotus and found the North Dragon King badly wounded but still alive.
• The North Dragon King attacked Xiao Yan with the Fake Dragon Slaying Sword, but Xiao Yan vanished and struck the king’s wrist with the Nine Calamity Demon Fist.
• Xiao Yan’s Soul Clone caught the falling Fake Dragon Slaying Sword and slashed the North Dragon King across the chest.
• The North Dragon King used Blood Dragon Swallows Heaven, sacrificing those trapped in the Dragon Transformation Demon Formation to create a massive blood dragon.
• Xiao Yan unleashed the Firmament Golden Hand and crushed the blood dragon, leaving the North Dragon King terrified by its power.

Xiao Yan devoured the North Dragon King and the surviving members of the three islands, then concealed what had happened from Zi Yan and the others. After securing victory, he killed Yao Tianxiao and the Nine Netherworld Python Clan's grand elder and captured the Three Heavenly Demon Phoenixes, declaring his intent to eliminate the other great magical beast clans.

• Xiao Yan used the Black Dragon Spirit-Devouring Hand to subdue and devour the weakened North Dragon King, absorbing the blood fiend power he had gathered.
• Xiao Yan devoured the survivors trapped in the Dragon Transformation Demonic Formation and took the imitation Dragon Slaying Sword.
• Xiao Yan dispersed the firestorm, and Zi Yan rushed to support him as he pretended the North Dragon King had killed the other survivors.
• Xiao Yan killed the Nine Netherworld Python Clan's grand elder with Annihilation Flame Eyes, then refined Yao Tianxiao and obtained his memories.
• Xiao Yan captured the Three Heavenly Demon Phoenixes and vowed that the Ancient Void Dragon Clan would become the Beast Realm's sole ruler.

After defeating the North Dragon King, Xiao Yan helped Zi Yan reunite and lead the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, then strengthened her with a Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit. Zi Yan reached Dou Sheng and challenged Xiao Yan again, while he prepared to refine the vast energy he had devoured in the Void Lightning Pool.

• After the North Dragon King's defeat, Zhu Mu and Lie Shan exposed his actions, and the surviving dragon clans submitted to Zi Yan as the Four Great Dragon Islands reunited.
• Xiao Yan found the Old Dragon Emperor's records in the storehouse and learned about the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, which could help Zi Yan gain the strength to command the clans.
• Xiao Yan retrieved the fruit from the Dou Saint Ruins, along with the ruins' other treasures, and helped Zi Yan refine it until she reached Dou Sheng.
• Zi Yan challenged Xiao Yan again after her breakthrough, and he defeated her until she admitted she could not continue.
• Xiao Yan used the life spirit flame to grow a second Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, but the sapling burned to ashes afterward.
• Xiao Yan prepared to enter the Void Lightning Pool to refine the energy and resentment of the North Dragon King and the other forces he had devoured.

Xiao Yan absorbed Black Demon Lightning in the Void Lightning Pool, strengthening his body and advancing to Two-Star Dou Sheng before refining the Life Spirit Flame. He broke through to Four-Star Dou Sheng, while Nalan Yanran continued cultivating toward Three-Star Dou Shi.

• Xiao Yan entered the depths of the Void Lightning Pool and absorbed Black Demon Lightning, which initially boosted his cultivation and strengthened his weapons and the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python.
• Xiao Yan spent a month absorbing lightning and blood fiendish aura, reaching Mid-Stage Two-Star Dou Sheng and forming thirty demon marks.
• Xiao Yan stopped absorbing Black Demon Lightning when its benefits weakened, then began refining the Life Spirit Flame.
• Xiao Yan refined the Life Spirit Flame, healed his hidden injuries, strengthened his constitution, and advanced to Four-Star Dou Sheng.
• Nalan Yanran broke through to Two-Star Dou Shi and continued cultivating toward Three-Star Dou Shi.

After reaching the middle Four-Star Dou Sheng stage, Xiao Yan encountered a dragon formed from nine profound golden lightning in the Void Lightning Pool. He decided he wanted to refine the lightning and command it, despite Little Yao warning that it was far too dangerous.

• Xiao Yan assessed his new strength, saw that his Flame Mantra and Dragon Slaying Sword had evolved, and prepared to leave the Void Lightning Pool.
• A dragon of nine profound golden lightning emerged from the pool and attacked Xiao Yan, judging him for devouring the black demon lightning.
• Xiao Yan used the Black Dragon Spirit-Devouring Hand to swallow the golden lightning, but its power overwhelmed him until Little Yao absorbed part of it.
• Xiao Yan refined the remaining energy and advanced from early to middle Four-Star Dou Sheng.
• Little Yao urged Xiao Yan to flee, but he said he wanted to refine the nine profound golden lightning like a heavenly flame.

Xiao Yan fought the Nine Profound Golden Lightning Dragon to seize and absorb its origin. After capturing the dragon’s origin, he swallowed it and was left enduring excruciating pain.

• Xiao Yan gave the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python to Little Yao and charged at the Nine Profound Golden Lightning Dragon.
• Xiao Yan used the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit’s crystallized energy to withstand the dragon’s lightning while advancing through its attack.
• Xiao Yan absorbed a massive lightning bolt with the Black Dragon Spirit-Devouring Hand, suffering severe internal damage as the Life Spirit Flame and Three Thousand Burning Flame took effect.
• Xiao Yan used the Firmament Golden Hand to capture the Nine Profound Golden Lightning Dragon’s origin and reduce it to a palm-sized golden dragon.
• Xiao Yan swallowed the origin, and an unbearable pain erupted inside his body.