Chapter Summaries

Queen Medusa, Yao Ming, Yao Chen, and Xiao Yan returned to the Sovereign King Hall, where Xiao Yi Xian had emerged from seclusion at the peak of the nine-revolutions Dou Zun stage. Yao Chen recognized the poison in her Dou Qi as the legendary heavenly soul poison.

• Yao Ming entrusted the Nine Netherworld Python Clan to its elders and accompanied Queen Medusa, Yao Chen, and Xiao Yan through a Spatial Gate toward the Central Plains.
• The four arrived in the Heavenly Demon Mountain Range and traveled to the Sovereign King Hall, where Gu He and the Heavenly Fire Venerable worried about the Soul Hall’s threat while Medusa was away.
• Xiao Yi Xian emerged from seclusion with the strength of a peak nine-revolutions Dou Zun, having absorbed the poison from a Dou Sheng Corpse and gained its inheritance.
• Xiao Yi Xian mistook the arriving party for Soul Hall invaders and unleashed her poisonous mist, then recognized Queen Medusa and apologized to Yao Ming.
• Yao Ming identified Xiao Yi Xian’s poison as resembling the ancient heavenly soul poison, and Yao Chen explained that it could corrupt both body and soul and even kill a Dou Sheng Expert.

Queen Medusa and the Sovereign King Hall discussed forming an alliance to oppose the Soul Hall, whose leaders included powerful Dou Sheng experts. Xiao Yan proposed recruiting major Central Plains factions and the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, and the chapter ended with him preparing to seek their support using Medusa’s offer of a Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit.

• Yao Ming identified Xiao Yi Xian’s poison as Heavenly Soul Poison and explained that it could kill a Dou Sheng once perfected.
• Queen Medusa led the group into the Sovereign King Hall and described the Soul Hall’s strength, including its Five-Star Dou Sheng Hall Master.
• Xiao Yan proposed forming an alliance of powerful factions, and Chen Xuan endorsed the plan while naming the Burning Flame Valley, Flower Sect, and Pill Tower as potential allies.
• Yao Chen recommended that Queen Medusa personally approach the Pill Tower, and she agreed to visit it.
• Queen Medusa named the Ancient Void Dragon Clan as another potential ally and asked Xiao Yan to approach Zi Yan’s clan.
• Medusa offered the Ancient Void Dragon Clan a Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit if they joined the alliance, and Xiao Yan agreed to visit them.

Chen Xuan traveled to the Pill Tower to recruit it into an alliance against the Soul Hall, while Yao Chen and Xiao Yan prepared to approach other factions. The Pill Tower’s Great Elder agreed to summon the elders for a vote, leaving the alliance’s acceptance undecided.

• Chen Xuan left Yao Ming in charge of Sovereign King Hall and departed with Yao Chen and Xiao Yan for Starfall Pavilion.
• Yao Chen proposed splitting up after they reached Starfall Pavilion, and Chen Xuan showed Xiao Yan the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit before warning him that the Ancient Void Dragon Clan was divided.
• After arriving at Starfall Pavilion, Chen Xuan headed to Sacred Pill City while Yao Chen and Xiao Yan set out for their assigned destinations.
• Chen Xuan met Xuan Kongzi, Tian Leizi, and Xuan Yi at the Pill Tower and asked to see its Great Elder about joining an alliance against the Soul Hall.
• The Great Elder said the Pill Tower’s elders had to vote, and Chen Xuan warned that the Soul Hall threatened every faction before the Great Elder summoned the elders.

Chen Xuan urged the Pill Tower to join an alliance against the Soul Hall, arguing that neutrality would leave it vulnerable to destruction. The Pill Tower elders remained divided, but news of the powerful factions Queen Medusa was gathering left them stunned.

• The Pill Tower Grand Elder summoned seven elders and had Xuan Kongzi explain Queen Medusa’s proposal for an alliance against the Soul Hall.
• The Grand Elder convened a meeting, where most elders opposed joining because it would violate the Pill Tower’s neutrality and risk defeat by the Soul Hall and the Hun Clan.
• Two elders, Xuan Kongzi, Tian Leizi, and Xuan Yi supported the alliance, citing the Soul Hall’s attacks on the Pill Tower and the chance to unite with other powers.
• Chen Xuan rebuked an opponent and argued that the Pill Tower’s survival mattered more than its rules, listing Sovereign King Hall, Starfall Pavilion, and the Nine Netherworld Python Clan as committed allies.
• Chen Xuan said Yao Ming was at Sovereign King Hall, the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s Dragon Emperor was Xiao Yan’s friend, and Yao Chen was seeking support from Burning Flame Valley and the Flower Sect, leaving the elders stunned.

