Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan returned from the Misty Cloud Sect after Hai Bodong defeated Yun Shan, then began refining pills for Medusa, her unborn child, and the Heavenly Fire Venerable. Sun Buxiao drew inspiration from alchemy and tested his strength against pill lightning, while the chapter ended with Xiao Yan beginning the next pill for Medusa.

• Hai Bodong overwhelmed Yun Shan, and Xiao Yan later told Sun Buxiao that Yun Shan only let them pass after the group beat him into submission.
• Sun Buxiao explained that people feared him and that his reputation was good among the Heavenly Poison Gate and Jia Nan Academy, then watched Xiao Yan begin refining the Heavenly Soul Blood Fusion Pill.
• Sun Buxiao used Xiao Yan's alchemy principles to consider balancing his soul and body with an external source of supreme yang, such as a Thunder Pool.
• Xiao Yan successfully refined the Heavenly Soul Blood Fusion Pill, and Sun Buxiao charged into its pill lightning to test his body and spare the pill from damage.
• Medusa swallowed the pill, causing her unborn child to briefly produce a powerful heartbeat and a serpent's cry; Xiao Yi Xian quietly asked Sun Buxiao what kind of child they might have.
• Xiao Yan agreed to refine the Everlasting Soul Bright Platform Pill next, and the Heavenly Fire Venerable said he could wait while Xiao Yan returned to the pill-refining room.

Sun Buxiao surrendered the Xiao Clan’s Ancient Jade Fragment and soul solution to Hun Miesheng, who appointed him an Elder of the Hall of Souls. After Hun Miesheng departed, Sun Buxiao planned to head for the Central Plains while leaving Heavenly Fire Venerable to help secure the Northwest.

• Sun Buxiao prepared Earth Demon Old Ghost’s corpse as a body for Heavenly Fire Venerable’s resurrection, then sensed a terrifying presence and hid Yao Lao and Heavenly Fire Venerable in his storage rings.
• Sun Buxiao met the unseen Dou Sheng and claimed he wanted to join the Hall of Souls, offering the Fallen Heart Flame, soul solution, and Xiao Clan’s Ancient Jade Fragment as proof and payment.
• Hun Miesheng revealed himself as the Hall of Souls’ master, appointed Sun Buxiao an Elder, extracted a strand of his soul, and ordered him to reach Dou Zun within ten years.
• After Hun Miesheng left, Sun Buxiao examined his Elder’s robe, tokens, resources, and duties, including collecting powerful souls and setting up the Myriad Soul Devouring Spirit Array.
• Sun Buxiao told Yao Lao he intended to manipulate the Hall of Souls and head to the Central Plains, while asking the resurrected Heavenly Fire Venerable to guard the Northwest.

Sun Buxiao took control of the Hall of Souls branch in the Black-Corner Region and planned to undermine it from within while protecting the Heavenly Poison Gate. He also learned how resurrection reshaped the body around the soul, as preparations continued for the Central Plains journey.

• Medusa worried that the Heavenly Poison Gate’s ties to a Dou Sheng endangered the Snake-People Tribe, but Sun Buxiao reassured her before leaving with Xiao Yi Xian.
• Sun Buxiao asserted his authority over the Black-Corner Region branch, learned how it sent reports to the Central Plains, and submitted a scroll supporting Protector Xuan.
• Sun Buxiao discovered the branch’s mission list targeted him and the Heavenly Poison Gate, revealed his identity, and ordered Xiao Yi Xian to quietly eliminate the branch’s lackeys.
• Sun Buxiao asked Yao Lao how resurrection affected a person’s body and bloodline, and Yao Lao explained that the soul shaped the restored body while both body and soul mattered for strength.
• Sun Buxiao discussed the coming journey to the Central Plains with Yao Lao, including bringing Zi Yan and delaying Flame Kid until he settled matters with Medusa and his child.

Sun Buxiao returned to the Black-Corner Region after tormenting Yun Shan and visiting nearby empires, then swallowed Bodhi Body-Transforming Saliva. The substance triggered a dangerous breakthrough toward a Heaven-Realm Soul, leaving Yao Lao and the others to protect the Heavenly Poison Gate as Sun Buxiao’s progress remained uncertain.

