Chapter Summaries

The Soul Clan attacked the Yao Clan, and the Nihility Devouring Flame began devouring the energy of their protective formation. Yao Dan sacrificed the clan’s medicinal pills to summon the Yao Clan Progenitor’s remnant soul, which appeared before the besieged clan.

• Hun Xuzi asked Lord Nihility to break the Yao Clan’s protective formation, and the Nihility Devouring Flame manifested as a powerful figure.
• Lord Nihility unleashed black fire rain that devoured the formation’s energy and demanded the Yao Clan surrender.
• Yao Dan poured the clan’s medicinal pills into the formation and invoked the Progenitor’s return.
• The Yao Clan Progenitor’s remnant soul appeared, drawing Yao Clan members to their knees and impressing the onlookers with its power.
• The Progenitor looked over the Yao Clan and murmured that it had declined.

Nihility Devouring Flame attacked the Yao Clan’s great formation, while the Yao Clan’s Progenitor’s Remnant Soul and clan members struggled to defend it. As the formation began to fail, the Progenitor’s Remnant Soul sacrificed himself by rushing into Nihility Devouring Flame’s body.

• The Progenitor’s Remnant Soul shook Nihility Devouring Flame’s Black Flame from the formation and blocked his first colossal finger with a Medicine Cauldron.
• Nihility Devouring Flame repeatedly struck the cauldron, cracking it, and Yao Dan ordered the Yao Clan members to pour their Dou Qi into the formation.
• Nihility Devouring Flame devoured millions of Yao Clan descendants and formed their blood into an attack that destroyed the cauldron and badly weakened the formation.
• The Progenitor’s Remnant Soul lamented that the calamity could not be avoided, then rushed into Nihility Devouring Flame’s body.

Nihility Devouring Flame destroyed the Yao Clan’s protective formation and scattered the remnant soul of its ancestor, leaving the clan facing annihilation. Yao Dan led the clan in a desperate counterattack, but Nihility Devouring Flame summoned a vast black hole vortex to devour their attacks.

• An illusory figure charged into Nihility Devouring Flame, who dispersed the figure with Black Flame as the Yao Clan sensed its ancestor’s remnant soul vanish.
• The Yao Clan’s protective formation shattered, and Xiao Chen told Xiao Yan he would try to get him out if the battle turned against them.
• Yao Dan rallied the Yao Clan to fight for their bloodline, and elders and younger clan members launched a mass attack on Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Nihility Devouring Flame formed a huge black hole vortex that cracked the land and began swallowing the Yao Clan’s streams of Dou Qi.

The Yao Clan's desperate attack injured Nihility Devouring Flame, but he unleashed a horde of Tunling Clan creatures that plunged Medicine Mountain into chaos. As Yao Dan ordered the Yao Clan elders to self-destruct and preserve their bloodline, Xiao Chen gave Xiao Yan the Xiao Clan's Imperial Jade and prepared to help him escape; Hun Xuzi summoned reinforcements through a Black Flame passageway.

• Nihility Devouring Flame recovered from the Yao Clan's attack and released Black Flame creatures that slaughtered people across Medicine Mountain.
• Yao Dan and Xiao Chen recognized the creatures as the supposedly extinct Tunling Clan, and Hun Xuzi revealed the Soul Clan's interest in the Yao Clan's Imperial Jade and Xiao Chen's clan jade.
• Yao Dan seized young Yao Clan members and ordered the elders to self-destruct to create a chance for their bloodline to survive.
• Xiao Chen gave Xiao Yan a ring containing the Tou She Ancient God Jade and resolved to help him escape if the chance arose.
• As Yao Clan experts began to self-destruct, Hun Xuzi tore open a Black Flame scroll and summoned several figures through a fiery passageway.

The Soul Clan attacked the Yao Clan, whose members sacrificed themselves to break the sealed space and preserve their bloodline. As the battle spread, Hun Yan ambushed and gravely wounded Xiao Chen, leaving Xiao Yan furious but unable to help.

