Chapter Summaries

Xiao Lin summoned Jing Lian Yao Sheng’s phantom, who took control of the Heaven Refining Ancient Formation and subdued the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. When the illusionary worlds shattered, the assembled factions fixed their killing intent on Xiao Lin, who stood closest to the coveted flame.

• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame trapped Xiao Lin in the Heaven Refining Ancient Formation and attacked him, but Xiao Lin remained unharmed.
• Xiao Lin revealed Jing Lian Yao Sheng’s phantom, who halted the formation’s attacks and seized control from the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame transformed into a fire lotus and fought back as Jing Lian Yao Sheng used the Separation Technique to extract its memories and wisdom.
• Jing Lian Yao Sheng sealed the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame in a small fire prison, causing the Nightmare Sky Mist’s illusionary worlds to collapse.
• The Soul Hall Master and experts from the Gu Clan, Yan Clan, Lei Clan, Shi Clan, and other factions emerged and turned their killing intent toward Xiao Lin.

Xiao Lin overwhelmed the experts competing for the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, then revealed Eight-star Dou Sheng strength and confronted the Hall Master of the Soul Hall. The Hall Master tried to escape with the Nihility Devouring Flame as Xiao Yan and Zi Yan went to claim the Flame’s origin.

• Yao Wan Gui attacked Xiao Lin, but Xiao Lin suppressed him with a breath and stopped his allies from joining the fight.
• Xiao Lin slaughtered the challengers with bare-handed strikes while Jing Lian Yao Sheng and the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame destroyed the Heaven Refining Ancient Formation together.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s milky-white origin emerged from the magma, and Xiao Lin sent Xiao Yan to claim it while Gu Xun Er blocked Gu Nan Hai.
• Xiao Lin’s aura surged to Eight-star Dou Sheng, and he challenged the Hall Master of the Soul Hall to settle their old score.
• The Hall Master of the Soul Hall tried to flee using a black flame, which Xiao Lin identified as the Nihility Devouring Flame.

Xiao Lin exposed the Soul Hall Master's Human-faced Black Flame as a sub-flame of Nihility Devouring Flame and defeated it with his Four-colored Array. After the Soul Hall Master fled, Xiao Lin pursued him while the other clans’ experts held back, and Gu Nan Hai realized Gu Xun Er’s presence had spared him from confronting Xiao Lin.

• Xiao Lin revealed that the Soul Hall Master’s Human-faced Black Flame was only a sub-flame of Nihility Devouring Flame, not the complete Heavenly Flame.
• The Soul Hall Master fed his Dou Qi to the sub-flame, which grew into a giant monster and attacked Xiao Lin; many experts joined the assault while the Soul Hall Master tried to escape.
• Xiao Lin used his Four-colored Array to defeat and capture the sub-flame, shielding his allies from the clash while its shockwaves battered the other fighters.
• Xiao Lin pursued the fleeing Soul Hall Master, while the Lei Clan, Yan Clan, and Shi Clan experts stopped attacking and gathered together.
• Gu Nan Hai reflected that Gu Xun Er’s decision to protect Xiao Yan had kept him from attacking Xiao Lin and suffering the consequences.

The Immortal Palace Alliance rose to prominence after its victory over Soul Hall, while the Shi Clan mysteriously vanished like the Ling Clan before it. As the remaining ancient clans formed an alliance to defend themselves, Xiao Lin studied the Nihility Devouring Flame child flame and prepared for a surge of Dou Qi.

• The Immortal Palace Alliance consolidated its power and influence as Soul Hall’s dominance faded and the Hun Clan’s expected retaliation never came.
• The Shi Clan vanished completely, and investigators found its sealed space empty of life, matching the Ling Clan’s earlier disappearance.
• The Gu Clan faced suspicion, while the Yao Clan, Lei Clan, and Yan Clan formed the Three Clans Alliance and linked their territories with spatial passages.
• The Three Clans Alliance invited the Xiao Clan to join, but Xiao Lin remained wary of the Yao Clan and indifferent to the proposal.
• Xiao Lin examined the Nihility Devouring Flame child flame’s black bead, found that its power consumed Dou Qi and life force while yielding impure energy, and then released a surge of Dou Qi within his body.

Xiao Lin refined the cultivation feedback from Xiao Yan’s breakthrough, advanced to Dou Sheng Five Stars, and condensed his power to reach early-stage Dou Sheng Nine Stars. As Xiao Yan hurried to aid the besieged Nine Nether Underworld Python Clan, Xiao Lin traveled to the Gu Clan’s Ancient Saint City and reflected on how close his strength had brought him to the Dou Emperor realm.

