Chapter Summaries

Chen Cang defeated the three thousand burning flame in their soul clash and captured its origin flame seed. He chose to replace the sea heart flame with it, leaving the sea heart flame outside his body to be devoured safely.

• Chen Cang used the Dragon Seal to absorb the three thousand burning flame’s attacks and power, then pressed his palm to its brow and absorbed it into the seal.
• Chen Cang broke the soul space and found the three thousand burning flame’s consciousness defeated, allowing him to seize its origin flame seed.
• Chen Cang decided to replace the sea heart flame in his body with the three thousand burning flame while keeping the green lotus core flame and fallen heart flame in place.
• Chen Cang extracted the sea heart flame from his body so it could be devoured by the three thousand burning flame outside him.

While Chen Cang refined the Three Thousand Burning Flame inside the Star Domain, his allies prepared for their own journeys and the Pill Tower began moving against the Soul Hall. After months of tempering, Chen Cang absorbed the flames and broke through to Dou Zun, with his strength still rising.

• Venerable Feng arrived at the Pill Tower, and Tian Leizi later led Pill Tower experts with Feng Xian toward the Northwest Continent to rescue Yao Chen.
• Xiao Yi Xian left alone for the Ancient Tomb after the Pill Tower's Three Giants refused to weaken the Star Domain's defenses.
• Zi Yan invited Queen Medusa, Dan Chen, the Void Pegasus Beast, and White Ape to Dragon Island, and Queen Medusa accepted.
• After months of refining the Three Thousand Burning Flame, Chen Cang formed a giant from the flames and drew its power back into himself.
• Chen Cang crossed the Dou Zun barrier and continued advancing as fiery storms churned through the Star Domain.

Chen Cang refined the Three Thousand Burning Flame, broke through to Three-Star Dou Zun, and gathered the remaining flames into Fire Thunder Seeds. He emerged from the Star Domain as the Pill Tower prepared to fight, leaving the experts to learn that he had survived.

• Chen Cang completed his breakthrough to Three-Star Dou Zun after refining the Three Thousand Burning Flame for five months and eighteen days.
• The Heavenly Fire Venerable told Chen Cang that the Heavenly Demon Puppet had reached its limit and could rival a Six-Star Dou Zun.
• Chen Cang compressed the remaining flames into a Fire Thunder Seed and continued crafting more.
• Xuan Kongzi and Xuan Yi led the Pill Tower experts to prepare for the Three Thousand Burning Flame's possible rampage.
• Chen Cang stepped out of the Star Domain's spatial rift and told Xuan Kongzi not to worry.

After emerging from the Star Domain as a Three-Star Dou Zun, Chen Cang learned that the Pill Tower had destroyed a Soul Hall branch in the Northwest Continent and that Feng Xian had found Xiao Yan. As Chen Cang prepared to leave for the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, the Soul Hall contacted him through his Soul Token.

• Chen Cang emerged from the spatial rift, and Xuan Kongzi welcomed him after sensing his breakthrough to Three-Star Dou Zun.
• Xuan Yi explained that Xiao Yi Xian was training while Cai Lin and the others had gone to Ancient Dragon Island.
• Xuan Kongzi told Chen Cang that Tian Leizi had destroyed a Soul Hall branch in the Northwest Continent but found little valuable inside, raising suspicions of a leak within the Pill Tower.
• Xuan Yi reported that Feng Xian had found Xiao Yan in the Jia Ma Empire, but Xiao Yan and Yao Chen had chosen to delay returning to the Central Plains.
• Chen Cang confirmed that he planned to leave for the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, and Xuan Kongzi warned him to watch out for the Soul Hall.
• Chen Cang sensed a message on his Soul Token, left the Pill Tower, and received an order to come to the main hall.

Chen Cang met Hun Miesheng in the Soul Realm, where the Soul Hall Master tested his cultivation method and offered him rewards and future advancement. Hun Miesheng gave Chen Cang Alchemy Manuals and hinted that reaching Half-Saint and the ninth tier could earn him a role in the Soul Clan’s major undertaking.

• Chen Cang followed a path through the mist and arrived on a mountain overlooking a vast city in the Soul Realm.
• Hun Miesheng introduced himself as the Soul Hall Master and praised Chen Cang’s cultivation, alchemy, and command of three Heavenly Flames.
• Hun Miesheng asked to examine Chen Cang’s method and offered him a future Tenth Heavenly Venerable position and a child flame in exchange.
• Chen Cang shared an outdated, unfinished version of his cultivation method and explained how to practice it.
• Hun Miesheng judged the method dangerous and difficult, then gave Chen Cang more than a dozen Alchemy Manuals as a reward for infiltrating the Pill Tower’s upper ranks.
• Hun Miesheng urged Chen Cang to reach Half-Saint and the ninth tier so he could join the Soul Clan’s major undertaking and meet the Clan Leader.