Chen Xuan secured the Pill Tower’s support for the alliance against the Soul Hall by promising Bodhi Great Return Pills, then learned that Burning Flame Valley and the Flower Sect had also agreed to join. The alliance was set to be founded in three days, while Xiao Yan continued seeking the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s support.

• Chen Xuan persuaded the Pill Tower Elders to join the alliance, and the Great Elder agreed to attend its founding ceremony in three days.
• Chen Xuan revealed a Bodhi Great Return Pill and promised to distribute pills made from his nineteen Bodhi Seeds to those who rendered meritorious service.
• Chen Xuan traveled to Starfall Pavilion, where Yao Chen introduced him to the Burning Flame Ancestor and Fairy Hua, representatives of Burning Flame Valley and the Flower Sect.
• Yao Chen told Chen Xuan that Burning Flame Valley and the Flower Sect had agreed to join the alliance, and Chen Xuan reported that the Pill Tower had joined as well.
• Yao Chen explained that Xiao Yan had gone to invite the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, while the group discussed the Pill Tower Ancestor and the alliance’s strength.

Chen Xuan gathered the major factions to establish an alliance against the Hun Clan, and the Ancient Void Dragon Clan arrived with Xiao Yan and its Dragon Emperor, Zi Yan. Zi Yan agreed to consider joining after Chen Xuan presented the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit he had promised her.

• The Pill Tower, Burning Flame Valley, and Flower Sect representatives arrived at the Sovereign King Hall, where Chen Xuan introduced them to Yao Ming and Fairy Qing.
• As Chen Xuan led the visitors toward the main hall, an enormous Ancient Void Dragon appeared, carrying Zi Yan, Elder Qing Mu, and Xiao Yan.
• Elder Qing Mu transformed into human form and greeted Chen Xuan, while Zi Yan revealed that she was the Ancient Void Dragon Clan's Dragon Emperor.
• Chen Xuan invited everyone to discuss an alliance, explaining that its true target would be the Hun Clan and that it would not interfere in members' internal affairs.
• Zi Yan asked whether Chen Xuan would honor his promise to the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, and Chen Xuan showed her the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, which made her and Elder Qing Mu's bloodlines surge.

Chen Xuan founded the Underworld Alliance after the Ancient Void Dragon Clan agreed to join in exchange for the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit. The Soul Hall’s Vice Hall Master appeared to threaten the new alliance, and Chen Xuan was chosen as its leader as the factions prepared to connect their strongholds.

• Elder Qing Mu confirmed the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit was genuine, and Chen Xuan gave it to Zi Yan to secure the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s allegiance.
• Chen Xuan explained that Xiao Yan’s Heavenly Flames could melt the fruit’s solidifying energy so Zi Yan could absorb it safely, and Xiao Yan agreed to help.
• Chen Xuan named the new alliance the Underworld, then confronted a shadowy representative of the Soul Hall who warned that the Hun Clan would destroy them.
• Chen Xuan crushed the Soul Hall representative’s shadow and told the gathered factions to prepare to strike the Soul Hall while the other ancient clans kept the Hun Clan occupied.
• Yao Chen and the other faction leaders named Chen Xuan Underworld Leader, and Chen Xuan ordered them to build space wormholes linking their strongholds to Sovereign King Hall.

As the Underworld Alliance strengthened while the Soul Hall remained quiet, Xiao Yan used the Bodhi Great Return Pill to break through to the Dou Sheng Realm. Chen Xuan then prepared to take Xiao Yan to the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, where Zi Yan was ready to refine the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and the clan planned to reunify its four islands.

