Chapter Summaries

Chen Xiao discussed the Nine Nether Nirvana Pill with Xuan Kongzi as the Pill Realm assessment ended and the Pill Gathering's final contest began. The contestants started refining pills, and Cao Ying's stronger fused Heavenly Flame subdued Xiao Yan's before she invited Dan Chen to talk after the competition.

• Chen Xiao told Xuan Kongzi he had a ninth-grade Treasure Pill formula for the Nine Nether Nirvana Pill, and Xuan Kongzi offered to ask Elder Mo to refine it.
• Cao Ying and the other alchemists emerged from the Pill Realm, and Xuan Kongzi announced the final Pill Gathering contest after the ten-day assessment ended.
• Nearly two thousand contestants took their places on the suspended stone platforms and began preparing their cauldrons and flames.
• Xiao Yan summoned his fused Heavenly Flame, but Cao Ying's five-flame fusion made it restrain itself before she suppressed her own flame.
• Cao Ying invited Dan Chen to talk after the Pill Gathering, and Dan Chen agreed.

The Pill Gathering’s month-long refining contest narrowed to five alchemists, and Dan Chen, Xiao Yan, Old Monster Qing Hua, a disguised Yao Feng, and Cao Ying revealed the power of their Eighth Grade Pills. Cao Ying produced an Eight-colored Pill Lightning Cloud, leaving her as the standout while the contest’s final outcome remained undecided.

• As the competition progressed, Chen Xiao and Zi Yan discussed Hun Miesheng’s surveillance, and Chen Xiao considered recruiting Old Monster Kun after learning of his affliction.
• When only five competitors remained, Yao Chen suspected the disguised middle-aged alchemist was Yao Feng, his old rival from the Yao Clan, and explained why Yao Wangui might have sent him to compete for the Universe Creation Pill.
• Dan Chen completed her Eighth Grade Pill and summoned a Two-colored Pill Lightning Cloud.
• Xiao Yan and Old Monster Qing Hua completed their pills and drew three-colored Pill Lightning Clouds, while the disguised Yao Feng produced a six-colored cloud.
• Cao Ying completed her pill and summoned an Eight-colored Pill Lightning Cloud, astonishing the spectators and showcasing her alchemy talent.

Cao Ying won the Pill Gathering with the Great Void Heart Calming Pill and received the champion’s rewards, while the top ten earned entry to the Star Domain to pursue the Three Thousand Burning Flame. After arranging for Elder Mo to refine a Nine Nether Nirvana Pill, Chen Xiao secretly obtained one through Pre-pay and was left puzzled when Cao Ying returned late at night in alchemist attire.

• Xuan Kongzi and the other judges inspected the pills, confirmed Cao Ying’s Great Void Heart Calming Pill was the strongest, and declared her the champion.
• Xuan Kongzi named the top ten, Chen Xiao distributed their rewards, and Xuan Kongzi announced that they could enter the Star Domain in two days to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Zi Yan warned Chen Xiao that the Soul Hall might exploit the Star Domain to unleash the Three Thousand Burning Flame and throw Holy Pill City into chaos.
• Chen Xiao met Elder Mo, who agreed to try refining a Nine Nether Nirvana Pill at the Void Thunder Pool after the Pill Gathering.
• Chen Xiao used Pre-pay to obtain a Nine Nether Nirvana Pill and stored it safely before Cao Ying returned late at night wearing new alchemist attire.

The top ten Pill Gathering competitors entered the Star Domain to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame, while Chen Xiao stayed behind in Holy Pill City. After the group reached the enormous flame dragon, three hidden alchemists crushed Space Jade Slips, prompting Chen Xiao to appear and tell Zi Yan it was their turn to act.

• Xuan Kongzi opened a passage into the Star Domain, and First Elder Qiu Ling led Cao Ying and the other nine competitors inside.
• Qiu Ling explained that Star Power strengthened at night and warned the group to stay close as they crossed the dangerous Star Domain.
• The group reached the Three Thousand Burning Flame and saw it in the form of a colossal dragon wreathed in purple-black fire.
• Three seventh-tier advanced alchemists secretly crushed Space Jade Slips as the group watched the flame dragon.
• Chen Xiao sensed the signal, appeared above Holy Pill City, and told Zi Yan it was their turn to enter the stage.

Soul Hall forces entered the Star Domain and attempted to seize the Three Thousand Burning Flame, but Chen Xiao, Zi Yan, and Elder Mo stopped Hun Miesheng’s attack. Hun Miesheng recognized Chen Xiao as a Four-Star Dou Saint and decided his rapid growth posed a threat to the Soul Clan.

