Chapter Summaries

Soul Hall surrounded Xiao Lin and Zi Yan with five Heavenly Venerables, then summoned its Second Heavenly Venerable, Saint Gu You, to seize the Tou She Ancient God Jade and kill them. Just as Saint Gu You’s Dark Skeleton King attacked, Zhu Li arrived and stopped it, threatening war between the Ancient Void Dragon Clan and the Hun Clan.

• Soul Hall’s Second Heavenly Venerable ordered the Fourth through Ninth Heavenly Venerables to kill Xiao Lin and take the Ancient Jade, then decided to intervene personally.
• Xiao Lin sensed Soul Hall’s ambush while traveling with Zi Yan on the Sky-Reaching Flood Dragon, and Soul Hall’s Heavenly Venerables emerged to surround them.
• Blood River Heavenly Venerable identified Xiao Lin as a nine-star Dou Zun and revealed that Saint Gu You was the strongest expert sent after him.
• Blood River Heavenly Venerable used a scroll to summon Saint Gu You, who controlled the surrounding space and attacked Xiao Lin and Zi Yan with the Dark Skeleton King.
• Zhu Li arrived in a silver radiance, halted the Dark Skeleton King with his dragon roar, and warned Soul Hall that attacking the Ancient Void Dragon Clan could trigger war between the two clans.

Third Elder Zhu Li intervened when the Soul Hall attacked Zi Yan and Xiao Lin, but Saint Gu You trapped him and sent five Heavenly Venerables after Xiao Lin. Facing their combined attacks, Xiao Lin revealed that he had mastered the second level of Illusionary Fire, Myriad Worlds Blazing Flames, and froze the attackers in place.

• Zhu Li shielded Zi Yan and Xiao Lin, then struck the Soul Hall Heavenly Venerables, forcing Saint Gu You to block his attacks.
• Saint Gu You confined Zhu Li with a soul formation and fused his soul with the Black Skeleton King while Blood River Heavenly Venerable led the assault on Xiao Lin.
• Xiao Lin told Zi Yan to protect herself and prepared to face the five Heavenly Venerables using his quasi-Heaven Realm soul and Illusionary Fire.
• Mo Yu and Qiu Di formed a powerful water-and-ice Dou Qi fusion technique as Blood River Heavenly Venerable unleashed his Blood Transformation Great Law.
• Xiao Lin activated the second level of Illusionary Fire, Myriad Worlds Blazing Flames, and halted the attackers and their techniques.

Zhu Li shattered Saint Gu You’s soul-forged armor but failed to stop him from holding him back, while Xiao Lin trapped five Heavenly Venerables in a world where illusion and reality merged. Blood River Heavenly Venerable broke free by raising his power, and Xiao Lin counterattacked with his flames and Wind Sword Domain, leaving the battle raging.

• Zhu Li transformed into an Ancient Void Dragon and struck Saint Gu You’s Black Skeleton King with a devastating beam, destroying its bone armor and body.
• Saint Gu You survived the clash and continued to hold Zhu Li back while the soul barrier kept them from seeing the outside battle.
• Xiao Lin’s Illusionary Fire trapped the five Heavenly Venerables in crimson spaces where their attacks turned against them, and he made the illusions manifest in reality.
• Blood River Heavenly Venerable devoured the blood in the ravine and raised his strength to the Fourth-Revolution Dou Zun level, then broke out of Xiao Lin’s fiery world.
• Xiao Lin attacked Blood River Heavenly Venerable with the Five Rounds of Departing Fire Method and turned his Wind Sword Domain against the other four Heavenly Venerables.

Xiao Lin defeated the Soul Hall’s five Heavenly Venerables, forcing Saint Gu You to retreat, though he suffered severe injuries. At the Alchemy Convention, Xiao Yan completed a pill that produced five-colored pill lightning, surpassing Old Man Mu Gu and deciding the competition.

• Xiao Lin used illusions and his attacks to kill three Soul Hall Heavenly Venerables while Zi Yan finished off another wounded survivor.
• Xiao Lin expended all his Dou Qi on the Great Heavenly Creation Palm, killed Blood River Heavenly Venerable, and prevented his soul from escaping.
• Saint Gu You withdrew after Zhu Li challenged him, leaving Xiao Lin alive and the Soul Hall’s five Heavenly Venerables dead.
• Xiao Yan’s pill produced five-colored pill lightning, surpassing Old Man Mu Gu’s four-colored Rank 8 pill and drawing cheers from the crowd.
• The Alchemy Tower’s three leaders turned their attention toward Old Man Mu Gu as Xiao Yan’s victory became clear.

