Chapter Summaries

After winning the Human Refining Technique trial, Xiao Yan was invited to attempt the Heaven Refining Technique, which required him to obtain a Maha Heart from the Maha Divine Tree. The first entrants into the Spirit Treasury were turned into puppets by the tree, leaving the others wary of approaching it.

• Xiao Yan won the Human Refining Technique trial, and Dan Yu invited him to challenge the Heaven Refining Technique using True Dragon and True Phoenix blood essence.
• Dan Yu revealed that Xiao Yan also needed a Maha Heart, which grew on the Maha Divine Tree in the Spirit Treasury.
• Dan Yu opened a Space Passage to the Spirit Treasury, and Lan Hong accompanied Xiao Yan while worrying that the Pill God Clan's actions could provoke the Maha Divine Clan and the Outer Realm Demons.
• The first entrants found the enormous Maha Divine Tree and rushed to pluck its Maha Fruits, drawing the attention of its Heavenly Supreme guardian, a Primordial Giant Snake.
• The Maha Divine Tree devoured the first entrants' souls and memories, turning them into puppets, and the next group stopped short of approaching it.

Xiao Yan approached the Maha Divine Tree to claim the Maha Heart while Lan Hong guarded against Outer Realm Demons. The tree ensnared Xiao Yan in an illusion, and Lan Hong realized the demons had sacrificed themselves to contaminate the tree and mark its location.

• Xiao Yan and Lan Hong recognized the Maha True Flame and the tree’s connection to the Great Thousand World’s origin as others who approached were consumed by it.
• Xiao Yan decided to complete the Heaven Refining Technique and ease tensions among the Pill God Clan, Ancient Divine Race, and Myriad Spirit Clan, while Lan Hong promised to deal with hidden Outer Realm Demons.
• Xiao Yan flew toward the Maha Heart and fought the Primordial Giant Snake, but the Maha True Flame purified his Fire Lotus.
• Outer Realm Demons disguised as alchemists tore open space and attacked, so Lan Hong fought them with the Bright Sword and Xiao Yan sent his Pill Army against them.
• Xiao Yan knocked the Primordial Giant Snake away, but the Maha Divine Tree used the Nine Thousand Pure Lotus Illusory Body to trap him as its fragrance spread.
• Lan Hong realized the Outer Realm Demons had come to sacrifice their souls to contaminate the Maha Divine Tree and mark its location.

Lan Hong purified the true Maha Heart and told Xiao Yan to take it and complete the Heaven Refining Technique before the Outer Realm Demons could seize it. Xiao Yan left to pursue the Maha True Flame, while Lan Hong stayed behind to purify the other contaminated Maha Hearts and investigate the Great Thousand World’s origin.

• Lan Hong used the Bright Sword to purify the Maha Divine Tree as Xiao Yan broke free of the Nine Thousand Pure Lotus Illusory Body.
• Lan Hong brought Xiao Yan to the true Maha Heart and purified its contamination from the Outer Realm Demons.
• Lan Hong urged Xiao Yan to take the Maha Heart and complete the Heaven Refining Technique, keeping its core under his control.
• Xiao Yan learned that the Maha Heart had to remain connected to the Maha Divine Tree and that refining the Maha True Flame would let him use it.
• Lan Hong sent Xiao Yan away, then continued deeper into the tree to purify its other contaminated Maha Hearts and investigate the world’s origin.
• Xiao Yan began seeking the Maha True Flame.

Xiao Yan refined the Maha True Flame, obtained the Maha Heart and supplementary materials, and completed the Heaven Refining Technique by creating a pill containing a world and branding it with his essence blood and soul imprint. As the Myriad Pill Gathering neared its end, he set out to reunite with Xun'er, while Lan Hong remained in a dangerous state of enlightenment within the Maha Divine Tree.

• Xiao Yan gathered and refined the Maha True Flame, then wrapped it around the Maha Heart to restore the heart to its original state.
• Dan Yu and Gao Yuan found Xiao Yan, gave him the Heaven Refining Technique's supplementary materials, and wished him success.
• Xiao Yan entered seclusion and created a one-kilometer pill containing an entire continent, then branded it with his essence blood and soul imprint.
• Lan Hong purified the Outer Realm Demons' contamination inside the Maha Divine Tree and entered a deep state of enlightenment about the laws and the Great Thousand World's origin.
• After two years, Xiao Yan completed the Heaven Refining Technique and left to meet Xun'er and the others, while Xun'er worried that he had not yet returned.

