Chapter Summaries

After Xiao Lin found the Saint God's unborn successor, he used the system's power to destroy the black egg despite the spacetime paradox it threatened to cause. His Timeline survived the collapse and became an eternal ring, leaving him beyond the River of Time.

• Grand Eon Ancient Sage revealed that the black egg held the Saint God's successor and proposed that the Saint Clan escape through the Saint God's passage to the Great Universe.
• Xiao Lin appeared in the sacred hall, seized the black egg from Grand Eon Ancient Sage, and recognized it as the unborn Heavenly Evil God.
• Xiao Lin considered how destroying the egg could erase his own history and alter the fates of Lin Dong, Xiao Yan, and others, but chose to preserve the present rather than the future.
• Xiao Lin crushed the egg with the system's power, triggering a collapse of space-time and a vision of countless Timelines, including a ruined future Dou Qi Continent ruled by Hun Tiandi.
• Xiao Lin's Timeline survived the chaos, rose above the others, and transformed into an eternal ring with Xiao Lin as both its beginning and end.

Xiao Lin entered Battle Through the Heavens Online Game with a high-end simulation pod and discovered that players received randomly assigned identities in the Dou Qi Continent. After visiting the Xiao Family, he arrived at the plaza just as the disciples’ assembly and Xiao Yan’s famous assessment were about to begin.

• Xiao Lin entered the game when its servers opened and found himself in Wutan City with a randomly assigned identity.
• Players flooded the forum with reactions to their randomized roles, while several learned that NPCs could punish and remember them.
• Beggar Bro posted about being a beggar outside the Xiao Family gates and announced that he would livestream the disciples’ assembly.
• Xiao Lin tossed gold coins to Beggar Bro and entered the Xiao Family, prompting players to speculate about his identity.
• A Xiao Family guard led Xiao Lin to the plaza, where the disciples had gathered around the Testing Stone for the assembly.

Beggar Bro infiltrated the Xiao Family estate and livestreamed the descendants’ assessment, drawing players’ attention to Xiao Yan, Xiao Mei, and Xiao Xun’er. Xiao Lin noticed a new group called the “Nalan Yanran Supporters Association—Destroy Xiao Xun'er Edition!” and sensed it would matter to the future plot.

• Beggar Bro followed a young Xiao Family girl into the estate and secretly recorded the assessment for the players.
• Xiao Yan received a result of Third Stage of Dou Qi, Rank: Low, and endured the descendants’ mockery while Beggar Bro uploaded the scene.
• Beggar Bro filmed Xiao Mei, whose brief appearance drew more excitement from players than Xiao Yan’s assessment.
• Xiao Xun’er scored Ninth Stage of Dou Qi, Rank: High, and her appearance sent the forum into a frenzy.
• Xiao Lin increased his permissions to the maximum and discovered the Nalan Yanran Supporters Association—Destroy Xiao Xun'er Edition group, sensing it would affect the future plot.

Xiao Lin recruited the player Qin Ming as his disciple and promised to teach him a supreme Artifact Refining technique. The chapter ended with Xiao Lin revealing the technique’s name: the Chaotic Wind Hammer Technique.

• Players in the Nalan Yanran Supporters Association plotted to disrupt the story and target Xiao Xun'er through public opinion and outside forces.
• Xiao Lin spotted Beggar Bro observing the Xiao Family assessment and invited him to cultivate as his disciple.
• Beggar Bro, whose name was Qin Ming, accepted and posted about the encounter on the official forum, drawing players to the Xiao Family gates.
• Xiao Lin left the Xiao Family with Qin Ming under guard and brought him to his inn, where Qin Ming formally became his disciple.
• Xiao Lin explained that he would teach Qin Ming to become an Artifact Refiner, then named his supreme technique the Chaotic Wind Hammer Technique.

Xiao Lin taught Qin Ming the Chaotic Wind Hammer Technique, and the quest reward propelled him to One-Star Dou Master. After Qin Ming discovered the game’s top players and faced Lin Qingfeng, Xiao Lin left for the Three-Year Pact Timeline, where Qin Ming’s victory made him famous.