• Hun Jing and Hun Yan arrived with Soul Clan forces and demanded that Yao Dan make the Yao Clan a subordinate race; Yao Dan refused, and the Soul Clan ordered an attack.
• Yao Clan experts self-destructed to damage the sealed space, while Hun Jing disrupted some of their sacrifices and Hun Xuzi engaged Elder Wan Huo and other elders.
• Old Man Shen Nong and Xiao Chen fought back against the Soul Clan, with Xiao Chen cutting down its experts using his blood-red battle-axe.
• Hun Yan ambushed Xiao Chen and sent him flying with a chest strike, then prepared to kill the injured fighter.
• Xiao Yan saw Xiao Chen's injuries and burned with rage, but knew he could not challenge an opponent of Hun Yan's strength.

Flowing Cloud intervened in the Soul Clan’s attack on the Xiao Clan and overwhelmed Hun Yan and Hun Jing with a single punch. The Soul Clan’s plans were thrown into disarray as the Yao Clan’s desperate resistance threatened to break the spatial seal.

• Flowing Cloud appeared as a giant and blocked Hun Yan’s attack on Xiao Chen, then declared that he was protecting the Xiao Clan.
• Hun Yan and Hun Jing confronted Flowing Cloud, who attacked them with an enormous punch and drove them into a mountain.
• Hun Yan and Hun Jing escaped the crater in black mist, but their unstable auras showed they had been badly hurt.
• Hun Xuzi urged Nihility Devouring Flame to deal with Flowing Cloud, but Nihility Devouring Flame refused because he was occupied stabilizing the spatial seal and had been injured.
• Flowing Cloud’s intervention disrupted the Soul Clan’s plans, while the Yao Clan’s self-destructions threatened to shatter the seal and let some of them escape.

Flowing Cloud disrupted the Soul Clan’s assault and summoned Huang Tian with more than a hundred Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan Dou Sheng experts. The Yao Clan’s desperate attempt to preserve its bloodline gave way to renewed hope as the newcomers revealed their allegiance to Flowing Cloud, who prepared to confront the Soul Clan.

• Yao Dan gathered young Yao Clan members and asked Flowing Cloud, Xiao Chen, and Old Man Shen Nong to save them if the clan’s experts broke through the spatial barrier.
• Yao Dan rebuked Yao Tian for wanting to stay and fight, insisting that the younger generation survive for the Yao Clan’s future.
• Flowing Cloud told Yao Dan to stop the self-destructions and used the Puppet Seed to summon Huang Tian and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan through a Void Gate.
• Huang Tian arrived with 103 others, including more than a hundred Dou Sheng experts, leaving the Yao Clan, Soul Clan, and Devouring Spirits stunned.
• Huang Tian and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan experts bowed to Flowing Cloud as their master, and Flowing Cloud warned Hun Yan and Hun Jing that the Soul Clan would pay for offending him.

Flowing Cloud and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan turned the battle in the Yao Clan’s favor, as Huang Tian revealed his Ancient Dragon Phoenix form and destroyed Hun Xuzi’s Void Devouring Flame Sub-flame. The Soul Clan’s forces were routed, while Hun Yan and Hun Jing remained unable to intervene.

• Flowing Cloud ordered the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan to wipe out the Soul Clan, and Huang Tian took over the fight against Hun Xuzi.
• Huang Tian transformed into an enormous Ancient Dragon Phoenix and swallowed Hun Xuzi’s black fire dragon, destroying the Sub-flame of the Void Devouring Flame.
• Yao Dan ordered the Yao Clan elders to attack at full strength and stop self-destructing, and they joined forces with the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.
• The Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan began clearing out the Spirit Devourers and Nihility Devouring Flame figures as fighting spread throughout the Yao Clan’s domain.
• Yao Dan, Xiao Chen, Xiao Yan, Old Man Shen Nong, Ya Fei, and other experts fought alongside the counterattack, leaving fewer than twenty percent of the Soul Clan’s ordinary forces alive.

