Chapter Summaries

Chen Xuan freed Yao Ming by destroying the Yellow Springs Yin Stones that powered his chains. As they emerged from the lake, Yao Xiaotian confronted them and threatened to kill them both.

• Chen Xuan used a concentrated Heavenly Flame to pierce a Yellow Springs Yin Stone, snapping the chains that held Yao Ming.
• Yao Xiaotian sensed the seal breaking and rushed to stop Yao Ming from escaping while the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Clan prepared to follow.
• Chen Xuan gave Yao Ming medicinal pills to restore his Dou Qi, and Yao Ming pledged the Nine Serene Deep Ground Pythons to Chen Xuan.
• Chen Xuan and Yao Ming passed through the strange snakes and escaped the lake without further trouble.
• Yao Xiaotian appeared above the lake, confronted Yao Ming and Chen Xuan, and sealed the surrounding space with his Dou Saint aura.

Chen Xuan confronted Yao Xiaotian after Yao Ming was freed from the Nine Serene Yellow Springs. He revealed overwhelming Five-star Dou Sheng power, leaving Yao Xiaotian terrified and questioning who he was.

• Yao Ming vowed revenge on Yao Xiaotian for imprisoning and torturing him beneath the Nine Serene Yellow Springs.
• Chen Xuan told Yao Ming to recover while he faced Yao Xiaotian, whom he planned to capture and recruit.
• Yao Xiaotian attacked Chen Xuan with a massive frigid palm, confident that his Dou Sheng strength would overpower him.
• Chen Xuan unleashed Five-star Dou Sheng power and destroyed Yao Xiaotian's attack with glass-colored flames.
• Yao Xiaotian and Yao Ming were dumbfounded by Chen Xuan's strength, and Yao Xiaotian asked who he was.

Chen Xuan overwhelmed Yao Xiaotian and the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Clan’s Great Elder while Yao Ming recovered his strength and revealed himself to the clan. The elders began to recognize Yao Ming, leaving Yao Xiaotian’s attempt to discredit him in doubt.

• Chen Xuan struck Yao Xiaotian through his defenses and sent him crashing into the icy lake.
• The Great Elder and the clan’s experts arrived, but Chen Xuan attacked them and defeated them with Ice Heaven Frozen Earth.
• Yao Ming asked Chen Xuan to spare the tribal leaders and told them to stop fighting, revealing his restored appearance.
• Yao Xiaotian claimed Yao Ming was an impostor and urged the elders to activate the grand formation.
• Elder Xian, Elder Ming, and Elder Liu recognized Yao Ming by his aura, shocking Yao Xiaotian and the Great Elder.

Yao Ming revealed the Nine Serene Scepter and exposed Yao Xiaotian’s betrayal, while Chen Xuan defeated and controlled the traitors. Chen Xuan gave Yao Ming a Bloodline Pill, and Yao Ming began awakening his bloodline before the astonished clan elders.

• Yao Ming showed the elders the Nine Serene Scepter and recounted how Yao Xiaotian had sealed him in the Nine Serene Yellow Springs.
• Yao Xiaotian urged the elders to activate the grand formation, but Chen Xuan warned them away and attacked Yao Xiaotian and the Great Elder.
• Chen Xuan used his full power to freeze Yao Xiaotian and the Great Elder, then applied Puppet Jade Talismans to them.
• Yao Ming told Chen Xuan that fully awakening his bloodline could raise his strength to Four-star Dou Sheng in a short time.
• Chen Xuan gave Yao Ming a Ninth-grade Bloodline Pill, and Yao Ming swallowed it and began refining its power as the elders watched excitedly.

After Yao Ming made the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Clan acknowledge Chen Xuan as master, he led Chen Xuan to the Yellow Springs Stone Tablet, which held the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s inheritance. Chen Xuan entered the tablet’s strange space and confronted the Demon Saint’s remnant soul.

• Yao Ming reached Three-star Dou Sheng after taking the Bloodline Pill and ordered the clan to serve Chen Xuan, while Yao Xiaotian and the elders declared their allegiance.
• Chen Xuan promised Bloodline Pills and Saint Origin Pills to clan members and tribes that met his requirements.
• Yao Ming told Chen Xuan that the Yellow Springs Stone Tablet contained the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s essence blood and Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath, a Heaven-tier High-grade Combat Skill.
• Yao Ming led Chen Xuan to the tablet, and Chen Xuan sent his soul inside after telling Yao Ming to keep others away.
• Chen Xuan overcame the tablet’s lightning, finger, and palm attacks before a yellow-robed remnant soul appeared and warned him to leave.

