Chapter Summaries

Ye Chen’s group crossed the poisonous fog with Xiao Yi Xian’s guidance and Ye Chen’s Heavenly Flames, then confronted the Ancient Heavenly Demon Python. Cai Die suppressed the beast while Qing Lin used her Jade Serpent Three-Flower Pupils to subdue it, leaving Qing Lin with a powerful new Snake-Type Magical Beast puppet.

• Xiao Yi Xian gave the group Poison Avoidance Pills and warned that invisible poisonous insects were drifting in the fog.
• Ye Chen burned the insects inside himself and used Heavenly Flames to protect Cai Die and the others, then cleared a safe passage with a Little Fire Dragon.
• A Danta Elder told Ye Chen that the western route was guarded by an Ancient Heavenly Demon Python, and Ye Chen chose to confront it.
• Cai Die struck the python’s tail and drew it out of the mountain while Qing Lin activated her Jade Serpent Three-Flower Pupils.
• Cai Die’s Eight-Colored Sky Swallowing Python bloodline and Qing Lin’s pupils subdued the Ancient Heavenly Demon Python, which Qing Lin gained as a puppet.

Ye Chen and his companions claimed the Heavenly Demon Blood Pool, where Cai Die absorbed its energy and an Eight-Colored Ore to reach Three-Turn Dou Zun. They then rode the subdued Heavenly Demon Python to the Ancient Domain Platform, where Ye Chen formed an alliance against the Soul Hall and prepared to approach the Bodhi Ancient Tree separately from the assembled forces.

• Ye Chen sent Cai Die into the Heavenly Demon Blood Pool, where she endured its corrosive energy and absorbed most of the pool over three days.
• Cai Die fused with an Eight-Colored Ore, awakened her Sky Swallowing Python bloodline, and broke through to Three-Turn Dou Zun.
• Qing Lin suggested using the Heavenly Demon Python as a mount, and Ye Chen led his group to the Ancient Domain Platform.
• Ye Chen met Xiao Yan, Yao Chen, and Yun Yun, then formed an alliance with their groups against the Soul Hall.
• Yao Chen told Ye Chen that Ancient Races had gathered near the Bodhi Ancient Tree, while Yun Yun described the Beast Tide blocking the way.
• Ye Chen rejected joining the mass charge and ordered his group to prepare to enter the Beast Tide ahead of the others.

Ye Chen led his group through the Beast Tide aboard the Ancient Heavenly Demon Python, while the people who followed them were slaughtered when the beasts erupted behind them. Hun Yu then gathered the remaining forces into an Arrowhead Formation and led them toward the Beast Tide.

• Xiao Yan, Yao Chen, and members of the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan discussed Ye Chen's strength and his plan to cross the Beast Tide.
• Ye Chen assigned Cai Die and himself to clear the way, then led the group toward the Beast Tide as the other factions followed.
• Ye Chen blasted open a path through the beasts, and Cai Die's aura made them hesitate as the group charged deep into the horde.
• The followers who rushed after Ye Chen were torn apart when the beasts surged at them, while Ye Chen's group continued safely through the Beast Tide.
• Hun Yu called on the remaining forces to form an Arrowhead Formation, gathered Xiao Yan's group among them, and led the formation toward the Beast Tide.

Ye Chen and the Pill Tower and Flower Sect forces escaped the Beast Tide and approached the Bodhi Ancient Tree, where they discovered its hidden danger and the Bodhi Heart. When a greedy Nine Star Dou Zun rushed for the treasure, five guardians emerged and a Half-Saint gravely wounded him while Ye Chen refused to intervene.

• Cai Die transformed into a giant multicolored python and led Ye Chen and the others out of the Beast Tide.
• Ye Chen warned the Pill Tower and Flower Sect members to be cautious as they approached the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• Qing Lin sensed chilly gray energy and negative emotions hidden within the tree’s Pure Qi.
• A Bodhi Heart appeared in the trunk, and a Nine Star Dou Zun rushed toward it despite Ye Chen’s warning.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree sent five figures from the ground, and one struck the reckless man with a Half-Saint’s punch.
• The wounded man called for Ye Chen to save him, but Ye Chen and the others watched without helping.

