Chapter Summaries

Flowing Cloud's clone refined the Heavenly Tomb Soul's Soul Origin and reached the Emperor Realm soul, giving Flowing Cloud control over entry to the Heavenly Tomb. Xiao Xuan recognized that the space could now only be opened with Flowing Cloud's permission, then vanished upon touching the stone tablet.

• Flowing Cloud's clone absorbed and purified the Heavenly Tomb's vast Soul Power with the Life Fire over nearly half a year inside the tomb.
• Flowing Cloud's clone broke through to the Emperor Realm soul, and people across the Tian Niu Realm sensed the ripple and congratulated the Alliance Leader.
• Flowing Cloud's clone appeared in the Myriad Monster Palace, where the Yellow Springs Demon Saint praised him for giving both his true body and clone Emperor Realm souls.
• Flowing Cloud realized that refining the Heavenly Tomb Soul gave him control over the Heavenly Tomb and the power to decide who could enter or leave.
• Xiao Xuan sensed that Flowing Cloud had refined the Soul Origin, then touched the stone tablet and suddenly vanished.

Xiao Xuan told Xiao Yan and Xun Er that Flowing Cloud had become the Heavenly Tomb’s new master and that they would be expelled early. The Heavenly Tomb forced out its living visitors, and the chapter ended with a severed arm emerging from the spatial rift.

• Xiao Xuan entered the tombstone space and told Xiao Yan and Xun Er to prepare to leave the Heavenly Tomb.
• Xiao Xuan confirmed that Flowing Cloud had refined the Heavenly Tomb Soul’s Soul Origin and become the Heavenly Tomb’s new master.
• A strange force began expelling Xiao Yan, Xun Er, and the other living visitors from the Heavenly Tomb, leaving its Energy Bodies behind.
• Xun Er and members of the Lightning, Stone, and Yan Clans emerged through the spatial rift above the Gu Clan’s mountain range.
• A severed arm drifted out of the spatial rift and fell toward the ground.

Xiao Yan emerged from the Heavenly Tomb with his strength raised to Peak Eight-star Dou Zun, while the Soul Clan and Yao Clan members remained missing. After Xiao Yan revealed that he had killed the Yao Clan brothers who ambushed him, a Yao Clan elder attacked him.

• Gu Zhen and three other Gu Clan members emerged from the Heavenly Tomb and saw a severed arm fall from the spatial rift.
• Xiao Yan stepped out with a stable Peak Eight-star Dou Zun aura, astonishing the gathered elders.
• Xun Er told a Gu Clan elder that she would explain the events inside the Heavenly Tomb later.
• Xiao Yan said the Yao Clan brothers had ambushed him and that he had killed them, but withheld other details.
• Gu Zhen warned Xiao Yan that a Yao Clan elder was waiting for the brothers to emerge.
• The white-robed Yao Clan elder demanded Xiao Yan pay with his life and struck at him with a giant Dou Qi hand.

Xiao Yan defended his actions after Yao Xinghan demanded that he pay for Yao Xingji’s death and return the Nine Nether Wind Flame. Xiao Chen’s intervention forced Yao Xinghan to leave, while Hun Lin then challenged the Gu Clan over two missing Soul Clan members.

• Yao Xinghan attacked Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan countered and proved stronger in their exchange.
• Xiao Yan accused Yao Xingji of trying to kill him and Xun Er in the Heavenly Tomb, and Xun Er confirmed his account to Elder Tong Xuan.
• Yao Xinghan demanded that Xiao Yan return the Nine Nether Wind Flame, but Xiao Yan claimed it as a spoil of war and defied the Yao Clan.
• Xiao Chen’s voice backed Xiao Yan, and Yao Xinghan left after promising to report the matter to his clan.
• Hun Lin questioned Tong Xuan about two missing Soul Clan members, and Tong Xuan dismissed his accusation as the result of danger and bad luck in the Heavenly Tomb.

After the Heavenly Tomb expelled its visitors early, Xiao Yan and Xun Er met with Gu Yuan, Xiao Chen, and Gu Lie, and explained that Flowing Cloud had appeared inside the tomb. The revelation left the Gu Clan elders astonished and raised questions about how he entered.

