Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan’s Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus devastated Golden Radiance City, overwhelming the city’s defenders and shattering its protective formation. The blast left the city in ruins and a bottomless void as a distant old man watched, grave and uncertain.

• Xiao Yan’s explosion unleashed sound waves that shattered formations, injured Dou Di experts, and destroyed buildings across Golden Radiance City.
• Fan Siyuan rallied the city’s fighters and launched his Golden Radiance Seal at the Fire Lotus as hundreds of Dou Techniques followed.
• The Fire Lotus absorbed the attacks, shed its petals, and gathered its power into a dazzling pillar of light.
• The Fire Lotus erupted, breaking the city’s protective formation and sending an energy storm across Golden Radiance City.
• The storm lasted a quarter of an hour, killing or injuring countless people and reducing the city to ruins above a bottomless void.
• An old man in yellow robes watched from a distant mountain peak, his expression grave and indecisive.

Xiao Yan and Han Dong survived the Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus explosion, but Golden Radiance City was devastated and many combatants died. As Fan Siyuan moved to stop them from leaving, Qin Yun ordered his men to kill Xiao Yan.

• Xiao Yan and Han Dong lay injured near Golden Radiance City's gate after surviving the energy storm.
• Lü Zhongtian and Wu Gang saw the destruction and recognized Xiao Yan's extraordinary strength.
• Cheng Zhihui died after Qin Yun used his injured body to survive the blast, while Qin Yun emerged gravely wounded.
• Fan Siyuan spotted Xiao Yan and Han Dong trying to leave and flew after them with Qi Ming and Huo Lie.
• Yan He and his companions returned to Qin Yun, who ordered them to kill Xiao Yan quickly.

After escaping Golden Radiance City with Han Dong’s sacrifice, Xiao Yan stopped to heal, unaware that a yellow-robed old man was following him. The old man confronted him for the Long Lin Fruit, but Xiao Yan swallowed it rather than surrender it, setting up a clash between two body cultivators.

• Xiao Yan fled Golden Radiance City while Han Dong held off Fan Siyuan and the others.
• A yellow-robed old man secretly followed Xiao Yan, hoping to seize the Long Lin Fruit and exploit his injuries.
• Xiao Yan stopped in a mountain forest, summoned the Northern King, and used fourth-tier pills to heal.
• The old man attacked Xiao Yan with invisible strikes, but the Northern King blocked them and protected him.
• The old man demanded the Long Lin Fruit, and Xiao Yan swallowed it to challenge him to a contest of physical strength.

Xiao Yan swallowed the Long Lin Fruit and was nearly destroyed by its overwhelming power, but his Dragon-Phoenix Bloodline absorbed the excess energy and saved him. He mastered the Strength Elephant Art and charged at the yellow-robed old man, ready to fight.

• Xiao Yan swallowed the Long Lin Fruit whole, unleashing a wave of scorching energy that ravaged his body and flattened the nearby forest.
• Xiao Yan channeled the excess power into the Strength Elephant Art, but the technique nearly burst under the strain as the yellow-robed old man retreated.
• Xiao Yan’s Dragon-Phoenix Bloodline awakened, covering him in violet-gold scales and absorbing all the excess power from the fruit.
• Xiao Yan recovered, fully mastered the Strength Elephant Art, and felt his injuries healing faster.
• Xiao Yan charged at the yellow-robed old man at lightning speed.

After devouring the Long Lin Fruit and reaching great accomplishment in the Strength Elephant Art, Xiao Yan used his immense physical strength to overpower the yellow-robed elder in battle. The elder was left badly wounded and flying backward, while Xiao Yan remained ready to continue.

• The yellow-robed elder activated the Half-step Savage Beast Art and met Xiao Yan’s charge, but their first clash ended evenly.
• Xiao Yan shattered the elder’s gathered force with his fists and sent him flying, forcing the elder to spit blood.
• Xiao Yan explained that the Long Lin Fruit and Strength Elephant Art had raised his physical strength to a level comparable to an ordinary Nine-Star Dou Di.
• The yellow-robed elder attacked Xiao Yan with a Dou Technique, and the two exchanged blows without either gaining an advantage.
• Xiao Yan used the Strength Elephant Art to neutralize the elder’s Dou Qi, then struck his chest and sent him flying backward in a spray of blood.