• Chen Xuan appointed Xiao Yi Xian to help Yao Chen manage the Underworld Alliance after she emerged from seclusion as a Half-Saint.
• The alliance connected its member powers with Space Wormholes, while Chen Xuan refined the Yellow Springs Demon Saint's blood essence in seclusion to seek greater strength.
• At Starfall Pavilion, Xiao Yan began his breakthrough as Yao Chen, Venerable Feng, Chen Xuan, and the elders stood guard.
• Xiao Yan emerged from a sea of fire as a Dou Sheng, and he thanked Yao Chen for his guidance and Chen Xuan for the Bodhi Great Return Pill.
• Chen Xuan told Xiao Yan that Zi Yan was ready to refine the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and that the Ancient Void Dragon Clan planned to reunite its four islands; Xiao Yan agreed to go with him.

Xiao Yan and Chen Xuan arrived at Eastern Dragon Island as the Ancient Void Dragon Clan prepared for the four islands to converge. Xiao Yan used his Heavenly Flames to dissolve the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit energy encasing Zi Yan, and she emerged with an overwhelming bloodline presence.

• Hei Qing welcomed Xiao Yan and learned that he had become a Dou Sheng and that Queen Medusa had reached Four-Star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yan and Chen Xuan met Elder Zhu Li and Elder Qing Mu, then saw Zi Yan sealed inside crystal after swallowing the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit.
• Chen Xuan judged that Xiao Yan's Heavenly Flames could melt the solidified energy, and Xiao Yan began refining it in a guarded, fire-rich place.
• Xiao Yan spent seven days using his Heavenly Flames to dissolve the crystal within Zi Yan's body.
• Zi Yan emerged from the cauldron radiating immense pressure and a bloodline power that surpassed everyone present.

The Three Great Dragon Kings and their forces invaded Eastern Dragon Island while Zi Yan refined the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit. As the battle erupted and the kings moved to seize Zi Yan, a mysterious attacker struck at them with Yellow Springs Palm.

• Chen Xuan promised Qing Mu that the Underworld Alliance would help reunite the Ancient Void Dragon Clan while Xiao Yan guarded the awakening Zi Yan.
• Xuan Mo, Zhu Mu, and Lie Shan led the Three Great Dragon Islands' forces against Qing Shan, Qing Mu, and Eastern Dragon Island.
• The West, South, and North Dragon Kings arrived and declared their intent to capture the elders and seize Zi Yan.
• The West Dragon King attacked Qing Shan and Qing Mu, but a huge Yellow Springs Palm suddenly struck toward all three Dragon Kings.
• The Three Great Dragon Kings countered the attack with powerful blasts of energy.

Chen Xuan defeated the Three Great Dragon Kings after intervening in the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s conflict. As the North Dragon King began to self-destruct, the story left Eastern Dragon Island facing a catastrophic threat.

• Chen Xuan appeared before the Three Great Dragon Kings and challenged them for defying their sovereign and dividing the clan.
• Chen Xuan used the Yellow Springs Palm and Emperor Seal Art to overpower the Three Great Dragon Kings and send them into a spatial black hole.
• The Three Great Dragon Kings emerged in their injured dragon forms and attacked Chen Xuan, who transformed into a Nine-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python and struck them down with a dark beam.
• The dying North Dragon King began to self-destruct, and Elder Qing Mu warned that the blast could destroy Eastern Dragon Island.

Chen Xuan stopped the North Dragon King’s self-destruction, allowing Qing Shan and Qing Mu to reunite the Ancient Void Dragon Clan under Zi Yan. After learning the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame was about to emerge, Chen Xuan set out with Xiao Yan and Qing Shan, then chose to leave Qing Shan behind to guard the Sovereign King Hall.

• The North Dragon King detonated himself, but Chen Xuan contained the blast with spatial power and the North Dragon King was obliterated.
• Xuan Mo, Lie Shan, and Zhu Mu stopped the fighting and surrendered; Qing Shan and Qing Mu spared the clan rebels and imprisoned the three leaders.
• Over the next three days, Qing Shan and Qing Mu reunited the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, and a week later Zi Yan thanked Chen Xuan for his help.
• Chen Xuan learned that the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame was about to emerge, and Qing Shan warned that its ruins had claimed many powerful experts, including Xiao Chen.
• Zi Yan offered Qing Mu’s help for the expedition, but Chen Xuan chose to enter alone and asked Qing Shan to guard the Sovereign King Hall.
• Chen Xuan, Xiao Yan, and Qing Shan left Ancient Dragon Island through a spatial passage and returned to the Central Plains.

