Chapter Summaries

Flowing Cloud learned that Ice River Valley's hidden First Generation Ancestor was a Peak Nine-star Dou Sheng who had prolonged his life through feigned-death cultivation, and chose not to disturb him. While continuing his own cultivation and observing the Yellow Springs Demon Saint's recovery, Flowing Cloud warned that the Soul Clan had begun gathering the Ancient Jade, bringing the secret of becoming a Dou Di closer to discovery.

• Flowing Cloud learned that Ice River Valley's First Generation Ancestor had devised a feigned-death method to extend his life and had ordered later generations to cultivate in the Black Water Cold Pond.
• Flowing Cloud realized the hidden ancestor was a Peak Nine-star Dou Sheng and felt relieved that he had not forced his way into the pond, then decided to leave him undisturbed.
• Flowing Cloud planned to wait for Huang Tian to reach Seven-star Dou Sheng while continuing his own secluded cultivation from Early Six-star Dou Sheng.
• Flowing Cloud discovered that the Yellow Springs Demon Saint's remnant soul had recovered to the strength of a Five-star Dou Sheng in the faster-flowing Tian Niu Realm.
• Flowing Cloud told the Yellow Springs Demon Saint that the Soul Clan had begun gathering the Ancient Jade and that its secret could reveal how to become a Dou Di.

Flowing Cloud gave Yellow Springs Demon Saint treasures to restore his Soul Power before withdrawing into cultivation while the Heaven and Earth Alliance fought the Hall of Souls. After a month of losses and destruction, Hai Bodong accepted a challenge for a decisive battle at Fallen Mountain Peak, drawing crowds from across the Central Plains.

• Flowing Cloud promised to help Yellow Springs Demon Saint reach a higher plane and gave him treasures rich in Soul Power to aid his recovery.
• Hun Miesheng led the Soul Clan army into the Central Region, and the Heaven and Earth Alliance fought the Hall of Souls while Flowing Cloud left Hai Bodong and the others in command.
• The month-long war devastated cities and displaced residents, while the Heaven and Earth Alliance gained the advantage over the Hall of Souls.
• Hai Bodong declared that the Alliance would end the war by confronting Hun Miesheng and Soul Demon Old Man, and a messenger delivered the Hall of Souls' challenge letter.
• The challenge set a battle to the death between all Dou Sheng experts at Fallen Mountain Peak three days later, and fighters and spectators from across the Central Plains flocked there.

The Hall of Souls and the Heaven and Earth Alliance gathered at the Peak of Demise for their decisive battle, revealing the strength of both sides to the watching Central Plains experts. The chapter ended with the Alliance fielding thirteen Dou Sheng experts, nearly twice the Hall of Souls’ seven.

• Crowds of experts and spectators flooded the Fallen Mountain Range and gathered around the Peak of Demise.
• Hun Miesheng led seven Hall of Souls Dou Sheng experts through a Space Passage onto the summit.
• Hun Miesheng called for the Heaven and Earth Alliance to appear, and an Alliance member answered by taunting him.
• Thirteen Heaven and Earth Alliance Dou Sheng experts appeared above the summit, including Hai Bodong and a powerful dragon-like expert.
• Spectators realized the Alliance’s lineup could rival the Hall of Souls and even some Ancient Races.

The Heaven and Earth Alliance revealed thirteen Dou Sheng experts as Hai Bodong faced Hun Miesheng, who had advanced to Six-star Dou Sheng. Hai Bodong accepted Hun Miesheng’s challenge to settle their long-running conflict and asked how the battle would be arranged.

• The Heaven and Earth Alliance arrived with thirteen Dou Sheng experts, but Flowing Cloud was absent.
• Hai Bodong taunted Hun Miesheng and confirmed that Flowing Cloud was still alive.
• Hun Miesheng revealed his Six-star Dou Sheng cultivation and asked whether the Alliance had taken the Demon Flame.
• Hun Miesheng challenged Hai Bodong to a decisive battle, and Hai Bodong accepted.
• Hai Bodong asked Hun Miesheng how he intended to arrange the battle challenge.