Xiao Yan overpowered an elderly body-refining fighter, who then unleashed the High Spirit Class Dou Technique Wasteland-Spanning Finger. With his Dou Qi still depleted, Xiao Yan gathered his physical strength into a golden defensive veil as the attack came at him.

• Xiao Yan crushed the space beside his hand to silence the old man, who had questioned his strength.
• The old man praised Xiao Yan’s potential but vowed to kill him and began forming the Wasteland-Spanning Finger.
• The old man revealed that he had obtained the technique at auction and sent its enormous cyan finger toward Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan, unable to rely on his depleted Dou Qi, formed a golden veil over his body using his physical strength.

Xiao Yan survived the old man's Wasteland-Spanning Finger by relying on the Golden Elephant Art and his Ancient Dragon Phoenix Armor. After healing his injuries, he revealed the defensive technique as the defeated old man collapsed.

• The old man poured all his remaining Dou Qi into the Wasteland-Spanning Finger and launched it at Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan crossed his arms and took the full force of the attack, which devastated the surrounding land.
• The old man thought Xiao Yan had been killed until the cyan mist cleared and revealed him still standing in his Ancient Dragon Phoenix Armor.
• Xiao Yan's Heavenly Flames and the regenerative power from the Long Lin Fruit rapidly healed his wounds.
• Xiao Yan approached the weakened old man and summoned the Golden Elephant Art, whose golden light had protected him from the attack.
• The old man understood how Xiao Yan had survived and fell to the ground as Xiao Yan recalled the golden phantom.

After battling through successive fights, Xiao Yan entered a magical beast’s cave to obtain tendon-cleansing powder and repair his damaged meridians. He forced the cave’s owner to stand guard, then began refining the powder inside his injured body.

• Xiao Yan entered the cave despite its owner’s warning and used the Northern King to beat the magical beast into submission.
• Xiao Yan ordered the beast, who had transformed into a middle-aged man, to guard the entrance and handed over its tendon-cleansing powder.
• Xiao Yan found a large supply of tendon-cleansing powder hidden beneath a boulder and decided to consume it directly because he could not refine pills.
• Xiao Yan swallowed the powder and used his Heavenly Flames to refine its energy through his damaged meridians, enduring intense pain.

Xiao Yan used the Tendon-Cleansing Powder to repair and strengthen his meridians, then left after giving the middle-aged man medicinal supplies. While traveling through the mountains, he sensed a Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan group overhead and struggled to suppress his Dragon-Phoenix Bloodline, leaving him exhausted after they passed.

• Xiao Yan spent two days refining the Tendon-Cleansing Powder, restoring his meridians and making them more resilient while consuming the entire supply.
• Xiao Yan awkwardly left the cave dwelling after giving the middle-aged man bottles of medicinal pills and cultivation herbs; the man discovered the empty stone pool and screamed.
• Xiao Yan's Dragon-Phoenix Bloodline trembled when a giant bird carrying members of the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan flew overhead.
• A blond young man on the bird sensed another bloodline power, but a blond young woman suggested it was normal in their territory, and they continued toward the Western Wilderness Region.
• After the group had passed, Xiao Yan dropped to the ground, exhausted from suppressing his bloodline.

With eight months left before Xiao Yan’s deadline, he cultivated in the Western Wilderness Region and struggled to decide whether to refine a dangerous six-petaled Fusang Flower. A surge of grief and killing intent nearly overwhelmed him, but thinking of Xun'er restored his resolve to bring her back, even if he fell into darkness.

• Xiao Yan cultivated in a stone forest while the Northern King killed the magical beasts that attacked them.
• Xiao Yan examined the six-petaled Fusang Flower and feared its strange power might destroy his mind if he refined it.
• Xiao Yan thought of Xun'er and lost control as grief and hatred unleashed a destructive burst of energy.
• Xiao Yan regained control, calmed his emotions, and vowed to bring Xun'er back even if he fell into darkness.

Xiao Yan absorbed the Fusang Flower’s pure soul power, unleashing a terrifying soul pressure across the stone forest. The transfer turned dangerous when a flower bud appeared inside his Soul Bead and began consuming his Soul Origin.