Chen Cang welcomed Zi Yan and the others back from Dragon Island, where they had gained considerable strength, and agreed to depart for the Ancient Ruins in three days. He planned to help Zi Yan obtain the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and, afterward, visit Jia Nan Academy and return to the Jia Ma Empire.

• Chen Cang studied the Soul Clan’s notebooks from eighth-rank Alchemy Grandmasters until familiar auras arrived at Sacred Pill City.
• Great Elder Qing Shan introduced himself as the leader of the party, and Chen Cang agreed to leave for the Ancient Ruins in three days.
• Chen Cang saw that Queen Medusa, Qing Lin, Zi Yan, the Snow Demon Heavenly Ape, and the Void Pegasus Beast had grown much stronger during their time on Dragon Island.
• Chen Cang visited Medusa, discussed returning to the Northwest Region after the Ancient Ruins, and planned to take Zi Yan to Jia Nan Academy to seek the Old Dragon Emperor.

Chen Cang led Great Elder Qing Shan and the others into the Beast Region to locate the Ancient Ruins hidden in the Beast Bone Mountain Range. Qing Shan concealed their arrival and went to investigate the Nine Netherworld Python Clan, where he sensed something deeper than its two visible Dou Shengs.

• Chen Cang gave his companions final instructions, then shared Heavenly Demon Phoenix blood essence with the magical beasts and had Qing Shan seal the Phoenix remains to hide their auras.
• Qing Shan opened a spatial gateway, bringing Chen Cang, Queen Medusa, Zi Yan, and the others from the Pill Region to the Beast Region in less than half a day.
• Hei Qing explained the Beast Region's clans and advised Queen Medusa that the Nine Netherworld Python Clan's approval would matter if her Snake-People Tribe migrated there.
• Chen Cang identified the Ancient Ruins' location in the Beast Bone Mountain Range, and the group traveled there under Qing Shan's concealment.
• Qing Shan sealed the area in a hidden temporary space, then went alone to investigate the Nine Netherworld Python Clan's stronghold.
• Qing Shan found only two one-star Dou Shengs in the clan's grand hall, sensed something deeper in the Nether Serpent Earth Vein, and headed toward the Nine Nether Yellow Springs.

Great Elder Qing Shan rescued Yao Ming, who began fighting Yao Xiaotian and the Nine Netherworld Python Clan's other Dou Sheng, giving the group a chance to enter the Ancient Ruins. Chen Cang and the others passed the ruins' traps, collected ten Earth Demon Puppets, and reached the opening stone door, where Qing Shan reaffirmed that Eastern Dragon Island would take only the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit.

• Great Elder Qing Shan revealed that he had rescued Yao Ming from the Nine Nether Yellow Springs, and Yao Ming agreed to serve the Ancient Dragon Tribe as he fought Yao Xiaotian and the clan's other One-Star Dou Sheng.
• As the battle shook the Nether Snake Mountain Range, Great Elder Qing Shan broke the Ancient Ruins' spatial seal and led Zi Yan, Chen Cang, Medusa, and the others inside.
• Great Elder Qing Shan neutralized the ruins' spatial storm and broke the seal protecting the crimson Giant Hall, then shielded the group from its magma and blue-flame passage traps.
• Chen Cang recognized that the real path lay beneath the magma, and Great Elder Qing Shan opened the hidden passage and led the group to a plaza guarded by ten Earth Demon Puppets.
• Hei Qing fought the puppets while Chen Cang refined all ten and stored them in his Storage Ring.
• The stone door beyond the plaza began to open, and Great Elder Qing Shan told Chen Cang that Eastern Dragon Island would take only the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit.

Chen Cang and his companions explored the Ancient Ruins, claiming its techniques, puppets, and Dou Sheng skeleton while learning of the Ancient Dragon Clan’s former power. After they left the ruins, Chen Cang revealed that the place where Zi Yan could refine the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit was connected to her father, the Old Dragon Emperor.

• Great Elder Qing Shan led Chen Cang, Zi Yan, Queen Medusa, and Hei Qing to the ruins’ main hall, where they found a Dou Sheng skeleton, ten sealed techniques, and thirteen powerful puppets.
• Great Elder Qing Shan captured the ten light spheres, and Chen Cang stored their High Earth Tier techniques and cultivation methods.
• Hei Qing fought the thirteen puppets while Chen Cang and his Demon Puppets helped; Chen Cang subdued and refined all thirteen Ancient Human Puppets.
• Zi Yan found a seal hiding a Heaven Tier technique in the skeleton’s ribs, but Chen Cang chose to store the skeleton and its throne so he could preserve the remains’ one-star Dou Sheng safeguard.
• Great Elder Qing Shan opened a spatial rift and led the group out of the Ancient Ruins; Chen Cang then said the place where Zi Yan could refine the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit concerned her father, the Old Dragon Emperor.