The Underworld Alliance agreed to gather its factions in the Sacred Pill City region to counter the Soul Hall’s attacks and prepare for a decisive confrontation. Chen Xuan ordered the Alliance to relocate within three months and planned to destroy the Soul Hall after subduing the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame.

• Yao Chen reported the Alliance’s heavy losses from Soul Hall attacks and the killing of one Soul Hall Dou Sheng during the defense of Burning Flame Valley.
• Yao Ming proposed gathering the Alliance’s major factions in one place, and the Burning Flame Ancestor, Yao Chen, the Pill Tower Grand Elder, and Fairy Hua supported the plan.
• Chen Xuan arrived with Great Elder Qing Shan and chose Sacred Pill City as the Alliance’s central headquarters, directing the Nine Netherworld Python Clan and Ancient Void Dragon Clan to relocate there.
• Yao Chen explained that the Soul Hall’s Heaven Hall served as its headquarters but that its location remained unknown, so Chen Xuan asked Qing Shan’s clan to help find it.
• Chen Xuan ordered the Alliance to complete its move within three months and declared that it would attack the Soul Hall after he subdued the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame.

The Underworld Alliance completed its relocation to Sacred Pill City, drawing the Soul Hall’s attention as it prepared to confront the alliance. Chen Xuan revealed the Emperor Spirit Grand Formation, which could only be broken by a Dou Di, and the factions began planning how to gather its rare materials.

• The Underworld Alliance’s seven factions relocated most of their forces to Sacred Pill City, and the Pill Tower cleared the surrounding area for their bases.
• The Soul Hall Master learned of the alliance’s consolidation and vowed to destroy it after dealing with the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame.
• Chen Xuan told the assembled alliance leaders they needed to complete another task before moving against the Soul Hall, then revealed the Emperor Spirit Grand Formation scroll.
• Yao Chen, Xiao Yan, and the other leaders celebrated the formation’s strength, but their excitement faded when they saw how rare its required materials were.
• The Burning Flame Ancestor offered several materials from Burning Flame Valley’s treasury, and Zi Yan said the Ancient Void Dragon Clan had the needed treasures in abundance.
• Chen Xuan urged the alliance to construct the formation as soon as possible.

Chen Xuan prepared to claim the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame as it descended, while the Underworld Alliance continued building its formation and guarding against the Soul Hall. He and Xiao Yan reached the area where the flame appeared, with Xiao Yan hoping to rescue his ancestor Xiao Chen from the ruins.

• Chen Xuan completed the Nine Yin Yellow Springs Pill and discussed the dangers of taking the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame with Queen Medusa.
• The Underworld Alliance learned that experts across the Central Plains were heading for the demon flame, then watched twin moons and nine aligned stars herald its return.
• Chen Xuan estimated the flame's strength and told Xiao Yan that Xiao Chen might still be alive as one of its Fire Slaves.
• Chen Xuan left the alliance in Yao Chen and the Pill Tower Grand Elder's hands, then departed with Xiao Yan to pursue the demon flame.
• Chen Xuan and Xiao Yan arrived within a thousand miles of the flame's descent, and Chen Xuan led the way toward it.

Chen Xuan and Xiao Yan waited at the Demon Fire Plains as the Soul Hall and the Gu, Yan, Lei, and Yao Clans arrived to pursue the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame. The shattered space erupted with light and a thunderous roar, signaling that the Demon Fire Space was opening.

• Chen Xuan and Xiao Yan reached the milky-white desert and waited near the shattered space where the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame’s heat poured through.
• Hun Miesheng arrived with two Soul Hall experts and assessed Chen Xuan and Xiao Yan as potential threats.
• The Gu, Yan, Lei, and Yao Clans emerged from the void, and Xiao Yan reunited with Xun’er.
• Xun’er explained that the Gu Clan had limited its delegation because the Demon Fire Space made weaker fighters a burden and barred experts above Five-Star Dou Sheng from intervening.
• Gu Nanhai spoke with Chen Xuan about the Gu Clan’s opposition to the Hun Clan, while Chen Xuan remained confident he could suppress Hun Miesheng.
• A vast ring of light burst from the shattered space, and the assembled experts turned their attention toward its opening.