Ye Chen and his allies defeated the Half-Saint puppets guarding the Bodhi Ancient Tree, then entered its interior after the tree enveloped them in a pillar of light and made them vanish. Outside, Xiao Yi Xian and the others waited as the survivors of the Beast Tide rushed toward the tree.

• Ye Chen, Old Ancestor Xian Kong, the Nine Xuan Saint, Cai Die, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin fought and destroyed the Half-Saint puppets, with Ye Chen killing four of them.
• Old Ancestor Xian Kong recognized one puppet as Hun Shang, a Soul Clan Half-Saint who had once hunted him.
• Ye Chen invited the group to enter the Bodhi Ancient Tree, and more than half the people chose to follow him while others stayed behind.
• A pillar of light enveloped Ye Chen and the others beneath the tree, drained their Dou Qi, and carried them away into the trunk.
• After the Beast Tide passed, fewer than four hundred of the original thousand-plus people remained, and many rushed toward the tree while Xiao Yi Xian and the others waited outside.

Ye Chen escaped the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s illusion and entered its inner space, where he reunited with Cai Die. The tree showed them images of a black-robed Dou Di whose lingering resentment had invaded it.

• Ye Chen realized his apparent Dou Di power and the Starry Rabbit encounter were an illusion, then broke free from the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s influence.
• Ye Chen arrived in the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s emerald inner space and was joined by Cai Die, whose Bodhi Seed had brought her there.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree showed Ye Chen and Cai Die images of the people trapped beneath it, including Xiao Yan and Gu Xun'er.
• Ye Chen demanded that the Bodhi Ancient Tree reveal its purpose, and it showed them a black-robed Dou Di towering before the tree.
• Ye Chen watched the images reveal that the black-robed Dou Di’s lingering resentment had invaded the Bodhi Ancient Tree.

Ye Chen agreed to help the Bodhi Ancient Tree dispel the Dou Di Resentment infecting its Spiritual Wisdom in exchange for the chance for him and Cai Die to comprehend the Reincarnation Trial beneath the tree. After a day of refining Bodhi Seeds, the last wisp of Black Qi vanished and the tree’s vitality surged.

• Ye Chen recognized that the Bodhi Ancient Tree wanted him to remove the resentment infecting its Spiritual Wisdom.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree produced twenty-four pure Bodhi Seeds, and Ye Chen asked it to let him and Cai Die comprehend the Reincarnation Trial in return for his help.
• Ye Chen began refining the Bodhi Seeds with his Three Thousand Starry Sky Flame, releasing Pure Qi that entered the tree and drove out Black Qi.
• When Ye Chen worried that refining the seeds would exhaust his Dou Qi, the Bodhi Ancient Tree sent roots to his shoulders and replenished his energy.
• Ye Chen refined seeds for nearly a day until the last wisp of Black Qi disappeared, and the Bodhi Ancient Tree radiated green light and stronger vitality.

After the Bodhi Ancient Tree purified the Dou Di Resentment, it drew Ye Chen and Cai Die into its trunk while releasing the others from its illusions. Their allies waited outside, and Hun Yu considered summoning Soul Clan reinforcements to kill them and claim the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s power.

• The Bodhi Ancient Tree regained its Spiritual Wisdom, pulled Ye Chen and Cai Die into its trunk, and expelled everyone trapped in its illusions.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin noticed Ye Chen and Cai Die were missing, while Old Ancestor Xian Kong speculated that Ye Chen had earned the tree’s favor.
• Xiao Yi Xian explained the tree’s deadly illusions to Xiao Yan, Yao Chen, and Gu Xun’er, and their groups decided to wait for Ye Chen and Cai Die.
• Hun Yu considered using a Spatial Jade Slip to summon Soul Clan Strong Persons and kill the others.

After a month inside the Bodhi Ancient Tree, Ye Chen and Cai Die emerged with greatly strengthened souls, improved cultivation, and Bodhi Seeds. Hun Yu and Nine Phoenix stirred the crowd against Ye Chen, then sealed the area and summoned powerful reinforcements as the chapter ended.

