Chapter Summaries

Cao Ying finished refining the Bodhi Seeds with Chen Xiao, clearing the Black Qi from the Bodhi Ancient Tree. The tree put them to sleep and drew them into its trunk, while the others emerged from its illusions and waited outside for Cao Ying to return.

• Cao Ying refined all the Bodhi Seeds, and the Bodhi Ancient Tree's Tree Spirit became pure and restored her and Chen Xiao to their peak condition.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree sent a wave of sleepiness over Cao Ying and Chen Xiao, then carried them into its trunk as they slept.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree expelled the other visitors from its illusions, and Jiu Xuan hid Cao Ying and Chen Xiao behind a barrier.
• Heavenly Flame Honored One told the Purple Firmament Pavilion team to cultivate and wait for Cao Ying, while Hun Yu mocked the possibility that she had gained a special opportunity.
• Yao Chen and others joined the Purple Firmament Pavilion group, and the visitors chose to wait rather than leave before seeing the Bodhi Ancient Tree's treasures.

After completing a hundred lifetimes together beneath the Bodhi Ancient Tree, Chen Xiao and Cao Ying awakened with greatly enhanced souls and cultivation. They discovered they had each received a Bodhi Heart, and Chen Xiao realized he could use Cao Ying’s Bodhi Seed to restore all three of his Pre-pay chances.

• Chen Xiao and Cao Ying lived through a hundred different lifetimes together, sharing varied identities, trials, and joys before their reincarnations ended.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree infused their bodies and souls with the insights and power they had gained across those lives.
• Chen Xiao awakened at Six-star Dou Venerate, while Cao Ying reached a Heavenly State late-stage soul and Peak Nine-Revolutions Dou Venerate.
• Chen Xiao and Cao Ying discovered that the Bodhi Ancient Tree had given each of them a Bodhi Heart.
• Cao Ying handed her Bodhi Seed to Chen Xiao, and placing it in his Storage Ring restored all three of his Pre-pay chances.
• Chen Xiao realized Cao Ying could use her Bodhi Heart to reach the Dou Saint realm within two years.

Cao Ying emerged from the Bodhi Ancient Tree at the peak of Nine-Revolutions Dou Venerate after enduring a hundred lifetimes of trials, while Chen Xiao stayed behind to discuss the tree’s transformation with it. The Bodhi Ancient Tree agreed to attempt gathering its spirit and gave Chen Xiao a way to contact it, then sank underground as the gathered forces watched.

• Cao Ying left the Bodhi Ancient Tree at the peak of Nine-Revolutions Dou Venerate, shocking Hun Yu and the others.
• Chen Xiao encouraged the Bodhi Ancient Tree to gather its spirit and take human form, and it reacted with excitement.
• Nine Profound spoke with the Bodhi Ancient Tree, which agreed to temporarily give up its power and attempt to gather its spirit.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree gave Chen Xiao a branch for future contact and thirty-six Bodhi Seeds.
• Cao Ying, Chen Xiao, and Nine Profound prepared to leave, while the Bodhi Ancient Tree sank underground before the gathered forces could obtain its treasures.

Cao Ying defeated and captured Jiu Feng and the other Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan members, then returned with her allies to Dragon Island. As Chen Xiao considered how to secretly help the Bodhi Ancient Tree gather a spirit, he named a coming celestial event as the ideal time.

• Cao Ying attacked the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, and her allies joined the battle while other factions watched.
• Cao Ying overwhelmed Jiu Feng with the Five Wheels Burning Flame Method and had all six Phoenix Clan members sealed and captured.
• Cao Ying and her party returned to Dragon Island, where they found elders riding Heaven Demon Phoenixes and handed the captives over to Zhu Li.
• Over the next half month, Chen Xiao rested and considered where to secretly summon the Bodhi Ancient Tree, while Cao Ying prepared to refine the Bodhi Heart.
• Cai Lin and Zi Yan suggested a remote location and a diversion to keep Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame from interfering.
• Chen Xiao announced that Double Moon Appearing, Nine Stars Align, Heaven and Earth Tide, Demon Flame Descends would be the most suitable time.

