Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan defeated Gu Yao in their arena match by surviving his attacks and landing a five-colored Buddha Rage Fire Lotus, which Elder Tong Xuan diverted before it could kill Gu Yao. The coming-of-age ceremony continued with Gu Xun'er preparing to test her bloodline.

• Xiao Yan concealed a fire lotus beneath his Flame Splitting Wave Ruler attack, injuring Gu Yao and enraging him.
• Gu Yao knocked the Heavy Black Ruler from Xiao Yan's hands and pressed his attack, but Xiao Yan used Fire Lotus Grenades to create an opening.
• Xiao Yan revealed his Heaven-tier Burning Art and used five Heavenly Flames to form the Five Wheels Lihuo Formation against Gu Yao's Great Annihilation Finger.
• Xiao Yan unleashed a five-colored Buddha Rage Fire Lotus, and Elder Tong Xuan diverted it before declaring Gu Yao the loser.
• Gu Yuan acknowledged that Gu Yao had lost and criticized the Ancient Clan's arrogance, while Gu Yao withdrew under Elder Tong Xuan's orders.
• The coming-of-age ceremony resumed, and Gu Xun'er took her turn to test her bloodline.

Gu Xun'er revealed her Divine Bloodline at her coming-of-age ceremony, while Lan Hong helped Xiao Yan secure a place in the Heavenly Tomb. Gu Yuan accepted Xiao Yan’s relationship with Xun'er and discussed the Tuoshe Ancient Jade, as Lan Hong warned that the Hun Clan had destroyed the Spirit Clan.

• Gu Xun'er’s bloodline rose to the tenth grade, and the Ancient Clan elders gave her their Seven-Colored Gold clan mark.
• Gu Yuan and Lan Hong appeared at the ceremony, and the Yan Clan recognized Lan Hong as a powerful figure near Gu Yuan’s level.
• After the ceremony, Gu Xun'er demanded a Heavenly Tomb slot for Xiao Yan, and Lan Hong pressured the elders into giving Xiao Yan a slot and handing over the two Hun Clan slots.
• Gu Yuan told Xiao Yan he accepted his relationship with Xun'er but warned him to wait until she reached the Dou Sheng realm before taking their relationship further.
• Gu Yuan and Xiao Yan discussed the Tuoshe Ancient Jade, and Lan Hong revealed that the Hun Clan had destroyed the Spirit Clan.

Lan Hong warned Gu Yuan and Xiao Yan about the Hun Clan’s plan to target the Eight Ancient Clans, then entered the Heavenly Tomb to meet Xiao Xuan. Xiao Yan and his companions began exploring the tomb, while Xiao Xuan learned that Xiao Yan was a promising descendant of the Xiao Clan.

• Lan Hong told Gu Yuan that the Hun Clan had destroyed the Spirit Clan and sought the ancient clans’ bloodlines, but Gu Yuan doubted he could unite the distrustful clans against them.
• Lan Hong urged Xiao Yan to strengthen himself in the Heavenly Tomb, warning that the Hun Clan held Xiao Zhan and that the Yan Clan and Yao Clan might covet his Heavenly Flames.
• Two days later, Lan Hong entered the Heavenly Tomb and gave his two slots to Little Doctor Immortal and Qing Lin before heading for the third layer.
• Gu Xun'er and Xiao Yan hunted energy bodies together, while Little Doctor Immortal and Qing Lin proceeded to the second layer.
• Lan Hong met Xiao Xuan, who explained that the Hun Clan had worn him down after Void Devouring Flame ambushed him and weakened his realm.
• Xiao Xuan learned that Xiao Yan belonged to the Xiao Clan and resolved to pass on the clan’s inheritances when he arrived; Xiao Yan’s group then ran into trouble.

Xiao Yan and Gu Xun'er defeated Yao Xingji and his companion before entering the dangerous third level of the Heavenly Tomb. Elsewhere, Little Doctor Immortal was badly wounded by a powerful Dou Sheng-level energy body, but Lan Hong appeared and blocked its attack.

• Yao Xingji demanded Xiao Yan's Cultivation Method, then attacked Xiao Yan and Gu Xun'er with another Yao Clan member after they refused.
• Xiao Yan and Gu Xun'er defeated the two Yao Clan members, took their energy-body crystals, and continued to the third level of the Heavenly Tomb.
• Xiao Yan and Gu Xun'er fought off an eight-star Dou Zun-level energy body, and Xiao Yan prepared to absorb the crystals they had gathered.
• Little Doctor Immortal and Qing Lin defeated a Half-Saint-level energy body, and Qing Lin began absorbing its crystal while Little Doctor Immortal stood guard.
• A Dou Sheng-level energy body wounded Little Doctor Immortal after sealing the space around her, but Lan Hong appeared and blocked its attack.