• Hun Lin argued with Elder Tong Xuan and Huo Hu over the missing Soul Clan members, then left the Ancient Realm to report to his clan.
• The Stone Clan, Lightning Clan, and Yan Clan visitors departed, and Xiao Yan noticed that Wind Venerable was gone.
• Gu Yuan summoned Xiao Yan and Xun Er to a mountain peak, where they met Gu Yuan, Xiao Chen, and Gu Lie.
• Xiao Yan asked whether Xiao Xuan could be freed from the Heavenly Tomb, and Gu Yuan said that might require reaching the Dou Di realm.
• Gu Lie asked why the Heavenly Tomb had closed early, and Xiao Yan and Xun Er began recounting how Flowing Cloud had appeared inside it.
• Xiao Yan said Flowing Cloud had come to find him and take him to meet Xiao Xuan, shocking Gu Yuan, Xiao Chen, and Gu Lie.

Xiao Yan recounted how Flowing Cloud entered the Heavenly Tomb, helped Xiao Xuan defeat its Soul, and refined its Soul Origin. After Xiao Yan and Xiao Chen left the Ancient Realm, news spread that the Stone Clan had vanished, deepening fears across the Central Plains.

• Xiao Yan told Gu Yuan, Gu Lie, and Xiao Chen that Flowing Cloud brought him and Xun Er to Xiao Xuan, who passed his bloodline power to him and agreed to help Flowing Cloud deal with the Heavenly Tomb Soul.
• Xiao Yan explained that Flowing Cloud refined the Heavenly Tomb Soul's Soul Origin, prompting Gu Yuan to warn everyone to keep the matter secret.
• Xiao Chen left the Ancient Realm with Xiao Yan, while Gu Yuan kept Xun Er behind; Xiao Yan promised to return after reaching Dou Saint.
• Xiao Chen took Xiao Yan out of the Ancient Realm and headed toward the Jia Ma Empire.
• News spread that the Stone Clan had mysteriously vanished, with its sealed space reopening to reveal that its millions of members were gone.

After the Stone Clan vanished in the same manner as the Spirit Clan, suspicion fell on the Soul Clan and Gu Clan, prompting the Yao, Lightning, and Yan Clans to form an alliance for protection. Half a year later, Gu Yuan continued investigating the disappearances and directed Gu Dao to seek clues through the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.

• Experts entered the Stone Clan's sealed space and found it empty, confirming that its millions of members had disappeared.
• The Central Plains suspected the Soul Clan and Gu Clan, while the Gu Clan's relations with the other Ancient Races grew strained.
• The Yao Clan, Lightning Clan, and Yan Clan formed the Three Clans Alliance and connected their spaces with Space Passages for mutual aid.
• After half a year passed without further signs from the mastermind, Gu Yuan asked Gu Dao about the investigation into the Soul Clan and Heaven and Earth Alliance.
• Gu Yuan told Gu Dao to visit the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, which was close to the Heaven and Earth Alliance, and search for clues.

Flowing Cloud discussed the Stone Clan rumors and Ice River Valley’s invitation with Hai Bodong and the Heaven and Earth Alliance’s other leaders. He rejected Ice River Valley’s attempt to draw Hai Bodong to its territory and invited its people to come to the Alliance instead.

• Gu Yuan sent Gu Dao to visit the Ancient Void Dragon Clan for clues about the Stone Clan’s disappearance and considered investigating himself.
• Flowing Cloud reflected on the Tian Niu Realm’s expansion and the peaceful lives of its residents as Ice River Valley rose in power and the Pill Tower withdrew.
• Flowing Cloud met Hai Bodong, Qu Ming, and Yao Tianhuo at the Alliance base, where they discussed rumors implicating the Heaven and Earth Alliance in the Stone Clan’s disappearance.
• Qu Ming told Flowing Cloud that Ice River Valley had invited Hai Bodong to discuss ice-element Dou Techniques, likely seeking revenge over Bing Ji’s disappearance.
• Flowing Cloud told Hai Bodong to invite Ice River Valley to hold its discussion in Heaven and Earth Alliance territory.

