Chapter Summaries

Yao Chen and his companions reached Queen Medusa as she fought the Scorpion Demon Three Fiends over the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame Fragment Map. Chen Xuan killed all three and recovered the map from Heavenly Scorpion's Storage Ring, then left with Yao Chen and the others.

• Yao Chen explained that the Scorpion Demon Three Fiends used young women as flesh cauldrons and warned that the three brothers could contend with a Half-Saint together.
• Yao Chen, Xiao Yan, Gu He, and Yue Mei arrived as Chen Xuan faced the badly wounded Heavenly Scorpion, Earth Scorpion, and Human Scorpion.
• Chen Xuan rejected Heavenly Scorpion's offer to surrender the fragment map and launched another attack.
• The Scorpion Demon Three Fiends combined their power and summoned the Thick Earth Bell, but Chen Xuan's Heaven Devour attack pierced through it and killed them.
• Chen Xuan took the fragment map from Heavenly Scorpion's Storage Ring and told Yao Chen and the others to leave with him.

Chen Xuan and Queen Medusa completed the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame map, met the Pure Lotus Demon Saint’s remnant, and received his life’s insights. As Chen Xuan vowed to reach Dou Di within ten years, news of the Bodhi Ancient Tree sent factions across the Central Plains rushing toward the Desolate Ancient Grounds.

• Experts arrived at the site where the Scorpion Demon Three Fiends had died and feared the unknown power that had destroyed the mountains.
• Chen Xuan returned to the Sovereign King Hall and used the Green Lotus Core Flame to reveal the complete map’s hidden message about the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame’s appearance.
• The map transformed into a light orb, and the Pure Lotus Demon Saint’s remnant appeared before Chen Xuan and Queen Medusa, recognizing their two souls in one body.
• The Pure Lotus Demon Saint shared his life’s experiences and urged Chen Xuan and Queen Medusa to pursue the Dou Di realm before his remnant fell silent.
• Chen Xuan promised Queen Medusa they would reach Dou Di within ten years, while news of the Bodhi Ancient Tree stirred factions across the Central Plains into action.

Chen Xuan traveled to the Vast Desolate Ancient Region for the Bodhi Ancient Tree and encountered Gu Xun'er and the young experts of the Eight Ancient Clans. After joining Hun Yu's expedition into the forest, Chen Xuan led the group into a swarm of deadly poisonous insects.

• Chen Xuan arrived in Desolate Town ahead of the other major experts and waited as hundreds of Dou Zun gathered near the Vast Desolate Ancient Region.
• Chen Xuan recognized the young experts of the Eight Ancient Clans and spotted Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran among the Flower Sect delegation.
• Gu Xun'er introduced herself to Chen Xuan, praised his help to Xiao Yan, and invited him to join Hun Yu's expedition into the ancient region.
• Chen Xuan joined Gu Xun'er, Gu Qingyang, Gu Yan, and the others at the front of the gathering before thousands of experts charged into the forest.
• Chen Xuan identified the black mist as poisonous insects that could bypass Dou Qi barriers, then led Gu Xun'er and the Gu Clan experts into the swarm.

Chen Xuan and the Gu Clan reached the Ancient Domain Platform, where Hun Yu proposed an alliance to break through the beast tide and reach the Bodhi Ancient Tree. As Hun Yu led hundreds of experts north, Chen Xuan joined them, intending to use the group as cover and seize the initiative.

• Chen Xuan used Queen Medusa's green lotus core flame to clear a path through the poisonous insects, and the group entered the Vast Desolate Ancient Region.
• The group crossed the ravine, fought off Fierce Beasts, and reached the Ancient Domain Platform after two days of travel.
• Nine Phoenix proposed joining forces against the beast tide on the Hun Clan's behalf, and Hun Yu urged the assembled factions to form an alliance.
• About half the experts agreed to Hun Yu's proposal, while Gu Xun'er and the others suspected he planned to use them as cannon fodder.
• Hun Yu led hundreds of experts north toward the beast tide, and Chen Xuan left the Gu Clan group to join them.

Chen Xuan used overwhelming power to clear a path through the beast tide, then vanished and left Hun Yu and the other experts exposed to the beasts. Hun Yu ordered his surviving Hun Clan followers to retreat as the formation collapsed.