Lan Hong reunited with Little Doctor Immortal and Qing Lin in the Heavenly Tomb, revealing that he had broken the barrier to its third level. Xiao Yan reached the third level with Gu Xun'er and the others, and the Blood Saber Saint recognized his Xiao Clan lineage and let them pass toward Xiao Xuan's Tomb.

• Lan Hong explained that he had shattered the energy wall between the second and third levels, while Little Doctor Immortal and Qing Lin finished absorbing energy crystals.
• An energy storm swept the second level, driving its survivors through the now-open passage into the third level.
• Xiao Yan advanced to a Six-star Dou Zun, and he and Gu Xun'er learned that someone had broken the energy wall before their group arrived.
• Gu Xun'er, Xiao Yan, and the others set off for Xiao Xuan's Tomb as Lan Hong met with Xiao Xuan.
• The Blood Saber Saint attacked Xiao Yan's group, then recognized Xiao Yan's Xiao Clan tribal pattern and showed them a safer path onward.

Xiao Xuan explained the Xiao Clan’s tribal pattern to Xiao Yan and helped him inherit the clan’s bloodline and reach Nine-star Dou Zun. As the group prepared to leave the Heavenly Tomb, Xiao Xuan sensed an unexpected event and led Xiao Yan and Gu Xun'er outside.

• Xiao Xuan rebuked Gu Qingyang and the Ancient Clan for letting the Xiao Clan decline, then told them Lan Hong had reached the half-step Dou Di realm.
• Xiao Xuan revealed that he had created the Heavenly Fire Three Transformations and that its complete form cultivated the Xiao Clan’s tribal pattern.
• Xiao Xuan replaced Xiao Yan’s blood in the blood pool, helping him inherit the Xiao Clan bloodline and raise his cultivation to Nine-star Dou Zun.
• Xiao Xuan taught Xiao Yan the complete Heavenly Fire Three Transformations and helped him inscribe all nine markings of the tribal pattern.
• Xiao Xuan told Xiao Yan that he could not leave the Heavenly Tomb and urged him to find Xiao Chen, who had survived the Hun Clan’s massacre.
• Xiao Xuan sensed something remarkable, then led Xiao Yan and Gu Xun'er out of his tomb residence.

Lan Hong broke through to Dou Di, returned to the Ancient Realm, and warned Gu Yuan on Xiao Xuan’s behalf. He then traveled with Zi Yan to the magma beneath Jia Nan Academy’s Heavenly Flame Refining Tower, where he prepared to free her father, Zhu Kun.

• Lan Hong transformed into the Bright Sword and released immense pressure as he broke through to Dou Di, shocking Xiao Yan, Gu Xun'er, and Xiao Xuan.
• Lan Hong withdrew his aura, confirmed his breakthrough, and decided to remain in the Dou Qi Continent while nurturing his Small World and observing Xiao Yan’s rise.
• After the group returned from the Heavenly Tomb, Lan Hong warned Gu Yuan that Xiao Xuan remembered the inhuman things Gu Yuan had done, but promised Xiao Xuan would spare the Ancient Clan because of Gu Xun'er.
• Lan Hong left the Ancient Realm, while Gu Yuan considered how his breakthrough might alter the balance of power and feared the Hun Clan’s response.
• Lan Hong went to Jia Nan Academy with Zi Yan and said he was ninety percent confident he could free her father, Zhu Kun.

Lan Hong freed Zhu Kun from Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's Cave Abode, then spoke with Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's projection about the Dou Emperor era and the dangers of ascending to the Great Thousand World. After leaving the magma world, Lan Hong set out to find the remaining map fragments tied to the Netherworld Lotus Fire, while Zi Yan chose to travel with him and Zhu Kun returned to Dragon Island.

• Lan Hong brought Zi Yan to Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's Cave Abode, where she reunited with Zhu Kun and told him she had become a Dou Saint and the new Dragon Emperor.
• Lan Hong pushed open the cave gates and freed Zhu Kun, then led him and Zi Yan toward the entrance.
• Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's projection appeared and explained that Lan Hong could not enter because he had opened the cave without the complete Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade.
• Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's projection recounted his origins and warned Lan Hong that ascended Dou Emperors might be used as cannon fodder in a battlefield above.
• Lan Hong left the magma world with Zhu Kun and Zi Yan; Zi Yan chose to follow Lan Hong, while Zhu Kun returned to Dragon Island.
• Lan Hong said he planned to find the remaining map fragments related to the Netherworld Lotus Fire.