Flowing Cloud and the Heaven and Earth Alliance discussed Ice River Valley and the weakening Hall of Souls before Flowing Cloud left Bone Melting City. Meanwhile, Gu Dao secretly searched the Beast Domain for the Ancient Void Dragon Clan and infiltrated the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s territory, where he encountered something that astonished him.

• Flowing Cloud rejected Ice River Valley’s proposed meeting on its own terms and invited its members to meet the Heaven and Earth Alliance instead.
• Hai Bodong, Chu Donghai, and Qu Ming discussed the Hall of Souls, the Soul Clan, and the danger behind recent incidents.
• Gu Dao secretly entered the Beast Domain under Gu Yuan’s orders but failed to find the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s Dragon Island.
• Gu Dao asked Yao Ming about Dragon Island, but Yao Ming said he did not know its location.
• Gu Dao infiltrated the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s Spatial Barrier and reacted in astonishment upon entering.

Gu Dao secretly entered the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s territory to ask about the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s Dragon Island, but was startled by the clan’s unusual strength and lack of Dou Sheng experts. Huang Tian confronted him, and after learning Gu Dao’s identity and intentions, asked why he wanted to find Dragon Island.

• Gu Dao slipped through the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s Spatial Barrier and sensed many Half-Saints but no Dou Sheng experts or high-level Dou Zuns.
• Several dozen Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan Half-Saints rushed toward Gu Dao and secretly alerted Flowing Cloud through their Puppet Seeds.
• Flowing Cloud sent Huang Tian to meet the intruder, and Huang Tian arrived through the Void Gate with the Void Burrowing Beast.
• Huang Tian confronted Gu Dao, who privately revealed that he was from the Gu Clan; Huang Tian relayed his identity and Peak Seven-star Dou Sheng cultivation to Flowing Cloud.
• Gu Dao explained that he wanted clues to the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s Dragon Island after Yao Ming could not help him, and Huang Tian asked why he sought it.

Gu Dao visited the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan to seek Dragon Island’s location while investigating the destruction of the Spirit and Stone Clans, but Huang Tian refused to help and drove him away. Back in the Tian Niu Realm, Huang Tian learned from Flowing Cloud that the Soul Clan had destroyed the two clans, and Flowing Cloud discussed the Soul Clan’s strength and Huang Tian’s potential.

• Gu Dao asked Huang Tian for information about the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s Dragon Island and explained that he was investigating the Spirit and Stone Clans’ destruction.
• Huang Tian accused the Gu Clan of possibly being responsible for the clans’ disappearance, denied knowing Dragon Island’s location, and warned Gu Dao not to trespass again.
• Gu Dao left empty-handed and continued searching among smaller magical beast clans, while Huang Tian reinforced his clan’s territory with a spatial seal.
• Huang Tian returned to the Tian Niu Realm and told Flowing Cloud about Gu Dao’s visit; Flowing Cloud confirmed that the Soul Clan had destroyed the Spirit and Stone Clans.
• Flowing Cloud explained that the Soul Clan surpassed the Gu Clan in Dou Sheng strength, including its Nine-star Dou Sheng Nihility Devouring Flame, and said Huang Tian could rival it if he reached Seven-star Dou Sheng.

Flowing Cloud decided to retrieve the Bodhi Ancient Tree from the Barbaric Ancient Region and summoned Heavenly Bull and Bing Ji to help. The group reached the ancient forest, where the tree remained sealed inside Flowing Cloud’s water-blue barrier.

• Flowing Cloud considered Huang Tian’s cultivation and recalled that Hun Yu and the Bodhi Ancient Tree had been trapped in the Barbaric Ancient Region for years.
• Flowing Cloud decided he could bring back the Bodhi Ancient Tree using the Heavenly Tomb space or his System Space if the tree did not resist.
• Flowing Cloud summoned Heavenly Bull and Bing Ji, then used the Void Burrowing Beast to travel with them to the Barbaric Ancient Region.
• Flowing Cloud’s group crossed the Ancient Domain Platform and reached the empty area surrounding the water-blue barrier that enclosed the Bodhi Ancient Tree.

