Chapter Summaries

After Hun Tiandi seized the Embryonic Emperor Pill, Li Xiao urged the Ancient Clans and Ascending Heaven Pavilion to prepare while he entered seclusion. Hun Tiandi ordered an assault on the Medicine Clan to harvest souls, while Yao Xingji suffered punishment within the Medicine World.

• Gu Yuan stopped Lei Ying and the others from arguing and urged them to focus on stopping Hun Tiandi from reaching the Dou Emperor Realm.
• Li Xiao told the Ancient Clans to settle their affairs and wait while he prepared to enter seclusion, and they returned to their clans.
• At the Ascending Heaven Pavilion, Li Xiao reassured Xun'er that her father was safe and sent the women and Protectors into seclusion to strengthen themselves.
• Hun Tiandi ordered Nihility Devouring Flame and the Hun Clan experts to destroy the Medicine Clan, kill Yao Dan, and bring back their souls.
• Yao Xingji grew weaker and was mocked and forced to do menial labor by Medicine Clan Disciples after losing the support of two Heavenly Flames.

Yao Xingji secretly helped the Hun Clan prepare to attack the Yao Clan while Yao Dan cultivated in seclusion and reached the Nine Star Dou Sheng Peak. Yao Xingji warned Yao Dan that Hun Tiandi had obtained the Embryonic Emperor Pill, leaving Yao Dan alarmed as the planned assault drew near.

• Yao Xingji endured ridicule and imprisonment until Hun Sha arrived, killed the mocking Yao Clan disciples, and recruited him into the Hun Clan's plan.
• Yao Xingji told Hun Sha that Yao Dan was secluded in the back mountain, and Hun Sha reported the opportunity to Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Nihility Devouring Flame ordered an attack on the Yao Clan but instructed the Hun Clan to spare Yao Ling's family because of her ties to the Ascending Heaven Pavilion.
• Yao Dan fused the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and Five Clawed Mystic Golden Dragon Beast Fire into his Flame Mantra, advancing it to the Emperor tier and reaching the Nine Star Dou Sheng Peak.
• Yao Xingji entered Yao Dan's cave disguised with a broom and told him that Hun Tiandi had obtained the Embryonic Emperor Pill, shocking Yao Dan.

Yao Xingji betrayed Yao Dan and helped the Hun Clan ambush the Yao Clan. Yao Dan lay gravely wounded as Yao Wan Huo and the clan's experts gathered, while Hun Sha ordered the clan's formation dismantled.

• Yao Xingji warned Yao Dan that the other Ancient Clans had abandoned the Yao Clan, prompting Yao Dan to prepare to contact them.
• Hun Sha arrived and announced that Hun Tiandi had ordered the destruction of the Yao Clan.
• As Yao Dan ordered Yao Xingji to alert the clansmen, Yao Xingji stabbed him in the chest with Hun Tiandi's poisoned weapon.
• Hun Sha struck Yao Dan into the Medicine Clan Square and ordered Yao Xingji to dismantle the clan's formation so Hun Clan members could enter.
• Yao Wan Huo and the Yao Clan's experts gathered around the badly wounded Yao Dan, who identified Yao Xingji as a traitor allied with the Hun Clan.

Yao Xingji and the Hun Clan threatened the weakened Yao Clan, prompting Yao Dan to summon the Medicine Emperor with the clan’s protective formation. The Medicine Emperor appeared as a remnant soul and assessed Yao Dan’s injuries, while Nihility Devouring Flame prepared to confront him.

• Yao Xingji urged the Yao Clan Disciples to make him their new clan leader, while Yao Wan Huo condemned his betrayal and prepared to fight.
• Hun Sha revealed that Nihility Devouring Flame and other Hun Clan experts had arrived, and Nihility Devouring Flame demanded the Yao Clan surrender.
• Yao Dan warned that the Flame, Thunder, and Gu Clans would retaliate, but Nihility Devouring Flame dismissed his threat and attacked the Yao Clan’s hopes of outside help.
• Yao Dan activated the Heavenly Transformation Medicine Formation and sacrificed countless pills to summon the Medicine Emperor’s remnant soul.
• The Medicine Emperor appeared, and Yao Dan knelt before him as Nihility Devouring Flame remarked on the ancestor’s power and planned to capture his soul.
• The Medicine Emperor lamented the Yao Clan’s decline and recognized Yao Dan’s peak Dou Sheng cultivation, but noticed his injuries.