Xiao Lin gave the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit to the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan, secured their support, and went into seclusion to pursue sainthood with the Bodhi Ancient Tree in mind. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan won the Alchemy Tower Convention, and Zi Yan remained in the Pill Domain to help him obtain the Heavenly Flames.

• Xiao Lin revealed the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit to Zhu Li and generously gave it to the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan in exchange for their goodwill and support.
• Xiao Lin left the Sky-Reaching Flood Dragon with the dragon clan, obtained their research on space, and warned them not to let Zi Yan consume the fruit too hastily.
• After Soul Hall’s assassination attempt, Xiao Lin used the Space Ancestral Talisman’s sub-talisman to hide and planned to reach sainthood by seeking the Bodhi Ancient Tree in the Vast Desolate Ancient Region.
• Xiao Lin had Zhu Li create a spatial passage to the Vast Desolate Ancient Region, while Zi Yan stayed behind to help Xiao Yan obtain the Alchemy Tower’s Heavenly Flames.
• Xuan Kongzi announced Xiao Yan as the Alchemy Tower Convention champion, and Xiao Yan accepted congratulations as a future candidate for an Alchemy Tower giant.

Xiao Lin traveled to the Vast Desolate Ancient Region to find the Bodhi Ancient Tree, crossing its poisonous forest and hordes of savage Magical Beasts with his spatial power. He reached the tree’s core and saw an illusion of a Dou Di expert being destroyed, leaving him to confront the ancient tree’s hidden danger.

• Zhu Li opened a Space Wormhole for Xiao Lin to the northeastern border of Middle Continent, near the Vast Desolate Ancient Region.
• Xiao Lin crossed Primordial Wilderness Town and entered the dangerous forest, using the Falling Heart Flame to protect himself from venomous insects and poisonous miasma.
• Xiao Lin used the Sub-talisman of the Space Ancestral Talisman to pass through hundreds of powerful Magical Beasts and reach the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• Xiao Lin sensed danger near the tree, used Illusionary Fire to guard his soul, and teleported into the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s core area.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree showed Xiao Lin an image of a black-clad Dou Di expert attacking it before another Dou Di’s strike destroyed him and the surrounding scene.

Xiao Lin learned that the Bodhi Ancient Tree was being corrupted by a dead Dou Emperor’s negative emotions and used Heavenly Flames to purify it with Bodhi Seeds. After the tree was restored, it granted him Enlightenment Beneath the Bodhi Tree, leaving him immersed in deep cultivation as Dou Qi feedback from his clan members flowed to him.

• Xiao Lin absorbed the orb’s memories and learned how the black-clothed Dou Emperor’s negative emotions had corrupted the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s intelligence.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree asked Xiao Lin to refine Bodhi Seeds with Heavenly Flames, and he used the Falling Heart Flame to turn them into spiritual energy that purified the tree.
• As he refined seed after seed, the Bodhi Ancient Tree replenished Xiao Lin’s Dou Qi and expanded his capacity, while the tree produced more Bodhi Seeds.
• Xiao Lin’s continued purification expelled the Dou Emperor’s remaining negative emotions, restoring the Bodhi Ancient Tree and earning its gratitude.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree drew Xiao Lin into its trunk and granted him Enlightenment Beneath the Bodhi Tree, where his clan members’ Dou Qi feedback gathered around him through altered space and time.

After a century of cultivation beneath the Bodhi Ancient Tree, Xiao Lin reached Dou Sheng Two Stars in four elements and discovered the tree had shrunk while gaining a new intelligence. Back on the continent, he helped unite several major powers into an alliance, then accepted the Gu Clan’s invitation to its bloodline ceremony and headed for the Ancient Realm with Xiao Yan and the others.

• Xiao Lin awakened from a hundred years of enlightenment, reached Dou Sheng Two Stars in earth, water, fire, and wind, and sensed that he could eventually fuse the four attributes.
• Xiao Lin discovered that the Bodhi Ancient Tree had shrunk to about three feet tall after gathering its core power into a new form, and he realized his prolonged cultivation may have drained it.
• Xiao Yan won the Alchemy Convention and obtained the Three Thousand Burning Flame, while news spread that Xiao Lin had slain Soul Hall Venerables and entered the Saint realm.
• Xiao Lin announced that the Immortal Palace, the Northwest Alliance, Xingyun Pavilion, Fentian Valley, and other powers would unite as one alliance, drawing factions seeking to join.
• The Gu Clan invited Xiao Lin to its bloodline ceremony, and he agreed to travel to the Ancient Realm with Xiao Yan and the others.