• Sun Buxiao removed Protector Wu’s Soul Imprint from Yun Shan, kept Yun Shan for experiments, and said he would also visit Xie Biyan and Yan Luotian to establish his authority.
• After touring neighboring empires for less than three months, Sun Buxiao returned and learned that Xiao Yi Xian and Zi Yan had been sparring.
• Xiao Yi Xian defeated Zi Yan through her Woeful Poison Body, and Sun Buxiao reunited with them before Xiao Yi Xian gave him the Bodhi Body-Transforming Saliva she had traded for.
• Sun Buxiao swallowed the Bodhi Body-Transforming Saliva, whose power surged through his body and soul as he began approaching a Heaven-Realm Soul.
• Yao Lao warned that Sun Buxiao’s breakthrough could endanger everyone nearby and gathered the others to shield the Heavenly Poison Gate square while the outcome remained unclear.

Sun Buxiao used the Bodhi Body-Transforming Saliva to strengthen his soul and create a Bodhi Seed, then stopped the fallen heart flame from devouring him. He fused it with the netherworld poison flame into a new, dangerous heavenly flame and entered meditation as his cultivation continued to rise.

• The fallen heart flame tried to devour Sun Buxiao during his soul breakthrough, but his netherworld poison flame shielded him while Xiao Yi Xian and the others failed to reach him.
• Sun Buxiao formed a Bodhi Seed as he refined the Bodhi Body-Transforming Saliva, then seized the fallen heart flame with his powerful soul.
• Xiao Yi Xian ordered the disciples away, and Xiao Yan raised a dome of heavenly fire to protect Sun Buxiao from interference.
• Sun Buxiao used the Bodhi Seed to guide the netherworld poison flame as it devoured the fallen heart flame and combined their properties.
• Sun Buxiao swallowed the new pinkish-gray flame seed and the Bodhi Seed, then entered meditation while his body and dou qi grew stronger.

After emerging from a month of seclusion with a stronger body and a new Heavenly Flame, Sun Buxiao prepared to leave the Northwest for the Central Plains. He departed with Xiao Yi Xian and Zi Yan, while Xiao Yan began cultivating to grow strong enough to join them later.

• Sun Buxiao awoke after a month and three days, discovered his cultivation had reached eight-star Dou Zong, and tested his strength by shattering the sect plaza before Zi Yan broke his arm in an arm-wrestling match.
• Sun Buxiao revealed the Netherworld Heart-Burning Flame, and Xiao Yan asked for a Heart Demon Seed so he could confront his Inner Demon and pursue a breakthrough to Dou Zong.
• Half a month later, Sun Buxiao convened the Heavenly Poison Gate elders, announced his departure for the Central Plains, appointed Yao Tianhuo to oversee the sect, and warned both humans and the Snake-People Tribe against provoking one another.
• Sun Buxiao discussed concealing Zi Yan's aura from hostile Ancient Void Dragons, entrusted Bai Kun with refining three Lizardman corpses, and asked Yao Lao to look after Xiao Yan.
• Sun Buxiao, Xiao Yi Xian, and Zi Yan left for Tianya City, where they planned to use the nearest known Space Wormhole to reach the Central Plains.

Sun Buxiao, Xiao Yi Xian, and Zi Yan reached Tianya City and negotiated with Luo Cheng to repair the Luo Family’s space wormhole in exchange for a lucrative partnership. As Zi Yan worked on the wormhole, Sun Buxiao outlined their plans for the Central Plains, including contacting the Hall of Souls, finding Venerable Feng, and pursuing a goal involving Zi Yan.

• Sun Buxiao and his companions arrived in Tianya City, where Luo Cheng explained that the Luo Family’s space wormhole had malfunctioned.
• Sun Buxiao offered to inspect the wormhole, and Luo Cheng agreed to pay three seventh-rank magic cores, which Sun Buxiao arranged for Yao Tianhuo and Yalong to collect.
• Zi Yan identified severe damage to the wormhole’s spatial nodes, demonstrated her ability to enter and repair them, and promised to restore the wormhole.
• Sun Buxiao and Luo Cheng signed a contract giving the Heavenly Poison Gate thirty percent of the wormhole’s revenue and establishing a profitable magic-core and pill business partnership.
• Xiao Yi Xian asked about their plans for the Central Plains, and Sun Buxiao named the Hall of Souls, Venerable Feng, and a goal concerning Zi Yan.