After years of preparation, Chen Xiao’s forces began moving as the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s appearance approached. When the Heaven and Earth Tide began, the Ancient Void Dragon Clan openly declared its intent to rule the Beast Region, drawing the Soul Clan’s attention.

• Chen Xiao assigned his allies to prepare for the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, sending Xun Er back to the Ancient Clan while he and others headed for the Extreme Northern Land.
• Xun Er returned to the Ancient Clan as a Dou Saint, shocking Gu Yuan and the Elders who questioned her about her breakthrough.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s imminent appearance became known across the Central Continent, drawing countless experts toward the Demon Flame Space.
• Cao Ying watched the twin moons appear as the Heaven and Earth Tide began, while Gu Yuan and Gu Yao sent Ancient Clan forces to pursue the flame.
• The Ancient Void Dragon Clan launched its campaign to unite the Beast Region, and Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame suspected it had been behind the Stone Clan’s lost foundation.

Cao Ying led Heavenly Flame Honored One and the others to the Demon Flame Space to draw attention, while Chen Xiao and his companions traveled to the Fallen God Ice Plain to summon the Bodhi Ancient Tree. As Chen Xiao began drawing out the tree’s power to help it gather its spirit, he broke through to the middle stage of Six-Star Dou Sheng.

• Cao Ying slowed her group after they entered the thousand-mile range of the Demon Flame Space, having already attracted the attention she wanted.
• Chen Xiao explained that a branch of the White Tribe had become the leading force in the human camp of the Extreme Northern Land.
• Chen Xiao and his companions reached the Fallen God Ice Plain and used barriers and arrays to conceal the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s emergence.
• Chen Xiao asked the Bodhi Ancient Tree to let him draw out its power until it fell below the Dou Sheng realm, improving its chances of gathering a spirit.
• Chen Xiao absorbed the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s energy and advanced to the middle stage of Six-Star Dou Sheng.

After absorbing the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s energy, Chen Xiao reached the Nine-Star Dou Saint level and awakened an Emperor Realm Soul. He then protected the Bodhi Ancient Tree as it gathered a spirit and took human form.

• Chen Xiao advanced to Seven-Star Dou Saint, and the Bodhi Ancient Tree condensed energy spheres for him to absorb.
• Chen Xiao cultivated for seven days, absorbing fourteen energy spheres while Cai Lin, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Jiu Xuan guarded him.
• Chen Xiao’s soul broke through to the Emperor Realm, and he revealed that he had reached Nine-Star Dou Saint.
• Chen Xiao thanked the weakened Bodhi Ancient Tree, then began protecting it as it gathered a spirit.
• Jiu Xuan dispersed the thunderclouds threatening the Bodhi Ancient Tree while its roots tore free from the ground.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree emerged from the mist in the form of a young man, opened his eyes, and rejoiced at his freedom.

Chen Xiao restored the Ice Sea, parted from Bodhi, and helped the White Tribe High Priest leave his sealed world before Cao Ying led the expedition into the Demon Flame Space. Cao Ying entered alone to seek the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and Chen Xiao followed after her.

• Chen Xiao flooded the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s former pit with seawater, gave Bodhi a Jade Slip, and watched him depart for the Central Plains.
• Chen Xiao brought Xiao Yi Xian, Cai Lin, Qing Lin, and Jiu Xuan into the White Tribe’s sealed world and persuaded the High Priest to leave and see the tribe’s revival.
• Cao Ying and her group reached the Demon Flame Space, where Ancient Races and other experts gathered as its entrance opened.
• Cao Ying entered the Demon Flame Space alone, using a Bodhi Seed and an Ice Soul Talisman to guard her mind and prepare for its illusions and heat.
• Chen Xiao sensed hidden Ancient Race experts outside, dismissed their intentions, and silently entered the Demon Flame Space.

Chen Xiao entered the Demon Flame Space, rescued Blood Axe Xiao Chen from the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and watched as the flame prepared to use its Fire Slaves against the cultivators trapped in the Dream Demon Sky Mist. Cao Ying emerged with the others and joined a temporary alliance, unaware that Chen Xiao was already beyond the giant gate they believed stood ahead.