The Immortal Palace group arrived at Ancient Saint City, the passage to the Gu Clan’s Ancient Realm, where Xiao Yan clashed with Ling Quan at the gate. Xiao Lin intervened with his Half-Saint aura and challenged the Gu Clan over its commander’s conduct, introducing himself as the Immortal Palace’s Xiao Lin.

• The Immortal Palace group traveled through the Eastern Region and reached the plaza outside Ancient Saint City, where Xiao Lin sensed the remnant power of a Gu Clan Dou Emperor.
• Xiao Yan presented his invitation to Ling Quan, whose palm was burned when he caught it, and the two fought after their earlier conflict resurfaced.
• Xiao Yan easily defeated the one-star Dou Zun Ling Quan with a punch, prompting Ling Quan to order the Black Mist Squad to seize him.
• Xiao Lin released his Half-Saint aura, immobilizing the Black Mist Army and drawing Gu Clan experts out of Ancient Saint City.
• Xiao Lin defended his group’s credentials, criticized Ling Quan’s conduct, and identified himself as Xiao Lin of the Immortal Palace.

Xiao Lin brought Xiao Yan and their group to the Gu Clan, where Xiao Yan defeated several young Gu Clan challengers while Xiao Lin planned to enter the Heavenly Tomb. After the Ancient Realm opened, they entered and boarded a Gu Clan warship, where Xiao Lin identified members of the Yan Clan and Hun Clan.

• Xiao Lin's reputation for attacking Soul Hall and robbing Gu Clan elders led the Gu Clan guards to let him bring Xiao Yan and the others into Ancient Saint City.
• During their three days in the city, Xiao Yan defeated a succession of Gu Clan challengers, including Leader Ling Quan and other Black Mist Army leaders.
• Xiao Lin considered the Heavenly Tomb and its energy imprints, noting that he intended to find Xiao Xuan's tomb there.
• Elder Gu Xun warned the crowd about the Ancient Realm and its rules before the spatial gate opened over the lake.
• Xiao Lin led Xiao Yan and their companions through the gate into the Ancient Realm, while Lin Xiu and Ling Quan vowed that someone would deal with Xiao Yan there.
• Xiao Lin's group boarded a Gu Clan warship, where Xiao Lin recognized people from the Yan Clan and the Hun Clan.

Xiao Lin and Xiao Yan arrived in the Ancient Realm, where Xiao Lin defeated more than ten Gu Clan elders who tried to intimidate them. As the Gu Clan ceremony began, Xiao Yan learned he might have to face Gu Yao to earn a place in the Heavenly Tomb.

• Gu Yao declared that he would kill Xiao Yan if Xiao Yan refused to leave Gu Xun Er.
• When Gu Clan elders pressured Xiao Yan upon his arrival, Xiao Lin seized and threw more than ten of them aside, and Gu Xun Er ordered the soldiers to stand down.
• Xiao Lin and Xiao Yan were escorted to a guest courtyard, where Xiao Lin later spoke with Mang Tianchi before the Gu Clan ceremony.
• Mang Tianchi told Xiao Yan that enduring one hundred exchanges with Gu Yao without defeat could help him earn a Heavenly Tomb slot.
• An ancient bell rang, and the Gu Clan ceremony began.

During the Gu Clan coming-of-age ritual, Xiao Yan learned how bloodline grades determined the clan marks granted to young clan members. After Gu Yao revealed an Eighth Grade Bloodline and challenged Xiao Yan, Xiao Yan accepted and flew to face him.

• The Gu Clan began its ritual, and Ling Quan received a Golden Clan Mark for his Sixth Grade Bloodline.
• Xiao Lin explained the Gu Clan's bloodline system and clan marks to Xiao Yan, while other youths also underwent testing.
• Gu Yao displayed an Eighth Grade Bloodline and received a Purple-Gold Clan Mark.
• Gu Yao called out Xiao Yan and demanded he prove himself or leave the Ancient Realm, while Xiao Lin told Xiao Yan to leave Gu Yao half-dead.
• Xiao Yan accepted the fight and approached Gu Yao, who vanished in a flash and threatened to kill him.

Xiao Yan battled Gu Yao in the Gu Clan, revealing his Dou Zun Seven Stars strength and turning the fight around with his soul technique, Illusionary Fire. As Xiao Yan formed a destructive lotus from five Heavenly Flames to punish Gu Yao, Xiao Lin prepared to intervene if the Gu Clan elders stepped in.