Chen Xuan defeated the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s remnant soul and obtained his inheritance. After absorbing the soul with the Godslayer Spear, Chen Xuan left with the Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath technique and Demon Saint Essence Blood.

• Chen Xuan challenged the Yellow Springs Demon Saint for Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath and the Demon Saint Essence Blood, dismissing the remnant soul as no threat.
• The Yellow Springs Demon Saint attacked with soul power and countless giant palms, but Chen Xuan shattered them with his Heavenly Flame-enhanced soul.
• The Yellow Springs Demon Saint summoned his true form and unleashed Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath, which destroyed Chen Xuan’s giant soul body.
• Chen Xuan emerged unharmed, summoned the Godslayer Spear, and attacked the weakened Yellow Springs Demon Saint.
• The Godslayer Spear devoured the Yellow Springs Demon Saint, and Chen Xuan received the cultivation technique and golden essence blood before leaving.

Chen Xuan refined the Yellow Springs Demon Saint Essence Blood and broke through to the Dou Sheng realm. Afterward, Yao Ming told him about a mysterious woman who threatened the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Clan and an approaching Ancient Ruins, prompting Chen Xuan to head for the Boneyard Mountain Range.

• Chen Xuan swallowed the Yellow Springs Demon Saint Essence Blood and endured its violent energy as he refined it into his body.
• Chen Xuan absorbed the gathered energy of heaven and earth, advancing from peak six-star Dou Zun through the Half-Saint stages and finally breaking through to Dou Sheng.
• After leaving the Nine Serene Yellow Springs, Chen Xuan learned from Yao Ming that a mysterious woman with Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils had controlled and abducted members of the clan.
• Yao Ming told Chen Xuan that an Ancient Ruins was about to emerge, and Chen Xuan decided to seek its treasures.
• Chen Xuan prepared for the journey and headed to the Boneyard Mountain Range.

Chen Xuan arrived at the Boneyard Mountain Range to enter the Ancient Ruins and watched the spatial seal break, killing many who rushed in too soon. Near the crimson great hall, he spotted Feng Qing'er and approached her, while she warned the White-haired Man that Chen Xuan was the mysterious magical beast who had beaten Yao Chen.

• Chen Xuan reached the Boneyard Mountain Range and waited with the gathered forces for the Ancient Ruins to open.
• The spatial seal shattered, and its violent eruption killed many people who charged toward the entrance.
• The surviving crowd flew across the bone sea and found a massive crimson great hall, but no one dared approach its entrance.
• Chen Xuan recognized Feng Qing'er and decided to greet his future wife.
• Feng Qing'er told the White-haired Man that Chen Xuan was the mysterious magical beast who had beaten Yao Chen, and the White-haired Man's group watched Chen Xuan warily as he approached.

Chen Xuan confronted Feng Qing'er and seized a White-haired Man who attacked him, forcing Feng Qing'er to claim she was Chen Xuan's woman to save him. The onlookers were left astonished and curious about Chen Xuan's identity.

• Chen Xuan approached Feng Qing'er and taunted her by calling her his wife, drawing the attention of nearby factions.
• The White-haired Man charged Chen Xuan, but Chen Xuan appeared behind him and grabbed him by the neck before the Wind Thunder Pavilion experts could intervene.
• Chen Xuan threatened to kill the White-haired Man if the experts came closer, while Feng Qing'er and a Black-clothed Elder warned him against harming their companion.
• Chen Xuan demanded that Feng Qing'er admit she was his woman, then used a Heavenly Flame to torture the White-haired Man when she refused.
• Feng Qing'er finally shouted that she was Chen Xuan's woman, shocking the surrounding crowd.

Chen Xuan entered the Ancient Ruins, bypassed its deadly fire passage, and seized medicinal herbs and a Soul Infant Fruit from other visitors. He left with a new subordinate, Ao Qing, whom he persuaded to follow him by offering a Form Transformation Pill.

• A crimson gate opened, and the first people to rush into the passage were killed by magma and blue flames.
• Chen Xuan covered himself with Heavenly Flames, entered the fire passage, and discovered that diving through the magma led to a different route.
• Chen Xuan crossed a square filled with powerful puppets and gathered medicinal herbs in an Ancient Forest, driving off anyone who challenged him.
• Chen Xuan defeated a peak seventh-tier magical beast and took the Soul Infant Fruit from the Soul Infant Demonic Tree.
• Chen Xuan threatened the beast, a Sky-Penetrating Flood Dragon, and persuaded it to become his lackey by offering a Form Transformation Pill.
• After the Flood Dragon took human form, Chen Xuan named him Ao Qing and led him deeper into the ruins.