• Xiao Yan used the Bone Spirit Cold Flame to bring the Fusang Flower into his mind and draw its soul power toward his Soul Bead.
• Xiao Yan absorbed the flower’s soul power, causing his Soul Bead to release a powerful wave of soul pressure.
• Xiao Yan’s soul pressure crushed the magical beasts in the stone forest and threatened to make their Dou Qi explode.
• Xiao Yan sensed a problem, wrapped the Soul Bead in the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, and severed its connection to the Fusang Flower.
• Xiao Yan discovered that the Fusang Flower had formed a bud inside his Soul Bead and was devouring his Soul Origin.

Xiao Yan struggled as an eerie flower devoured the Soul Origin in his Soul Bead, leaving his body and consciousness close to death. In Golden Radiance City, Qin Yun failed to persuade the Formation Master Association to join him and departed with five Nine-Star Dou Di, prompting Fan Siyuan to seal the city.

• The flower bud in Xiao Yan’s soul rapidly bloomed and tore Soul Origin from the Soul Bead, leaving him unable to control his body or stop his approaching death.
• Qin Yun confronted Fan Siyuan at the Formation Master Association with five Nine-Star Dou Di and demanded an answer to his proposal to join forces.
• Huo Lie angrily rejected Qin Yun’s proposal, but Fan Siyuan rebuked him and considered Qin Yun’s show of force.
• Fan Siyuan refused to join Qin Yun, saying the Formation Master Association could handle the threat on its own.
• Qin Yun left with his five companions, and Fan Siyuan ordered Golden Radiance City sealed so that no one could enter or leave.

Xiao Yan used the Bone Spirit Cold Flame to refine the Soul Bead after a strange flood serpent devoured most of his Soul Origin. The flames broke through the bead’s Spiritual Strength shield and replenished his fading Soul Origin, slowing the serpent’s attack as the refining continued.

• The strange flood serpent devoured Xiao Yan’s Soul Origin and also absorbed Spiritual Strength from the Fusang Flower within the Soul Bead.
• Xiao Yan summoned the Bone Spirit Cold Flame and began refining the Soul Bead to reclaim its Spiritual Strength.
• The Soul Bead’s Spiritual Strength formed a shield while the flood serpent intensified its attack on Xiao Yan’s Soul Origin.
• After several hours, the Bone Spirit Cold Flame shattered the shield, and Xiao Yan absorbed its Spiritual Strength, strengthening his Soul Origin and slowing the serpent’s devouring.
• The Bone Spirit Cold Flame passed through the unaffected Soul Bead and began refining the Spiritual Strength inside it.

Xiao Yan continued refining the Soul Bead’s soul power, strengthening his Soul Origin and gaining finer control over his soul power. Meanwhile, Qin Yun and five others attacked Golden Radiance City, where a black-robed man used dark energy to engulf the city and threaten its inhabitants.

• Xiao Yan steadily refined the Soul Bead’s soul power as the flood serpent repeatedly devoured his Soul Origin, and he found his soul power becoming denser and easier to control.
• Qin Yun and five others arrived outside Golden Radiance City and attacked its protective formation after the Formation Master Association refused to join them.
• Qin Yun said the group had come to borrow something, and the black-robed man pressed dark energy against the formation and declared that they wanted the city’s lives.
• Black energy spread over Golden Radiance City and the land beneath it, swallowing the light and preventing soul power from passing through.
• Fan Siyuan rallied hundreds of figures to defend the city, while more figures appeared around the edge of the darkness and surrounded it.

Qin Yun led nearly five hundred Dou Di experts in an assault on Golden Radiance City, aiming to seize power and destroy the Formation Master Association. As Fan Siyuan’s formation collapsed and the city’s defenders were overwhelmed, an elder and a young man discovered the battle through a view into the Endless Void and chose not to intervene.

• Qin Yun’s black-robed forces appeared above Golden Radiance City, and Fan Siyuan, Qi Ming, and Huo Lie prepared the formation masters to defend the city.
• Qin Yun ordered his forces to attack everyone in the city, while five Nine-Star Dou Di confronted Fan Siyuan and the other senior members.
• Fan Siyuan launched a powerful strike at the masked black-robed figure, but four Nine-Star Dou Di blocked it as the figure’s strange black energy destroyed part of the formation.
• Fan Siyuan rushed to protect the injured formation masters as the fighting spread through the city.
• An elder and a young man passing the enormous pit where Golden Radiance City had stood sensed a presence in the Endless Void and opened a view of the battle.
• The young man recognized the black-robed Dou Di and the formation masters, but the elder urged him to leave without revealing their presence.