• The Soul Hall’s Third Heavenly Venerate and Fourth Heavenly Venerate arrived with six Dou Venerate experts, then greeted Hun Miesheng, the Vice Hall Master, and the Great Heavenly Venerate.
• Hun Miesheng appeared with two other Dou Saints and sent a massive Dou Qi hand toward the Three Thousand Burning Flame’s seal.
• Chen Xiao, Zi Yan, and Elder Mo intervened, and Chen Xiao’s sword shattered Hun Miesheng’s attack before it reached the seal.
• Hun Miesheng dismissed the idea that Yao Wangui could have killed him and identified Chen Xiao as a Four-Star Dou Saint who was not yet twenty-seven.
• Hun Miesheng’s concern about Chen Xiao’s extraordinary growth turned into stronger killing intent.

Chen Xiao fought Hun Miesheng in the Star Domain and used three Ice Soul Talismans to defeat him, while the battle’s destruction broke the seal on the Three Thousand Burning Flame. The Star Domain collapsed, but Zi Yan and the others escaped to protect Holy Pill City, and Chen Xiao emerged carrying Hun Miesheng’s ruined body and the flame’s Origin Fire.

• Hun Miesheng attacked Chen Xiao’s group with black flames, while Chen Xiao confronted him and the others engaged the Soul Hall fighters.
• Chen Xiao and Hun Miesheng clashed with soul attacks, and the shockwaves cracked the Three Thousand Burning Flame’s seal.
• Chen Xiao struck Hun Miesheng with three Ice Soul Talismans, devastating him and unleashing energy that shattered the seal and destabilized the Star Domain.
• Zi Yan evacuated Cao Ying, Dan Chen, and the others as the Three Thousand Burning Flame escaped and the Star Domain collapsed.
• Xuan Kongzi, Heavenly Thunder Child, Xuan Yi, Yao Chen, Elder Mo, and Zi Yan defended Holy Pill City from the spreading flames and spatial turbulence.
• Chen Xiao emerged from the void carrying Hun Miesheng’s ruined body and the Three Thousand Burning Flame’s Origin Fire.

Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame confirmed the Soul Clan was ready to begin its plan to gather the Tou She Ancient God Jade and launch the Soul Devouring Life Extinguishing Great Array. In Dan Tower, Chen Xiao revealed the Three Thousand Burning Flame’s connection to the Primordial Void Dragon Clan and let the Pill Gathering finalists choose whether to return it or refine it.

• Nihility Devouring Flame told Hun Tiandi that Hun Miesheng had fallen and laid out the Soul Clan’s theories about where the Xiao Family’s Tou She Ancient God Jade was hidden.
• Hun Tiandi warned that the Soul Clan’s informants in Purple Firmament Pavilion and Dragon Island might be detected, then agreed that the clan’s preparations were complete and its grand plan could begin.
• Xuan Kongzi celebrated the Soul Hall’s destruction and asked the Pill Gathering finalists to decide who should receive the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Chen Xiao explained that the Primordial Void Dragon Clan had raised the flame, identified Zi Yan as one of its members, and offered the finalists a vote between returning the flame and attempting to refine it.
• Xiao Yan, Song Qing, Dan Chen, and Old Monster Kun supported returning the flame, while Old Monster Qing Hua and Cao Ying abstained and Yao Feng raised no objection.
• Chen Xiao gave Yao Feng a Space Jade Slip that could summon his aid in a life-threatening crisis.

After returning to Eastern Dragon Island, Chen Xiao took Zi Yan and Elder Mo to the Void Thunder Pool so Elder Mo could prepare to refine pills. There they discovered Mang Tianchi, the Dean of Jia Nan Academy, and recognized their old academy connection as the chapter ended with him realizing who they were.

• Chen Xiao dismissed Zi Yan's concerns about letting Yao Feng return to the Yao Clan, then said he and Zi Yan would return to Dragon Island after the Pill Gathering.
• Chen Xiao and his companions returned to Eastern Dragon Island, where they sealed the Three Thousand Burning Flame and settled their guests.
• Elder Mo asked about the Primordial Void Dragon Clan's weakened state, and Zi Yan explained that the Old Dragon Emperor's disappearance had split the clan into four factions.
• Chen Xiao, Zi Yan, and Elder Mo traveled to the Void Thunder Pool, where Elder Mo stayed behind to adapt while Chen Xiao and Zi Yan ventured deeper.
• Chen Xiao and Zi Yan spotted Mang Tianchi hiding among the thunder and learned that he was the Dean of Jia Nan Academy.
• Mang Tianchi tried to impress them by naming Chen Xiao and Zi Yan as former Jia Nan Academy students, then realized he had been speaking to them directly.

