Chapter Summaries

Xiao Ce received the Deployment System on his eighteenth birthday, then went with Xiao Yan to meet visitors from the Misty Cloud Sect. Nalan Yanran asked to dissolve her engagement to Xiao Ce, and Xiao Zhan collapsed before he could confront Ge Ye.

• Xiao Ce received the Deployment System, which let him send an avatar into a random bygone era in exchange for rewards based on its achievements.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Ce that his cultivation remained stuck at the third stage of Dou Qi, and Xiao Ce recognized the visitors as Nalan Yanran and the Misty Cloud Sect delegation.
• Xiao Ce and Xiao Yan joined Xiao Xun'er in the main hall, where Ge Ye steered the visitors' conversation toward Xiao Ce's engagement.
• Nalan Yanran said her position as the Misty Cloud Sect's junior sect leader required her to dissolve her engagement to Xiao Ce.
• Xiao Zhan rose in anger as Ge Ye revealed his strength as a Seven-Star Great Dou Master, but Xiao Zhan collapsed before their auras met.

After Nalan Yanran broke off her engagement with Xiao Ce, he repudiated her and challenged her to meet again in three years. He then used his system to deploy as a Nihility Devouring Flame spirit ten thousand years in the past, where he began growing stronger by devouring resources and Heavenly Flames.

• Xiao Zhan collapsed after Nalan Yanran demanded to end the engagement, then told her to do as she pleased.
• Xiao Ce repudiated Nalan Yanran in blood and challenged her to meet him at the Misty Cloud Sect in three years; she accepted and left Qi Gathering Powder as compensation.
• Xiao Ce's family and allies expressed concern and support, while other clansmen eyed the Qi Gathering Powder greedily.
• Xiao Ce activated his system and deployed as a Nihility Devouring Flame spirit in a timeline ten thousand years earlier, awakening with the strength of a Seven-Star Dou Saint.
• Xiao Ce devoured Heavenly Flames and plundered the Stone, Spirit, and Lei clans, creating and refining the Spirit Refining Art while being hunted.
• By year 88, Xiao Ce had reached Early Eight-Star Dou Saint, defeated the Lei Clan leader, seized the Void Lightning Pool, and began devouring Black Devil Lightning.

Xiao Ce completed the deployment settlement and chose an Emperor Flame essence and the Spirit Refining Art as his rewards. He received the cultivation method’s knowledge and absorbed a twenty-two-colored flame.

• The deployment avatar perfected the Spirit Refining Art using the Flame Mantra’s evolutionary properties, then tore a wisp of essence from Tou She Ancient God before self-destructing.
• The system settled the deployment and offered Xiao Ce three rewards: Emperor Flame essence, the Spirit Refining Art, and all learned Dou Techniques.
• Xiao Ce chose the Emperor Flame essence and the Spirit Refining Art.
• The Spirit Refining Art’s information flooded Xiao Ce’s mind as a strange twenty-two-colored flame entered his body.

Xiao Ce learned how the Emperor Flame and Spirit Refining Art could help him grow stronger, then spent a year cultivating with Xiao Yan’s Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid. He reached the Ninth Stage of Dou Qi and considered using the Qi Gathering Powder Nalan Yanran had left behind to break through to Dou Zhe.

• Xiao Ce discovered that his Emperor Flame essence could imitate the effects of other Heavenly Flames and use the fallen heart flame’s heart fire to speed his cultivation.
• Xiao Yan borrowed gold coins from Xiao Ce to buy ingredients for Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid, and later left a bottle of the liquid for him.
• Xiao Ce cultivated with the spirit liquid and fallen heart flame while Xiao Yan, Xiao Xun'er, and Xiao Zhan visited him during the year.
• Xiao Ce reached the Ninth Stage of Dou Qi, one step from Dou Zhe, and recalled that Nalan Yanran had left behind Qi Gathering Powder.