• Chen Xiao passed through the white mist and entered the magma sea, where the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame appeared and revealed its Fire Slaves.
• Chen Xiao freed Xiao Chen from the flame’s control and promised to take him out, while the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame offered the other Fire Slaves in exchange for being spared.
• Chen Xiao refused the offer and watched as the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame sent its Fire Slaves to surround the Dream Demon Sky Mist.
• Cao Ying emerged from the mist with the other cultivators, and the Ancient, Yan, Thunder, Yao, and Soul Clans formed a temporary alliance to face the trials ahead.
• The cultivators prepared to enter the giant gate, not knowing it was an illusion that did not exist for Chen Xiao and Xiao Chen.

Chen Xiao awakened the Pure Lotus Demon Saint from the assembled map while the Central Plains experts broke free of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s illusion. With the experts expelled and the entrance closing, Chen Xiao, Cao Ying, Xiao Chen, the Demon Saint, and the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame remained inside as the Demon Saint prepared to confront his former companion.

• Chen Xiao used the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame to reveal the hidden writing on the Fragment Maps, which summoned the Pure Lotus Demon Saint.
• The Pure Lotus Demon Saint recognized Chen Xiao’s strength and accepted his offer of Spirit Nurturing Dust.
• Gu Nanhai realized the Demon Flame’s power depended on their fear, rallied the experts, and led them to destroy its illusory form.
• The experts found themselves outside the Demon Flame Space, but Gu Rui and the others could not reenter before its entrance closed.
• Chen Xiao introduced Cao Ying to the Pure Lotus Demon Saint and Xiao Chen, then explained that Cao Ying intended to refine the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• The Pure Lotus Demon Saint told the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame that he had never hated him and had sealed him to curb his violence.

Pure Lotus Demon Saint defeated the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and stripped away its memories and intelligence, leaving Chen Xiao with the flame’s source. Chen Xiao, Cao Ying, and Xiao Chen left for Dragon Island as the barrier to the Demon Flame Space vanished and the waiting experts rushed inside.

• Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame activated the Sky Refining Ancient Formation, but Pure Lotus Demon Saint seized control and trapped it.
• Pure Lotus Demon Saint stripped the flame’s memories and intelligence despite its pleas to him and Chen Xiao, then destroyed its former consciousness.
• Pure Lotus Demon Saint gave the now mindless fire lotus to Chen Xiao, who planned to bring it to Dragon Island for Cao Ying to refine after a breakthrough.
• Chen Xiao invited Xiao Chen to Dragon Island and promised to take him to see Xiao Xuan when he had time.
• Chen Xiao, Cao Ying, and Xiao Chen left the Demon Flame Space, and the experts outside entered after its barrier disappeared.

Chen Xiao returned to Dragon Island after securing the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, then prepared his allies for the coming conflict with the Soul Clan. He pre-paid Origin Qi, breaking through the cultivation limit that had seemed to block his path and making the Dou Emperor realm seem attainable.

• Chen Xiao returned to Dragon Island with Cao Ying and Xiao Chen while Zi Yan left the Beast Region after completing her task.
• Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame learned that the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame had vanished from the Demon Flame Space and suspected the Ancient Void Dragon Clan had secretly taken it.
• Gu Yuan accepted Xun Er’s decision to return to Dragon Island, though he wondered whether Chen Xiao had captured the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Chen Xiao left Xiao Chen with Zhu Hong and told his allies to cultivate with the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s energy before the Yao Clan’s Pill Canon.
• After Zi Yan and Xun Er returned, Chen Xiao assigned them preparations for the coming conflict and used his Pre-pay ability to obtain Origin Qi.
• Chen Xiao sensed Origin Qi within his Dou Qi, felt the barrier to further cultivation disappear, and saw the Dou Emperor realm as reachable.

Yao Chen prepared to attend the Yao Clan’s Pill Canon with Xiao Yan and Xiao Chen, while Chen Xiao arranged for Xiao Chen and Xiao Yan to enter the Medicine Realm. After the group arrived, Chen Xiao sensed that the Nihility Devouring Flame was already there, and they settled in to observe the gathering before the competition began.