Chen Xiao, Zi Yan, and Bu Tianchi entered the depths of the Void Thunder Pool, where Bu Tianchi shared a secret technique for absorbing Black Demon Thunder. After Bu Tianchi began cultivating, Chen Xiao planned to bring Cai Lin so they could all use the thunder pool to advance their strength.

• Chen Xiao told Bu Tianchi that he had come to refine a Ninth-grade Treasure Pill, and Bu Tianchi offered to guide them into the depths of the Void Thunder Pool.
• Bu Tianchi warned Chen Xiao that the Ancient Clans remained far too powerful for the Central Plains factions to challenge, while acknowledging that the old order might someday change.
• Chen Xiao, Zi Yan, and Bu Tianchi reached the pool's depths and found vast clusters of Black Demon Thunder.
• Chen Xiao trapped an attacking bolt of Black Demon Thunder in a Profound Ice Cage, and Bu Tianchi gave him a scroll containing the Lightning Drawing Qi Forging Technique.
• Bu Tianchi began cultivating while Chen Xiao set up a protective barrier and prepared to deliver the pill materials to the Grand Elder before bringing Cai Lin to the pool.
• Zi Yan offered to fetch Cai Lin herself while Chen Xiao left to deliver the materials.

Chen Xiao, Zi Yan, and Cai Lin strengthened themselves by refining Black Demon Thunder in the Void Thunder Pool, then ventured close enough to see the Nine Profound Golden Thunder. After they returned, Chen Xiao received word that the Spirit Clan had disappeared.

• Chen Xiao, Zi Yan, and Cai Lin cultivated in the Void Thunder Pool for a month, reaching the late stage of Four-Star Dou Saint and early stage of Six-Star Dou Sheng, respectively.
• Chen Xiao sealed the nine remaining Black Demon Thunders for Mang Tianchi and led Zi Yan and Cai Lin deeper into the pool to observe the Nine Profound Golden Thunder.
• The three saw the colossal Golden Thunder Dragon and let Black Demon Thunder strike them before retreating without provoking it.
• Chen Xiao explained that the Nine Profound Golden Thunder was trying to gather a spirit but needed to give up some of its power to gain true sentience.
• Chen Xiao received a message from Ling Ying that the Spirit Clan had disappeared.

After learning that the Soul Clan had made the Spirit Clan disappear, Chen Xiao prepared to unite the Ancient Dragon Clan and protect the Tou She Ancient God Jade. He entrusted the jade to the Old Dragon Emperor, whose excitement revealed the importance of the relic.

• Chen Xiao told Zi Yan that the Soul Clan would soon target Purple Firmament Pavilion, and sent her with Great Elder Qingshan and Second Elder to meet the Old Dragon Emperor.
• Chen Xiao and Cai Lin returned to Purple Firmament Pavilion, where Ling Ying delivered Xun Er’s invitation and the Tou She Ancient God Jade for safekeeping.
• Chen Xiao told Hai Bo Dong to prepare to move loyal and promising members of Purple Firmament Pavilion to Dragon Island after Qing Lin and Xiao Yi Xian left seclusion.
• Chen Xiao and Cai Lin traveled through Jia Nan Academy’s Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower to meet Zi Yan and the Old Dragon Emperor in the Ancient Emperor Cave.
• Chen Xiao gave the Tou She Ancient God Jade to the Old Dragon Emperor and warned him that the Soul Clan had already acted against the Spirit Clan.

Chen Xiao and Zi Yan prepared to reunify the Ancient Dragon Clan, while Qing Lin and Xiao Yi Xian both broke through to the Dou Saint realm. With six hundred Eastern Dragon Island elites assembled, Zi Yan led the campaign’s departure to reclaim the scattered clansmen.

• Chen Xiao entrusted the Xiao Clan’s Tou She Ancient God Jade to the Old Dragon Emperor and discussed plans to reunify the Ancient Dragon Clan and locate the three other dragon islands.
• Chen Xiao learned that Qing Lin had reached the Dou Saint realm, then returned to Qifeng Mountain in time to witness Xiao Yi Xian’s breakthrough.
• Chen Xiao brought Cai Lin, Qing Lin, and Xiao Yi Xian to Dragon Island, where Zi Yan assigned teams to attack the North, South, and West Dragon Islands.
• Zi Yan and Chen Xiao agreed to launch the campaign that night, and six hundred Eastern Dragon Island elites gathered before the main hall.
• Zi Yan rallied the elites to restore the Ancient Dragon Clan, transformed with Dragon Emperor might, and ordered the troops to move out.