• Xiao Lin taught Qin Ming the Chaotic Wind Hammer Technique, and Qin Ming accepted the Yellow Grade skill through the game system.
• Qin Ming completed the side quest and gained 10,000 experience points, rising from an ordinary mortal to One-Star Dou Master.
• Xiao Lin disappeared, leaving gold and valuables behind, and Qin Ming checked the rankings before deciding to focus on leveling.
• A Xiao Family maidservant told Qin Ming that Lin Qingfeng of the Misty Cloud Sect had come to see Xiao Lin, so Qin Ming went to meet him instead.
• Qin Ming used the Chaotic Wind Hammer Technique to kill Seven-Star Dou Master Lin Qingfeng, earning the title Unrivaled Hammer Beggar Bro as the story spread across the game forum.
• Xiao Lin watched Qin Ming’s victory, then traveled to the Three-Year Pact Timeline and appeared outside the Misty Cloud Sect.

Xiao Lin joined the crowds gathering for Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran’s Three-Year Pact, where players from the Alliance and the Misty Cloud Sect had already begun fighting. After recognizing Qin Ming as the anchor for power he had once left behind, Xiao Lin uncovered that the game’s operation maintained the world’s laws and introduced a voucher that could bring game-world power into reality.

• Xiao Lin entered the crowd on the way to Misty Cloud Mountain and checked forum news about the coming battle and Qin Ming’s rise to become the Alliance’s second-in-command.
• Xiao Lin deduced that players from other maps could not enter the Jia Ma Empire while Xiao Yan remained there, then headed to the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Alliance and Misty Cloud Sect players fought across the mountaintop plaza while Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran waited for their duel to begin.
• Qin Ming, now known as Blacksmith Bro, confronted a female player with a long whip as Xiao Lin arrived at the plaza.
• Seeing Qin Ming, Xiao Lin reclaimed the power he had left in him and realized that the game’s timeline operated through the laws of heaven and earth.
• Xiao Lin added a Dou Qi Experience Voucher to the City of Commerce, and Qin Ming briefly thought he saw Teacher Xiao behind him.

Zi Yan, the Lord of Life and Death, and Xiao Teng entered Xiao Lin’s treasure hall using Ling Qing Zhu’s stolen token and accidentally activated a time-travel mechanism. They arrived on the Dou Qi Continent on the eve of the Xiao Clan’s destruction, while Ling Qing Zhu searched the current Timeline for her missing son.

• Zi Yan and the Lord of Life and Death pressured Xiao Teng into leading them to the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s treasure hall.
• Nine Profound Golden Lightning noticed the three intruders but withdrew and left the Bodhi Ancient Tree to handle them.
• Xiao Teng presented Ling Qing Zhu’s token, and the Bodhi Ancient Tree admitted the trio to the hall.
• Zi Yan bit into the jade-green crystal, but Xiao Lin’s phantom retrieved it and activated its time-travel function.
• The crystal transported Xiao Teng, Zi Yan, and the Lord of Life and Death to the eve of the Xiao Clan’s destruction in the distant past.
• Ling Qing Zhu discovered her token was gone and could not locate Xiao Teng, while Xiao Xuan prepared a final attempt to strengthen the Xiao Family Bloodline.

Xiao Teng, Zi Yan, and the Lord of Life and Death arrived in the ancient Dou Qi Continent, where their powers were restricted. Xiao Teng’s Xiao Clan mark and extraordinary bloodline drew the attention of both the Xiao Clan and the Hun Clan, just as Xiao Xuan was weighing a dangerous attempt to break through to Dou Emperor.

• Xiao Teng, Zi Yan, and the Lord of Life and Death realized they had arrived in the ancient Dou Qi Continent and found their Spiritual Energy restricted.
• Two Nine-Star Dou Zun experts from the Xiao Clan confronted the newcomers, but Zi Yan discovered that an unseen force prevented her from transforming.
• Xiao Teng’s bloodline power surged and revealed the Xiao Clan’s clan mark, shocking the two Dou Zuns.
• The Xiao Clan Dou Zuns reported Xiao Teng’s powerful bloodline, while a Hun Clan scout observed him and sent word to the Hun Clan.
• Xiao Xuan received news of the new bloodline genius as he hesitated over risking his life to break through to Dou Emperor.

Xiao Teng, Zi Yan, and the Lord of Life and Death entered the Xiao Realm after the Xiao Clan’s Dou Zuns accepted Xiao Teng as a bloodline-mutated descendant. They were brought to meet Xiao Xuan, leaving them uncertain about how this era’s Clan Leader would receive them.