Hai Bodong and Hun Miesheng agreed to settle the conflict between the Heaven and Earth Alliance and the Hall of Souls through three battles, with each side sending three fighters. As Soul Demon Old Man stepped forward to fight, Xiao Chen intervened, and the Soul Clan revealed the fearsome Hun Qianmo.

• Hun Miesheng proposed three battles with two victories deciding the contest, and Hai Bodong accepted instead of continuing a full-scale war.
• Soul Demon Old Man volunteered as one of the Hall of Souls' fighters and launched a hidden attack toward Hai Bodong.
• Xiao Chen arrived, shattered the attack, and asked Hai Bodong to let him fight so he could settle the Xiao Clan's debt.
• Hun Qianmo appeared beside the Hall of Souls' leaders, and Xiao Chen and the gathered experts recognized the dangerous Soul Clan elder.

The Pill Tower Old Ancestor arrived to support the Heaven and Earth Alliance and offered to face Hun Qianmo, allowing Hai Bodong to reconsider his role in the three battles. The alliance had potential fighters for all three rounds, but the Soul Clan’s challengers had yet to be defeated.

• Xiao Chen attacked Hun Qianmo, but their clash sent Xiao Chen stumbling back and showed that Hun Qianmo had grown stronger during Xiao Chen’s imprisonment.
• Hun Miesheng stepped forward to challenge Hai Bodong as the Soul Clan’s third participant.
• The Pill Tower Old Ancestor appeared beside Hai Bodong and said he had come both to watch the battle and repay Hai Bodong for saving his life.
• The Pill Tower Old Ancestor offered to fight Hun Qianmo and said he could at least force a draw.
• Hai Bodong accepted the help and considered assigning Xiao Chen to Soul Demon Old Man and the North Dragon King to Hun Miesheng.
• Experts watching from the mountain peaks recognized the Pill Tower Old Ancestor as a Ninth-grade Profound Pill and reacted with awe and greed.

The Pill Tower Old Ancestor confronted Hun Qianmo, and the two began fighting inside a constructed Chaos Space. As their battle drew the crowd’s attention, Xiao Chen challenged Soul Demon Old Man, setting the stage for their clash.

• The Pill Tower Old Ancestor dismissed Hun Qianmo’s threats and challenged him to fight in a Chaos Space.
• Hun Qianmo followed the Pill Tower Old Ancestor into the space, where the two Six-star Dou Sheng experts began battling as spectators watched.
• Xiao Chen stepped forward and challenged the Hall of Souls Master and Soul Demon Old Man to send out their next fighter.
• Soul Demon Old Man answered Xiao Chen and unleashed the power of a peak Five-star Dou Sheng, covering the mountain range with black mist.
• Xiao Chen summoned a massive blood-colored axe and declared that anyone who offended the might of the Xiao Clan would die.

Xiao Chen fought Soul Demon Old Man, who summoned a Soul Gu Frog to help overwhelm him. As Xiao Chen fell onto the defensive, Hai Bodong worried that the Heaven and Earth Alliance might lose the two ongoing matches before the North Dragon King could enter the third.

• Soul Demon Old Man caught Xiao Chen's Blood Axe in a bone web, but Xiao Chen split the web and nearly struck his throat before Soul Demon Old Man knocked the axe away.
• Soul Demon Old Man unleashed a Soul Gu Frog, and Xiao Chen blasted it away with his Earth Splitting Slash.
• The Soul Gu Frog recovered and charged Xiao Chen again while Soul Demon Old Man attacked his vital points, forcing Xiao Chen to defend and putting him at a disadvantage.
• Hai Bodong and the others worried about Xiao Chen's fight, while Hai Bodong remained hopeful that Xiao Chen's combat experience would help him.
• Hai Bodong considered the battle inside Pill Tower Old Ancestor's space and worried that Soul Demon Old Man and Hun Qianmo might win both matches before the North Dragon King could fight.