After restoring his Spiritual Strength to the fourth tier, Xiao Yan tried to refine a second Fusang Flower but could not draw out the power in its six petals. The petals instead absorbed some of his Spiritual Strength and shielded his Soul Bead, leaving him mysteriously connected to them.

• Xiao Yan recovered after refining the Spiritual Strength in his mind and discovered his strength had reached the fourth tier.
• Xiao Yan found that a six-petaled Fusang Flower remained in his mind, separate from the flower he had already refined.
• Xiao Yan used the Bone Spirit Cold Flame to refine the six-petaled flower, but its petals resisted the flames and would not release their Spiritual Strength.
• The six petals drew in Xiao Yan's Spiritual Strength, then surrounded his Soul Bead and formed a protective shield.
• Xiao Yan realized that his soul imprint had somehow been left on the six petals.

Xiao Yan gained control of six petals that slowly supplied his Soul Bead with pure Spiritual Strength, then flew west to prepare for the one-year appointment. In the Xilin Mountain Range, Leng Bingshuang refused the clan’s invitation to return and warned Murong Xun not to accept it.

• Xiao Yan recalled a terrifying image of an enormous ancient tree beneath a vast shadow that blotted out the heavens and sun.
• Xiao Yan discovered that the six petals around his Soul Bead were feeding it pure Spiritual Strength, which he could absorb safely over time.
• Xiao Yan rose and flew west after deciding to prepare for the one-year appointment.
• Leng Bingshuang rejected the clan’s invitation, telling its messenger that she would not return or welcome further visits.
• Leng Bingshuang ordered the messenger to warn Murong Xun that she would tear down his tent if he agreed to the clan’s request.

Xiao Yan tested whether the Heavenly Severing Steps could open the Heavenly Severing Ancient Tomb at Wilderness Cliff, and the technique revealed its entrance. His attempts to break the remaining light barrier failed, leaving him to face the tomb’s defenses before the appointed meeting with the Four Great Sects.

• Xiao Yan reflected on the coming appointment with the Four Great Sects and wondered whether Luo Jin would join him when the Heavenly Severing Ancient Tomb opened.
• Xiao Yan found the hidden entrance at Wilderness Cliff and activated it by using the Heavenly Severing Steps.
• The cliff opened to reveal the tomb entrance and a powerful curtain of light, weakened by Xiao Yan’s technique but still blocking entry.
• Xiao Yan struck the barrier with his fists and the Strength Elephant Art, but it barely rippled before its force sent him flying.

Xiao Yan spent a month cultivating the Wilderness-Spanning Finger and Golden Elephant Art against the ancient tomb’s energy barrier. After enduring the barrier’s backlash with his defensive technique, he broke through to the Six-Star Dou Di level.

• Xiao Yan gave up trying to open the tomb until he had gathered all three of Venerable Heavenly Severing’s renowned Dou Techniques and used the barrier to practice instead.
• Xiao Yan cultivated the Wilderness-Spanning Finger and Golden Elephant Art, gradually improving his control over both techniques.
• After a month, Xiao Yan could unleash seventy percent of the Wilderness-Spanning Finger and form a pale yellow Golden Elephant Art shield.
• Xiao Yan struck the barrier with the Wilderness-Spanning Finger and withstood its rebounding energy using the Golden Elephant Art.
• Xiao Yan heard a crack within himself as he broke through the barrier to the Six-Star Dou Di level.

Xiao Yan cultivated on Wilderness Cliff for three months and broke through to Six-Star Dou Di, greatly increasing his combat strength ahead of the Heavenly Severing Ancient Tomb. Elsewhere, a woman stranded on an island in the Northern Region decided to focus on cultivation so she could cross the sea and search for someone.

• Xiao Yan used the abundant fire-attribute energy at Wilderness Cliff to cultivate with the Flame Mantra and strengthen his Dou Qi.
• A woman in the Northern Region remained stranded on a deserted island after failing for over a year to cross the boundless North Sea, and she resolved to cultivate.
• Xiao Yan awakened after three months and advanced to Early-Stage Six-Star Dou Di.
• Xiao Yan assessed his increased strength and believed he could now rival an ordinary Nine-Star Dou Di, then vowed to settle his grudges with the Four Great Sects at the Heavenly Severing Ancient Tomb.
• Xiao Yan gathered the Power of the Great Dao and formed ten curtains from it.