• Xiao Lin refined the Dou Qi feedback from Xiao Yan’s breakthrough and saw his cultivation progress surge.
• Xiao Chen broke through to late-stage Dou Sheng Five Stars, and Xiao Lin appeared above Sky Island before leaving to condense his four elemental powers.
• Xiao Lin’s condensed power reached early-stage Dou Sheng Nine Stars, and he speculated about bloodline mutation and the path to becoming a Dou Emperor.
• Xiao Yan received an urgent request from the Nine Nether Underworld Python Clan and gathered forces to head for the Beast Domain, where Huang Tian’s Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan had surrounded its headquarters.
• Yao Ming refused to surrender the woman cultivating in the Nine Nether Yellow Spring, while Elder Mo questioned whether Xiao Yan would arrive in time to help.
• Xiao Lin returned to Ancient Saint City in the Gu Clan’s Ancient Realm, sensed the Dou Emperor aura with new insight, and judged that only Hun Tiandi, Gu Yuan, and the Old Dragon King could reliably overpower him.

Xiao Lin warned Gu Yuan that the Hun Clan’s attacks on the Ling and Shi Clans were tied to the Nihility Devouring Flame and the ancient Tunling Clan, persuading him that the Hun Clan might be harvesting bloodlines. Gu Yuan remained unwilling to commit to war without proof, but agreed to let Xiao Lin enter the Heavenly Tomb to speak with his ancestor.

• Xiao Lin met Gu Yuan in the Gu Clan’s Sacred Land and raised the destruction of the ancient clans, prompting Gu Yuan to reconsider his suspicions of the Hun Clan.
• Xiao Lin revealed that the Nihility Devouring Flame could create members of the Tunling Clan, whose power let them devour other clans’ bloodlines.
• Gu Yuan connected the Hun Clan’s survival and the similar disappearances of ancient clans to the Tunling Clan’s bloodline-devouring ability.
• Xiao Lin warned that the Hun Clan wanted both bloodline power and the remaining Ancient Jade, while Gu Yuan hesitated to declare war without conclusive proof.
• Xiao Lin pointed to the upcoming Yao Clan Medicine Ceremony as a chance to confirm his warning, then asked to enter the Heavenly Tomb and speak with his ancestor.
• Gu Yuan agreed to let Xiao Lin enter the Heavenly Tomb.

Xiao Lin entered the Heavenly Tomb with Gu Yuan’s help and revealed to Xiao Xuan that he intended to use the Heavenly Tomb Soul to forge an Emperor Realm soul. Xiao Xuan joined him in challenging the Heavenly Tomb Soul, which appeared before them as a vast face in the sky.

• Gu Yuan tore open the Heavenly Tomb’s boundary so Xiao Lin could enter for up to one year.
• Xiao Lin reached the core of the Heavenly Tomb and met Xiao Xuan, then told him about the Hun Clan’s strength and plans for the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill.
• Xiao Lin explained that he sought the Heavenly Tomb Soul as a shortcut to an Emperor Realm soul, and Xiao Xuan agreed to hold it off.
• Xiao Xuan declared that he and Xiao Lin would eradicate the Heavenly Tomb Soul, rekindling hope among the energy bodies below.
• The Heavenly Tomb Soul gathered its power and emerged as an enormous, eerie face in the sky.

Xiao Lin and Xiao Xuan defeated the Heavenly Tomb Soul, with Xiao Lin using Nihility Devouring Flame and Falling Heart Flame while Xiao Xuan restrained it and extracted its Soul Origin. The Heavenly Tomb Soul was destroyed, freeing the energy bodies, and Xiao Lin gained the power he needed to attempt a breakthrough to Emperor-grade Soul.

• Xiao Xuan confronted the Heavenly Tomb Soul and challenged its claim to rule the Heavenly Tomb, while Xiao Lin prepared to attack.
• Xiao Lin used the power of Nihility Devouring Flame and Falling Heart Flame to wound the Heavenly Tomb Soul, while Xiao Xuan prevented it from escaping.
• Xiao Lin and Xiao Xuan continued attacking until the Heavenly Tomb Soul was weakened, then Xiao Xuan trapped it in a formation and began extracting its Soul Origin.
• Xiao Lin struck the Heavenly Tomb Soul as it tried to burn its own soul, allowing Xiao Xuan to pull out its Soul Origin completely.
• The freed energy bodies attacked and destroyed the weakened Heavenly Tomb Soul, then knelt before Xiao Lin and Xiao Xuan as Xiao Lin focused on using the Soul Origin to pursue an Emperor-grade Soul.