Xiao Chen and Soul Demon Old Man fought fiercely as the earlier match between Hun Qianmo and the Pill Tower Old Ancestor ended in a draw. Though Xiao Chen had been pushed back, he raised his aura to the Peak Five-star Dou Sheng level and declared that one axe would finish Soul Demon Old Man.

• Hun Qianmo and the Pill Tower Old Ancestor emerged from the Space Passage and called their battle a draw.
• Hun Qianmo warned Hun Miesheng that Xiao Chen would be difficult for Soul Demon Old Man to defeat.
• Soul Demon Old Man and the Soul Gu Frog pressed Xiao Chen back, while Soul Demon Old Man taunted him to leave.
• Xiao Chen raised his Blood Axe and promised to finish Soul Demon Old Man with one strike.
• Xiao Chen's aura erupted to the Peak Five-star Dou Sheng level, shocking Soul Demon Old Man and relieving Hai Bodong's side.

Xiao Chen and Soul Demon Old Man fought to a draw after both unleashed devastating attacks, leaving them badly injured and unable to continue. With two of the three matches tied, the final round fell to Ice Saint, while Hun Miesheng and Soul Demon Old Man argued over the failed showdown.

• Xiao Chen attacked Soul Demon Old Man with Sky Sever, Sever the Heavens, and Soul Demon Old Man devoured the Soul Gu Frog to counter it.
• Xiao Chen and Soul Demon Old Man collided in a massive blast, vanished into the blood-red sphere, and then crashed into separate mountain peaks.
• Xiao Chen and Soul Demon Old Man rose from the wreckage, both injured and unable to keep fighting, making the match another draw.
• Hai Bodong gave Xiao Chen a ninth-tier medicinal pill, and Xiao Chen said the final match depended on Ice Saint.
• Hun Miesheng criticized Soul Demon Old Man for the draw, and Soul Demon Old Man retorted that Hun Miesheng should fight next time.

Hun Miesheng prepared to fight Hai Bodong in the decisive battle between the Soul Clan and the Heaven and Earth Alliance, but Hai Bodong unexpectedly yielded the match to the North Dragon King. Hun Miesheng questioned the decision as the spectators reacted to the North Dragon King’s lower cultivation.

• Hun Qianmo announced that Hun Miesheng and Hai Bodong would fight to decide the confrontation, while Soul Demon Old Man warned Hun Miesheng about the Ice Saint’s strength.
• Hun Miesheng faced the Heaven and Earth Alliance and reflected on how it had grown into a rival after surviving repeated Hall of Souls attacks.
• Hun Miesheng challenged Hai Bodong to fight, but Hai Bodong said the North Dragon King would take his place.
• The North Dragon King vowed to kill Hun Miesheng, shocking spectators who noted that he was only a Late Five-star Dou Sheng while Hun Miesheng had reached Six-star Dou Sheng.

Hun Miesheng and North Dragon King clashed after Hun Miesheng dismissed him as too weak, but North Dragon King wounded him in their opening exchange. North Dragon King transformed into his true form and struck with a powerful sound wave, which Hun Miesheng countered with Myriad Souls Worship, leaving them poised to continue fighting.

• Hun Miesheng mocked North Dragon King for being only a Five-star Dou Sheng, confident in his own Six-star cultivation.
• North Dragon King launched a surprise claw attack, shattered Hun Miesheng's black shield, and wounded his palm when Hun Miesheng tried to trade blows.
• North Dragon King transformed into an Ancient Void Dragon over a thousand zhang long and unleashed a dragon-might sound wave.
• Hun Miesheng used Myriad Souls Worship to counter the sound wave, destroying his soul phantoms but avoiding significant injury.
• Hun Miesheng claimed North Dragon King's sound wave could not overcome his Soul Power, and North Dragon King insisted Hun Miesheng could not defeat him either.

Hun Miesheng revealed the Nihility Devouring Flame during his battle with the North Dragon King, absorbing the dragon’s devastating attack without harm. The Flame’s appearance stunned the experts gathered at Fallen Mountain Summit, and its power began suppressing those nearby.