Xiao Yan returned at the end of the Myriad Pill Gathering, proved he had completed the Heaven Refining Technique, and was named champion. Inside the Maha Divine Tree, Lan Hong learned the truth about the Heavenly Evil God’s plan and emerged close to the Saint Grade Heavenly Supreme realm.

• Xiao Yan returned to Gu Xun'er and told everyone what had happened at the Maha Divine Tree, while the group worried that Lan Hong had not come back.
• Gao Yuan and Dan Yu judged the alchemists’ pills, and Liu Xuan presented her Heavenly Lotus Creation Pill.
• Xiao Yan revealed the black pill he had created with the Heaven Refining Technique, and Dan Yu confirmed that it contained a continent refined within it.
• Gao Yuan announced Xiao Yan as the champion of the Myriad Pill Gathering, spreading the name Flame Emperor Xiao Yan even further.
• Lan Hong emerged from his insight into the Great Thousand World’s origin, having touched the Azure Vault Ranking and advanced to the threshold of the Saint Grade Heavenly Supreme realm.
• Lan Hong learned that the Heavenly Evil God had allowed himself to be sealed so he could fuse with the Great Thousand World’s origin and eventually overcome its resistance.

After learning that the Heavenly Evil God's sealing had been part of his plan, Lan Hong discussed the threat and the Divine Veins with his companions while Xiao Yan joined the Pill God Clan's Domain Guard Plan. When Lin Dong invited Lan Hong to explore a secret realm, Lan Hong and the others set out for the Martial Realm.

• Lan Hong returned from the Maha Divine Tree with a Maha Heart and Maha Fruits as Xiao Yan was named champion of the Myriad Pill Gathering.
• Xiao Yan agreed to join the Domain Guard Plan on the condition that it targeted only the Outer Realm Demons, and Lan Hong declined to join.
• Lan Hong told Cai Lin, Qingyan Jing, and the others about the Heavenly Evil God's scheme and explained that Nine Divine Veins might lead toward the Dominator Realm.
• Qingyan Jing realized that her clan had intended her marriage to Maha Tian to produce a Nine Divine Veins genius, and Lan Hong cautioned her to keep the breakthrough discussion private.
• Dan Ling'er tried unsuccessfully to persuade Lan Hong to join the Domain Guard Plan, and Lan Hong then received Lin Dong's invitation to explore a secret realm.
• Lan Hong brought his companions, including Qingyan Jing, to the Martial Realm to meet Lin Dong.

Lin Dong, Lan Hong, and Qingyan Jing investigated a sea secret realm believed to be the burial site of an ancient True Dragon Clan expert. They entered its dragon-palace-like interior, where they found petrified corpses but no visible path onward.

• Lin Dong told Lan Hong and Qingyan Jing that the Martial Realm had discovered a likely True Dragon Clan burial site beneath the sea and asked for advice on exploring it.
• Qingyan Jing said they could investigate without angering the True Dragon Clan if they respected the remains, and suggested the expert's remnant soul might grant an inheritance.
• Ying Huahuan, Ling Qingzhu, and Qing Tan joined the preparations, and several days later Lan Hong, Lin Dong, and Qingyan Jing set out for the secret realm.
• Lan Hong sensed powerful Dragon Might and learned that Lin Dong's palm strike against the Black Spirit Clan had exposed the realm beneath the collapsed seabed.
• Lin Dong broke through the barrier, and he, Lan Hong, and Qingyan Jing entered a dragon-palace-like space filled with petrified beings.
• Lan Hong warned that the petrified beings had likely died while competing for the secret realm, then found no visible route onward.

Lan Hong, Lin Dong, and Qingyan Jing explored the secret realm, overcame its Dragon Clan trials, and reached a chamber guarding the Ancestral Altar. There, dragon souls challenged them to defeat them before they could learn what had happened.

• Lan Hong sensed and shattered a hidden statue, revealing a passage where the trio fought Earth Supreme puppets powered by True Dragon Clan essence blood.
• Lan Hong, Lin Dong, and Qingyan Jing cleared the puppet trial and pressed on despite the powerful Dragon Might filling the ruins.
• Lan Hong identified a pool of caustic water as a Dragon Clan bloodline test, then led the others underwater to find a mechanism and reach the next stage.
• Lan Hong sensed danger behind a dragon-carved door, and Lin Dong opened it using a mechanism in a nearby dragon head.
• Dragon souls emerged from statues and demanded that the trio defeat them to qualify for the Ancestral Altar; Lin Dong's attack proved ineffective, and Lan Hong raised the Bright Sword to fight.