Chen Xuan and Ao Qing discovered a hidden altar bearing a mysterious fruit formed from the auras of a Primordial Void Dragon and a Heavenly Demon Phoenix. Feng Qing'er recognized it as the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit, and the White-haired Man reacted with intense fervor.

• Chen Xuan followed Ao Qing's sense of powerful bloodline pressure into the Ancient Deep Forest and found a concealed Beast Spirit Shield.
• Chen Xuan shattered the golden barrier with a Four-Colored Fire Lotus, revealing a blood-red plain and an ancient altar.
• Chen Xuan and Ao Qing found a golden-purple fruit shaped like a Primordial Void Dragon and a Heavenly Demon Phoenix atop the altar.
• Ao Qing sensed that the fruit could stimulate his bloodline and greatly increase his strength.
• Feng Qing'er and her group arrived, and Feng Qing'er identified the fruit as the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit.
• The White-haired Man stared at the fruit and became intensely fervent.

Feng Qing'er and her companions challenged Chen Xuan for the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit, but he defeated all six Dou Zun experts with overwhelming force. He claimed the fruit and said he would bring it to the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan as a betrothal gift when he asked for Feng Qing'er's hand.

• Feng Qing'er and her group found Chen Xuan beside the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit and refused to leave without it.
• Feng Qing'er, the White-haired Man, the Black-robed Elder, and two other Dou Zun experts joined forces to challenge Chen Xuan.
• Chen Xuan shattered the Black-robed Elder's Heavenly Phoenix Fist with his Yellow Springs Finger, forcing all six experts to combine their strength to stop it.
• Chen Xuan struck the group with his Yellow Springs Palm, sending all six flying and leaving them injured and terrified.
• Chen Xuan claimed the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit and told Feng Qing'er he would offer it as a betrothal gift when he went to the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan to ask for her hand.

Feng Qing'er retreated with the Black-robed Elder and planned to summon Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan experts to reclaim the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit from Chen Xuan. Chen Xuan and Ao Qing searched the great hall for treasures, and Chen Xuan discovered a strange white creature in the Pill Hall that he realized was a pill.

• Feng Qing'er and the Black-robed Elder left to notify the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, intending to return with experts to take the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit.
• Chen Xuan led Ao Qing back through the stone gate and continued searching the great hall, promising to give Ao Qing a Bloodline Pill to improve his chances of transforming into a dragon.
• Chen Xuan and Ao Qing followed the scent of pills to the Pill Hall and searched its first two floors without finding useful pills.
• Chen Xuan took Poison-Dispelling Pills before entering the poisonous third floor and searched its Pill Chambers.
• Chen Xuan spotted a plump white creature in a ruined chamber and realized it was a pill.

Chen Xuan tried to capture a peak Grade 8 Pill Beast in the Pill Chamber, but a mysterious woman and fighters from the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Clan interrupted him. He killed the woman, drove the others away, and captured the Pill Beast.

• Chen Xuan identified the furry creature as a peak Grade 8 Pill Beast and had Ao Qing guard the Pill Chamber entrance.
• The Pill Beast tried to escape, while Chen Xuan pursued it and Ao Qing blocked its way out.
• A black-clad figure attacked Ao Qing from behind, but Chen Xuan struck her and repelled her companions, who were experts of the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Clan.
• Chen Xuan blocked the black-clad figure’s Soul Seize with Three Thousand Burning Flame, seized her, and revealed her face.
• Chen Xuan killed the young woman with Three Thousand Burning Flame, causing the other people on the third floor to flee.
• Chen Xuan sealed the Pill Chamber and captured the Pill Beast.

Chen Xuan reached the Ancient Ruins’ main hall, where a Dou Saint skeleton and sealed treasures awaited. As the seals weakened, the Soul Hall arrived and demanded everything, but Chen Xuan challenged its experts and claimed the treasures for himself.

• Chen Xuan and Ao Qing found the vast main hall, where they saw more than a dozen sealed light spheres and a jade-white Dou Saint skeleton.
• Chen Xuan noticed the Soul Hall’s dangerous-looking puppets guarding a stone seat as experts from major Central Plains factions gathered for the treasures.
• Star-Plucking Old Ghost arrived with three other Dou Zun experts and ordered everyone to leave, claiming the Soul Hall would take everything.
• Chen Tiannan objected to the Soul Hall’s demand, but Star-Plucking Old Ghost threatened to destroy the Xuanming Sect.
• Chen Xuan declared that the treasures belonged to him and said he would defy even the Soul Hall Master, prompting Star-Plucking Old Ghost to demand his identity.

Chen Xuan overpowered Star-Plucking Old Ghost and three other Hall of Souls experts, then destroyed the puppets guarding the hall's treasures. When Star-Plucking Old Ghost’s blood awakened the Dou Saint skeleton, it unleashed a roar that killed two Hall of Souls experts, and Chen Xuan watched it warily.