• The North Dragon King fired a massive pillar of destructive white energy at Hun Miesheng, who made no attempt to defend himself.
• A strange black shadow devoured the pillar’s energy, and Hun Miesheng emerged unharmed after absorbing it.
• Hun Miesheng summoned a human-faced Black Flame and revealed that it was the Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Hai Bodong and the Yan Clan elder recognized the legendary Heavenly Flame, shocking the gathered experts.
• The Nihility Devouring Flame spread its power across the summit and suppressed the strength of those nearby.

Hun Miesheng revealed a Sub-flame of the Void Devouring Flame, and a Yan Clan elder identified it as a weaker offshoot rather than the true Heavenly Flame. Hun Miesheng empowered the flame with his battle qi and sent it to attack the North Dragon King, while Hai Bodong led the Heaven and Earth Alliance experts away from the mountaintop.

• The Yan Clan elder recognized that Hun Miesheng's human-faced black flame was a Sub-flame of the Void Devouring Flame, not the true Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Hun Miesheng's reaction confirmed the Yan Clan elder's guess, and Hai Bodong realized the Soul Clan likely possessed the true Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Hun Miesheng fed his battle qi to the black flame, enlarging it until its devouring power threatened everyone nearby.
• Hun Miesheng ordered the flame to kill the North Dragon King, and it sealed the dragon inside a prison of black fire.
• Hai Bodong gathered the Heaven and Earth Alliance experts and led them away as the black flame unleashed its devouring force against the North Dragon King.

The North Dragon King activated the Divine Elephant Hegemony Body, broke through the Nihility Devouring Flame’s Black Flame formation, and revealed himself as a colossal Ancient Void Dragon. After the Heaven and Earth Alliance and Soul Clan halted their confrontation, the North Dragon King swallowed the fleeing sub-flame and turned toward the two sides.

• Hai Bodong led the Heaven and Earth Alliance experts away as the North Dragon King’s purple sphere expanded and shattered the Nihility Devouring Flame’s formation.
• Hun Miesheng attacked the sphere, but his weakened strike failed to stop it, and the Nihility Devouring Flame’s human face burst apart into fleeing black fire serpents.
• Hun Qianmo and the Soul Demon Old Man moved to rescue the sub-flame, but Xiao Chen, the Pill Tower Old Ancestor, and the Heaven and Earth Alliance experts intercepted them.
• Hai Bodong warned Hun Qianmo against an all-out war, and Hun Qianmo ordered the Soul Clan to maintain the existing arrangement as both sides withdrew.
• The purple sphere vanished and revealed the North Dragon King in the form of an Ancient Void Dragon several tens of thousands of zhang long.
• The North Dragon King swallowed the fleeing Nihility Devouring Flame sub-flame and looked toward Hai Bodong’s group and the Soul Clan.

The North Dragon King devoured the Nihility Devouring Flame sub-flame and struck Hun Miesheng down with a single claw, leaving the Hall of Souls defeated and the Heaven and Earth Alliance poised to become the Central Plains' new overlord. Hun Miesheng survived only as a gravely injured soul, and Hai Bodong recognized the threat he could pose if allowed to recover.

• The North Dragon King swallowed the Devouring Flame sub-flame and warned Hai Bodong's group to retreat.
• The North Dragon King struck Hun Miesheng with a massive claw, destroying his body and splitting the summit of Peak of Demise.
• Hun Qianmo retreated while Soul Demon Old Man attacked the North Dragon King, and onlookers realized the Hall of Souls had lost its position as Central Plains overlord.
• Soul Demon Old Man rebuked Hun Qianmo, who insisted the Soul Clan would eventually destroy the Heaven and Earth Alliance and Ancient Void Dragon Clan.
• Hun Miesheng emerged from the mountain crack as a badly injured soul and vowed revenge, while Hai Bodong considered killing him before he could recover.

Hai Bodong ordered North Dragon King to kill Hun Miesheng and the fleeing Soul Clan experts, but a powerful Soul Clan intervention opened a vast spatial rift and allowed them to escape. The chapter ended with Hai Bodong shocked by the sudden rescue.