Flowing Cloud returned to the Bodhi Ancient Tree with Heavenly Bull, Huang Tian, and Bing Ji, intending to take control of it and restore its former strength. As the imprisoned people begged for release, the three companions restrained the tree while Flowing Cloud dug away the soil around its roots.

• Flowing Cloud and his companions emerged from a Purple Light Circle, prompting the imprisoned Hun Yu and others to beg for release.
• Flowing Cloud silenced the prisoners and greeted the Bodhi Ancient Tree, which responded by lowering a branch toward him.
• Flowing Cloud promised to help the Bodhi Ancient Tree surpass its former peak within a hundred years if it followed him.
• Flowing Cloud ordered Huang Tian, Heavenly Bull, and Bing Ji to restrict the tree's movements.
• Huang Tian and Heavenly Bull grew to enormous size and held the trunk while Bing Ji flooded the tree with icy Dou Qi.
• Flowing Cloud used his System Space to remove the soil around the tree until its roots were exposed.

Flowing Cloud took the Bodhi Ancient Tree into the Heavenly Tomb after it agreed to go with him, then killed Hun Yu and the Soul Clan experts who answered his summons. He returned to the Tian Niu Realm, while Black Robe in the Soul Realm witnessed the destruction of the soul tablets and watched the spatial rift vanish.

• Flowing Cloud, Tian Niu, Huang Tian, and Bing Ji exposed the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s roots and began pulling it from the ground.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree signaled its agreement, and Flowing Cloud removed the restrictions sealing the area before drawing the tree into the Heavenly Tomb through a spatial rift.
• Flowing Cloud told the Bodhi Ancient Tree he would help it surpass its former peak and planned to move it to the Tian Niu Realm.
• Hun Yu crushed a Spatial Jade Slip to summon Soul Clan experts, but Flowing Cloud’s Soul Power destroyed the arriving Dou Sheng, Hun Yu, and the others.
• Flowing Cloud summoned the Void Burrowing Beast and returned to the Tian Niu Realm, while Black Robe watched the Soul Clan expert’s and Hun Yu’s soul tablets shatter in the Soul Realm.

Flowing Cloud expanded his influence, moved the Bodhi Ancient Tree to the Tian Niu Realm, and accepted the Yao Clan’s invitation to its ceremony. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan and Old Yao prepared to attend the event, where Old Yao hoped to fulfill his parents’ wish to have their names carved on the Yao Clan’s Clan Stele.

• In the Soul Realm, two black-robed men learned that Hun Yu and Hun Rong had been killed and decided they could not investigate without risking the clan leader’s plans.
• Flowing Cloud transferred the Bodhi Ancient Tree from the Heavenly Tomb space to the Tian Niu Realm, where it could grow and produce Bodhi Seeds more quickly.
• Over the next two years, the Heaven and Earth Alliance eclipsed the Hall of Souls as the Spirit and Stone Clans’ disappearance faded from public memory.
• Hai Bodong told Flowing Cloud that the Yao Clan had invited him to its ceremony, and Flowing Cloud agreed to attend for a chance to obtain Ninth-grade medicinal pills.
• Xiao Yan told Old Yao about the Yao Clan’s upcoming event, and Old Yao revealed his wish to place his parents’ names on the Clan Stele.
• Xiao Yan and Old Yao agreed to attend, as Xiao Yan recounted how he had reached Peak Dou Zun and compressed his Dou Qi nine times.

Xiao Yan accepted Bone Spirit Cold Flame from Old Yao and prepared to attend the Yao Clan Ceremony. As the ceremony approached, Xiao Chen decided to secretly follow him to protect him, and the story introduced the remote Shennong Mountain Range where the Yao Clan lived.

• Old Yao erased his soul imprint from Bone Spirit Cold Flame and gave the flame to Xiao Yan, warning him to wait before merging it with Nine Nether Wind Flame.
• Xiao Yan established a soul imprint in Bone Spirit Cold Flame and stored it in the flame mark between his brows.
• Xiao Chen learned that Xiao Yan would attend the Yao Clan Ceremony and decided to follow him secretly.
• The chapter described the Yao Clan's home in the Shennong Mountain Range, a remote region made lively by the clan and its medicinal herbs.