Nihility Devouring Flame sacrificed Yao Clan descendants to break the clan’s formation while the remnant soul of Yao Xingchen fought to protect them. At the Ascending Heaven Pavilion, Jiang Xiong departed to break through to Dou Di, leaving Li Xiao to watch the Yao Clan’s destruction continue.

• The Medicine Emperor sensed a strange phenomenon in the Northwest Continent and vowed to use his remnant soul to protect the Yao Clan.
• Nihility Devouring Flame fought the Medicine Emperor and sacrificed tens of thousands of Yao Clan descendants to weaken the formation.
• Yao Wan Huo attacked Yao Xingji, but Hun Sha intervened, and Yao Xingji realized he had been used by the Hun Clan.
• At the Ascending Heaven Pavilion, Li Xiao asked Jiang Xiong why he would not go to the Yao Clan, and Jiang Xiong said its destruction was inevitable.
• Jiang Xiong revealed he had reached the peak of the Half-Step Dou Di realm, then departed to absorb Original Emperor Qi and break through.
• The Yao Clan’s formation developed cracks after the sacrifice, and the Medicine Emperor’s accumulated energy dissipated.

The Hun Clan broke through the Yao Clan’s formation and began slaughtering its people after the Medicine Emperor sacrificed himself to wound Nihility Devouring Flame. Yao Dan and the Medicine Clan Elders chose to fight to the death to give the surviving Yao Clan descendants a chance to live.

• The Medicine Emperor sacrificed himself to attack Nihility Devouring Flame, who killed him but was badly wounded.
• The formation shattered, and Hun Clan experts attacked the Yao Clan as the power of its ancestor’s bloodline faded.
• Yao Dan accused Yao Xingji of bringing about the clan’s destruction, and Yao Xingji attacked Nihility Devouring Flame before being beaten down.
• Hun Sha revealed that the Hun Clan had promised Yao Xingji leadership but planned to slaughter the Yao Clan and use its members’ souls to aid Hun Tiandi.
• Yao Dan ordered the Medicine Clan Elders to self-destruct and told the disciples to flee, but Nihility Devouring Flame ordered the Hun Clan to kill everyone.
• The Medicine Clan Elders detonated themselves against the Hun Clan forces while Yao Dan and the remaining defenders prepared to die fighting.

The Yao Clan fought to preserve its bloodline as Yao Dan begged Li Xiao to save its descendants. Li Xiao decided to intervene for Ye Chen’s sake, but the battle continued as the Yao Clan awaited his arrival.

• Yao Clan elders and warriors self-destructed to break the Hun Clan’s spatial confinement and help their clansmen escape.
• Yao Dan begged Li Xiao to save the Yao Clan’s descendants and offered his own life in return.
• Yao Tian returned to the battlefield with a Nine-Colored Pill Lightning Pill, but Yao Dan urged him to flee; Yao Tian refused and led the Yao Clan in a final stand.
• Nihility Devouring Flame ordered the Hun Clan to kill everyone after Yao Tian rejected his offer to leave.
• Li Xiao told Ye Chen that he would intervene, then opened a spatial passage and entered it with him while the Yao Clan continued to suffer heavy losses.

Li Xiao arrived as the Hun Clan destroyed the Yao Clan and evacuated most of its disciples, while Yao Dan stayed behind to fight. After entrusting two Heavenly Flames and the clan’s future to Ye Chen, Yao Dan self-destructed, devastating the Hun Clan and destroying the Medicine World.

• Gu Yuan refused Gu Lie’s request to support the Yao Clan, judging that it was too late and that Yao Dan had to bear responsibility for his actions.
• Li Xiao appeared before the Hun Clan and promised to evacuate the Yao Clan disciples for Ye Chen’s sake.
• Yao Dan ordered the disciples to leave, gave the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and Five Clawed Mystic Golden Dragon Beast Fire to Ye Chen for Yao Ling, and named Yao Ling the new Clan Leader.
• Li Xiao took Ye Chen away as Yao Dan began his self-destruction.
• Yao Dan’s explosion killed countless Hun Clan experts, badly injured Nihility Devouring Flame, and shattered the Medicine World along with the Yao Clan’s buildings.
• Hun Sha and the other Hun Clan experts realized they had captured too few Yao Clan disciples to meet their requirement.