• Star-Plucking Old Ghost attacked Chen Xuan, who crushed his strike with Yellow Springs Finger and wounded him and the three experts who came to help.
• The seals around the balls of light disappeared, and more than a dozen puppets attacked Chen Xuan.
• Chen Xuan blasted the puppets away, then destroyed them with a blue sphere of lightning.
• Star-Plucking Old Ghost tried to reach the Dou Saint skeleton, but spatial spikes pierced his palm and his blood was absorbed by the skeleton.
• The skeleton’s eyes glowed red, and its roar killed two Hall of Souls experts as Star-Plucking Old Ghost and the others retreated.

Chen Xuan killed Star-Plucking Old Ghost and destroyed the blood-red Dou Saint skeleton, taking three ribs inscribed with strange characters. As he left the ruins, he found major Central Plains factions gathered at the entrance, including Xiao Xun'er and Zi Yan, who had come to avenge Xiao Yan.

• After the skeleton’s sonic wave killed two Dou Zun experts, Star-Plucking Old Ghost blamed the crisis on the skeleton and urged everyone to join forces against it.
• Chen Xuan ignored Star-Plucking Old Ghost’s plea and killed him and the remaining Soul Hall expert with the Yellow Springs Palm.
• A blood-red skeleton emerged from the mist and attacked the intruders with the Great Heaven Creation Palm, but Chen Xuan overwhelmed it and collected three ribs bearing strange characters.
• Chen Xuan searched the ruined halls, found nothing else of value, and headed toward the entrance.
• Experts from several Central Plains factions gathered outside the ruins, including the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, the Ancient Clan, the Pill Tower, Blazing Flame Valley, and the Lei Clan.
• Zi Yan joined Xiao Xun’er and vowed to avenge Xiao Yan by killing the person inside the ruins.

Chen Xuan left the Ancient Ruins and faced a coalition of powerful factions seeking revenge and the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit. After he repelled Zi Yan’s attack, the coalition realized his displayed strength did not match what they had heard.

• Chen Xuan warned Ao Qing to leave the ruins last and stay away from the enemies waiting outside.
• Chen Xuan emerged from the Ancient Ruins and found Xiao Xun'er, Mang Tianchi, Pill Tower experts, the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, Green Mountain, and others surrounding him.
• Chen Xuan challenged the gathered factions for coveting his Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit, which sparked a dispute between Green Mountain and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.
• Zi Yan charged Chen Xuan to avenge Xiao Yan, and Green Mountain rushed to protect her.
• Chen Xuan struck at Zi Yan with Yellow Springs Finger, but Green Mountain blocked the attack and was driven back.
• The coalition saw Chen Xuan's Dou Sheng power and suspected he had concealed his true strength.

Chen Xuan used his power to overwhelm the six Dou Sheng experts who had surrounded him. Xiao Xun'er and Zi Yan escaped through a spatial rift, while Chen Xuan swallowed the remaining fighters.

• The Pill Tower Ancestor attacked Chen Xuan as the other experts spread out to block his escape.
• Chen Xuan boosted his strength with the Five-star Dou Sheng Experience Card, the Three Mysterious Changes of Heavenly Flame, and the Berserk skill.
• As the group charged together, Gu Nanhai and Green Mountain self-destructed to open a spatial rift, allowing Xiao Xun'er and Zi Yan to escape.
• Chen Xuan's Emperor Spear Art: Sweeping Through Armies grievously wounded the Pill Tower Ancestor and the other remaining experts.
• The Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan fled with Feng Qing'er, while Chen Xuan trapped the wounded experts in Heavenly Flames and devoured them.

Feng Qing'er warned the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan that Chen Xuan might become a powerful enemy, while Hun Tiandi also marked him as a threat. After reaching the late stage of Five-star Dou Sheng and strengthening the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Clan, Chen Xuan prepared to visit the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan under the pretense of proposing marriage, intending to make them submit.

• Feng Qing'er told Huang Tian and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan elders that Chen Xuan had overwhelmed their opponents and might be as strong as a Nine-star Dou Sheng.
• Huang Tian dismissed the elders and kept Feng Qing'er behind to discuss how the clan could reconcile with Chen Xuan.
• Hun Tiandi and the black flame discussed capturing Chen Xuan for the Heavenly Flames he possessed.
• Chen Xuan refined the Pill Tower Ancestor and other Dou Shengs, raising his cultivation to the late stage of Five-star Dou Sheng.
• Chen Xuan strengthened the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Clan with Bloodline Pills and planned to lead its experts to the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan to demand their submission under the guise of proposing marriage.