• Ye Chen and Cai Die completed a hundred lifetimes of reincarnation, reaching the Heavenly Realm in soul power while Ye Chen became a Two-Star Dou Saint and Cai Die a High Half-Saint.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree gave Ye Chen more than twenty Bodhi Seeds before the pair left its space.
• Hun Yu and Nine Phoenix waited outside with the other factions and discussed joining forces against Ye Chen.
• Ye Chen reunited with Qing Lin and Xiao Yi Xian, then gave Bodhi Seeds to Old Ancestor Xian Kong, Nine Xuan Saint, Yun Yun, Xiao Yan, and Gu Xun'er.
• Hun Yu and Nine Phoenix demanded that Ye Chen surrender ten Bodhi Seeds, prompting Ye Chen to recognize their plan to attack him.
• The surrounding space sealed the group in, and Hun Yu tore a scroll to open a Space Tunnel as a powerful aura surged from within.

Ye Chen faced a coalition of the Soul Hall and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, led by two Dou Saints who demanded the treasures he had gained from the Bodhi Ancient Tree. He promised to handle their leaders himself and provoked Eagle Phoenix, whose fury erupted as the confrontation began.

• Hun Yu opened a Space Tunnel, and the Soul Hall's Great Heavenly Venerable emerged; Yao Lao and Old Ancestor Xian Kong recognized him as a powerful Two-Star Dou Saint.
• Eagle Phoenix arrived with reinforcements from the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, adding to the Soul Hall's forces and leaving Ye Chen's allies outnumbered.
• Ye Chen reassured the Pill Tower's allies that he would face the two Dou Saints himself.
• The Great Heavenly Venerable and Eagle Phoenix demanded Ye Chen surrender what he had obtained from the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• Ye Chen insulted Eagle Phoenix's impure bloodline, and Eagle Phoenix erupted in anger and unleashed his Dou Qi.

Ye Chen faced the Hall of Souls Grand Heavenly Venerable while Cai Die and the others prepared to fight the surrounding Soul Hall and Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan experts. After Ye Chen repelled the Grand Heavenly Venerable’s attacks, Eagle Phoenix joined him, and Ye Chen enlarged himself with silver lightning to confront them both.

• Ye Chen left the surrounding enemies to Cai Die, Old Ancestor Xian Kong, and Yao Chen as he faced the Hall of Souls Grand Heavenly Venerable.
• The Grand Heavenly Venerable attacked Ye Chen with bone spikes and a soul-charged Bone Emperor Sky Cleaver, but Ye Chen countered both attacks.
• Ye Chen used Dragon Devour to erase the Grand Heavenly Venerable’s full-powered strike.
• Eagle Phoenix joined the Grand Heavenly Venerable after realizing Ye Chen was stronger than expected, then transformed into a half-human, half-beast form.
• Ye Chen grew into a giant wreathed in silver lightning and challenged Eagle Phoenix and the Grand Heavenly Venerable to fight him together.

Ye Chen repelled the coordinated attacks of the Hall of Souls Grand Heavenly Venerable and Eagle Phoenix, then turned the tide of the battlefield in the Three-Sect Alliance’s favor. He unleashed an empowered palm strike that overwhelmed Eagle Phoenix’s phoenix form and sent him crashing into the mountains.

• Eagle Phoenix and the Hall of Souls Grand Heavenly Venerable attacked Ye Chen together, but his Heavenly Dragon Armor and True Dragon Shading Heaven Hand shattered their assaults and sent them flying.
• Ye Chen replenished his Star Power and charged at Eagle Phoenix, while Cai Die ordered the Three-Sect Alliance to attack the Soul Clan and Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.
• The Three-Sect Alliance’s powerhouses wounded or killed many enemies, and Eagle Phoenix tried to rush to his clan’s aid before Ye Chen intercepted him.
• Eagle Phoenix transformed into his thousand-yard phoenix form and fired a pillar of light at Ye Chen’s palm strike.
• Ye Chen augmented his strength with the Three Thousand Starry Sky Flame and Black Demon Lightning, broke through Eagle Phoenix’s attack, and slammed him into the mountains.