Lan Hong, Lin Dong, and Qingyan Jing defeated an evil dragon formed from dragon souls contaminated by Outer Realm Demon energy and entered the Ancestral Altar. There they met Long Ao, the fallen patriarch of the True Dragon Clan, who began to discuss the war in which the Heavenly Evil God was sealed.

• Lan Hong, Lin Dong, and Qingyan Jing destroyed the stone statues anchoring the dragon souls, releasing a fused evil dragon contaminated by Outer Realm Demon energy.
• Lan Hong severed the evil dragon’s horn, and Lin Dong and Qingyan Jing restrained it while Lan Hong purified its Evil Energy with the Bright Sword.
• The freed dragon souls thanked the trio and opened the passage to the Ancestral Altar, where they disappeared.
• Lan Hong, Lin Dong, and Qingyan Jing met Long Ao, who identified himself as the True Dragon Clan patriarch and said he had fallen in the war against the Outer Realm Demons.
• Qingyan Jing told Long Ao that the True Dragon Clan now stood alongside the True Phoenix Clan, prompting his scorn; Lan Hong then asked how the Heavenly Evil God had been sealed, and Long Ao agreed to explain.

Lan Hong learned how the Heavenly Evil God was sealed and accepted Long Ao’s inheritance despite the blood pool’s Evil Energy contamination. While Lan Hong absorbed the ancient True Dragon inheritance, Qingyan Jing and Lin Dong received gifts from Long Ao and waited for him to emerge.

• Lan Hong suggested that the Heavenly Evil God had allowed himself to be sealed so he could merge with the Great Thousand World’s laws, and Long Ao conceded that the theory was possible.
• Long Ao offered Lan Hong his inheritance in exchange for teaching the True Dragon Clan a lesson, and Lan Hong accepted despite learning that the blood pool was contaminated by Evil Energy.
• Lan Hong entered the blood pool, where the Bright Sword purified the Evil Energy as dragon essence blood strengthened his bloodline and ancient True Dragon knowledge entered his mind.
• Long Ao gave Lin Dong the Azure Dragon Body Refining Technique and Qingyan Jing the Dragon Melody Formation Art, then teased Qingyan Jing about her feelings for Lan Hong.
• After several days, Long Ao assured the increasingly worried Qingyan Jing that Lan Hong was safe and would emerge once he finished absorbing the blood pool’s power.

After Lan Hong inherited Long Ao’s True Dragon bloodline, he and Qingyan Jing received news that Qingyan Qian had been ambushed and was near death. They rushed to the Futuo Clan, where elders blocked Qingyan Jing from seeing her father, and Lan Hong attacked Qingyan Divine Court when he refused to let them pass.

• Lan Hong absorbed Long Ao’s True Dragon inheritance, and Long Ao’s remnant soul disappeared after entrusting the future to the younger generation.
• Lin Dong, Lan Hong, and Qingyan Jing returned to the Martial Realm and recounted their journey to Ying Huahuan and Ling Qingzhu.
• Qingyan Jing received a message from Old Farmer saying Qingyan Qian had been ambushed by Outer Realm Demons and was gravely injured, so she and Lan Hong left for the Futuo Clan.
• Qingyan Divine Court and the elders stopped Qingyan Jing, demanding that she accept punishment before seeing her father, whom the Third Elder said was beyond saving.
• Lan Hong warned Qingyan Divine Court to let them see Qingyan Qian, then attacked him with a sword shadow when he refused.

Lan Hong forced his way into the Futuo Clan with Qingyan Jing and found her father, Qingyan Qian, dying from Evil Energy. After Futuo Xuan tried to drag Qingyan Jing away for judgment, Lan Hong challenged the elders and left to confront them, while Qingyan Jing prepared to protect her father.