• Chen Xuan led the charge into the beast tide and slaughtered the beasts at its outer edge while Hun Yu’s formation advanced behind him.
• As stronger beasts overwhelmed the faltering formation, Chen Xuan unleashed a devastating attack that annihilated nearly a thousand beasts and gave the experts room to advance.
• Hun Yu and the Hun Clan elders decided to use Chen Xuan to clear the way, planning to summon reinforcements with a spatial scroll after breaking through the tide.
• Chen Xuan urged the experts forward, then disappeared as the group reached the tide’s center, where powerful beasts began killing and scattering them.
• Hun Yu realized Chen Xuan had left them to face the beasts alone and ordered his remaining followers to retreat.

Chen Xuan and Queen Medusa reached the Bodhi Ancient Tree and discovered that an ancient Dou Di’s negative emotions had corrupted it. After Chen Xuan and his clones destroyed the five Half-Saint puppets guarding the Bodhi Heart, he turned toward the tree, still facing the threat of its tainted consciousness.

• Hun Yu and Nine Phoenix regrouped after escaping the beast horde and planned to gather more experts before breaking through to pursue Queen Medusa.
• Chen Xuan crossed the beast horde and arrived at the Bodhi Ancient Tree, where he explained that a slain ancient Dou Di’s negative emotions had corrupted it.
• Chen Xuan and Queen Medusa spotted the Bodhi Heart behind the tree and faced five Half-Saint puppets that emerged from its branches.
• The five puppets attacked, but Chen Xuan used the Emperor Seal Art and created two equally powerful clones with One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones.
• The three Chen Xuans overwhelmed and destroyed the five Half-Saint puppets, then Chen Xuan turned his attention to the Bodhi Ancient Tree.

Chen Xuan entered the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s illusion and faced the Dou Di’s lingering negative emotions, which tried to possess him. The Pure Lotus Demon Saint intervened, destroying the threat, and Chen Xuan returned to Queen Medusa as the Bodhi Ancient Tree offered him its aid.

• The Bodhi Ancient Tree drew Chen Xuan inside and trapped him in an illusion that conjured his imagined future as a Dou Di.
• Chen Xuan recognized the illusion and shattered it after defeating three illusory Dou Sheng-level Fierce Beasts.
• The Dou Di’s negative emotions left the Bodhi Ancient Tree and invaded Chen Xuan’s sea of consciousness, threatening to possess him.
• The Pure Lotus Demon Saint emerged from Chen Xuan’s sea of consciousness, suppressed and annihilated the negative emotions, and returned to the sphere of light.
• Chen Xuan regained consciousness, explained the illusion to Queen Medusa, and asked the Bodhi Ancient Tree to help her.

Hun Yu and Nine Phoenix tried to interrupt Chen Xuan’s enlightenment beneath the Bodhi Ancient Tree, but the tree’s power repelled them. Hun Yu then tried to rally the gathered experts into attacking, while Xiao Yan resisted his manipulation and remained focused on saving his father, Xiao Zhan.

• Hun Yu, Nine Phoenix, Xiao Yan, and the other experts reached the Bodhi Ancient Tree and found Chen Xuan seated inside it, absorbing its emerald energy.
• Hun Yu and Nine Phoenix attacked the tree to disrupt Chen Xuan’s enlightenment, but its power struck them back and left them injured.
• Gu Xun’er and Gu Qingyang concluded that the tree was protecting Chen Xuan and that the group would have to wait for him to awaken.
• Hun Yu urged the gathered experts to attack Chen Xuan together and seize the Bodhi Heart and Bodhi Seeds, but a White-Haired Elder exposed his attempt to use them as cannon fodder.
• Hun Yu taunted Xiao Yan by revealing that Xiao Zhan remained in the Soul Realm, but Gu Xun’er calmed Xiao Yan, who resolved to keep Hun Yu on his death list.

After three months of enlightenment beneath the Bodhi Ancient Tree, Chen Xuan awakened as a Dou Sheng and claimed the Bodhi Heart. He unleashed his Devouring Annihilation technique against the assembled experts, but a Hun Clan Dou Sheng intervened to rescue Hun Yu, Nine Phoenix, and the others.