• Xiao Yan met Gu Yao’s surprise attack with a powerful punch, and the clash revealed that Xiao Yan had reached Dou Zun Seven Stars.
• Gu Yao unleashed the Emperor Seal Art, while Xiao Yan used the Heavenly Fire Three Profound Transformations and the Black Heavy Ruler to defend against his attacks.
• Xiao Yan used Illusionary Fire to trap Gu Yao in an illusion featuring Gu Yuan, an Ancient Void Dragon, and Xiao Yan himself.
• Xiao Yan revealed five Heavenly Flames and fused them into a small, destructive fire lotus as he vowed to teach Gu Yao a lesson.
• Xiao Lin sensed that Gu Clan elders might intervene and began raising his Dou Qi beyond the Half-Saint Level.

Xiao Yan defeated Gu Yao with his Five-Colored Fire Lotus after Xiao Lin stopped Elder Tong Xuan from intervening, and Xiao Lin revealed his overwhelming Dou Saint strength. The ceremony continued with Gu Xun Er awakening the Star Disc, where a ninth star appeared and revealed her Ninth Grade Bloodline.

• Xiao Yan snapped Gu Yao out of his illusion and prepared to strike him with the Five-Colored Fire Lotus, but Elder Tong Xuan froze Xiao Yan and the attack.
• Xiao Lin appeared as a Dou Saint, broke Elder Tong Xuan’s restraint, and rebuked him for intervening only when Gu Yao was about to lose.
• Xiao Lin’s aura rose to Dou Saint Four Stars as Xiao Yan’s Five-Colored Fire Lotus struck Gu Yao, leaving him unconscious and badly injured.
• The Gu Clan Chief arrived and stopped the Gu Clan experts from retaliating, while Xiao Yan and Xiao Lin returned to their seats amid the crowd’s changed regard.
• Gu Xun Er stepped onto the stage and activated the Star Disc, which revealed her Ninth Grade Bloodline when its ninth star appeared.

Xun'er awakened a Divine Grade Bloodline at the Gu Clan ceremony, while Xiao Lin forced the Gu Clan to restore all the Xiao Clan's Heavenly Tomb slots by threatening to trade the Tou She Ancient God Jade to the Hun Clan. After confirming the Gu Clan's information, Xiao Lin learned about the Heavenly Tomb's dangers and three levels.

• Xun'er shattered the Star Disc and revealed a tenth golden star, awakening a Divine Grade Bloodline that made Gu Clan members bow before her.
• Elder Tong Xuan used the Seven-Colored Heavenly Emperor Brush to place a seven-colored clan emblem on Xun'er's forehead.
• The Gu Clan's elders considered withholding one of the Xiao Clan's Heavenly Tomb slots, but learned Xiao Lin had met with the Hun Clan and offered to deal over the Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Elder Tong Xuan ordered the Gu Clan to give the Xiao Clan all its slots after realizing Xiao Lin's threat could place the jade in the Hun Clan's hands.
• Xiao Lin checked the Gu Clan's Heavenly Tomb information with Mang Tianchi and learned the tomb contained dangerous energy bodies across three increasingly perilous levels.

Xiao Lin entered the Heavenly Tomb, harvested Energy Cores across its first two levels, and killed the Hun Clan’s Hun Ya and Hun Li. On the third level, he confronted the Blood Saber Saint and struck him down with a single palm.

• Xiao Lin and Xiao Yan arrived at the Heavenly Tomb with Xun Er as its gate opened, and Xiao Lin entered separately from them.
• Xiao Lin gathered Energy Cores from energy bodies on the first and second levels, planning to bring them back to strengthen the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Lin found Hun Ya and Hun Li fleeing on the second level and turned them to ash, collecting their Energy Cores.
• Xiao Lin reached the third level and encountered the intelligent Half-Saint energy body known as the Blood Saber Saint.
• Xiao Lin mobilized the surrounding energy into a massive palm that blasted the Blood Saber Saint away.

Xiao Lin reached Xiao Xuan’s residence in the Heavenly Tomb and told the Xiao Clan ancestor about the family’s decline and the wider world. Xiao Xuan explained his failed attempt to become a Dou Emperor, while Xiao Lin revealed that Dou Di Origin Qi came from the Great Thousand World.