• Lan Hong revealed his Saint Grade Heavenly Supreme strength, drove back Qingyan Divine Court and the Futuo Clan elders, and entered the clan with Qingyan Jing.
• Qingyan Jing and Lan Hong found Qingyan Qian unconscious and near death, his body poisoned with Evil Energy that could turn him into a puppet of the Outer Realm Demons.
• Futuo Xuan arrived with Qingyan Divine Court and Old Farmer, rebuked Qingyan Jing, and refused to let her stay with her father.
• Lan Hong gave Qingyan Jing pills to preserve Qingyan Qian's life and challenged Futuo Xuan and the elders to fight outside.
• Qingyan Jing gave her father the pills and began setting up an array in the room as Qingyan Divine Court looked back at her.

Lan Hong fought Futuo Xuan after confronting him over the Futuo Clan’s actions and possible alliance with the Outer Realm Demons. Futuo Xuan’s Ancestral Tower trapped Lan Hong under its suppression, but Lan Hong counterattacked and began refining it as Qingyan Jing rushed to intervene.

• Lan Hong challenged Futuo Xuan to explain the Futuo Clan’s actions, and Futuo Xuan attacked him with the Black-and-White Light Wheel.
• Lan Hong countered Futuo Xuan’s attacks with his sword techniques and broke the Black-and-White Light Wheel using Nine Nines Return to One.
• Futuo Xuan summoned the Ancestral Tower and used it to suppress Lan Hong, while Qingyan Divine Court secretly sent a message.
• Qingyan Jing stabilized Qingyan Qian with a medicinal pill, sensed Futuo Xuan using the Ancestral Tower, and hurried to stop him.
• Lan Hong resisted the tower with his True Dragon phantom and used Fire Dance Whirlwind to envelop it and begin refining it.
• Someone challenged Futuo Xuan over who had authorized him to use the Ancestral Tower.

Lan Hong fought his way into the Futuo Clan’s Ancestral Tower and wrested control from Futuo Xuan while Qingyan Jing resisted the clan elders and Maha Xing’s attempt to enforce her marriage contract with Maha Tian. The chapter ended with Lan Hong standing beside Qingyan Jing as she firmly rejected the alliance and Maha Xing’s pressure.

• Qingyan Divine Court and the Futuo elders tried to capture Qingyan Jing, but she summoned her Futuo Tower and held them at bay.
• Lan Hong entered the Ancestral Tower, attacked the lingering consciousnesses of past Great Elders, and weakened Futuo Xuan’s control.
• Maha Xing, Maha Tian, and Maha Taiguang arrived, and Maha Xing invoked Qingyan Jing’s marriage contract with Maha Tian while offering to treat her father.
• Qingyan Jing rejected the marriage contract and accused Maha Xing of using her father’s safety to coerce her.
• Lan Hong took the Ancestral Tower from Futuo Xuan, returned to Qingyan Jing’s side, and warned Maha Xing not to force him to act.
• Qingyan Jing told Maha Xing that her marriage was not for others to decide.

Lan Hong used the Bright Sword to purge the Evil Energy from Qingyan Qian and save his life, despite the danger of the process. Qingyan Qian woke and realized the Outer Realm Demons likely had a spy in his clan, while Lan Hong and Qingyan Jing prepared to face the people waiting outside.

• Lan Hong stopped the dispute over Qingyan Jing’s marriage contract and returned to treat Qingyan Qian, while Maha Xing agreed to let him proceed.
• Lan Hong used the Ancestral Tower to seal off the room, then unleashed the Bright Sword’s Purifying Power when Qingyan Qian’s Evil Energy went berserk.
• Lan Hong completely purified the Evil Energy, saving Qingyan Qian but leaving his strength weakened; he then gave him pills that helped him wake.
• Qingyan Qian remembered being ambushed by Outer Realm Demons and agreed with Lan Hong that a spy was likely inside his clan.
• Qingyan Qian thanked Lan Hong, and Lan Hong turned his attention to the people waiting outside as Qingyan Jing understood his intent.

Qingyan Jing asked Qingyan Qian to reject her marriage agreement with Maha Tian, but he hesitated while trying to manage the Futuo Clan’s internal conflict. When Maha Xing demanded an answer, Jing declared she would never accept the marriage and stood against the clan; Maha Tian then asked his father for permission to speak.

• Qingyan Jing told Qingyan Qian what had happened and asked him to refuse her marriage agreement with Maha Tian, but he said the matter needed careful consideration.
• Qingyan Qian left the room with Qingyan Jing and Lan Hong, and the Futuo Clan members outside welcomed his awakening while he accused some of them of wishing him dead.
• Maha Xing pressed Qingyan Qian to confirm the marriage agreement, while Futuo Xuan supported settling the alliance that day.
• Qingyan Jing declared she would never agree to the marriage and would resist anyone who tried to force her, then angrily condemned the clan and its rules.
• Lan Hong silenced Futuo Xuan when he threatened to punish Qingyan Jing, and Maha Tian asked Maha Xing for permission to speak.

