Chapter Summaries

Chen Xuan confronted Old Man Shennong in the Shennong Mountain Range after discovering that he possessed the Flame of Life. Chen Xuan overwhelmed him in battle as the Yao Clan’s experts arrived and recognized Chen Xuan.

• The Linen-robed Elder sensed Chen Xuan’s Heavenly Flame and learned that Chen Xuan had killed the Pill Tower Ancestor.
• Chen Xuan revealed that he had come for the Medicinal Herbs but decided to take the Linen-robed Elder’s Heavenly Flame as well.
• The Linen-robed Elder summoned the Flame of Life and attacked Chen Xuan with a green flaming beast.
• Chen Xuan countered with a dark golden fire dragon, overpowering the Linen-robed Elder and shaking the Shennong Mountain Range.
• The Yao Clan’s experts arrived, and the Yao Clan Chief identified Chen Xuan as the killer of Yao Xingji.

Chen Xuan defeated and swallowed Old Man Shennong, then refined him and the Flame of Life to advance to early Eight-star Dou Sheng. He went to the Yao Clan headquarters and demanded the Turtle Spirit Earth Flame.

• Yao Dan told the Yao Clan experts to keep their distance rather than risk confronting Chen Xuan while he fought Old Man Shennong.
• Chen Xuan overwhelmed Old Man Shennong with his Golden-Green Flame, swallowed him, and drove the Yao Clan experts to flee.
• Chen Xuan refined Old Man Shennong and absorbed the Flame of Life, advancing to early Eight-star Dou Sheng.
• Chen Xuan traveled to the Yao Clan headquarters, where Yao Dan had activated the clan's protective formation.
• Chen Xuan demanded that Yao Dan hand over the Turtle Spirit Earth Flame, and Yao Dan's expression turned ugly.

Chen Xuan demanded the Yao Clan hand over the Turtle Spirit Earth Flame, and Yao Dan refused. The Yao Clan activated its ancient formation and summoned the Medicine Emperor Remnant Soul, leaving Chen Xuan ready to test the clan’s last defense.

• Yao Dan refused Chen Xuan’s demand for the Turtle Spirit Earth Flame, and Chen Xuan threatened to break the Yao Clan’s protective formation and slaughter them.
• Chen Xuan unleashed his overwhelming aura, while Yao Dan ordered the clan to activate the Heavenly Transformation Medicine Array.
• The Yao Clan elders and members poured their power into the formation, which drew energy from the realm’s medicinal herbs and the clan’s pill reserves.
• Yao Dan used the formation to summon the Medicine Emperor Remnant Soul, whose bloodline pressure made the Yao Clan members kneel.
• Chen Xuan assessed the remnant soul and declared that he would test the ancient expert’s methods.

Chen Xuan destroyed the Yao Clan’s ancient ancestor remnant and captured Yao Tian, but left the clan after receiving an urgent message from the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Clan. He returned to their territory, where Yao Ming knelt to ask forgiveness for his failure.

• Yao Dan and the Yao Clan called upon their ancestor, but Chen Xuan shattered the ancestor’s Medicine Cauldron and destroyed his remnant soul with the Godslayer Spear.
• Chen Xuan defeated the Yao Clan experts who tried to protect Yao Tian, then swallowed Yao Tian and prepared to devour the rest.
• Chen Xuan received a message from the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Clan, abandoned his attack, and left using a Teleportation Jade Talisman.
• Yao Dan ordered the Yao Clan to leave the Shennong Mountain Range after their protective formation and ancestral safeguard were lost.
• Chen Xuan returned to the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Clan’s territory, where Yao Ming knelt and asked to be punished for his incompetence.

Chen Xuan learned that the Soul Hall had abducted the Amethyst Winged Lion King, the Green Flame Python, and his other subordinates to force him to surrender the Ancient Jade. He exchanged the genuine jade for their release, then prepared to bring his wrath against the Soul Hall and the Soul Clan.

• Yao Ming told Chen Xuan that Soul Hall and Soul Clan experts had attacked the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Clan, failed to reach Medusa, and abducted several of Chen Xuan's subordinates.
• Chen Xuan decided to go alone to the Corpse Burial Mountain Range with the Ancient Jade while Yao Ming and the others stayed to protect Medusa and Xiao Nannan.
• At the exchange, Chen Xuan demanded proof that the Amethyst Winged Lion King, the Green Flame Python, and the others were safe before handing over the jade.
• When the Soul Hall figure threatened the captives, Chen Xuan surrendered the genuine Ancient Jade, and the figure confirmed it was authentic.
• The Soul Hall figure expressed interest in Chen Xuan's Heavenly Flames but withdrew after sensing his power, leaving Chen Xuan to retrieve his subordinates and vow revenge.