Xiao Yan and Old Yao reached the Shennong Mountain Range to attend the Yao Clan’s Pill Codex, while Flowing Cloud set out separately with an avatar. Xiao Yan presented his invitation at the Yao Clan’s gateway despite the hostility caused by his past conflict with the clan.

• Xiao Yan departed for the Yao Clan with Old Yao, who had received an invitation to the Pill Codex, while Xiao Chen headed to the Shennong Mountain Range ahead of them.
• More than ten days later, Flowing Cloud set out with an avatar, accompanied only by Hai Bodong and Chu Donghai.
• Xiao Yan and Old Yao arrived at the Shennong Mountain Range and reached the Yao Clan’s spatial gateway, where Old Yao explained that factions dependent on the clan could observe the Pill Codex.
• Yao Clan guards challenged Xiao Yan, and he identified himself as a member of Starfall Pavilion and Ya Fei’s disciple before releasing his aura and forcing the guards back.
• Onlookers recognized Xiao Yan and discussed his past killing of two Yao Clan youths and taking the Nine Nether Wind Flame; Xiao Yan handed the guards his invitation, and they opened the gateway.

Xiao Yan and Old Yao entered the Yao Clan, where Yao Wan Gui and his followers insulted Old Yao and provoked Xiao Yan. When Yao Wan Gui ordered the Iron Guards to seize Xiao Yan, Xiao Yan blasted them away with his fiery energy.

• Xiao Yan presented the Yao Clan invitation, and he and Old Yao entered the clan and traveled by giant bird to its central mountain.
• Old Yao stared at the familiar buildings as Xiao Yan waited beside him in the plaza.
• Yao Wan Gui arrived and mocked Old Yao as an expelled clan member, while his followers joined in insulting him.
• Xiao Yan rebuked the Yao Clan and confirmed to Yao Wan Gui that he had killed Xing Ji and taken the Nine Nether Wind Flame.
• Yao Wan Gui ordered the Yao Clan Iron Guards to seize Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan's fiery energy shattered their spears and blasted them backward.

Xiao Yan repelled the Yao Clan Iron Guards, but Yao Wan Gui confronted him until Xiao Chen arrived and forced the Yao Clan to back down. Xiao Chen told Xiao Yan to proceed with his request to have Old Yao's parents' names inscribed on the ancestral monument.

• Xiao Yan unleashed the combined power of the Nine Nether Wind Flame and Bone Spirit Cold Flame, scattering the Yao Clan Iron Guards.
• Yao Wan Gui demanded to know how Xiao Yan had refined two Heavenly Flames, then released his Four-star Dou Sheng aura and challenged him.
• Xiao Chen arrived and pressured Yao Wan Gui into denying he had intended to harm Xiao Yan.
• Yao Wanhuo asked Xiao Chen to forgive Yao Wan Gui, and a voice from the sky reprimanded Yao Wan Gui for mistreating guests.
• Xiao Chen told Xiao Yan to carry on with his business, then left to handle matters within the Yao Clan.
• Yao Wan Gui withdrew from the plaza, while Xiao Yan felt grateful that Old Yao's request could be fulfilled.

After Xiao Yan and Old Yao accepted the Yao Clan’s invitation to the Pill Codex, Xiao Yan encountered Flowing Cloud, the Heaven and Earth Alliance Leader, at the summit of Medicine Mountain. Flowing Cloud received the highest honors as the foremost guest, while Xiao Yan prepared to face the continent’s alchemy grandmasters.

• Xiao Yan warned the Yao Clan not to provoke him, and Yao Wanhuo banished the men who had insulted him from Medicine Mountain for ten years.
• Elder Wan Huo invited Xiao Yan and Old Yao to the Pill Codex and suggested Xiao Yan could compete for the title of the continent’s top alchemist.
• Xiao Yan and Old Yao followed the Yao Clan elders to the summit of Medicine Mountain to observe the Pill Codex.
• Xiao Yan recognized Flowing Cloud arriving with Hai Bodong and another Heaven and Earth Alliance Grand Elder.
• Elder Wan Huo welcomed Flowing Cloud to the honored guest seats and spoke with him as an equal.