Xiao Ce revealed to Xiao Zhan that he had reached the Ninth Stage of Dou Qi and used the Qi Gathering Powder to break through to Dou Zhe, discovering his fire-and-wood attribute and potential as an Alchemist. He began cultivating the Spirit Refining Art and swallowed the Emperor Flame, leaving its absorption underway.

• Xiao Ce told Xiao Zhan that he had reached the Ninth Stage of Dou Qi and asked for the Qi Gathering Powder.
• Xiao Zhan accepted Xiao Ce's explanation that he had encountered a fortuitous opportunity and gave him the Qi Gathering Powder.
• Xiao Ce used the Qi Gathering Powder and compressed his Dou Qi three times, breaking through to become a One-Star Dou Practitioner.
• Xiao Ce discovered his fire attribute with a trace of wood and gained a deployment opportunity.
• Xiao Ce circulated the Spirit Refining Art until his Dou Qi transformed, then swallowed the Emperor Flame as the cultivation method began circulating madly.

After absorbing the Emperor Flame, Xiao Ce recovered with a stronger body and reached Eight-Star Dou Zhe, then reunited with Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er. Once they left, he reviewed his gains and began his second deployment.

• Xiao Ce absorbed the Emperor Flame, whose Three Thousand Burning Flame energy healed and strengthened his body as he cultivated to Eight-Star Dou Zhe.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er found Xiao Ce after he had been missing for a month and learned that his cultivation had advanced.
• Xiao Ce told Xiao Yan to stop bringing him Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid, and the brothers acknowledged their secrets while affirming their bond.
• Xiao Ce checked his status panel and noted his new physique, mutated fire attribute, and Three Thousand Star Body.
• Xiao Ce activated the system and confirmed that he would begin the second deployment.

Xiao Ce's two-thousand-year deployment followed his rise from an abandoned infant to a seventh-tier alchemist and powerful cultivator, guided by the old man who adopted him. After leaving the Luotian Empire for the Magical Beast Mountain Range, he decided to leave legacies for his original self in the future.

• The straight-browed old man adopted Xiao Ce, taught him alchemy, and watched him advance rapidly in cultivation and pill refining.
• Xiao Ce gave his master a medicinal cauldron for their tenth year together, and his master returned it to him as the Falling Star Cauldron.
• Xiao Ce's fame spread throughout the Luotian Empire as he refined pills up to the seventh tier and reached Three-Star Dou Emperor.
• The straight-browed old man urged Xiao Ce to seek greater opportunities in the Central Plains, and Xiao Ce left the Luotian Empire after kowtowing to him.
• Xiao Ce traveled instead to the Magical Beast Mountain Range and decided to leave legacies there for his original self.

The narrator and Dan Feng built an alchemy faction that grew into a major power, while their cultivation and alchemy advanced. When Dan Feng pointed out that their faction was already called the Pill Tower, the narrator realized they had founded it.

• The narrator subdued a nascent Mysterious Yellow Flame and left a legacy in a hidden valley in the Magical Beast Mountain Range.
• The narrator joined the Profound Pill Sect as an alchemy elder and met Dan Feng, but they were expelled after Dan Feng secretly shared his lessons.
• The narrator and Dan Feng shared legacies, improved their soul power and cultivation, and established a faction to gather medicinal ingredients.
• They met Xuan Dan, and their faction flourished as the three alchemists advanced their skills.
• The narrator returned to the Northwest Continent, aided the little old man, expanded the valley legacy, and brought him to the Central Plains.
• By Year eighty, the faction had become a major force, and Dan Feng revealed that it was called the Pill Tower, stunning the narrator.

The protagonist traveled the continent, advanced his alchemy and cultivation, and ultimately refined a Ninth Grade Golden Pill at the cost of his life. Before vanishing, he left his accumulated knowledge and treasures as an inheritance in the Magical Beast Mountain Range.