Chen Xiao and his allies located all three Dragon Islands and launched a simultaneous assault, beginning the reunification of the Primordial Void Dragon Clan under Zi Yan. On West Dragon Island, Chen Xiao discovered Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan members interfering in the conflict and sent the West Dragon King and Kun Huang flying with a single close-range attack.

• After a month and a half searching Void Space, Chen Xiao found West Dragon Island and waited for Zi Yan and Cai Lin to locate North Dragon Island and South Dragon Island.
• When all three teams had found their targets, Chen Xiao, Zi Yan, and Cai Lin agreed to attack at the same time; Chen Xiao led his forces against West Dragon Island.
• Qing Shan and Qing Mu challenged Zhu Mu and Xuan Mo, then drew them away from the island to fight, while Chen Xiao attacked the hall at the center of West Dragon Island.
• The West Dragon King emerged with Kun Huang, and Chen Xiao recognized Kun Huang as a member of the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan; he also learned that Phoenix Clan Dou Saints had appeared on the other two islands.
• The West Dragon King and Kun Huang attacked Chen Xiao together, but he overcame their slowed movements and struck them both hard enough to send them flying.

Chen Xiao defeated Kun Huang and West Dragon King, subdued West Dragon Island, and learned that the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan had plotted to attack the other Dragon Islands and capture his daughter and disciples. He suspected the Soul Clan had orchestrated the scheme as part of its thousand-year plan to obtain the Tou She Ancient God Jade.

• Kun Huang and West Dragon King attacked Chen Xiao with their signature techniques, but he stopped the Demon Phoenix Bell, cut apart West Dragon King's beam, and absorbed its remaining energy.
• Chen Xiao struck West Dragon King down, while Kun Huang transformed into his Demon Phoenix Sacred Image and fled before Chen Xiao caught and killed him.
• Chen Xiao ordered Hei Qing to accept the surrender of West Dragon Island's forces, and the island's troops laid down their weapons.
• Chen Xiao promised not to turn West Dragon King into a Heavenly Demon Puppet, and West Dragon King revealed that Kun Huang had planned to capture the Purple Firmament Pavilion's Elixir Hall members, especially Chen Xiao's daughter and disciples.
• Chen Xiao connected the plot to the Soul Clan's thousand-year plan and suspected Hun Tiandi had used the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan to target him and seize the Tou She Ancient God Jade.

After the four Dragon Islands were unified, Zi Yan and the elders organized the resettlement and punishment of the clansmen who had fought against Eastern Dragon Island. As the one-month preparations neared completion, Chen Xiao and the others set out for Void Thunder Pool after sensing a disturbance that might mark the birth of a Ninth-grade Treasure Pill.

• Chen Xiao returned to Eastern Dragon Island with the people and resources of West Dragon Island, leaving Qing Shan and Zhu Li to arrange the newcomers’ settlement.
• Chen Xiao reunited with the four little ones while Cao Ying remained in seclusion refining the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Zi Yan gathered the elders and decided that traitors who had killed their clansmen would be executed after the three islands’ people were investigated.
• Zi Yan summoned Chen Xiao to Dragon Emperor Hall, then set aside the next month to handle the island’s affairs and prepare to call back the absent elders.
• Chen Xiao sensed a disturbance coming from Void Thunder Pool, and Zi Yan suspected Elder Mo had succeeded in refining the Nine Nether Nirvana Pill.
• Qing Mu transformed into a colossal dragon and offered to carry Zi Yan, Chen Xiao, and the others to Void Thunder Pool.

Chen Xiao and his companions helped Elder Mo complete the Nine Nether Nirvana Pill, and Chen Xiao received the pill as his Pre-pay tasks were updated. On Eastern Dragon Island, Zi Yan then used the blood of the defeated dragon factions to activate the Dragon Summoning Lamp and call the scattered Ancient Dragon elders home.

• Chen Xiao and Cai Lin sent two Heavenly Demon Puppets to intercept the Black Demon Thunder, which damaged the puppets but allowed Elder Mo to complete the pill.
• The newly formed Nine Nether Nirvana Pill tried to escape as a Netherworld Underworld Python, but Elder Mo subdued it and handed it to Chen Xiao.
• Chen Xiao stored the pill and saw his completed Pre-pay tasks update, then returned with the group to Dragon Island.
• Zi Yan ordered West Dragon King and the surviving loyalists to kill themselves so their blood could fuel the Dragon Summoning Lamp, promising them entry to the Ancient Dragon Tomb.
• Zi Yan combined the gathered blood with her essence blood and Zhu Kun's blood, activating the lamp and sending a message summoning the absent Ancient Dragon elders.