Flowing Cloud’s forces turned the battle in the Medicine Realm against the Soul Clan, but the Yao Clan suffered devastating losses. Nihility Devouring Flame rescued Hun Xuzi and faced Huang Tian as the Ancient Dragon Phoenix attacked the remaining Soul Clan experts.

• Yao Dan, Xiao Chen, Xiao Yan, Old Man Shen Nong, Ya Fei, and other experts helped drive the Soul Clan’s ordinary fighters into retreat.
• Huang Tian drew Hun Xuzi toward the Ancient Dragon Phoenix’s maw, but Nihility Devouring Flame reformed his true body and rescued him.
• Flowing Cloud warned Nihility Devouring Flame that Gu Yuan and the other Ancient Clans could intervene, while Yao Dan confronted the Soul Clan leaders over their attack.
• The battle left the Yao Clan with nearly half its strength lost, despite Flowing Cloud’s help preventing its destruction.
• Huang Tian attacked the surviving Soul Clan experts, and Nihility Devouring Flame met his golden claw with a gigantic black-flame finger.

Huang Tian and the allied experts overwhelmed Nihility Devouring Flame and the Soul Clan with a massive combined attack, forcing Nihility Devouring Flame to retreat. He unsealed the space as the chapter ended, allowing the Soul Clan forces to flee.

• Nihility Devouring Flame's black-flame finger struck Huang Tian's golden claw, but Huang Tian held his ground despite being outmatched in offensive power.
• Xiao Yan explained to Xiao Chen that Flowing Cloud protected the Xiao Clan because of a promise to Xiao Xuan, and Xiao Chen vowed to repay the favor.
• Huang Tian led more than a hundred Dou Sheng experts and allied fighters in a combined assault on Nihility Devouring Flame and the Soul Clan.
• Hun Xuzi, Hun Yan, Hun Jing, and the other Soul Clan experts intercepted part of the attack, while Nihility Devouring Flame absorbed the remaining torrents into a black-hole vortex and suffered severe injuries.
• Nihility Devouring Flame ordered the Soul Clan to leave and removed the seal on the space.

The Soul Clan escaped the Medicine Realm after the spatial seal was lifted, while Hun Sha and Hun Tu learned that their plan had changed and fled. The Yao Clan thanked Flowing Cloud and the allied experts for their rescue as they began to face the aftermath of the attack.

• Nihility Devouring Flame opened a passage and blocked the allied experts’ attack, allowing the remaining Soul Clan members to escape the Medicine Realm.
• Hun Sha and Hun Tu discussed the Soul Clan’s plans before Hun Sha received Hun Yan’s warning and led them away from the Medicine Realm.
• Yao Dan bowed to Flowing Cloud, Xiao Chen, Old Man Shen Nong, and the other rescuers to thank them for helping the Yao Clan.
• Flowing Cloud departed with Hai Bodong, Chu Donghai, Huang Tian, and the others, while Xiao Chen and Xiao Yan discussed repaying him.

After the Soul Clan devastated the Yao Clan, the Lightning and Yan Clans arrived at Medicine Mountain to support the survivors. Yao Dan invited Xiao Chen and Xiao Yan to join the clan leaders’ meeting about the crisis.

• Xiao Chen and Xiao Yan watched the Lightning Clan emerge from a Space Passage, led by its clan leader, Lei Ying.
• Lei Ying offered Yao Dan his condolences over the Yao Clan’s losses and heard Yao Dan worry about the clan’s future.
• The Yan Clan arrived in force, led by its clan leader, Yan Jin, and the gathered Yan, Lightning, and Yao Clan armies formed a powerful alliance against the Soul Clan.
• Xiao Chen explained that Yan Jin had fused the Volcanic Stone Flame and the Nine Nether Golden Ancestor Fire, prompting Xiao Yan to compare his abilities with Flowing Cloud’s.
• Yao Dan invited Xiao Chen and Xiao Yan to join him, Lei Ying, and Yan Jin in the main hall to discuss the Soul Clan and the Tou She Ancient God Jade.