Xiao Lin refined the Heavenly Tomb Soul’s vast power and reached the Emperor Realm Soul before leaving the Heavenly Tomb. Back in the outside world, he assessed his chances against Hun Tiandi and prepared for the coming Medicine Ceremony, where the Hun Clan’s plans would reshape the continent.

• Xiao Lin entered the Heavenly Tomb Soul’s inner world and used the Falling Heart Flame, the Chaos Meditation Method, and his white power to purify and refine its ocean of Soul Power.
• After nearly two months of cultivation, Xiao Lin’s soul reached the Emperor Realm, and his power affected the entire Heavenly Tomb.
• Xiao Xuan warned Xiao Lin to leave before the changed Heavenly Tomb made escape difficult, and Xiao Lin returned to the outside world.
• Gu Yuan tried to reopen the Heavenly Tomb, but Xiao Lin’s soul power shattered his attack and astonished him with its Emperor-grade level.
• Xiao Lin returned to the Xiao Clan, judged that he could now survive a confrontation with Hun Tiandi, and considered a fallback plan if the continent fell to the Hun Clan.
• Xiao Lin prepared for the Medicine Ceremony, where the Hun Clan would target the Yao Clan and the Gu Clan would investigate his warning about the Tunling Clan.

Xiao Lin, Yao Chen, and Xiao Yan arrived at the Yao Clan’s Medicine Ceremony, where Xiao Lin’s killing of Yao Wan Gui made their presence a bold provocation. They reached the honored seats on Medicine Mountain Peak as the ceremony’s start approached, leaving the Yao Clan’s fate dependent on what happened next.

• After the Beast Domain was pacified by the Xiao Clan’s allied forces, the Yao Clan’s Medicine Ceremony began as Xiao Lin’s group traveled to the Shennong Mountain Range.
• Yao Chen, Xiao Yan, and Xiao Lin arrived at the Yao Clan’s entrance and identified themselves as guests from the Immortal Palace Alliance.
• Xiao Lin sent a jade tube to the guards, who opened the gateway and let the three enter the Medicine Realm.
• A Yao Clan guide escorted Xiao Lin, Yao Chen, and Xiao Yan by giant bird to the clan’s central mountain, where Yao Chen recognized the buildings of his former home.
• Xiao Lin led the group toward Medicine Mountain Peak despite a veiled warning, and the Yao Clan seated them among the honored guests.

Xiao Yan attended the Yao Clan’s Medicine Ceremony with Xiao Lin and Yao Lao, where Hun Xuzi arrived uninvited and challenged the gathering. Xiao Lin’s threat forced Hun Xuzi to back down, and the ceremony’s preliminary rounds then concluded after several days.

• Yao Dan appeared and greeted Yao Lao, acknowledging that the Yao Clan had been wrong about him.
• Shennong Old Man arrived, followed by Hun Xuzi, whose presence angered the Yao Clan Elders.
• Yao Dan allowed Hun Xuzi to stay as a guest under the ceremony’s rules, despite Elder Wan Huo’s concerns.
• Hun Xuzi moved toward Xiao Lin, who threatened to kill him; overwhelmed by Xiao Lin’s pressure, Hun Xuzi retreated to another seat.
• Yao Dan began the Medicine Ceremony, and Xiao Lin, Yao Chen, and Xiao Yan rested through the preliminary contests, which ended several days later.

At the Yao Clan’s Medicine Ceremony, Hun Xuzi revealed that the Hun Clan had sealed the Yao Clan’s spatial passages and unleashed the true Nihility Devouring Flame, trapping and draining everyone inside. Yao Dan activated the Yao Clan’s ancient Heaven Transformation Medicine Array to defend the clan as the attack began.

• Hun Xuzi used the Earth Sub-flame to refine pills while secretly waiting for the formation to take shape, and Xiao Lin recognized the flame’s true nature.
• Hun Xuzi sealed the Yao Clan’s spatial passages, trapping the ceremony guests when their Teleportation Scrolls failed.
• The true Nihility Devouring Flame spread across the Medicine Realm, killing those who fled and devouring the Dou Qi of those trapped inside.
• Xiao Lin protected himself and his maidservant, while Xiao Yan used the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame to shield Yao Lao.
• Yao Dan ordered the Yao Clan to activate the Heaven Transformation Medicine Array, and the clan members and elders poured their power into the awakening formation.