Chen Xiao completed the Soul Puppet by refining Hun Miesheng’s remnant soul into his body, then prepared to travel with Qing Lin. On their journey toward the Ancient Realm, Chen Xiao revealed his plan to locate and secretly counter the Soul Clan’s formations beneath Central Continent’s cities, beginning at Quze City.

• Chen Xiao trapped and refined Hun Miesheng’s hidden remnant soul, then fused its battle experience into the puppet and named it Soul Puppet.
• Chen Xiao left the Heavenly Demon Three Phoenixes’ bodies for Xian’er and Ying Er to refine, and Qing Lin told him the Beast Region’s Ancient Ruins were about to appear.
• Chen Xiao asked Qing Lin to warn Burning Flame Valley and other factions away from the already-emptied ruins, then set off with her the next morning.
• While traveling northwest, Chen Xiao told Qing Lin that the Soul Clan had planted Soul Devouring Absolute Life Formations beneath many Central Continent cities.
• Chen Xiao explained that they would locate as many formations as possible and secretly prepare counter-formations to destroy them if activated, starting at Quze City.

Chen Xiao and Qing Lin arrived at Ancient Saint City after spending a year locating Soul Devouring Absolute Life Formations across the Central Continent. At the city gate, Chen Xiao confronted Ling Quan for disrespecting them, and Gu Xun escorted the pair toward the Ancient Realm while warning that trouble awaited them there.

• Chen Xiao and Qing Lin finished locating their eightieth Soul Devouring Absolute Life Formation and set out for the Eastern Domain.
• Qing Lin told Chen Xiao that Cao Ying had refined the Three Thousand Burning Flame and that twelve Dou Saint Elders had returned to Eastern Dragon Island.
• Chen Xiao and Qing Lin reached Ancient Stone Plaza and approached Ancient Saint City, where Qing Lin explained the city's protections and entry rules.
• Ling Quan tried to bar Chen Xiao and Qing Lin from entering without invitations, so Chen Xiao released his Dou Saint pressure and challenged Ling Quan's disrespect.
• Gu Xun intervened, explained that Xun Er had arranged for Chen Xiao to enter without an invitation, and led the pair toward the Ancient Realm.
• Gu Xun received orders to take Chen Xiao directly into the Ancient Realm and warned him that his connection to Xun Er would bring trouble.

Chen Xiao and Qing Lin entered the Ancient Realm, where the Ancient Clan’s elders arranged an ostentatious welcome meant to intimidate him. Xun Er learned of Chen Xiao’s arrival and set out to meet him, while Chen Xiao’s first exchange with Gu Rui left the elder stung by the gap in their ages.

• Gu Xun warned Chen Xiao not to disturb the Ancient Clan’s descendants, then opened the spatial gate to the Ancient Realm for Chen Xiao and Qing Lin.
• Ling Ying told Xun Er that Chen Xiao had entered the Ancient Realm without being provoked, and Xun Er decided to meet him and confront the impatient elders.
• Chen Xiao and Qing Lin emerged into the Ancient Realm and admired its unusually dense Heaven and Earth Energy.
• An enormous Void-Shuttling Boat arrived with Gu Rui, who claimed he had come to welcome Chen Xiao.
• Chen Xiao teased Gu Rui about rumors of his age and pointed out that they had reached the same realm despite their enormous age difference.

On the Void-Shuttling Boat, Chen Xiao challenged the Ancient Clan elders’ objections to his relationship with Xun Er and argued that his extraordinary growth made him a worthwhile gamble. He left Gu Rui and the watching elders to decide whether to support the relationship, while making clear he would take Xun Er away if she wished.

• Gu Rui escorted Chen Xiao and Qing Lin toward the Ancient Saint Mountain Range and explained that the Ancient Clan forbade its core members from marrying outsiders to protect its bloodline.
• Chen Xiao criticized the Ancient Clan’s conservative rules, citing its failure to help the Xiao Clan during its war with the Soul Clan and its neglect of the surviving Xiao family.
• Chen Xiao told Gu Rui that becoming a Dou Emperor would resolve the elders’ concerns, then recounted his rapid rise from childhood cultivation to late-stage Four-Star Dou Saint at age twenty-eight.
• Gu Rui acknowledged Chen Xiao’s startling advancement and the difficulty of opposing him, given his strength and uncertain ties to the Primordial Void Dragon Clan.
• Chen Xiao declared that he would take Xun Er away if she chose to go with him, regardless of the elders’ approval.
• Gu Rui asked the watching elders how to respond, and one advised waiting a few more years before deciding.