Qingyan Jing rejected the marriage alliance and declared her feelings for Lan Hong, who challenged Maha Xing to protect her. Their battle began with Lan Hong defending against Maha Xing's powerful spear attacks.

• Qingyan Jing told Maha Tian she opposed the marriage alliance and accused the clans of treating her as a means to produce a genius with Nine Divine Veins.
• Lan Hong pulled Qingyan Jing into his arms and declared that she was his woman, prompting Maha Tian to challenge him.
• Lan Hong and Maha Xing agreed that if Lan Hong won, the Maha Clan and Futuo Clan would stop troubling Qingyan Jing, while Qingyan Jing would fulfill the marriage pact if Lan Hong lost.
• Futuo Xuan demanded that Lan Hong return the Ancestral Tower, but Lan Hong refused and challenged him to take it back by force.
• Maha Xing attacked Lan Hong with a black lightning-wreathed spear, and Lan Hong countered with the Bright Sword before thrusting toward Maha Xing's throat.

Lan Hong overwhelmed Maha Xing in their duel, forcing him to summon the Maha Clan’s sacred relic, the Maha Yin-Yang Bottle. The relic’s Yin-Yang Torrent failed to breach the defense Lan Hong formed with the Futuo Clan’s Ancestral Tower.

• Lan Hong countered Maha Xing’s lightning and spear attacks with his sword techniques and nine Fire Dragons, leaving Maha Xing at a disadvantage.
• Maha Xing summoned the Maha Boundless Body, but Lan Hong revealed his dragon-like form and continued to suppress him with the Heaven Slaying Sword Art.
• Maha Xing used the Maha Sky Net Umbrella and Maha Spirit Shell to defend himself, but neither stopped Lan Hong’s attacks from pressuring him.
• Maha Xing brought out the Maha Yin-Yang Bottle, and Lan Hong answered by summoning the Futuo Clan’s Ancestral Tower for protection.
• Maha Xing unleashed the Yin-Yang Torrent, but it could not break through the Ancestral Tower’s barrier around Lan Hong.

Lan Hong defeated Maha Xing and forced the Maha Clan to leave, then backed Qingyan Jing’s claim to become the Futuo Clan patriarch. He exposed Futuo Yao as an Outer Realm Demon spy and stopped him from self-destructing.

• Maha Xing infused his bloodline into the Maha Yin-Yang Bottle, but Lan Hong blocked its attacks with Fire Dance Whirlwind and defeated him.
• Maha Xing admitted defeat and left with the Maha Clan after Lan Hong threatened them over Qingyan Jing.
• Lan Hong suppressed Futuo Xuan with the Ancestral Tower and proposed Qingyan Jing take the patriarch position, while Qingyan Qian said the transfer would take time.
• Lan Hong pinned Futuo Yao to the ground with the Bright Sword and exposed him as an Outer Realm Demon who had seized Futuo Yao’s body.
• Lan Hong sealed Futuo Yao’s power before he could self-destruct, while the Futuo Clan elders lowered their heads.

Lan Hong helped Qingyan Jing take control of the Futuo Clan, while Maha Tian inherited leadership of the Maha Clan. At Xiao Yan’s Endless Fire Domain, elders from the True Dragon and True Phoenix Clans demanded a share of his pill profits, and Xiao Yan ordered them out.

• Lan Hong warned the Futuo Clan elders against defying Qingyan Jing and helped Qingyan Qian hand her the clan chief’s token.
• Lan Hong forced Futuo Xuan to resign as Great Elder, and Qingyan Jing took both leadership positions and began sweeping reforms.
• Maha Xing stepped down and made Maha Tian the Maha Clan chief, while Maha Tian focused on cultivating to defeat Lan Hong.
• Long Xing and Feng Ling arrived at the Endless Fire Domain and accused Xiao Yan of using True Dragon Clan blood essence to refine pills.
• Feng Ling attacked Gu Xun’er, but Xiao Yan stopped the Phoenix True Fire and challenged the elders.
• Long Xing and Feng Ling demanded ten percent each of the Endless Fire Domain’s pill profits, and Xiao Yan ordered them out.