• Hun Yu and Nine Phoenix stirred the trapped experts toward attacking the Bodhi Ancient Tree, but Chen Xuan awakened before they could act.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree gave Chen Xuan the Bodhi Heart, which he placed in his Storage Ring despite Hun Yu's protests.
• Hun Yu urged the other experts to surround Chen Xuan and take the treasure, while Xiao Yan's group and the Gu Clan stayed apart.
• Chen Xuan revealed his Dou Sheng power and used Devouring Annihilation, erasing numerous experts as the attack spread.
• A withered hand emerged from the void and seized Hun Yu, Nine Phoenix, and the others as Chen Xuan challenged the rescuer.

Chen Xuan broke through to One-Star Dou Sheng, drove off a Hun Clan expert, and received Bodhi Seeds from the Bodhi Ancient Tree after restoring it with sunlight divine water. After Yao Chen and Elder Tong Xuan arrived and warned him about the Hun Clan and the Dou Sheng Pact, the others departed, leaving Chen Xuan with the spoils of the journey.

• Chen Xuan clashed with a Hun Clan Dou Sheng who rescued Hun Yu, Nine Phoenix, and the others, then withdrew rather than continue fighting.
• Xiao Yan, Gu Qingyang, and the others congratulated Chen Xuan on reaching One-Star Dou Sheng, and Chen Xuan thanked the Bodhi Ancient Tree for helping him break through.
• Chen Xuan gave the Bodhi Ancient Tree sunlight divine water, prompting it to produce twenty-four Bodhi Seeds; he kept nineteen and gave one each to Xiao Yan and the others.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree sank beneath the earth, and Chen Xuan explained to Queen Medusa that the water could restore its essence and help perfect its intelligence.
• Yao Chen and Elder Tong Xuan arrived, and Elder Tong Xuan warned Chen Xuan about the Hun Clan and reminded him to obey the Dou Sheng Pact.
• Elder Tong Xuan departed with Gu Qingyang and the others, while Yao Chen and Xiao Yan also took their leave, leaving Chen Xuan alone with his gains.

Chen Xuan weighed how to distribute the Bodhi Heart, then used the Bodhi Seeds to refine a Ninth-Grade Pill while Queen Medusa’s breakthrough to Dou Sheng shook the Central Plains. The pill survived its lightning tribulation and appeared in Queen Medusa’s likeness, leaving Chen Xuan and Sovereign King Hall’s experts astonished.

• Chen Xuan struggled to choose who should receive the Bodhi Heart until Queen Medusa suggested refining the Bodhi Seeds into pills to distribute alongside it.
• Chen Xuan began refining the Bodhi Pills, while news of Queen Medusa’s Dou Sheng breakthrough spread across the Central Plains and Sovereign King Hall waited for her to emerge from seclusion.
• Black demon lightning gathered over the Great Hall, and Gu He recognized it as the tribulation of a Ninth-Grade Pill being refined.
• Chen Xuan confronted the black lightning with the power of a Dou Sheng, destroyed the lightning storm, and repaired the shattered space around Sovereign King Hall.
• A Ninth-Grade Treasure Pill emerged from the Great Hall in Queen Medusa’s form, and Chen Xuan explained that the pill could assume human shape.

After refining the Ninth-Grade Treasure Pill Bodhi Great Return Pill, Chen Xuan gathered the experts of the Sovereign King Hall and awarded Yue Mei the Bodhi Heart. He promised the others Bodhi Great Return Pills if they reached the peak of the nine-revolutions Dou Zun level, then resolved to pursue another bloodline evolution.

• Chen Xuan captured the human-form Ninth-Grade Treasure Pill and revealed it was a Bodhi Great Return Pill with twice the effect of a Bodhi Pill.
• Chen Xuan learned that Xiao Yi Xian had remained in seclusion for nearly a year after absorbing the poison from the Dou Sheng Corpse.
• Chen Xuan showed the assembled experts the Bodhi Heart and explained that he had not needed it to break through to Dou Sheng.
• Chen Xuan chose Yue Mei to receive the Bodhi Heart, and the gathered experts accepted his decision.
• Chen Xuan promised to give a Bodhi Great Return Pill to anyone who reached the peak of the nine-revolutions Dou Zun level.
• Chen Xuan considered the Hun Clan's strength and decided it was time to evolve his bloodline further.