• Yao Chen told Xiao Yan that the Pill Canon was approaching, and Xiao Yan regretted that he could not yet help his teacher claim a place for his parents’ names on the Ancestral Clan Stele.
• Chen Xiao visited the Pill Tower, asked Yao Chen to take Xiao Chen into the Pill Canon, and promised that Yao Chen could do as he pleased with the Ancestral Clan Stele; he also invited Xiao Yan along.
• Yao Chen, Xiao Yan, and Xiao Chen traveled to the Medicine Realm, where Chen Xiao and his companions joined them and entered after Chen Xiao secretly froze the surrounding area in time.
• Chen Xiao and the others reached the Pill Canon gathering square and concealed themselves among the guests, while Zi Yan criticized the Yao Clan’s strength and past conduct.

At the Yao Clan’s Pill Canon, Xiao Chen confronted Yao Wangui and later struck Hun Xuzi after the Soul Clan alchemist mocked the Xiao Clan. Hun Xuzi was left sprawled in the plaza, while Xiao Chen stopped short of killing him.

• Xiao Chen led Yao Chen and Xiao Yan into the plaza after confronting Elder Wan Huo over the Yao Clan’s treatment of their group.
• Yao Dan welcomed the gathered guests, Elder Shen Nong arrived, and Hun Xuzi then appeared without an invitation to challenge the claim of being the continent’s foremost alchemist.
• Yao Dan allowed Hun Xuzi to remain for the Pill Canon and warned him not to cause trouble.
• Hun Xuzi recognized Xiao Chen and mocked the Xiao Clan, prompting Xiao Chen to attack him.
• Xiao Chen’s punch sent Hun Xuzi crashing into the plaza, and Xiao Chen warned him not to insult the Xiao Clan again.

Xiao Chen humiliated Hun Xuzi at the Yao Clan’s Pill Canon, then Yao Dan began the ceremony’s main contest after the younger-generation trials. Yao Chen joined Hun Xuzi, Elder Wan Huo, and Elder Shen Nong as the four contestants, and the alchemists prepared to compete for the title of Number One Alchemist on the Continent.

• Xiao Chen’s aura stunned Hun Xuzi, but Yao Dan stopped Hun Xuzi from attacking him and announced the start of the Pill Canon.
• The Yao Clan’s younger alchemists competed for several days, with Yao Tian taking first place, Yao Ling second, and Yao Xingji reaching the top five.
• Chen Xiao and Zhu Hong noticed Yao Ling’s exceptional soul talent and regretted that she was associated with the Soul Clan.
• Yao Dan announced that four alchemists would compete for the title of Number One Alchemist on the Continent.
• Hun Xuzi, Elder Wan Huo, and Elder Shen Nong entered the arena, and Yao Chen joined them, declaring that the Soul Clan was unworthy of the title.

Hun Xuzi confronted Yao Chen and the other alchemy masters at the Yao Clan, revealing a powerful Earth Sub-flame of the Void Devouring Flame as they prepared to compete in pill refining. The four masters began refining Ninth-grade Profound Pills, while Chen Xiao and Zi Yan held back to avoid alerting the hidden Nihility Devouring Flame.

• Hun Xuzi summoned the Void Devouring Flame and explained that his flame was a rare Earth Sub-flame with a weakness tied to the main flame.
• Yao Chen revealed the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, while Elder Wan Huo and Elder Shen Nong displayed the Nine Nether Wind Flame and Living Flame.
• Xiao Chen told Xiao Yan that Chen Xiao and his companions could conceal their presence even from Yao Dan, and that only a handful of Nine-Star Dou Saints could challenge Chen Xiao.
• Yao Dan called for the alchemy contest to begin, and Elder Shen Nong used the Living Flame to grow medicinal herbs before the four masters started refining their pills.
• Hun Xuzi, Elder Wan Huo, Elder Shen Nong, and Yao Chen each drew Heaven and Earth Energy into their cauldrons to attempt Ninth-grade Profound Pills.
• Zi Yan suggested that Chen Xiao and Zhu Hong gather more energy for the alchemists, but Chen Xiao refused because their intervention would alert the hidden Nihility Devouring Flame.

Hun Xuzi stole the energy gathered by the other alchemists to finish refining a Ninth-grade Profound Pill, while Chen Xiao told Yao Chen to let him proceed. The pill’s emergence began with a terrifying Pill Lightning and a rain of energy-born pill grains.