• The protagonist gathered alchemical inheritances, increased his cultivation to Seven-Star Dou Saint, and formed a cooperative relationship with the Xiao Clan.
• He reunited with Dan Feng and Xuan Dan, and the three later held a continent-wide Pill Gathering to determine its greatest alchemist.
• During the contest, the protagonist began refining a Ninth Grade Golden Pill, completing it after a year by sacrificing his blood essence and soul origin.
• The Golden Pill took the form of a little girl and called the protagonist Father before fleeing an attack by a Nine-Star Dou Sheng.
• The protagonist said farewell to Dan Feng, Xuan Dan, and One-Brow Old Man, then returned to the Magical Beast Mountain Range and left behind his alchemical inheritance and treasures.
• The protagonist erased his mark from the Mysterious Yellow Flame, promised to return in a thousand years, and turned to dust.

Xiao Ce chose a Ninth Grade Golden Pill with Eight-Star Dou Saint cultivation and his avatar’s peak fire-control skills as his rewards. The Golden Pill appeared as a girl who recognized Xiao Ce as her father and promised to protect him from Hun Tiandi.

• Xiao Ce learned that the Fire Control Technique would directly grant him his avatar’s peak fire-control skills, then chose it and the Ninth Grade Golden Pill over the Soul Origin Fruit.
• Xiao Ce endured the transfer of fire-control knowledge as his Emperor Flame transformed into two flames and eased the pain in his head.
• A girl appeared and recognized Xiao Ce as her father, explaining that Hun Tiandi had hunted her and nearly captured her several times.
• Xiao Ce reassured Golden Pill and claimed he had reincarnated to cultivate anew.
• Golden Pill promised to protect Xiao Ce while keeping her strength below Dou Sheng unless necessary, and Xiao Ce accepted her protection.

Xiao Ce confronted the Xiao Clan’s First Elder over his accusations and exposed the elder’s mishandling of clan resources, then announced he would leave to train. After departing the clan, Xiao Ce summoned the Ninth Grade Golden Pill to open a spatial passage toward the inheritance site in the Magical Beast Mountain Range.

• Xiao Ce learned from Golden Pill that Dan Feng became a nine-star Dou Sheng and Ninth Grade Golden Pill alchemist before dying, Xuan Dan died refining a ninth-grade Xuan Dan, and the old man with the unibrow died of old age.
• Xiao Ce overheard clan members mocking him and Xiao Zhan, then entered the main hall and rebuked the First Elder for attacking his father and misusing clan resources.
• Xiao Ce revealed he was an eight-star Dou Zhe and ordered the First Elder confined; Xiao Zhan backed the order, and the First Elder fainted.
• Xiao Ce told Xiao Zhan he would leave to train for a few months, then informed Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er and promised to return.
• Xiao Ce left the Xiao Clan the next morning and summoned the Ninth Grade Golden Pill in a deserted alley to open a spatial passage toward the Magical Beast Mountain Range inheritance.

Xiao Ce found the hidden valley where he had left his inheritance and began removing the soul barrier guarding its cave. In Qingshan Town, the Mysterious Yellow Flame urgently summoned Xiao Yi Xian and revealed that her master had returned.

• The Ninth Grade Golden Pill guided Xiao Ce to the hidden valley and confirmed that the inheritance site remained intact.
• Xiao Ce discovered a dusty thatched cottage in the valley but decided its former occupant posed no threat.
• The Ninth Grade Golden Pill told Xiao Ce that the Mysterious Yellow Flame had protected his inheritance for more than a thousand years.
• Xiao Ce reached the cave and used his soul power to dissolve the barrier at its entrance.
• The Mysterious Yellow Flame urgently called Xiao Yi Xian back to the valley, then appeared before her and said that her master had returned.

Xiao Ce recovered his hidden inheritance, including a complete alchemical legacy and powerful fire-control techniques, while Mysterious Yellow Flame prepared to leave Xiao Yi Xian and reunite with her master. The chapter ended with Xiao Ce meeting Mysterious Yellow Flame as she arrived in the valley with Xiao Yi Xian.