After the Yao Clan fell, Li Xiao sent the recovered Xiao Chen to Wutan City to reunite with the Xiao Family. Xiao Chen arrived during the family’s strength assessment and revealed that he was their ancestor.

• Nihility Devouring Flame ordered the Hun Clan to seize the Yao Clan’s survivors and kill all living creatures within a thousand-mile radius.
• Li Xiao sent the belongings taken from the Yao Clan to the Jia Ma Empire and told Xiao Chen to leave Ascending Heaven Pavilion for Wutan City.
• Xiao Chen reached Wutan City and found the Xiao Family holding its annual strength assessment, where Xiao Xian'er achieved the sixth stage of Dou Qi.
• Xiao Chen questioned the Xiao Family’s reliance on Dou Qi, then revealed to Xiao Zhan and the gathered disciples that he was their ancestor.

Xiao Chen joined the Xiao Family to help it regain its strength after learning that Xiao Yan had reached Dou Zong. More than half a year later, a continent-wide surge in power accompanied Li Xiao's breakthrough to Dou Emperor, while Hun Tiandi's blood-cloud catastrophe plunged the Central Continent into deadly turmoil and drew the clans together to oppose him.

• Xiao Chen learned from Xiao Zhan that Xiao Yan had broken through to Dou Zong and decided to stay with the Xiao Family to strengthen the clan.
• After more than half a year, seven-colored clouds and thunder spread across the Northwest Continent as Li Xiao's breakthrough caused people and beasts to gain strength.
• Hai Bodong and Jia Xingtian recognized that the immense energy came from the Ascending Heaven Pavilion and believed Li Xiao had advanced to Dou Emperor.
• Blood clouds and deadly mist covered the Central Continent as Hun Tiandi slaughtered living beings to increase his strength.
• Gu Yuan, Lei Ying, Yan Jin, Zhu Kun, and other experts prepared to fight Hun Tiandi and stop the Hun Clan from ruling the world.

As Hun Tiandi sacrificed people to fuel his breakthrough, Li Xiao emerged from seclusion and reached the Dou Di Realm. He planned to destroy Hun Tiandi and the Hun Clan before departing for a higher-dimensional world, but first waited for Yun Yun and the others to leave seclusion.

• Zhu Kun, Gu Yuan, Lei Ying, and Yan Jin watched the Central Continent collapse and waited for Li Xiao to act, while Gu Yuan said the Ascending Heaven Pavilion remained sealed.
• Hun Tiandi ordered Nihility Devouring Flame to capture more people for sacrifice, then demanded that members of the Hun Clan be sacrificed if necessary.
• After three months, Li Xiao broke through to the Dou Di Realm, and his power awakened Li Muchen and Li Xiyuan’s bloodlines, raising them to Nine Star Dou Sheng Peak.
• The Ascending Heaven Pavilion’s Protectors, led by Bailing, also broke through to the Dou Di Realm and congratulated Li Xiao.
• Li Xiao canceled the Auction and said they would destroy Hun Tiandi and the Hun Clan before heading to a higher-dimensional world, but would wait for Yun Yun and the others to finish seclusion.

Hun Tiandi revealed that he had secretly become a Dou Di and confronted Nihility Devouring Flame, who had tried to sabotage his breakthrough and gathered controlled Hun Clan experts to attack him. Hun Tiandi crushed the rebellion with ease and caught Nihility Devouring Flame, leaving him trapped in Hun Tiandi’s space.