Nihility Devouring Flame attacked the Yao Clan’s protection array, forcing Yao Dan to summon the Medicine Clan Ancestor’s remnant soul. The Ancestor sacrificed himself to confront Nihility Devouring Flame, but the array shattered, leaving the Yao Clan exposed.

• Hun Xuzi summoned Nihility Devouring Flame, who attacked the Yao Clan’s grand array with black fire.
• Yao Dan used countless medicinal pills to summon the Medicine Clan Ancestor’s remnant soul.
• The Ancestor’s cauldron clashed with Nihility Devouring Flame’s attacks as Yao Clan members poured their Dou Qi into the array.
• Nihility Devouring Flame devoured Yao Clan descendants and destroyed the Ancestor’s cauldron with a blood-red sphere.
• The Ancestor charged into Nihility Devouring Flame, sacrificing his remnant soul as his bloodline’s power faded.
• The Yao Clan’s grand array shattered.

The Yao Clan launched a desperate defense against Nihility Devouring Flame and the Hun Clan, sacrificing its warriors to try to preserve its bloodline. As Gu Yuan confronted Hun Tiandi outside the Medicine Realm, the Yao Clan’s battle remained unresolved.

• Yao Dan rallied the Yao Clan to fight Nihility Devouring Flame, whose black hole vortex absorbed their attacks before he unleashed swarms of Tunling Clan creatures upon Medicine Mountain.
• Yao Dan recognized the Tunling Clan and ordered the Yao Clan elders to self-destruct and open a path for their bloodline to escape.
• Hun Jing and Hun Yan arrived with Hun Clan forces, offered to spare the Yao Clan as a subordinate race, and attacked after Yao Dan refused.
• Yao Clan elders repeatedly self-destructed to weaken the sealed space, while Hun Jing tried to stop them and Yao Dan called Wan Huo to join the final battle.
• Xiao Lin watched the slaughter from the plaza and said he was waiting for news, while Xiao Yan, Yao Lao, and Shennong Old Man aided the Yao Clan.
• Outside the Medicine Realm, Gu Yuan confronted Hun Tiandi as he emerged from a spatial vortex.

Gu Yuan and Hun Tiandi clashed at the peak of the Dou Qi Continent while, in the Yao Clan’s Medicine Realm, Xiao Lin helped lead survivors toward an escape route. After Xiao Lin struck down Hun Yan, a Golden Divine Dragon and powerful Gu Clan experts appeared outside the shattered seal.

• Gu Yuan attacked Hun Tiandi, and their clash tore open a rift that erased the surface layer of space.
• Yao Dan begged Xiao Lin to save the Yao Clan’s bloodline, and Xiao Lin refused the offered treasures before agreeing to act for the people of the Immortal Palace.
• Yao Dan charged Hun Jing and Hun Yan while Yao Clan elders self-destructed to break the spatial seal, and Xiao Lin led the survivors toward the opening.
• Shennong Old Man held back the pursuing Hun Clan forces, but Hun Yan broke away and attacked Xiao Lin’s group.
• Xiao Lin pierced Hun Yan through the chest and intensified his pain with a gesture.
• A Golden Divine Dragon appeared beyond the shattered seal with powerful Gu Clan experts behind it.

A Golden Divine Dragon arrived in the Medicine Realm and began dispersing Nihility Devouring Flame’s Black Flame as Xiao Lin effortlessly seized Hun Yan. The Gu Clan arrived to reinforce the Yao Clan, and the chapter left the battlefield locked in three major clashes.

• The Golden Divine Dragon emerged from a spatial rift, overwhelmed the Black Flame with golden lightning, and shifted the balance of energy in the Medicine Realm.
• Xiao Lin retreated with Xiao Yan, Yao Lao, and the Yao Clan members while Nihility Devouring Flame ordered Hun Xuzi to attack the dragon.
• Xiao Lin appeared and crushed Hun Yan in a giant palm, while Hun Xuzi summoned Hun Sha through a black vortex.
• The Gu Clan arrived with Gu Dao at its head, prompting Hun Xuzi and Hun Jing to confront Xiao Lin while Hun Sha attacked Gu Dao.
• Gu Dao and Hun Sha unleashed a devastating clash as Xiao Lin suppressed Hun Xuzi and Hun Jing, and the Golden Divine Dragon battled Nihility Devouring Flame.