Chen Xuan and the others entered the Demonic Flame Space, endured the Dream Demon Sky Fog and fought through its Fire Slaves. A Spatial Gate separated Chen Xuan from the group, and he faced Xiao Chen, the suppressed ancestor of the Xiao Clan, in a hall deeper inside.

• Chen Xuan entered the Demonic Flame Space with Xiao Yan, Xun'er, and the others, but an illusion separated him from the group.
• Chen Xuan identified the Dream Demon Sky Fog and helped the group awaken from its illusion before they continued deeper.
• The group passed through the fog and fought through a vast swarm of Fire Slaves, while Xiao Yan searched for Xiao Chen among them.
• A Spatial Gate appeared before Chen Xuan, and he entered it; Xiao Yan and the others continued onward without him.
• Chen Xuan found Xiao Chen, whose Four-Star Dou Sheng aura was suppressed, and the two clashed with a blood-red axe and a Fangtian Painted Halberd.

Chen Xuan fought Xiao Chen until Xiao Yan’s Xiao Clan Mark restored Xiao Chen’s clarity, then led the group toward the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame. Chen Xuan exposed the throne-room confrontation as a Dream Demon Sky Fog illusion and broke it, revealing the group back in the Magma Sea.

• Xiao Chen’s Xiao Clan Mark appeared as he fought Chen Xuan, and their battle grew more intense while Xiao Chen gradually regained strength.
• Xiao Yan, Xun’er, Gu Nanhai, and the others arrived; Xiao Yan revealed his own Xiao Clan Mark and stopped the fight, restoring Xiao Chen’s full clarity.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Chen that the Xiao Clan had been destroyed and Xiao Xuan had fallen; Xiao Chen then led the group toward the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame.
• At the altar, the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame challenged the group, but Chen Xuan recognized the Dream Demon Sky Fog illusion and warned that following its staged path would make them fire slaves.
• Chen Xuan revealed that he also knew the Dream Demon Sky Fog and broke the illusion, leaving the group facing the Magma Sea again.

Chen Xuan broke the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame’s Dream Demon Sky Fog, but the Demon Flame sealed the space and trapped the gathered clans inside a fiery prison. As the factions fought his Fire Slaves, Chen Xuan’s group stayed untouched, and Chen Xuan recognized Hun Feng’s ability to swallow Heavenly Flames as the power of the Nihility Devouring Flame.

• Chen Xuan broke the Dream Demon Sky Fog with the Demon-Breaking Seal, freeing Xiao Yan and the experts of the ancient clans.
• The Purifying Lotus Demon Flame erased the spatial passage and summoned Heavenly Fire Refinement, trapping everyone inside a prison of flames.
• The Demon Flame’s power caused some experts to explode, then he brought forth ten Dou Sheng Fire Slaves and declared that the gathered fighters would become his collection.
• Hun Miesheng urged the factions to cooperate, but Chen Xuan told his group to fight only if a Fire Slave attacked them.
• The Fire Slaves attacked other factions instead, while Xiao Chen sensed Chen Xuan had influenced them and Hun Feng fought two slaves while swallowing their Heavenly Flames.
• Chen Xuan recognized Hun Feng’s flame-devouring ability as the power of the Nihility Devouring Flame.

Chen Xuan and the assembled experts fought the purifying lotus demon flame while Fire Slaves attacked the others. After the Soul Hall Master sealed the flame in a black sphere, Chen Xuan seized it, provoking the Soul Hall Master's fury.

• Chen Xuan joined the battle against the purifying lotus demon flame, and seven Four-Star Dou Sheng experts attacked it together.
• Several Dou Sheng-tier Fire Slaves self-detonated, killing more than half the experts who had entered the Demonic Flame Space.
• The Soul Hall Master activated the Heavenly Net Demon Sealing Array, and the experts poured their energy into it to seal the purifying lotus demon flame.
• After ten minutes, the array contracted into a black sphere, and the purifying lotus demon flame fell silent inside it.
• Chen Xuan seized the sealed sphere before anyone could react, and the Soul Hall Master angrily accused him of claiming the demon flame for himself.