• Hun Tiandi emerged from the Blood Pool as a Dou Di, and Nihility Devouring Flame reported that members of the Ancient Clans and Hun Clan had been sacrificed.
• Hun Tiandi exposed the devouring seeds Nihility Devouring Flame had planted in the Blood Pool and destroyed them.
• Nihility Devouring Flame attacked Hun Tiandi with a group of Dou Sheng experts, but Hun Tiandi revealed he had broken through half a month earlier and had concealed his strength to provoke the betrayal.
• Hun Tiandi destroyed the controlled Hun Clan elders with a wave of his hand, turning them into bloody mist.
• Hun Tiandi appeared before Nihility Devouring Flame, grabbed him by the throat, and told him he could not escape within Hun Tiandi’s space.

Hun Tiandi devoured Nihility Devouring Flame and proclaimed himself the Dou Emperor, then attacked Gu Yuan and the other defenders of the Central Continent. Gu Yuan’s coalition was crushed, leaving them badly wounded as Hun Tiandi’s conquest continued.

• Hun Tiandi devoured Nihility Devouring Flame after the flame tried to escape, then announced his ascension to the Dou Emperor Realm.
• Gu Yuan, Lei Ying, and the others realized they could not defeat Hun Tiandi, but chose to resist rather than surrender.
• Hun Tiandi declared that the Dou Qi Continent belonged to the Hun Clan and dismissed Lei Ying’s warning that Li Xiao was coming.
• Gu Yuan gathered the Dou Sheng experts to form the Ancient Emperor Mirror and shield those behind them.
• Hun Tiandi’s attacks shattered the mirror and sent Gu Yuan and the others flying, badly wounded.

Hun Tiandi overpowered Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun, sealing the battlefield and leaving the defenders unable to resist. He then began destroying the Central Continent with heavenly lightning, killing even members of the Hun Clan as they fled.

• Hun Tiandi shattered Gu Yuan and the others’ Ancient Emperor Mirror, then sealed the surrounding space to prevent Gu Yuan from evacuating them.
• Gu Yuan attacked Hun Tiandi with the Ancient Emperor Shattering Nirvana Finger, but Hun Tiandi destroyed the technique and hurled Gu Yuan into a rock.
• Hun Tiandi demanded that Zhu Kun become his mount, then attacked and kicked him out of the void after Zhu Kun refused.
• Hun Tiandi threatened to capture Zi Yan and make her his mount, enraging Zhu Kun as he lay trapped and injured.
• Hun Tiandi unleashed heavenly lightning across the Central Continent, killing experts and Hun Clan members alike and sending the surviving Hun Clan experts fleeing.

Li Xiao arrived with several Dou Emperor Protectors to confront Hun Tiandi and stop his slaughter of Central Continent. After healing Zhu Kun with an Emperor Pill, Li Xiao threatened to erase the Hun Clan if he won, as Hun Tiandi ordered his people to retreat before their battle.

• Hun Tiandi killed a retreating Hun Clan Dou Sheng and threatened Gu Yuan and the others.
• Li Xiao arrived with his Protectors, and Hun Tiandi was shocked to find that they were all Dou Emperors.
• Li Xiao gave Zhu Kun an Emperor Pill, restoring his injuries and greatly increasing his power.
• Li Xiao confronted Hun Tiandi over the massacre of millions, and Hun Tiandi defended it as necessary for the continent's future.
• Li Xiao declared that he would erase the Hun Clan if he won, and Hun Tiandi ordered his clan members to retreat a thousand li.

Li Xiao fought Hun Tiandi one-on-one to keep their battle from destroying the Central Continent. After Li Xiao wounded Hun Tiandi with a Di-Rank Dou Technique, Hun Tiandi prepared to face him again as Li Xiao revealed an Emperor Rank Advanced Weapon.

• Hun Tiandi challenged Li Xiao to a one-on-one fight, and Li Xiao ordered Bailing and the others to retreat a hundred li to protect the Central Continent.
• Li Xiao and Hun Tiandi exchanged fierce attacks across the sky, and Hun Tiandi summoned his thousand-zhang true form and unleashed a devastating sonic shockwave.
• Li Xiao countered with his Di-Rank Dou Technique, Nine, Dragon, Phoenix, Spit, Chant, and blasted Hun Tiandi backward, leaving him bloodied.
• Hun Tiandi admitted Li Xiao was the strongest opponent he had faced but refused to surrender, while Li Xiao drew an Emperor Rank Advanced Weapon that astonished the onlookers.