After the Yao Clan’s destruction, Xiao Chen explained how the ancient Tunling Clan devoured other clans’ bloodline power to survive. Yao Dan and the other leaders suspected the Soul Clan had inherited that ability, but they resolved that it could still be resisted.

• Xiao Chen, Xiao Yan, and the leaders of the Yao, Lightning, and Yan Clans gathered to discuss the Soul Clan’s attack on the Yao Clan.
• Xiao Chen told Xiao Yan that the Tunling Clan had once devoured other Ancient Races’ bloodline power before an alliance destroyed it.
• Yao Dan recalled that the Soul Clan had killed the Tunling Clan’s last chief, and Lei Ying suggested it might have gained something from him.
• Yan Jin suspected the Soul Clan had secretly destroyed Ancient Races and taken their bloodline power over many generations.
• Lei Ying and Yao Dan argued that the Soul Clan could still be opposed, noting that Hun Tiandi had been gravely wounded by Xiao Xuan and that the Soul Clan had needed a Spatial Seal against the Yao Clan.

Yao Dan, Lei Ying, and the other clan leaders discussed the power of the Heaven and Earth Alliance and speculated about its ties to the Ancient Void Dragon Clan and Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan. They suspected Flowing Cloud’s strength was connected to the enormous forms used by Huang Tian and the other magical beast experts, but could not identify the method behind it.

• Yao Dan agreed with Lei Ying that the Soul Clan could be opposed and Xiao Chen argued that the Gu Clan’s strength made it the Soul Clan’s greatest concern.
• Yao Wanhuo said the Heaven and Earth Alliance had become as powerful as the Gu Clan and Soul Clan, prompting Yao Dan to question why the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan served Flowing Cloud.
• Yao Dan described the immense strength and size of the Ancient Void Dragon North Dragon King and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan expert, whose true form was the legendary Ancient Dragon Phoenix.
• The clan leaders concluded that the Heaven and Earth Alliance had connections to both powerful magical beast clans and speculated that Flowing Cloud was stronger than the Ancient Dragon Phoenix expert.
• Lei Ying asked what method could enlarge a person’s body, and the clans debated possible explanations without discovering the Divine Idol Hegemonic Body.

After the Soul Clan attacked the Yao Clan, the Yao, Yan, and Lightning Clans decided to seek an alliance with the Gu Clan. Their armies reached Gu Yuan, who initially feared they had come to fight, and Yao Dan explained that the Soul Clan was responsible for the destruction of the Ling and Shi Clans.

• The clans discussed the danger posed by the Soul Clan and agreed they needed allies to protect their realms.
• Xiao Chen proposed bringing the Gu Clan into an alliance, and Lei Ying, Yan Jin, and Yao Dan agreed to approach Gu Yuan.
• Yao Dan brought every member of the weakened Yao Clan, while the Yan and Lightning Clans sent their armies through a Space Passage to Gu Clan territory.
• Gu Yuan stopped the arriving armies and asked Lei Ying, Yan Jin, and Yao Dan whether they meant to wage war against the Gu Clan.
• Yao Dan assured Gu Yuan they had come peacefully and revealed that the Soul Clan had destroyed the Ling and Shi Clans and nearly destroyed the Yao Clan.

Yao Dan and the leaders of the Yao, Lei, Yan, and Xiao clans told Gu Yuan that the Soul Clan had destroyed the Ling and Shi Clans and had nearly destroyed the Yao Clan. After they discussed the Soul Clan’s threat and its pursuit of the Ancient God Jade, the gathered leaders pressed Gu Yuan to join them in an alliance against it.

• Yao Dan explained that the four clans had come peacefully and that the Soul Clan was responsible for the destruction of the Ling and Shi Clans and the attack on the Yao Clan.
• Gu Yuan’s three Grand Elders arrived, and Gu Yuan reassured them that the visiting clans had no hostile intentions.
• Gu Yuan learned that the Nihility Devouring Flame could transform into a member of the Tunling Clan and deduced that it had swallowed the Medicine Realm to evade detection.
• Gu Yuan and the other leaders concluded that the Soul Clan sought bloodline power and the Tou She Ancient God Jade, while Xiao Yan recognized Hun Tiandi as one of the continent’s mightiest experts.
• Lei Ying and Yao Dan warned that the Soul Clan’s three pieces of Ancient Jade could lead it to the other five and the secret of advancing to Dou Di.
• The gathered leaders urged Gu Yuan to decide quickly and form an alliance against the Soul Clan.