• Two Xiao Clan Dou Zuns escorted Xiao Teng, Zi Yan, and the Lord of Life and Death through Xiao Emperor City and discussed the ancient war between the Xiao Clan and the Hun Clan.
• Xiao Teng realized they had arrived on the eve of the Xiao Clan’s destruction and feared the final battle was near.
• The Dou Zuns explained that Xiao Teng’s powerful bloodline could have awakened through a mutation in a distant common descendant, then led the group into the Xiao Realm.
• The bearded Dou Zun skipped tracing Xiao Teng’s ancestral branch and learned that Xiao Xuan was available to meet them.
• Xiao Teng, Zi Yan, and the Lord of Life and Death followed the Dou Zuns to Xiao Xuan’s golden hall and prepared to meet the Clan Leader.

Xiao Xuan met Xiao Teng and discovered that he possessed an extraordinarily pure Xiao Clan bloodline, then named him the clan’s Holy Son and arranged for him to travel to the Ancient Realm with Elder Xiao Feng. As the group set out, Xiao Teng worried about warning Xiao Xuan of his doomed attempt to reach Dou Emperor, while Zi Yan revealed that she had recovered to Dou Saint strength and expected to grow stronger.

• Xiao Teng, Zi Yan, and the Lord of Life and Death entered the hall and waited until Xiao Xuan revealed himself.
• Xiao Xuan displayed his complete nine-stroke Xiao Clan Clan Mark, triggering Xiao Teng’s bloodline to form a matching mark without guidance.
• Xiao Xuan named Xiao Teng the Holy Son of Xiao Clan and ordered him and his two companions to accompany Elder Xiao Feng to the Ancient Realm.
• Elder Xiao Feng met the group outside the hall and led them toward one of the Xiao Clan’s peaks.
• Xiao Teng privately told Zi Yan and the Lord of Life and Death that he wanted to warn Xiao Xuan about his failed attempt to become Dou Emperor.
• Zi Yan revealed that she had recovered to Dou Saint level and said she could become even stronger in the coming days.

Xiao Teng, Zi Yan, and the Lord of Life and Death converted their power into Dou Qi while the Xiao Clan prepared to send its young bloodline heirs to the Gu Clan for safety. After realizing the group was doomed to be intercepted, they decided to return to the Xiao Realm and confront Hun Tiandi.

• Elder Xiao Feng arranged lodgings for Xiao Teng, Zi Yan, and the Lord of Life and Death in the Xiao Realm as they prepared for the Xiao Clan’s looming crisis.
• Zi Yan restored her strength to the peak of Dou Sheng Nine Stars, while Xiao Teng and the Lord of Life and Death reached six-star Dou Sheng by converting their Spiritual Energy into Dou Qi.
• Elder Xiao Feng gathered Xiao Clan geniuses and led them toward a teleportation array to escort them to the Gu Clan as Xiao Xuan prepared to attempt a breakthrough to Dou Emperor.
• Xiao Teng, Zi Yan, and the Lord of Life and Death realized the Xiao Clan heirs had no record in later generations and concluded that they would be intercepted and killed.
• Xiao Teng, Zi Yan, and the Lord of Life and Death decided to return to the Xiao Realm and face Hun Tiandi, who had sent Tun Ling to devour the Xiao Clan’s bloodline heirs.

Xiao Xuan used the Xiao Clan’s collected bloodline essence and his three Heavenly Flames to attempt a breakthrough into the Dou Emperor realm, hoping to restore the clan’s bloodline. Meanwhile, Nihility Devouring Flame ambushed Elder Xiao Feng’s party, but Zi Yan intervened as he prepared to attack the Xiao Clan’s heirs.

• Xiao Xuan absorbed the refined essence of 9,999 blood pools as he risked his life to become a Dou Emperor and revive the Xiao Clan’s bloodline.
• Elder Xiao Feng led the Xiao Clan’s young heirs toward the Ancient Realm to seek Gu Yuan’s aid, but Nihility Devouring Flame trapped them in a Black Flame space.
• Nihility Devouring Flame revealed that he knew Xiao Xuan was attempting to break through and threatened to devour the heirs’ bloodlines.
• Elder Xiao Feng prepared to fight Nihility Devouring Flame so the heirs could escape, while Xiao Teng and the others recognized the danger of his devouring power.
• Zi Yan’s dragon roar and silver radiance shielded the Xiao Clan members, and Nihility Devouring Flame realized an Ancient Void Dragon had appeared.