Li Xiao defeated and killed Hun Tiandi after surviving the Hun Clan’s Slaying Emperor Formation and unleashing a decisive sword strike. The Central Continent was left devastated, and Cai Lin and their family reunited with Li Xiao after the battle.

• Hun Tiandi activated the Slaying Emperor Formation and sacrificed Hun Clan disciples to empower its blood blade against Li Xiao.
• Li Xiao evaded Hun Tiandi’s attacks with Phantom Spirit Shadow Step, while Hun Tiandi turned on his own clansmen and sacrificed his blood to strengthen the formation.
• Li Xiao severely injured Hun Tiandi, then trapped him with a seal and killed him with a sword strike that carved a ravine across the Central Continent.
• Gu Yuan and the survivors celebrated Hun Tiandi’s defeat and mourned their ruined homeland as the Central Continent’s skies cleared.
• Cai Lin arrived with their family, checked that Li Xiao was unharmed, and their child praised him for defeating Hun Tiandi.

After the war against Hun Tiandi, the surviving clans rebuilt the Central Continent while Li Xiao settled into life with his loved ones and prepared to travel to the Great Thousand World. Xun'er and Cai Lin both reached the Dou Di Realm, and the remaining companions continued to advance.

• The Gu Clan, Thunder Clan, and Flame Clan eliminated the remaining Hun Clan disciples, and the Central Continent began rebuilding after devastating losses.
• Xiao Yan set out with his teacher, determined to reach the Dou Di Realm, while the alliance of Ancient Clans dissolved and pledged never to repeat such a war.
• A year later, Li Xiao held a seven-day wedding, then rested with his family at the Huai River Bamboo Pavilion as the system announced that a passage to the Great Thousand World had opened.
• Li Xiao and Xun'er reunited intimately, and the next morning they left their room hand in hand.
• Cai Lin broke through to the Dou Di Realm, raising the strength of the Snake-People Race, while Li Xiao noted that Xun'er had also advanced and that several of his companions were still nearing breakthroughs.

Li Xiao accepted Han Yue’s long-held feelings and asked her to become his woman, while Xiao Yi Xian received Original Emperor Qi to prepare for her breakthrough to Dou Emperor. Half a year later, Gu Yuan and the others gathered at Ascending Heaven Pavilion for its announced final auction.

• Xiao Yi Xian told Li Xiao she wanted to break through to Dou Emperor in Green Hills Town, and he gave her Original Emperor Qi before she kissed his cheek and left.
• Nalan Yanran told Li Xiao she had reached Dou Sheng, then reunited with her teacher, Yun Yun.
• Li Xiao found Han Yue by a lake, acknowledged her feelings, and asked her to become his woman; Han Yue accepted.
• Han Yue left after marking Li Xiao, and she promised to cultivate diligently.
• Half a year later, Gu Yuan and others arrived for Ascending Heaven Pavilion’s final auction, where Niu Meng urged the crowd to remain peaceful.

At Ascending Heaven Pavilion’s final auction, Li Xiao promised Gu Yuan, Lei Ying, and Yan Jin that they would be able to become Dou Di after he released the Original Emperor Qi. As the guests gathered for the auction, Li Xiao’s children tried to wheedle Spirit Crystals and pills from him.

• Bailing brought Gu Yuan, Lei Ying, and Yan Jin to meet Li Xiao, who told them the auction would be Ascending Heaven Pavilion’s last and that future auctions would be held at the Mite'er Family Auction House.
• Li Xiao told Gu Yuan that Xun'er would deliver him the Emperor Pill, then promised Lei Ying and Yan Jin that he would release the Original Emperor Qi after the auction so they could become Dou Di.
• Linglong opened the pavilion for the auction, and guests took seats according to their Spirit Crystals, with the major clans and powerful experts gathering on the Fourth Floor.
• Li Muchen asked Li Xiao for Spirit Crystals to bid, but Li Xiao refused because pavilion members could not use its Spirit Crystals at auction and gave him Gold Coins for the Mite'er Family Auction House instead.
• Li Muchen asked Li Xiao for high-tier pills to take out with Li Xiyuan, and Li Xiao scolded him while Li Xiyuan bit their father’s wrist to defend her brother.