• Xiao Lin used the Xiao Clan tribal mark to make Blood Saber Saint recognize his lineage, then ordered him to lead the way to Xiao Xuan.
• Xiao Lin reached the ancient stele in the Heavenly Tomb’s deepest region and was transported into Xiao Xuan’s hall.
• Xiao Lin told Xiao Xuan that the Xiao Clan had fallen but that he had helped the Xiao Family become the foremost family in the Northwest region.
• Xiao Xuan recounted how he gathered the clan’s Dou Di Bloodline to attempt a breakthrough, but the Hun Clan ambushed him and left him a remnant soul confined to the Heavenly Tomb.
• Xiao Xuan explained that he had named the missing energy needed to become a Dou Emperor Primal Emperor Qi.
• Xiao Lin told Xiao Xuan that the Dou Qi Continent had been sealed off from the Great Thousand World, where Dou Di Origin Qi originated.

Xiao Lin learned from Xiao Xuan how to awaken Xiao Chen and began developing a way to unite his four attributes by creating a world. After three years in the Heavenly Tomb, Xiao Lin, Xiao Yan, and Xun Er emerged stronger, while the Hun Clan’s dead heirs caused a stir among those waiting outside.

• Xiao Lin told Xiao Xuan that Xiao Chen was trapped in the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s Demonic Flame World, and Xiao Xuan used part of his Dou Di Bloodline to prepare to restore Xiao Chen’s memories.
• Xiao Xuan gave Xiao Lin a crimson emblem and his cultivation insights, then performed a blood replacement for Xiao Yan as Xiao Lin studied how a world could unite Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind.
• During three years in the Heavenly Tomb, Xiao Lin gained ideas about creating a world, while Xiao Yan advanced to the Nine Revolutions of Dou Zun stage and strengthened his Heavenly Fire Three Profound Transformations.
• When the Heavenly Tomb opened, the waiting clans watched the young elites return, and the dead bodies of Hun Ya and Hun Li emerged, revealing that both Hun Clan geniuses had died inside.
• Xiao Lin, Xiao Yan, and Xun Er emerged after the Gu Clan’s members, drawing attention as Xiao Yan’s strength astonished the crowd and Xiao Lin’s power was already known.
• The corpses of Hun Ya and Hun Li suddenly crumbled to ash, and Xiao Lin remarked that this was more like it.

After killing Hun Ya and Hun Li, Xiao Lin told Gu Yuan that the Hun Clan was behind the disappearance of the Ling Clan’s Spirit Realm, but left unconvinced by the Gu Clan chief’s response. Xiao Lin and Xiao Yan returned to distribute their Heavenly Tomb gains, then headed for the Space Trading Conference to seek the final Fragmented Map piece.

• Two Hun Clan elders arrived to find Hun Ya and Hun Li dead, and Xiao Lin killed them when they turned their attention toward him.
• Xiao Lin met Gu Yuan, confirmed that the Hun Clan had caused the Spirit Realm’s disappearance, and urged him to guard the Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Xiao Lin discussed Xiao Yan and Xun Er with Gu Yuan, then left the Ancient Realm with Xiao Yan, planning to revive Xiao Chen when they could enter the Demonic Flame Space.
• Xiao Lin and Xiao Yan returned to the Immortal Palace and Xingyun Pavilion and distributed the Heavenly Tomb Energy Cores among the Xiao Clan’s core members.
• Xiao Lin and Xiao Yan set out for the Space Trading Conference, where Xiao Yan hoped to obtain the final Fragmented Map piece.

Xiao Lin and his group attended the Space Trading Conference in Space Town, where they entered the Ancient Treasure Pavilion and joined a private auction. As Old Man Baoshan began presenting rare treasures, Xiao Yan bought items for himself and Xiao Yi Xian, while Xiao Lin considered organizing the Immortal Palace after returning from the Demonic Flame Space.

• Xiao Lin led Xiao Yan, Yao Lao, and the others through the desert and into Space Town, where they headed to the Ancient Treasure Pavilion.
• Xiao Lin showed his invitation to the pavilion guards, and the group donned identity-concealing cloaks before entering the conference hall.
• Xiao Lin took a seat in the front row and deterred other attendees from probing his group with his spatial power.
• Old Man Baoshan appeared to open the conference, and Yao Lao identified him as a peak Nine-Revolutions Dou Zun who was nearing the Half-Saint realm.
• Old Man Baoshan presented rare treasures, while Xiao Yan bought the Vajra Glazed Body and the Heavenly Nether Poison Codex for Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Lin decided he would organize his forces after returning from the Demonic Flame Space.