• Four Ninth-grade Profound Pill embryos drained the Heaven and Earth Energy around Medicine Mountain until the surrounding land and herbs withered.
• Zi Yan anxiously hoped the Profound Pill would help her advance, while Chen Xiao told her to watch the sky and hinted at an even greater opportunity.
• Hun Xuzi used the Void Devouring Flame to steal the energy in the other three cauldrons, and Chen Xiao advised Yao Chen to let him refine the pill.
• Yao Chen stopped resisting Hun Xuzi, and Elder Wan Huo and Elder Shen Nong held back as Hun Xuzi absorbed their cauldrons’ energy.
• After several more days, a point of light appeared in Hun Xuzi’s cauldron, dark clouds and black Pill Lightning filled the sky, and pill grains rained down as Yao Dan announced the Profound Pill’s emergence.

Hun Xuzi refined a Ninth-grade Profound Pill and captured it after it survived its lightning tribulation, unaware that Chen Xiao had secretly switched it for a fake. Hun Xuzi then revealed his real purpose at the Pill Canon: he wanted to borrow the Tou She Ancient God Jade held by the Yao Clan.

• The Ninth-grade Profound Pill endured the black lightning tribulation, emerged from its embryo, and tried to escape.
• Hun Xuzi blocked the pill, suppressed its humanlike form, and prepared to seal it in a Jade Bottle.
• While Hun Xuzi was distracted by his seals, Chen Xiao secretly took the Profound Pill and substituted another pill, then gave the real one to Zi Yan.
• Hun Xuzi thanked Yao Chen and the other elders for their help and promised them a grand gift in return.
• Hun Xuzi told Yao Dan that he had come to the Medicine Realm to request the Yao Clan's Tou She Ancient God Jade.

Hun Xuzi attacked the Yao Clan during the Pill Canon, sealing the Medicine Realm and revealing the Soul Clan’s plan to destroy them. As the Yao Clan activated its clan-protecting array, the true Nihility Devouring Flame appeared, becoming one of Chen Xiao’s targets.

• Hun Xuzi demanded the Tou She Ancient God Jade, then revealed his Seven-Star Dou Saint strength and battered Elder Wan Huo and other Yao Clan elders.
• Hun Xuzi sealed the Medicine Realm’s space, preventing the Yao Clan from summoning aid as Yao Dan ordered the clan to prepare for battle.
• Chen Xiao ignored Yao Feng’s plea for help and sent Zhu Hong and Zi Yan to loot the treasury while he coached Jiu Xuan for the coming fight.
• Hun Xuzi allowed the Pill Canon guests to leave, but the Nihility Devouring Flame killed those who fled and spread black flames across the Medicine Realm.
• Elder Shen Nong shielded the remaining outsiders with Living Flame, and Chen Xiao reinforced the barrier with Bone Spirit Cold Flame.
• Yao Dan activated the Heaven Transformation Medicine Array, and Hun Xuzi summoned the true Nihility Devouring Flame to break it.

The Yao Clan summoned the Medicine Emperor’s remnant soul to defend their realm, but Nihility Devouring Flame overwhelmed the clan’s formation and began slaughtering its people. The Medicine Emperor sacrificed himself to enter Chen Xiao’s body and secured Yao Ling’s survival, while the Yao Clan launched a desperate counterattack that ended with Yao Dan recognizing the attackers as the Tunling Clan.

• Nihility Devouring Flame attacked the Yao Clan’s formation, and Yao Dan poured the clan’s medicinal pills into it to summon the Medicine Emperor’s remnant soul.
• The Medicine Emperor repelled Nihility Devouring Flame’s first attack, but Nihility Devouring Flame devoured millions of Yao Clan members and destroyed the ancestral medicinal cauldron.
• The Medicine Emperor asked Chen Xiao to save Yao Ling in exchange for his final power and two emperor-grade pill formulas, and Chen Xiao agreed.
• The Medicine Emperor entered Chen Xiao’s body as the Yao Clan’s formation shattered, and Yao Dan rallied the clan to fight for its survival.
• Nihility Devouring Flame unleashed black-flame creatures that attacked the Yao Clan, and Yao Dan identified them as the Tunling Clan.