Ye Chen defeated Eagle Phoenix, then survived the Hall of Souls Grand Heavenly Venerable's ambush with the Bone Emperor Blade. He destroyed the Great Heavenly Venerable with soul techniques, leaving two Dou Shengs dead and the Beast Tide fleeing the Barbaric Ancient Domain.

• Eagle Phoenix crashed into the ground, shaking the Barbaric Ancient Domain and driving the Beast Tide toward the outskirts.
• The Great Heavenly Venerable fused with the Bone Blade to form the Bone Emperor Blade and launched a surprise attack on Ye Chen.
• The Bone Emperor Blade battered Ye Chen and tore open his Heavenly Dragon Armor, but Ye Chen resisted its soul-devouring power.
• Ye Chen used Heavenly Dragon's Wrath to blast the Great Heavenly Venerable out of the blade.
• Ye Chen unleashed Soul Arrow Thousand Arrows Returning to Origin and shattered the Great Heavenly Venerable's soul.

Ye Chen stopped Hun Yu from escaping unscathed, but a powerful Soul Clan expert rescued him and warned Ye Chen against opposing the clan. With Nine Phoenix dead and the battle over, Xiao Yan urged the alliance to focus on destroying the Soul Hall.

• A Soul Clan Half-Saint urged Hun Yu to flee as the clan’s forces faltered, but Ye Chen intercepted him.
• A powerful Soul Clan expert reached through space, knocked away Ye Chen’s Four-Seal Fusion, and pulled Hun Yu into a Space Tunnel.
• Before Hun Yu vanished, Ye Chen struck him with Three Thousand Starry Sky Flame and Soul Threads, while the Soul Clan expert sent Ye Chen flying with a finger attack and threatened him.
• Cai Die killed Nine Phoenix, and the surviving fighters gathered around Ye Chen after the battlefield fell silent.
• Xiao Yan told Ye Chen that the Ancient Races restricted the Soul Clan’s strongest experts and said their alliance should destroy the Soul Hall.

After the battle in the Barbaric Ancient Domain, Ye Chen returned to the Pill Tower with valuable Heaven Demon Phoenix corpses and Bodhi treasures, while Xiao Yan planned to grow stronger and seek a Heavenly Flame. Ye Chen refined pills from the Bodhi Seeds and entered seclusion, wary that the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan might retaliate.

• Ye Chen decided it was not yet time to destroy the Soul Hall, and the surviving outsiders left after the battle ended.
• Ye Chen took the Heaven Demon Phoenix corpses, while Xiao Yan resolved to cultivate after returning and asked Yao Chen about the Heavenly Flame Gu Xun'er had mentioned.
• Ye Chen returned to the Pill Tower and distributed pills, then accepted Bodhi Seeds from Old Ancestor Xian Kong and Nine Xuan Saint in exchange for strength-enhancing pills.
• Ye Chen spent three days developing and refining the Bodhi Great Return Pill and the Bodhi Saint Pill.
• Ye Chen began seclusion with the Bodhi Heart and considered how to repel a possible attack by the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.

Ye Chen assembled the four Ancient Map pieces and used his Heavenly Flame to reveal clues to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s arrival and a hidden remnant soul. After confirming the remnant soul posed no immediate threat, he prepared to strengthen himself and gather what he needed to subdue the Demon Flame.

• Ye Chen pieced together the four Ancient Map fragments and burned the map with his Three Thousand Burning Flame until ancient lines appeared: “Twin Moons Appear, Nine Stars Unite, Heaven and Earth Tide, Demon Flame Descends.”
• Ye Chen concluded the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame would descend in less than a year and a half and resolved to prepare, including obtaining Yellow Spring Blood Crystal from the Nine Nether Earth Python Tribe for a Nine Yin Yellow Spring Pill.
• A Demonic Lotus Pattern sprang from the Ancient Map into the space between Ye Chen’s brows, where he discovered a Light Orb he recognized as Pure Lotus Demon Saint’s remnant soul.
• Ye Chen wrapped the Light Orb in his Soul Power, and a streak of white light entered his soul and left only the words “Pure Lotus Demon Saint.”
• Ye Chen found that the remnant soul would not respond further and concluded it would likely activate only when he encountered the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.