Lan Hong returned to the Jia Ma Empire with Zi Yan and learned that the Earth Soul Sect threatened to invade. He promised to deal with the sect, while the others discovered Zi Yan was a Dou Sheng and heard that Xiao Yan had become a Nine-star Dou Zun.

• Lan Hong decided to visit the Jia Ma Empire and traveled there with Zi Yan.
• Jia Xing Tian, Yun Yun, Hai Bodong, and Ya Fei discussed the Earth Soul Sect, which had conquered the Chuyun Empire and threatened their lands.
• Lan Hong arrived, and Ya Fei welcomed him; he learned the Earth Soul Sect had appeared about half a year earlier.
• Lan Hong recognized that the Earth Soul Sect might be the Soul Hall's remnants and promised Jia Xing Tian he would resolve the threat.
• Zi Yan revealed she was a Dou Sheng, and Lan Hong told Hai Bodong that Xiao Yan had reached Nine-star Dou Zun.

Lan Hong and his allies wiped out the Earth Soul Sect and subdued the Chuyun Empire’s forces, while Yun Yun agreed to bring the Cloud Mist Sect into his faction. In the Central Plains, Xiao Yan returned to Starfall Pavilion with the Yao Clan’s Medicine Canon, and Yao Chen discussed the Space Trading Convention with him.

• Lan Hong explained Nalan Yanran’s broken engagement to Zi Yan and brought Ya Fei and Yun Yun to the Chuyun–Jia Ma border to confront the Earth Soul Sect.
• Lan Hong summoned the Little Doctor Immortal and Qing Lin, who attacked the Soul Hall remnants and killed the Seventh Heavenly Venerate and his followers.
• The Little Doctor Immortal and Qing Lin subdued the Chuyun Empire’s former forces, and Lan Hong ordered them to stop stirring up conflict.
• Lan Hong invited Yun Yun to have the Cloud Mist Sect join his faction, and she accepted; Zi Yan proposed that the Great Void Dragon Clan join as well.
• Xiao Yan returned to Starfall Pavilion with the Yao Clan’s Medicine Canon, and Yao Chen began discussing the Space Trading Convention with him.

Lan Hong, Yao Chen, Xiao Yan, and their companions attended the Space Trading Convention, where Cai Lin recognized a hidden treasure and Lan Hong bought items for her and Zi Yan. At the Ancient Treasure Pavilion auction, the Netherworld Lotus Fire Fragment Map appeared as the item Lan Hong had been waiting for.

• Lan Hong met Yao Chen and Xiao Yan outside Space Town after bringing Yun Yun, Ya Fei, and his other companions to the convention.
• Lan Hong told Xiao Yan that he had destroyed the Soul Hall remnants who had fled to the Jia Ma Empire and founded the Earth Soul Sect.
• Cai Lin identified a Seven-Colored Stone as an Eight-Colored Stone after Lan Hong traded two Grade 8 Pills for it.
• Yao Chen brought the group into the Ancient Treasure Pavilion, where Old Man Bao Shan opened the convention and auctioned the Demon Phoenix Wings.
• Lan Hong outbid another buyer for the Demon Phoenix Wings and gave them to Zi Yan; after a Heaven Tier Dou Technique was presented, the Netherworld Lotus Fire Fragment Map appeared.

After the Space Trading Convention, Lan Hong and his allies confronted the Scorpion Demon Trio, whom Yao Chen identified as notorious members of the Cloud Rain Sect. They defeated the trio, while news of the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s location in the Vast Desolate Ancient Region set up a new destination for the story.

• Lan Hong stopped bidding for the Netherworld Lotus Fire map when the Scorpion Demon Trio offered eight Grade 8 Pills with eight-colored pill lightning.
• Old Man Bao Shan announced that the Bodhi Ancient Tree was in the Vast Desolate Ancient Region and ended the Space Trading Convention.
• Lan Hong and his group blocked the Scorpion Demon Trio after leaving Space Town, and Sky Scorpion demanded that Lan Hong surrender the women with him.
• Zi Yan revealed she was a Dou Saint and crippled Sky Scorpion, while Yao Chen and Xiao Yan intercepted Earth Scorpion and Human Scorpion as they tried to flee.
• Yao Chen crushed Earth Scorpion when he attempted to self-destruct, and Zi Yan killed Sky Scorpion.