Chen Xuan brought Yue Mei to the Nine Nether Yellow Springs to seek Yellow Springs Blood Crystal, refine his bloodline, and prepare to subdue the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame. Deep beneath the waters, they heard a prisoner calling for help, and Chen Xuan recognized the chance to find Yao Ming.

• Chen Xuan took Yue Mei into the Beast Region and concealed their auras as they traveled toward the Nine Nether Yellow Springs.
• Chen Xuan and Yue Mei reached the sacred pool at the bottom of a chasm and entered its icy waters under the protection of the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Chen Xuan absorbed the Nine Nether Yellow Springs' chilling energy to replenish his Dou Qi, while Yue Mei slowly cultivated in the gentler energy he left behind.
• A faint voice called for help from deeper in the waters, and Chen Xuan led Yue Mei toward it, believing he had found Yao Ming.

Chen Xuan and Yue Mei found Yao Ming imprisoned in the depths of the Nine Nether Yellow Springs, where Chen Xuan secured his submission and obtained a yellow springs blood crystal. Chen Xuan destroyed the source of Yao Ming’s seal, freeing him and alerting Yao Xiaotian in the Nether Serpent Earth Vein.

• Chen Xuan and Yue Mei fought through the strange black snakes in the Nine Nether Yellow Springs and reached its deepest region.
• Chen Xuan uncovered Yao Ming, the former Nine Netherworld Python Clan leader, bound by four chains and sealed in black sludge.
• Yao Ming agreed to submit to Chen Xuan in exchange for freedom and help reclaiming his clan, and Chen Xuan placed a soul seal on him.
• Yao Ming gave Chen Xuan his remaining yellow springs blood crystal and explained that the yellow springs yin stone was sustaining his imprisonment.
• Chen Xuan erased the yellow springs yin stone and its chains with a sphere of dark energy, breaking Yao Ming’s seal.
• Yao Xiaotian sensed the seal breaking inside the Nether Serpent Earth Vein and reacted with shock.

Chen Xuan freed Yao Ming from the Nine Nether Yellow Springs and defeated Yao Xiaotian when he arrived to stop them. Yao Ming swallowed Yao Xiaotian whole, then vowed that the Great Elder would not escape either.

• Chen Xuan broke Yao Ming’s chains, gave him medicine, and took him out of the Nine Nether Yellow Springs.
• Yao Xiaotian confronted Chen Xuan and Yao Ming, but Chen Xuan overwhelmed his attacks and defeated him.
• Chen Xuan restrained Yao Xiaotian and handed him over to Yao Ming.
• Yao Xiaotian begged for mercy and blamed the Great Elder, but Yao Ming said neither of them would escape.
• Yao Ming summoned a black snake that swallowed Yao Xiaotian whole, surprising Chen Xuan and Yue Mei.

Yao Ming recovered and confronted the Nine Netherworld Python Clan’s Great Elder, exposing the plot that had imprisoned him and reclaiming control of the clan with Chen Xuan’s help. After the Great Elder was killed, Yao Ming invited Chen Xuan to stay and asked whether he had heard of the Yellow Springs Demon Saint.

• After swallowing Yao Xiaotian, Yao Ming meditated and recovered most of his strength, then reaffirmed his agreement with Chen Xuan.
• The Nine Netherworld Python Clan’s elites arrived, and Yao Ming revealed himself to them and accused the Great Elder of helping Yao Xiaotian imprison him.
• Yao Ming displayed the Nine Netherworld Staff, identified the traitors, and defeated the Great Elder in battle.
• The Great Elder tried to escape by hiding his magic core in a clone, but Chen Xuan found and restrained his soul clone with his soul and spatial power.
• Yao Ming swallowed the Great Elder, ordered the clan elders to deal with the remaining traitors, and regained control of the clan.
• Yao Ming invited Chen Xuan to stay and asked him whether he had heard of the Yellow Springs Demon Saint.