Chen Xuan found the Soul Hall’s Human Hall and slaughtered its members, leaving one Three-star Dou Sheng alive as a puppet informant. After the Godslayer Spear devoured the souls imprisoned there, Chen Xuan set out to destroy the rest of the Soul Hall.

• Soul Hall members gathered to leave their hidden domain and collect souls, but Chen Xuan appeared and devoured them.
• Chen Xuan sealed the space and killed the Human Hall’s defenders, including a Three-star Dou Sheng who tried to fight back.
• Chen Xuan used the Puppet Jade Talisman on the surviving Three-star Dou Sheng to gain an informant inside the Soul Hall.
• Chen Xuan destroyed the Human Hall and exposed the chains holding tens of thousands of souls.
• The Godslayer Spear devoured the imprisoned souls and their soul essence, and Chen Xuan vowed to uproot the entire Soul Hall.

Chen Xuan attacked Soul Hall’s headquarters, where Hun Miesheng trapped him in the Myriad Souls Devouring Killing Array. Chen Xuan broke the array with his Heavenly Flames, but a powerful black flame appeared, which he suspected was the Nihility Devouring Flame.

• Chen Xuan destroyed Soul Hall’s Earth Fiend Hall and Heavenly Gang Hall, then advanced on its headquarters as news of his campaign spread across the Central Plains.
• Hun Miesheng and Soul Hall’s experts ambushed Chen Xuan with the Myriad Souls Devouring Killing Array, sealing the space and cutting off its external energy.
• Chen Xuan used the Three Mysterious Changes of Heavenly Flame to reach peak Nine-star Dou Sheng strength and burned through the array’s chains.
• Chen Xuan’s flames shattered the array, and Hun Miesheng recognized that the clan leader had warned him about Chen Xuan’s strength.
• Black flames poured from the void, and Chen Xuan suspected that the figure appearing within them was the Nihility Devouring Flame.

Chen Xuan attacked the Soul Clan’s early Nine-star Dou Sheng expert, the Nihility Devouring Flame, and overwhelmed him with Heavenly Flames, ice, and the Godslayer Spear. The Soul Clan’s powerful fighters joined forces to stop Chen Xuan’s strike, leaving him eager for a fierce battle against their full strength.

• The Soul Hall Master asked the black figure, an early Nine-star Dou Sheng expert with the Nihility Devouring Flame, to deal with Chen Xuan.
• Chen Xuan attacked first with his Golden-Green Flame, but the black figure barely blocked the assault and withdrew after recognizing Chen Xuan’s superiority.
• Chen Xuan used ice-attribute Dou Qi to summon an Ice Dragon, then wielded the Godslayer Spear’s Sweeping Through Armies technique as the black figure fought back with black flames.
• Several Soul Clan experts joined the battle and blocked Chen Xuan’s blood-red attack.
• Chen Xuan assessed the Soul Clan’s formidable lineup and declared that the coming fight would be hard.

Chen Xuan fought off the Soul Clan’s overwhelming assault and unleashed an eleven-colored Heavenly Wrath Fire Lotus against their Spirit Devouring Array. The blast tore open the array and devastated the Soul Clan experts, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Hun Tiandi ordered the Soul Clan experts to attack Chen Xuan, joining forces with Nihility Devouring Flame to unleash black flames and a vast assault.
• Chen Xuan increased his aura sixfold and used the Emperor Spear Art with the Godslayer Spear to shatter the Soul Clan’s attacks and force their experts back.
• Nihility Devouring Flame urged the Soul Clan to form an array, and Hun Tiandi ordered the elders to activate the Spirit Devouring Array around Chen Xuan.
• As the array drained Chen Xuan’s strength and threatened his soul, he fused all his Heavenly Flames into an eleven-colored fire lotus.
• Chen Xuan detonated the fire lotus, ripping a massive crack in the Spirit Devouring Array and sending the Soul Clan experts flying; weaker fighters were annihilated.

Chen Xuan broke the Soul Clan's Spirit Devouring Array, drove Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame to flee, and advanced to the late stage of Eight-star Dou Sheng by refining three Eight-star Dou Sheng experts. He returned to the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Clan and learned that Medusa had left after discovering something through the jade pendant.

• Chen Xuan's Heavenly Wrath Fire Lotus shattered the Spirit Devouring Array and injured the Soul Clan experts, prompting Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame to decide to retreat.
• Chen Xuan's Godslayer Spear attack overwhelmed the Soul Clan's combined counterattack, and Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame escaped through a spatial crack.
• Chen Xuan swallowed three Eight-star Dou Sheng experts after blocking their attacks with his true form and trapping them in Heavenly Flames.
• Chen Xuan searched for the fleeing Soul Clan members, then refined the three experts and advanced from early to late stage Eight-star Dou Sheng.
• Chen Xuan returned to the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Clan and learned from Xiao Nannan that Medusa had left without revealing where she was going.
• Xiao Nannan suggested Medusa's departure was connected to the jade pendant, then teased Chen Xuan about his relationships while revealing she had reached Half-Saint strength at just over three years old.