Gu Yuan agreed to unite the Gu, Yan, Lightning, Yao, and Xiao Clans against the Soul Clan and hosted the displaced Yao Clan in the Ancient Realm. There, tensions rose when Lightning Clan youths mocked the Gu Clan’s younger generation and challenged Xiao Yan.

• Gu Yuan agreed to form an alliance against the Soul Clan and opened a passage to the Ancient Realm.
• Gu Yuan gave the weakened Yao Clan a place to settle in the Ancient Realm while the Gu Clan sent experts to monitor the Soul Clan.
• Lei Yun mocked the Black Annihilation Army, claiming Lei Dong had defeated Gu Qingyang.
• Lei Dong apologized for Lei Yun’s bluntness while the Lightning Clan youths boasted that their younger generation surpassed the Gu Clan’s.
• Xiao Xun’er frowned at the Lightning Clan’s arrogance, and Xiao Yan dismissed their rivalry as petty competition.
• Lightning Clan youths called out Xiao Yan and challenged him to fight Lei Dong.

Xiao Yan accepted Lei Dong’s challenge at the Gu Clan’s martial arena and fought him despite Lei Dong’s Black Demon Lightning and higher cultivation. Xiao Yan activated the Xiao Clan tribal mark to raise his strength to early Three-star Dou Sheng, and the duel continued as Lei Dong attacked with a black lightning spear.

• Xiao Yan ignored Gu Xun Er’s attempt to lead him away and agreed to join the sparring after the Lightning Clan youths taunted him.
• Lei Dong revealed his Black Demon Lightning and struck Xiao Yan with ten thunder dragons.
• Xiao Yan met the attack with his Merged Exotic Flame and remained standing with minor injuries.
• Xiao Yan activated the Xiao Clan tribal mark, raising his aura to early Three-star Dou Sheng.
• Lei Dong activated his Lightning Clan tribal mark and charged Xiao Yan with a black lightning spear.

Xiao Yan risked fusing the Nine Nether Wind Flame and Bone Spirit Cold Flame to create a new attack while fighting Lei Dong. His Two-colored Fire Lotus exploded near Lei Dong, but a towering man appeared and contained the blast.

• Xiao Yan and Lei Dong fought evenly, though Xiao Yan realized his clan mark would soon fade and he needed a decisive attack.
• Xiao Yan forced his two Heavenly Flames together, injuring his hands as the unstable energy grew increasingly violent.
• Xiao Yan used the Flame Mantra to calm the flames and shape them into a blue-and-white lotus pedestal, which he named the Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus.
• Xiao Yan hurled the lotus at Lei Dong, and it exploded with destructive force near him.
• A towering man descended onto the martial stage and confined the explosion's energy within a circular area twenty meters wide.

Xiao Yan defeated Lei Dong with a newly developed Two-colored Fire Lotus, but Lei Ying intervened before the attack could kill him. Gu Yuan then exposed Hun Tiandi’s presence, and the Soul Clan leader emerged before the gathered experts.

• Xiao Yan unleashed the Two-colored Fire Lotus, and Lei Ying contained its explosion before it could spread beyond the martial platform.
• Lei Ying praised Xiao Yan’s Dou Technique, and the gathered clan leaders acknowledged Xiao Yan’s victory over Lei Dong.
• Gu Yuan called out Hun Tiandi, prompting the Gu Clan experts to take up a defensive formation.
• Yan Jin and Lei Ying joined Gu Yuan in watching the empty space as the gathered experts waited tensely.
• Hun Tiandi answered Gu Yuan and stepped through a spatial vortex into view.