After helping Yao Chen and Xiao Yan defeat the Scorpions, Lan Hong revealed that the Netherworld Lotus Fire would appear in three years and gave Xiao Yan a Heaven Tier Dou Technique. Xiao Yan traveled to the Vast Desolate Ancient Region, where he joined Hua Yu against the Tian Ming Sect as another group suddenly arrived.

• Yao Chen and Xiao Yan killed the last Human Scorpion, and Lan Hong assembled the four Netherworld Lotus Fire Fragment Maps to reveal the Netherworld Lotus Fire’s arrival in three years.
• Lan Hong caught and stored the Netherworld Lotus Saint’s projection, then gave the Vajra Glazed Body manual to Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan mastered Vajra Glazed Body to the minor success stage, learned that the first explorers of the Vast Desolate Ancient Region had all died, and set out with a Spatial Jade Slip from Yao Chen.
• Lan Hong raised his companions’ strengths in his Small World, while Xiao Yan reached the Vast Desolate Ancient Region and learned that major factions were heading toward its center.
• Xiao Yan intervened when the Tian Ming Sect attacked Hua Yu and the Flower Sect, but Tian Mingzi ordered his followers to stop them from escaping.
• A group emerged from a tear in space as Xiao Yan and the Flower Sect faced the Tian Ming Sect.

Lan Hong’s group rescued Xiao Yan and the Flower Sect, then Qing Lin subdued an Ancient Sky Demon Python. At the Ancient Domain Stage, Xiao Yan reunited with Gu Xun’er and Zi Yan confronted the Sky Demon Phoenix Clan; the factions then faced a powerful beast horde guarding the route to the Bodhi Ancient Tree.

• Lan Hong killed Tian Mingzi, and his group and Xiao Yan’s allies wiped out the Tian Ming Sect.
• Cai Lin fought the Ancient Sky Demon Python while Qing Lin used her Jade Snake Three Flower Pupils to subdue it.
• Xiao Yan and the Flower Sect reached the Ancient Domain Stage, where Xiao Yan reunited with Gu Xun’er.
• Zi Yan provoked the Sky Demon Phoenix Clan by showing Phoenix the Demon Phoenix Wings, but Phoenix restrained Jiu Feng to avoid a clash.
• Gu Xun’er told Xiao Yan that a powerful horde of Fierce Beasts guarded the way to the Bodhi Ancient Tree.

Lan Hong eliminated the Hun Clan delegation and led Xiao Yan, Gu Xun’er, and the others through the Beast Tide to the Bodhi Ancient Tree. After revealing the tree’s sinister history and warning of the dangers ahead, he allowed Xiao Yan to try to obtain its treasures by fighting a Half-Saint puppet.

• Lan Hong turned the Hun Clan members into blood mist, prompting the Sky Demon Phoenix Clan and other factions to withdraw.
• Lan Hong guided his group through the Beast Tide, and they reached the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• Qian Renxue and Lan Hong sensed evil within the tree, and Lan Hong revealed that it had once helped a Dou Di kill another Dou Di.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree released five Half-Saint puppets, and Lan Hong told Xiao Yan he had to hold off the Hun Clan puppet to enter the tree.
• Xiao Yan and the Ancient Clan members fought the Hun Clan puppet while Cai Lin, Qing Lin, Little Doctor Immortal, and Zi Yan took on the other four.

Xiao Yan and the others defeated the Half-Saint puppets guarding the Bodhi Ancient Tree and entered its illusions. Lan Hong cleansed the tree’s lingering resentment and persuaded it to move into his Small World, while Xiao Yan earned a chance to comprehend beneath it; the chapter ended after Lan Hong, Xiao Yan, and the others awakened from their enlightenment and illusions.

• Xiao Yan, Gu Xun'er, and their allies defeated the Half-Saint puppets, though Cai Lin and Qing Lin were badly injured before recovering with Lan Hong’s healing pills.
• Lan Hong warned the group about the illusions and entered the Bodhi Ancient Tree, where he broke free of its illusion and communicated with the tree.
• Lan Hong learned that a dead Dou Di’s resentment threatened to turn the Bodhi Ancient Tree into a demonic tree, and he offered to cleanse it in exchange for its moving into his Small World.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree accepted Lan Hong’s offer, and he used the Bright Sword to remove its resentment and restore its vitality.
• Xiao Yan broke through his illusion and earned the chance to comprehend beneath the Bodhi Ancient Tree, while Lan Hong also entered enlightenment and the tree strengthened its intelligence.
• Lan Hong, Xiao Yan, and the others awakened from their states of enlightenment and illusion, with Gu Xun'er and the rest waiting for them.