• Mysterious Yellow Flame told Xiao Yi Xian she would have to leave, and Xiao Yi Xian thanked her for helping her become an alchemist.
• Xiao Ce and the Ninth Grade Golden Pill explored a cave and found a hidden storage ring containing cultivation records, a medicinal cauldron, and two major inheritance scrolls.
• Xiao Ce collected the gold coins and jade bottles, then resolved to obtain the Ancient Jade and prevent anyone else from reaching godhood before him.
• The Ninth Grade Golden Pill sensed Mysterious Yellow Flame approaching, so Xiao Ce left the cave and waited in the valley.
• A Blue Giant Eagle landed in the valley with Xiao Yi Xian on its back, bringing Mysterious Yellow Flame to Xiao Ce.

Xiao Ce reunited with the Mysterious Yellow Flame and met Xiao Yi Xian, giving her a child flame and offering to teach her alchemy. After Xiao Yi Xian left, he revealed the Emperor Flame within him to the Mysterious Yellow Flame and the Ninth Grade Golden Pill, and the Mysterious Yellow Flame suggested an infant Myriad Beast Spirit Flame as a possible target.

• Xiao Ce recognized Xiao Yi Xian and greeted the Mysterious Yellow Flame, who had taken the form of a beautiful woman.
• The Mysterious Yellow Flame explained how she had met Xiao Yi Xian in a valley and offered her a child flame so she could continue refining pills.
• Xiao Ce approved the child flame and offered to teach Xiao Yi Xian alchemy, and she left the valley on Blue Eagle, Xiao Lan.
• Xiao Ce told the Mysterious Yellow Flame and the Ninth Grade Golden Pill that the flame inside him was a wisp of the Emperor Flame's essence.
• The Mysterious Yellow Flame offered to let Xiao Ce absorb her, but he refused because of the time and energy it would require.
• The Mysterious Yellow Flame told Xiao Ce about an infant Myriad Beast Spirit Flame in the Magical Beast Mountain Range and asked whether he wanted to absorb it.

Xiao Ce traveled to the heart of the Magical Beast Mountain Range and obtained the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame after the Ninth Grade Golden Pill defeated the Ice Flame Griffon. Back in his cave, he began absorbing the Heavenly Flame as his second.

• The Mysterious Yellow Flame told Xiao Ce that the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame had formed during a battle between seventh-rank magical beasts and led him to it.
• The Ninth Grade Golden Pill opened a spatial passage, taking Xiao Ce and the Mysterious Yellow Flame to the canyon at the center of the Magical Beast Mountain Range.
• The Ice Flame Griffon attacked them, but the Ninth Grade Golden Pill battered it into submission while the Mysterious Yellow Flame retrieved the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame from a concealed cave.
• The Ninth Grade Golden Pill warned the watching magical beasts away, frightening the Amethyst Winged Lion King into retreating to its cave.
• Xiao Ce returned to his small cave, protected himself with the Emperor Flame, and swallowed the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame's seed to begin absorbing it with the Spirit Refining Art.

Xiao Ce absorbed the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame, advanced to One-Star Dou Shi, and improved his Spirit Refining Art. After a month of training and memorizing alchemy knowledge, he began his third deployment.

• Xiao Ce refined the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame, broke through from Eight-Star Dou Zhe to One-Star Dou Shi, and stored the flame in a Naling space.
• Xiao Ce’s Spirit Refining Art advanced from high-grade Yellow Tier to low-grade Profound Tier, and the Emperor Flame’s powers recovered somewhat.
• Xiao Ce delayed his next deployment to study alchemy techniques, Cultivation Methods, and Dou Techniques so his avatar could use what he learned.
• Xiao Ce practiced the Blazing Flame Sky-Splitting Palm and Flowing Wind Shadow-Stealing Step while settling into a daily routine.
• Xiao Yi Xian visited Xiao Ce twice to ask about herb combinations, and their relationship grew closer.
• After a month, Xiao Ce reached Two-Star Dou Shi and began his third deployment.