Zi Yan revealed herself as an Ancient Void Dragon and overwhelmed Nihility Devouring Flame after he was expelled from his Black Flame space. She captured him in ten exchanges, leaving Xiao Feng stunned by Zi Yan’s identity and Xiao Teng’s influence over her.

• Zi Yan’s power shattered Nihility Devouring Flame’s Black Flame space and returned everyone to the familiar world.
• Nihility Devouring Flame recognized the Ancient Void Dragon and asked her not to interfere in the Hun Clan’s conflict with the Xiao Clan, but she attacked him.
• Xiao Feng noticed Zi Yan was missing, and Xiao Teng’s calm remarks confirmed that Zi Yan was the Ancient Void Dragon fighting Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Zi Yan banished Nihility Devouring Flame’s Black Flame attacks with her Vast Power and forced him onto the defensive.
• Zi Yan declared the fight over after ten exchanges, then sealed and captured Nihility Devouring Flame in a net of silver light.

Xiao Xuan failed to break through to the Dou Emperor realm and learned that the realm could not be reached because a crucial thing was missing; his failure also set off a fatal backlash. Hun Tiandi launched the Hun Clan's invasion of the weakened Xiao Realm, leaving Xiao Xuan racing to preserve the Xiao Clan's remaining bloodline as the enemy army arrived.

• Xiao Xuan exhausted the Dou Di Bloodline in the 9,999 pools but failed to cross into the Dou Emperor realm, realizing that something essential was missing.
• Xiao Xuan suffered the deadly backlash of his failed breakthrough and gathered the remaining Dou Di Bloodline to send to the Ancient Realm through the Heavenly Tomb.
• Hun Tiandi told Hun Shengtian that he wanted Xiao Xuan to witness the Xiao Clan's destruction, then ordered the Hun Clan army to attack the Xiao Realm.
• The Hun Clan army surged through the gate into the Xiao Realm while its weakened members were recovering from giving up their Dou Di Bloodline.
• Xiao Clan members recognized Hun Tiandi and the invading Hun Clan forces as they emerged through a massive rift in the sky.

Hun Tiandi led the Hun Clan in an assault on the Xiao Realm, where Xiao Xuan revealed he had hidden his power in three Heavenly Flames and killed Hun Yuantian. As Xiao Xuan turned on the remaining elders, Xiao Teng, Zi Yan, and the Lord of Life and Death arrived to find the Xiao Realm in ruins.

• Hun Tiandi found Xiao Xuan and ordered the Hun Clan to attack the Xiao Realm while the Four Demon Saints engaged the Xiao Clan's Four Great Elders.
• Hun Tiandi and the Soul Clan's Four Great Elders surrounded Xiao Xuan and declared the Xiao Clan's destruction imminent.
• Xiao Xuan unleashed his three Heavenly Flames and killed Hun Yuantian before he could resist.
• Hun Tiandi realized Xiao Xuan had concealed his power in the flames and lured him into a trap; Xiao Xuan then charged at the remaining three elders.
• Xiao Teng, Zi Yan, and the Lord of Life and Death arrived in the devastated Xiao Realm.

Xiao Xuan used his temporary Quasi Dou Di power to slay the Hun Clan’s Four Great Elders, but the backlash from his failed breakthrough left him gravely weakened. Hun Tiandi attacked him and threatened to kill every Xiao Clan member before his eyes.

• The Lord of Life and Death killed a Hun Clan Dou Zun as she, Xiao Teng, and Zi Yan entered the Xiao Realm to reach Xiao Xuan.
• Xiao Xuan fought Hun Tiandi and the Four Great Elders, killing three elders while Hun Tiandi tried to provoke him into a direct duel.
• Xiao Xuan reignited his three Heavenly Flames with Heavenly Fire Three Profound Transformations and killed the last elder, Hun Yao.
• Xiao Xuan’s Quasi Dou Di power collapsed, his injuries worsened, and his three Heavenly Flames went dark.
• Hun Tiandi seized the chance to tear into Xiao Xuan’s chest and vowed to make every Xiao Clan member die before him.