Xiao Yan completed the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s trial, grew stronger, and entered seclusion while Yao Chen and the Flower Sect destroyed the Tian Ming Sect. Two and a half years later, the River Styx Alliance attacked Starfall Pavilion, and Xiao Yan arrived as Hua Yu was in danger.

• Lan Hong explained that Xiao Yan had won the chance to comprehend beneath the Bodhi Ancient Tree, and Xiao Yan awoke a month later at the peak of Nine Revolutions Dou Zun.
• Lan Hong took the Bodhi Ancient Tree into his Small World, sent everyone back to Starfall Pavilion, and gave Xiao Yan and Gu Xun'er a Bodhi Seed each.
• Gu Xun'er returned to the Ancient Clan, Xiao Yan entered seclusion to pursue Half-Saint, and Yao Chen joined forces with Hua Yu to destroy the Tian Ming Sect as Old Demon Tian Ming escaped.
• Old Demon Tian Ming formed the River Styx Alliance with Ice River Valley and Wind Thunder Pavilion, and the alliance challenged Starfall Pavilion two and a half years later.
• Old Demon Tian Ming, Ice Venerable, and Thunder Venerable attacked Yao Chen, Hua Yu, and Starfall Pavilion's forces while Lan Hong watched from nearby.
• As Hua Yu came under threat, Xiao Yan arrived and called for the fighting to stop.

Xiao Yan emerged from seclusion as a Half-Saint and helped Yao Chen defeat the River Styx Alliance’s attackers. After Lan Hong urged him to unite the Central Plains forces, Xiao Yan traveled with Yao Chen and Hua Yu to seek the Pill Tower’s support.

• Xiao Yan killed Ice Venerable and Thunder Venerable, then helped Yao Chen defeat and kill Old Demon Tian Ming.
• Lan Hong arrived, advised Xiao Yan on his cultivation, and urged him to form an alliance among the Central Plains forces against the Hun Clan.
• Xiao Yan gave Hua Yu healing pills and left Yao Chen to comfort her after she rebuked him for ignoring her injuries.
• Lan Hong explained that Starfall Pavilion could unite most major forces, and Xiao Yan decided to seek the Pill Tower’s support.
• Xiao Yan, Yao Chen, and Hua Yu traveled to the Pill Tower, where Xuan Yi had already heard that Starfall Pavilion had won against the River Styx Alliance.

Lan Hong, Yao Chen, and Xiao Yan sought the Pill Tower’s support for an alliance, but the elders’ approval depended on Xiao Yan’s performance in the Pill Tower elder selection. Old Monster Hou completed a Grade 8 pill with Nine-Colored Pill Lightning while Xiao Yan continued attempting to refine a Grade 9 Bodhi Pill.

• Lan Hong confirmed that he had reached the Dou Di realm, and the three Pill Tower giants bowed to him.
• Yao Chen proposed an alliance, and the Pill Tower giants explained that the elders had to approve it; Lan Hong said Xiao Yan would establish the alliance by demonstrating his Alchemy Skill.
• Xuan Yi revealed that Old Monster Hou was competing to become a Pill Tower elder, and Yao Chen arranged for Xiao Yan to enter the selection.
• The elder selection began, and Xiao Yan used a Heavenly Flame cauldron and a Bodhi Seed to attempt a modified Bodhi Pill while the other candidates refined their pills.
• Old Monster Hou successfully activated his Flame Demon Clear Profound Pill, drawing Nine-Colored Pill Lightning, while Xiao Yan remained at work on his pill.

Xiao Yan won a Pill Tower elder selection by refining a Grade 9 Pill, and the Pill Tower agreed to join the Central Continent Alliance. He then traveled with Lan Hong to Blazing Flame Valley to seek its support, offering to treat its ancestor’s hidden affliction regardless of the valley’s decision.

• Xiao Yan used the Fire Dragon Pill Condensation method to refine a Grade 9 Pill, while Lan Hong’s Nine Profound Golden Lightning swallowed the Black Demon Thunder.
• The Grade 9 Pill tried to escape and took Xiao Yan’s form, but Xiao Yan subdued it, erased its intelligence, and named it the Bodhi Great Returning Pill.
• The Pill Tower’s Great Elder declared Xiao Yan the winner of the elder selection, and the Pill Tower agreed to join the Central Continent Alliance.
• Lan Hong brought Xiao Yan and the others to Blazing Flame Valley, where Tang Zhen welcomed them and heard Xiao Yan’s proposal for the alliance.
• Tang Zhen decided to consult Blazing Flame Valley’s ancestor, and Xiao Yan offered to treat the ancestor’s hidden affliction whether or not the valley joined.