Xiao Ce began his third deployment as a Dragon Phoenix born from the royal bloodlines of the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Clan and the Ancient Void Dragon Clan. After both clans rejected him and his father died saving him, he survived in the Hundred Thousand Mountains by developing a cultivation method based on devouring magical beasts, and the story left him meeting Shi Huang.

• Xiao Ce began the deployment and was born with the bloodlines of both the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Clan and the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.
• The Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Clan executed Xiao Ce’s mother, then grew suspicious when he developed slowly and discovered that his bloodlines clashed.
• Xiao Ce’s father rescued him from the clan, died fighting his pursuers, and sent him to the Hundred Thousand Mountains.
• Xiao Ce developed a cultivation method that strengthened him by devouring magical beasts, eventually reaching Tier 3 and awakening his Heavenly Phoenix bloodline advantages.
• Xiao Ce advanced to Fourth-Order Magical Beast and carved out a territory in the Hundred Thousand Mountains.
• Xiao Ce saved an unconscious eight-year-old boy and learned that he was Shi Huang, a descendant of a branch of the Stone Clan.

The narrator rescued Shi Huang, trained him, and became his sworn brother as they grew powerful together. After escaping the Heavenly Eagle Clan’s hunt and cultivating across the Central Plains, they heard that a Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit might have formed in a Beast Region secret realm.

• Shi Huang told the narrator that the Stone Clan’s Dou Di had exterminated his family, and he agreed to become the narrator’s companion and student.
• Shi Huang improved the narrator’s devouring secret art, and the two became sworn brothers after the narrator mistakenly called him his son.
• The narrator and Shi Huang hunted for resources across the Ten Thousand Great Mountains, attracting the Heavenly Eagle Clan, and counterattacked before leaving the region to avoid an ambush.
• The narrator and Shi Huang cultivated in a secret realm, reaching seventh-rank magical beast and Dou Zong respectively, while the Heavenly Eagle Clan’s chief waited in vain to kill them.
• Shi Huang advanced to first-revolution Dou Zun in the Central Plains, while the narrator’s growth slowed, and news arrived of a possible Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit in a Beast Region secret realm.

After Shi Huang was captured by the Stone Clan, you accepted the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s offer to consume the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit in exchange for his release. After a long evolution, you emerged as a Seven-Star Dou Saint during a battle between the Ancient Void Dragon Clan and the Heavenly Phoenix Clan, confronting the clan’s traitorous First Elder.

• You and Shi Huang found the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit in a secret realm but abandoned it because both clans guarded it with powerful fighters.
• After you became an Eighth-Rank Magical Beast, you learned Shi Huang had been captured and traded to the Stone Clan, so you sought help from the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.
• Your grandfather offered to secure Shi Huang’s release if you risked consuming the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, and you accepted.
• Your grandfather brought Shi Huang back from the Stone Clan, while you entered a long slumber as your Heavenly Phoenix and Ancient Void Dragon bloodlines merged.
• When the Heavenly Phoenix Clan attacked Ancient Dragon Island, the First Elder tried to kill you, but you awoke as a Seven-Star Dou Saint and seized his wrist.

After defeating the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Clan and reaching mid-stage Eight-Star Dou Sheng by digesting his enemies, he reunited briefly with Shi Huang and left a cache of secret arts and sealed blood essence in the Northwest Continent. Recovered from his injuries, he set out to attack the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Clan.

• He killed the First Elder, helped the Ancient Void Dragon Clan win the war, and refused his grandfather’s offer to become the next clan leader.
• He entered seclusion and digested five Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Dou Shengs and the First Elder, advancing to mid-stage Eight-Star Dou Sheng.
• He found Shi Huang in the Beast Region, learned he had become a Two-Star Dou Sheng, and parted ways after Shi Huang refused to join him.
• He left his inheritance in the Northwest Continent’s desert, including secret arts and sealed blood essence for his future main body.
• After recovering from his injuries, he left the Northwest Continent to target the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Clan.