Xiao Teng, Zi Yan, and the Lord of Life and Death arrived as Hun Tiandi battered Xiao Xuan, and Zi Yan attacked Hun Tiandi while Xiao Teng revealed that he held the Nihility Devouring Flame’s Origin of Exotic Flame. Xiao Xuan said only a Dou Emperor could save him, but Xiao Teng believed his abundant Xiao Clan Dou Di Bloodline might offer another way.

• Hun Tiandi battered Xiao Xuan across the mountains and threatened to kill the Xiao Clan’s survivors before him.
• Xiao Teng, Zi Yan, and the Lord of Life and Death emerged from a Gate of the Void, and Xiao Xuan recognized them.
• Zi Yan attacked Hun Tiandi with her Ancient Void Dragon power, injuring him and overpowering his defenses.
• Xiao Teng helped the Lord of Life and Death stabilize Xiao Xuan while revealing that he possessed the Nihility Devouring Flame’s Origin of Exotic Flame.
• Xiao Xuan said that only a Dou Emperor could save him, but Xiao Teng suggested his abundant Xiao Clan Dou Di Bloodline might awaken and save him.

Xiao Teng awakened Xiao Lin’s bloodline power and broke through to the Dou Emperor realm, healing Xiao Xuan and empowering the Xiao Clan across time and space. He then confronted Hun Tiandi with a crushing Dou Emperor attack, leaving Hun Tiandi to realize his defeat was real.

• Xiao Teng sensed Xiao Lin’s bloodline power across the River of Time and Space, and Xiao Lin’s response awakened the bloodline within him.
• Xiao Teng broke through to the Dou Emperor realm, sending bloodline power through time and space to strengthen the Xiao Clan and reverse its battle against the Hun Clan.
• The awakened bloodline restored Xiao Xuan, and Xiao Teng used the Origin of Exotic Flame of the Nihility Devouring Flame and Dou Emperor Law to heal him.
• Xiao Teng turned toward Hun Tiandi, who tried to dismiss Xiao Teng’s breakthrough as an illusion.
• Xiao Teng appeared before Hun Tiandi and struck with a palm empowered by Dou Emperor Law, and Hun Tiandi realized the attack and Xiao Teng’s power were real.

Xiao Teng awakened his Dou Di Bloodline, became a Dou Emperor, and defeated Hun Tiandi, turning the Hun Clan invasion into a rout. Gu Yuan and the Xiao Clan witnessed the breakthrough, while Xiao Lin sensed the altered timeline from Four-Dimensional Space.

• Xiao Teng broke through to the Dou Emperor realm, empowered the Xiao Clan, and overwhelmed the Hun Clan Army with the Dou Emperor Law.
• Gu Yuan arrived in the Xiao Realm with Gu Clan experts through the Heavenly Tomb and realized that a true Dou Emperor had appeared.
• Xiao Teng effortlessly suppressed Hun Tiandi as Xiao Xuan and the Xiao Clan’s leaders gathered in shock at their clan’s new Dou Emperor.
• Zi Yan regretted that Xiao Teng had defeated Hun Tiandi before she could fight him, then told Xiao Teng that as a Dou Emperor he could decide what counted as truth.
• Xiao Lin sensed Xiao Teng’s breakthrough from Four-Dimensional Space and located the changed timeline among the branches of the River of Time and Space.

Xiao Lin watched over the Timelines and sent Primordial Light to Xiao Teng, Zi Yan, and the Lord of Life and Death while he pursued a new microscopic path to power. In the Battle Through the Heavens Online Game, the final jade pendant drew the factions to the Ancient Emperor Cave, where the Heavenly Emperor prepared to manipulate events around Guan Ting.

• Xiao Lin saw Xiao Teng, Zi Yan, and the Lord of Life and Death exploring a Timeline and sent Primordial Light toward them.
• The Heavenly Emperor concluded that power had microscopic, reality, and macrocosmic paths and began pursuing a balance among them.
• Guan Ting secretly held the final jade pendant as players and experts gathered at the Ancient Emperor Cave for the inheritance.
• Hun Qin Ming and the Ancient Emperor faced off with their factions while neutral experts watched, and the jade pendants reacted.
• The Heavenly Emperor summoned the final pendant and arrived at the Ancient Emperor Cave, planning to gather everyone at Guan Tingqi.