• Hai Bodong told North Dragon King to finish off Hun Miesheng, and North Dragon King agreed while concealing Flowing Cloud's earlier order to spare him.
• Hun Qianmo urged the Soul Clan experts to retreat as North Dragon King brought his enormous claw down on them.
• Hun Qianmo and Soul Demon Old Man attacked the claw, but their techniques could not damage North Dragon King's defenses.
• A ten-thousand-zhang spatial rift opened above the Soul Clan experts and blocked North Dragon King's attack.
• Hun Qianmo carried Hun Miesheng's soul into the rift, and the other Soul Clan experts escaped before it closed.
• Hai Bodong was shocked that the Soul Clan experts had escaped.

The Heaven and Earth Alliance defeated the Hall of Souls at the Peak of Demise, but Hun Miesheng and other Soul Clan experts escaped through a spatial rift. The Alliance celebrated its rise to power, then imposed strict rules against arrogance as it prepared for continued threats from the still-active Hall of Souls.

• The North Dragon King reported that a mysterious Soul Clan expert had opened a spatial rift and rescued Hun Miesheng, Hun Qianmo, and Soul Demon Old Man, and Flowing Cloud suspected Hun Tiandi had acted.
• The battle at the Peak of Demise ended with Hun Miesheng's defeat and escape, while the Heaven and Earth Alliance's strength and powerful allies drew widespread attention across the Central Plains.
• The Heaven and Earth Alliance celebrated its victory for nearly half a month, and its members took pride in the alliance's new prestige.
• The Alliance's upper ranks forbade members from acting arrogantly toward outsiders and threatened expulsion for anyone who violated the order.
• As the Alliance rose in influence, experts who held grudges against the Hall of Souls increasingly joined it, while the Hall of Souls remained a threat.

After consolidating his Six-star Dou Sheng cultivation, Flowing Cloud learned that the Hall of Souls had withdrawn from several branches and ordered spies to investigate its plans. Meanwhile, the Gu Clan invited prominent figures to its coming-of-age ceremony, and Xiao Yan accepted an invitation to attend in Old Yao’s place and reunite with Xun Er.

• Flowing Cloud emerged from three months of seclusion with improved cultivation, and Hai Bodong reported that the Hall of Souls had withdrawn from several branch halls.
• Flowing Cloud ordered spies to investigate the Hall of Souls, while Hai Bodong warned that the Soul Clan behind it posed the greater threat.
• Hai Bodong told Flowing Cloud that the Gu Clan had invited him and alliance leaders to its coming-of-age ceremony, and Flowing Cloud decided to send two representatives.
• Old Yao and Xiao Chen received Gu Clan invitations, and Old Yao told Xiao Yan to attend the ceremony in the Ancient Realm on his behalf.
• Xiao Yan accepted the black jade invitation and prepared to attend with Xiao Chen, eager to see Xun Er again.

Xiao Yan prepared to attend the Gu Clan’s coming-of-age ceremony, where he would face pressure over his relationship with Xiao Xun'er and seek a place in the Heavenly Tomb. After Xiao Chen’s cultivation advanced, Xiao Yan left for the Eastern Region with Wind Venerable, while Xiao Chen promised to join him.

• Old Yao warned Xiao Yan that the Gu Clan and other ancient clans would make it difficult for him to be with Xiao Xun'er.
• Xiao Yan reflected on the Xiao Clan’s fallen Dou Di bloodline, and Old Yao encouraged him to become strong enough to revive it.
• Xiao Yan vowed to avenge Old Yao for Yao Wan Gui’s mistreatment, but Old Yao told him to leave the matter for later.
• On the seventh day, Xiao Chen emerged from seclusion at the Early Six-star Dou Sheng level and promised to secure Xiao Yan a place in the Heavenly Tomb.
• Xiao Yan departed for the Eastern Region with Wind Venerable, while Xiao Chen said he would arrive before the ceremony.