Xiao Lin revealed that he had reached Dou Sheng Nine Stars and used his lightning to suppress Hun Yan, Hun Xuzi, and Hun Jing. He then confronted the wounded Nihility Devouring Flame, forcing back the flames with a Four-Colored Sky Curtain.

• Nihility Devouring Flame overwhelmed the Golden Divine Dragon and filled the Medicine Realm with dark flames.
• Xiao Lin summoned the Golden Divine Dragon into his arm and struck Hun Sha, Hun Xuzi, and Hun Jing with golden lightning, paralyzing them.
• Xiao Lin judged that Nihility Devouring Flame had been weakened to about seventy percent of his peak and decided to seize the chance to wound him.
• Xiao Lin ascended through pillars of earth and gathered the Earth, Wind, Water, and Fire attributes into a Four-Colored Sky Curtain.
• Xiao Lin's Four-Colored Sky Curtain pushed back Nihility Devouring Flame's dark flames, leaving Hun Sha shocked that the Xiao Clan had produced a Nine-star Dou Sheng.

Xiao Lin fought Nihility Devouring Flame in the Medicine Realm, using his Four Spirits of Heaven and Earth technique to injure him and test his new power. When Xiao Lin’s attack reached Hun Tiandi, Hun Tiandi caught and shattered it, then recognized Xiao Lin as a Nine-star Dou Sheng.

• Nihility Devouring Flame mistook Xiao Lin’s rapid rise for a possible possession by Xiao Xuan and attacked him with a barrage of Black Flame arrows.
• Xiao Lin combined the Four Symbols with Nine Profound Golden Lightning to form an arrow that pierced Nihility Devouring Flame’s defenses and badly injured him.
• Nihility Devouring Flame restored his body, and Xiao Lin fired another arrow while continuing to pressure him in the Medicine Realm.
• Hun Tiandi sensed Xiao Lin’s power as the battle damaged the Hun Clan’s formations, while Gu Yuan welcomed the unexpected advantage.
• Nihility Devouring Flame fled toward Hun Tiandi, followed by Xiao Lin’s arrow, which Hun Tiandi caught and shattered before identifying Xiao Lin as a Nine-star Dou Sheng.

After the Yao Clan operation failed, Hun Tiandi retreated to the Soul Realm and resolved to act quickly as an alliance formed against the Hun Clan. Xiao Lin journeyed to the Northwest region, found the entrance to Tou She Ancient God's cave mansion beneath the Magma, and encountered its true Tomb Keeper.

• Hun Tiandi escaped with Nihility Devouring Flame while Gu Yuan and Xiao Lin went to the Medicine Realm to deal with the remaining Hun Clan forces.
• Hun Tiandi considered how the failed operation had exposed the Hun Clan and studied the four Ancient Jades he had collected, vowing that they could not delay any longer.
• The Eight Ancient Clans and other forces united into an Anti-Soul Clan Alliance, while Xiao Lin left the turmoil and traveled to the Northwest region.
• Xiao Lin entered the Magma beneath Jia Nan Academy, overcame the Magma Creatures and Tomb Keepers, and used an Ancient Jade to open the hidden passage to the cave mansion.
• Xiao Lin reached the stone gate marked Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion and discovered a pair of enormous eyes watching him from an abyss below.

Xiao Lin encountered Zhu Kun, the imprisoned former Old Dragon King, at Tou She Ancient God's tomb and began negotiating cooperation with him. As the Gu Clan prepared an alliance offensive against the Hun Clan, Xiao Lin arrived at the Burial Heaven Mountain Range to watch their armies gather for battle.

• Xiao Lin revealed the incomplete Emperor Jade to Zhu Kun, who told him to return with all eight pieces before entering the tomb.
• Xiao Lin offered Zhu Kun a proposal that made the trapped dragon pause, and he later secured Zhu Kun's cooperation with Zi Yan's help.
• The Gu Clan decided to ally with the Immortal Palace Alliance, Yan Clan, and Lei Clan and launch an offensive against the Hun Clan.
• The Gu Clan's upper ranks investigated Xiao Lin because of his remarkable advances and knowledge of the Hun Clan's plans.
• Xiao Lin went to the Burial Heaven Mountain Range's ancient battlefield to observe the Ancient Clan Alliance Army's battle against the Hun Clan.
• Dark figures approached and descended onto the silent battlefield.