Chen Xuan entered the Yellow Springs Stone Tablet to claim Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s blood essence and inheritance. Yellow Springs Demon Saint gave him both the blood essence and his Emperor Realm soul origin, which Chen Xuan began absorbing.

• Yao Ming told Chen Xuan that the Yellow Springs Stone Tablet held Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s blood essence and inheritance, and asked him to open it in exchange for a portion of the blood essence.
• The next morning, Yao Ming led Chen Xuan and his companion to the altar in the Back Mountain, where Chen Xuan sent his soul into the tablet.
• Chen Xuan overcame the tablet’s trials and met Yellow Springs Demon Saint, who learned that Chen Xuan already possessed his three signature techniques.
• Chen Xuan explained that the disappearance of Origin Emperor Qi had prevented Dou Shengs from reaching the Dou Di realm and declared that he would become a Dou Di.
• Yellow Springs Demon Saint gave Chen Xuan his blood essence and dissolved the tablet’s world to offer him a portion of his Emperor Realm soul origin.
• Chen Xuan sat down to absorb Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s soul origin power.

Chen Xuan refined the soul power in the Yellow Springs Stone Tablet and reached the late Heaven Realm, then discovered the ruins of the Nine-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python beneath the Nine Nether Yellow Springs. After sharing the Yellow Springs Demon Saint's blood essence with Yao Ming and Yue Mei, he took Yue Mei underground and descended toward the ruins as Queen Medusa sensed a call from her ancient kin.

• Chen Xuan spent several days refining the soul river inside the Yellow Springs Stone Tablet while Yue Mei and Yao Ming waited outside.
• Chen Xuan emerged after forty days with late Heaven Realm soul power, then used it to locate the Nine-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python ruins beneath the Nine Nether Yellow Springs.
• Chen Xuan divided the Yellow Springs Demon Saint's blood essence among himself, Yao Ming, and Yue Mei, then asked Yao Ming for permission to use the Yellow Springs.
• Chen Xuan and Yue Mei returned to the Nine Nether Yellow Springs, where Yue Mei began cultivating while Chen Xuan descended into a deep fissure.
• Queen Medusa told Chen Xuan that something was calling to her, and Chen Xuan explained that the call likely came from the Nine-Colored Heaven Swallowing Pythons.

Medusa followed a call into the Sky-Swallowing Python ruins, where an ancestor’s remnant souls helped her evolve into a Nine-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python and reach three-star Dou Sheng. After two years in seclusion, she and Chen Xuan returned to the surface, where the Nine Netherworld Python Clan elders welcomed her back.

• Medusa entered an ancient palace and met the remnant soul of a Sky-Swallowing Python ancestor, who explained the clan’s failed attempt to produce a Dou Di.
• The ancestors’ souls entered Medusa and helped her evolve her bloodline into the Nine-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python over two years of cultivation.
• Medusa reached three-star Dou Sheng and left the ruins with Chen Xuan after discovering that Yue Mei had advanced to Half-Saint while cultivating at the Nine Nether Yellow Springs.
• Medusa emerged from the Nine Nether Yellow Springs, and the Nine Netherworld Python Clan elders recognized her and paid their respects.

Medusa emerged from seclusion as a Three-Star Dou Sheng and learned from Yao Chen and Xiao Yan that the Soul Hall was preparing a major attack while the Stone Clan and Spirit Clan had mysteriously vanished. After Chen Xuan identified the Nine-Star Dou Sheng nihility devouring flame as responsible, Medusa secured Yao Ming’s support and set out for the Central Plains.

• Medusa emerged from seclusion, and Yao Ming sensed that she had advanced from One-Star to Three-Star Dou Sheng.
• Yao Ming told Medusa that Yao Chen and Xiao Yan were waiting for her, and she went with him to meet them at the clan palace.
• Yao Chen explained that the Soul Hall had expanded its operations across the continent and was planning a large-scale attack on Starfall Pavilion and Sovereign King Hall.
• Yao Chen and Xiao Yan revealed that the Stone Clan and Spirit Clan had disappeared, and Chen Xuan identified the nihility devouring flame as the culprit.
• Medusa told Yao Ming that the Nine Netherworld Python Clan must join the coming battle, received his promise of support, and left with Yao Chen and Xiao Yan for the Central Plains.