After the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan mobilized against the Pill Tower, Ye Chen revealed his Two-Star Dou Saint strength and explained that the conflict stemmed from his killings in the Barbaric Ancient Domain. The Pill Tower and its allies faced the invading clan outside Sacred Pill City, where Ye Chen prepared to confront Huang Tian himself.

• Ye Chen arrived at the Pill Tower meeting hall after Cai Die and Dan Chen warned him that the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan had mobilized to attack.
• Ye Chen silenced the Small Pill Tower elders by revealing his Two-Star Dou Saint cultivation, then explained that he had killed the Soul Hall's Great Heavenly Venerable and Eagle Phoenix.
• Ye Chen told the Pill Tower leaders that Starfall Pavilion and Flower Sect would assist them, giving their alliance strength that surpassed the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan's.
• Ye Chen and Old Monster Lin confronted Huang Tian and the Phoenix Clan outside Sacred Pill City with their allied forces.
• Old Monster Lin warned Ye Chen that Huang Tian was a Five-Star Dou Saint and that the Pill Tower Old Ancestor might need to intervene, but Ye Chen said he would face Huang Tian himself.

Ye Chen faced Huang Tian and summoned a powerful presence from a Spatial Rift as the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and the Pill Tower Alliance went to war. A gigantic golden dragon emerged over the battlefield, slowing everyone with its overwhelming dragon might.

• Huang Tian confronted Ye Chen and declared that the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan would kill him for killing one of its Emperors and possessing the Demon Phoenix Wings.
• Ye Chen revealed the Supreme Dragon Phoenix, then escaped Huang Tian’s lightning-fast attack and summoned the Six Star Dou Sheng Heavenly Dragon Descent.
• Huang Tian attacked Ye Chen with the Demon Phoenix Step, but golden light protected Ye Chen and neutralized the assault.
• Huang Tian ordered the remaining Phoenix and Kun Phoenix to attack, and Cai Die, Yao Chen, Green Fairy, and the Pill Tower Alliance’s Strong Persons fought back.
• A ten-thousand-yard golden dragon emerged from the Spatial Rift, and its dragon might slowed everyone on the battlefield.

Ye Chen’s Ten Thousand Zhang Golden Dragon overwhelmed Huang Tian and the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan in battle. After being badly injured, Huang Tian admitted defeat and asked both sides to stop fighting, ending the clans’ grievances.

• Huang Tian transformed into his Demon Phoenix true body and fought Ye Chen’s Ten Thousand Zhang Golden Dragon.
• The Golden Dragon’s beam shattered Huang Tian’s feathers, which he regrew as Phoenix mocked him.
• Huang Tian escaped the Heavenly Dragon Flame, but the Golden Dragon struck him with its tail and sent him crashing through a mountain.
• Phoenix and Kun Phoenix called out to Huang Tian but could not break free from the Pill Tower Alliance’s fighters.
• Huang Tian admitted defeat to Ye Chen, asked the combatants to stop, and declared that the clans’ grievances were wiped clean.

Ye Chen forced Huang Tian and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan to withdraw from Central State for fifty years, then learned that the entire Ling Clan had vanished from its sealed realm. He postponed his trip to the Nine Nether Earth Python Tribe and convened Pill Tower elders to discuss the disappearance, though he knew the Soul Clan was responsible and could not say so openly.

• Ye Chen accepted Huang Tian’s submission only after Huang Tian swore that the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan would stay out of Central State for fifty years.
• Ye Chen explained that his Dragon Soul True Body could not keep Huang Tian from escaping, then told Your Majesty that a trip to the Nine Nether Earth Python Tribe might help increase their strength.
• News of the Ling Clan’s empty realm spread, and investigators from the other clans found no survivors or traces of what had happened.
• Ye Chen postponed his planned visit to the Nine Nether Earth Python Tribe and gathered Great Elder Institute elders to discuss the Ling Clan’s disappearance.
• Xuan Kongzi questioned how anyone could have wiped out the Ling Clan, given its leader’s Peak Six-Star Dou Sheng strength and its population of over a million.