Chen Xuan continued preparing the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Clan for expansion while cultivating and nurturing his daughter, Xiao Nannan. After learning that a Space Exchange Meeting would feature an item related to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, he decided to attend, and Xiao Nannan forced her way into his plans with a startling threat.

• Chen Xuan used the Flame of Life, pills, and rare resources to strengthen his subordinates and the magical beast clans.
• Xiao Nannan asked Chen Xuan for a weapon, so he bought her a Saint-tier God-Beating Whip and warned her not to bully magical beasts with it.
• Yao Ming reported that a Space Exchange Meeting would take place in the Central Plains in ten days and might feature an item related to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Chen Xuan decided to attend the meeting in disguise, hoping to obtain the flame and advance to Nine-star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Nannan insisted on going with Chen Xuan and threatened to tell her mother that he had molested her, leaving him speechless.

Chen Xuan brought Xiao Nannan to the Space Exchange Meeting, where they entered its hidden spatial town and browsed the stalls. The chapter left them negotiating for a Seven-Colored Raw Stone that Xiao Nannan wanted.

• Chen Xuan and Xiao Nannan traveled to the desert site of the Space Exchange Meeting, and Chen Xuan warned her not to wander off or cause trouble.
• Chen Xuan and Xiao Nannan entered the spatial wormhole and passed an inspection that failed to reveal their identities.
• They arrived in Space Town, where Xiao Nannan dismissed the stall goods as snacks.
• Xiao Nannan spotted a Seven-Colored Raw Stone and insisted that Chen Xuan obtain it.
• The stall owner said the Seven-Colored Raw Stone would cost two Grade 8 Medicinal Pills with at least Three-Colored Pill Lightning.

Chen Xuan and Xiao Nannan went to the Space Exchange Meeting pavilion, where the invitation-only guards barred them from entering. When a guard attacked Chen Xuan, Xiao Nannan revealed her overwhelming strength and knocked him down, bringing a powerful response from inside the pavilion.

• Chen Xuan traded three Grade 8 Medicinal Pills with Three-Colored Pill Lightning to obtain the Seven-Colored Raw Stone, then took Xiao Nannan to the pavilion hosting the Space Exchange Meeting.
• The gray-robed guards demanded an invitation, and Chen Xuan and Xiao Nannan challenged their exclusion of people without one.
• One gray-robed guard attacked Chen Xuan, but Xiao Nannan struck him with a punch and sent him crashing to the ground.
• The onlookers were shocked by Xiao Nannan's strength, and a peak Dou Zun at the ninth transformation appeared from the pavilion to confront them.

Chen Xuan and Xiao Nannan clashed with Qing Yuan after the organizers refused them entry to the Space Exchange Meeting without an invitation. Xiao Nannan overwhelmed Qing Yuan, but a Dou Saint intervened, prompting Chen Xuan to protect her; three more Dou Saints then appeared as Chen Xuan insisted on entering.

• Qing Yuan confronted Chen Xuan and Xiao Nannan, questioned their identities, and refused them entry without an invitation.
• Xiao Nannan attacked Qing Yuan and shattered his full-strength sword strike with one punch, revealing that she had Half-Saint strength.
• A white-robed Dou Saint intervened when Xiao Nannan charged Qing Yuan, and she countered with the God-Beating Whip.
• Chen Xuan dispersed the ensuing energy and protected Xiao Nannan from the Dou Saint's attack.
• Chen Xuan insisted that he would force his way into the meeting, and three more Dou Saints appeared behind Qing Yuan.

Chen Xuan defeated four Dou Sheng experts after the three sects tried to stop him from entering their trade fair. The sects apologized and let him in, and he and Xiao Nannan reached the ancient hall where the fair was held.

• Xiao Nannan asked whether Chen Xuan would back down from the four Dou Sheng experts, and he confidently reassured her.
• The elderly man in green attacked Chen Xuan with an azure bird, but Chen Xuan blocked the strike effortlessly.
• The four Dou Sheng experts attacked together, and Chen Xuan struck them down with his lightning-powered punch.
• The three sects’ higher-ups apologized and allowed Chen Xuan and Xiao Nannan to enter the trade fair.
• Chen Xuan and Xiao Nannan passed through an ancient bronze gate into a large hall furnished with stone chairs.

Chen Xuan attended the Space Exchange Meeting with Xiao Nannan, obtained Demon Phoenix Bone Wings, and watched a Partial Map of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame sell for a Nine-Colored Pill Lightning Grade 8 Medicinal Pill. The meeting ended with Elder Baoshan revealing that the Bodhi Ancient Tree had appeared again, and Chen Xuan considered seeking it out.

• The old man opened the Space Exchange Meeting and offered Demon Phoenix Bone Wings, which Chen Xuan acquired by outbidding a cloaked bidder with a higher-quality Grade 8 Medicinal Pill.
• Elder Baoshan presented a Partial Map linked to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and bidders drove its price up to one Grade 8 Medicinal Pill with Nine-Colored Pill Lightning.
• A gaunt Black-robed Man won the Partial Map, while Chen Xuan secretly decided to rob him after the trade fair.
• Elder Baoshan announced that the Bodhi Ancient Tree had appeared again after ten thousand years, shocking the crowd.
• Chen Xuan checked the System Shop's price for the Bodhi Ancient Tree and decided to hear Elder Baoshan's information before considering a search.

Elder Baoshan revealed that the Bodhi Ancient Tree would appear in the deadly Barren Ancient Region, and Chen Xuan decided to take Xiao Nannan there. After the exchange meeting, Chen Xuan sent Xiao Nannan to seize a Partial Map from the Scorpion Demon Three Ghosts, who realized a powerful protector was nearby.

• Elder Baoshan announced that the Bodhi Ancient Tree would appear in the Barren Ancient Region, prompting many attendees to reconsider pursuing it.
• Chen Xuan told Xiao Nannan he would take her to the Barren Ancient Region to obtain the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• Chen Xuan revealed that he had placed soul marks on the people who acquired a Partial Map and tracked them after the meeting.
• Chen Xuan sent Xiao Nannan to retrieve the Partial Map from the Scorpion Demon Three Ghosts.
• Xiao Nannan confronted Heavenly Scorpion, Earth Scorpion, and Human Scorpion, then unleashed her Nine-Colored Sky Swallowing Python aura.
• The Scorpion Demon Three Ghosts recognized Xiao Nannan's awakened bloodline and feared that a powerful protector had targeted them.

Chen Xuan let Xiao Nannan fight the Scorpion Demon Three Ghosts, who died after she unleashed her Nine-Colored Sky-Swallowing Python form. He collected their Partial Map and assembled it, but the completed map revealed no useful information about the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.

• Chen Xuan appeared before the Scorpion Demon Three Ghosts and agreed to let them leave if they defeated Xiao Nannan, with death as the penalty for losing.
• The Scorpion Demon Three Ghosts attacked Xiao Nannan together, but she destroyed their combined offense and their giant scorpion with her nine-colored power.
• Xiao Nannan's giant python struck down the Scorpion Demon Three Ghosts, and Chen Xuan collected their Storage Rings and Partial Map.
• Chen Xuan assembled the Partial Maps into an ancient landscape map that showed no obvious clues about the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• At Xiao Nannan's suggestion, Chen Xuan dripped blood onto the map, but it did not change.

Chen Xuan discovered that the ancient map revealed clues about the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame when exposed to Heavenly Flames, and a pattern entered his glabella with the message “Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint.” After Xiao Nannan advanced in strength, the Bodhi Ancient Tree emerged, and Chen Xuan took her to the Barren Ancient Region to face its dangers herself.

• Chen Xuan burned the ancient map with Heavenly Flames, revealing a prophecy about two moons, nine stars, the tides of heaven and earth, and the demonic flame’s descent.
• A demonic lotus pattern shot from the map into Chen Xuan’s glabella, where he found a ball of light and received the words “Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint.”
• Back with the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Clan, Chen Xuan gave Xiao Nannan a Nine-Colored Raw Stone, and she advanced from initial to middle Half-Saint stage over half a month.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree emerged in the northeastern Central Plains, prompting cultivators to rush toward the Barren Ancient Region.
• Chen Xuan and Xiao Nannan entered the primeval forest, where Chen Xuan gave her his Heavenly Flames and left her to face the trial while he watched over her safety.

Xiao Nannan and Chen Xuan ventured deeper into the Barren Ancient Region in search of the Bodhi Ancient Tree, and Xiao Nannan easily drove off a powerful Black Demonic Ape. She used a Bodhi Seed to continue tracking the tree but stopped before an enormous beast army blocking the way.

• Xiao Nannan entered the poisonous forest and used the Heavenly Flames Chen Xuan had given her to keep the deadly miasma at bay.
• Xiao Nannan punched the Black Demonic Ape hundreds of meters away, frightening it into fleeing while the onlookers realized she had Half-Saint strength.
• Xiao Nannan continued deeper with a Bodhi Seed to sense the Bodhi Ancient Tree's aura.
• Xiao Nannan stopped before an army of fierce beasts, and the people gathered there proposed forming an alliance to get through.