Chapter Summaries

The Ancient Clan Alliance Army and the Hun Clan clashed at the Burial Heaven Mountain Range, where Hun Yuantian unleashed the Gate of Stillness and began overwhelming the battlefield. Xiao Lin watched with the Fire Spirit Fairy, who recognized the seemingly ancient Hun expert as someone who should have been dead.

• Xiao Yan commanded the Ancient Clan Alliance Army to form ranks as the Hun Clan descended through a spatial gate and the armies began fighting.
• Xiao Lin effortlessly repelled the Fire Spirit Fairy's Soul Luring Art, exposing the gulf between his Emperor Realm soul and her Heavenly Realm soul.
• Hun Yuantian opened the Gate of Stillness, sucked fighters into its death-filled space, and battered the Ancient Clan Alliance Army until its formation faltered.
• The Fire Spirit Fairy recognized Hun Yuantian and cried out in disbelief that he was still alive.
• Xiao Lin told the Fire Spirit Fairy to look carefully at Hun Yuantian's condition.

Xiao Lin recognized Hun Yuantian as a Living Dead and wondered why the Hun Clan had revealed its hidden forces before the decisive battle. As Eight-star Dou Sheng Living Dead and their Gates of Stillness turned battles across the continent against the Ancient Clan Alliance Army, a Thousand-Zhang Giant appeared on the Ancient Battlefield and grievously wounded Hun Yuantian with a soul attack.

• Xiao Lin told Fire Spirit Fairy that Hun Yuantian was a Living Dead and suspected the Hun Clan was concealing a larger plan.
• The Hun Clan sent Living Dead such as Hun Shengtian and Hun Yao onto multiple battlefields, where their Gates of Stillness drained and refined allied soldiers.
• Hun Yuantian's Gate of Stillness pressed Xiao Yan and the Ancient Clan Alliance Army toward collapse on the Ancient Battlefield of the Burial Heaven Mountain Range.
• A Thousand-Zhang Phantom appeared, drove away the Black Mist, and declared that Hun Yuantian would perish.
• The Giant unleashed a soul soundwave that grievously wounded Hun Yuantian and damaged or shattered the souls of Hun Clan experts in its path.

Xiao Lin confronted Hun Yuantian and the Hun Clan’s self-destructive assault, while Xiao Yan shielded the allied army with the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. As the Hun Clan’s sacrifices empowered a black hole linked to Hun Tiandi, Xiao Lin protected the Xiao Clan members and the allied army attacked, but the black hole began gathering a devastating black radiance.

• Xiao Lin severely injured Hun Yuantian with an Emperor Realm soul attack and overwhelmed him with his presence.
• Hun Yuantian detonated himself and merged with the Nihility Devouring Flame, creating a black hole that threatened the allied army.
• Xiao Yan spread the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame into a protective barrier as Hun Clan experts repeatedly self-destructed to strengthen the black hole.
• Xiao Lin unleashed his soul power, killing nearly a hundred Hun Clan experts and briefly destabilizing the black hole before another Hun Clan expert’s sacrifice restored it.
• Xiao Lin sensed Hun Tiandi behind the black hole, shielded Xiao Yan, Xiao Li, and the Xiao Clan members, and led the allied army in attacking it.
• The allied army’s attacks cracked the black hole, but more Hun Clan experts self-destructed until it gathered enough energy to emit a black radiance.

Xiao Lin witnessed Hun Tiandi use the battlefield’s deaths and the Spirit Devouring Absolute Life Array to strengthen the Hun Clan’s forces, then learned that casualties across the war zones had reached seventy percent. In the Soul Realm, Nihility Devouring Flame consumed the Soul Hall’s collected Soul Origin as Hun Tiandi reflected on how Xiao Lin had disrupted the Hun Clan’s original plans.

• Hun Tiandi appeared on the battlefield as a powerful incarnation and drove the surviving Hun Clan warriors to sacrifice themselves, feeding their power into the Black Flames.
• Xiao Lin protected Xiao Yan, Xiao Li, and the other Xiao Clan members as the Black Flames overwhelmed the allied army and destroyed the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s shield.
• Xiao Lin uncovered the Spirit Devouring Absolute Life Array beneath the battlefield, and Fire Spirit Fairy reported that ten war zones had been wiped out and casualties had reached seventy percent.
• Xiao Lin decided to return and protect the Xiao Clan’s bloodline members while seeking Gu Yuan’s guidance.
• In the Soul Realm, Nihility Devouring Flame devoured the Soul Origin collected by the Soul Hall and grew into a solid physical entity.
• Hun Tiandi recalled that Xiao Lin had exposed the Hun Clan’s secret plans and thwarted its attempts to steal the Tou She Ancient God Jade, though he had prepared countermeasures.

Hun Tiandi gathered the Soul Realm’s accumulated energy and began his attempt to reach the Half Emperor realm while the Ancient Clan Alliance Army destroyed the Soul Hall and searched for the Hun Clan. As the breakthrough began, Hun Tiandi absorbed the realm’s power, while Nihility Devouring Flame recovered in a separate ocean of souls.

• Hun Tiandi decided to use the pressure on the Hun Clan to pursue the Half Emperor realm without sacrificing the entire clan’s bloodline.
• The Ancient Clan Alliance Army launched a sweeping campaign against the Hun Clan and its subsidiary forces across the Middle Continent.
• The coalition destroyed the Soul Hall’s branch halls in three days, but Gu Yuan and the other leaders discovered that the Hun Clan had withdrawn its experts and Soul Origin beforehand.
• Hun Tiandi activated the energy accumulated throughout the Soul Realm and began charging toward the Half Emperor realm.
• Nihility Devouring Flame helped Hun Tiandi refine the surging energy as his breakthrough unfolded, while it healed in an ocean of souls.

After reflecting on his failure to protect the Xiao Clan’s Bloodline Clan Members during the war, Xiao Lin went to the Heavenly Tomb to gather resources for their growth. He refined nearly all its energy bodies into Energy Cores and left fewer than a hundred beings behind, including Xiao Xuan and the Dou Saint energy bodies.

• Xiao Lin recognized that his overconfidence had led him to send Xiao Clan members into the battle and prevented him from stopping the Hun Clan’s sacrifice at Burial Heaven Mountain Range.
• Xiao Lin returned to the Heavenly Tomb, where his authority as its new master allowed him to command its energy bodies.
• Xiao Lin ordered Blood Saber Saint to gather the energy bodies from the first and second levels, intending to turn them into Energy Cores for the Xiao Clan’s Bloodline Clan Members.
• Xiao Lin used the Nine Profound Golden Lightning to refine the gathered energy bodies into a vast supply of Energy Cores.
• Blood Saber Saint brought in powerful energy bodies from the third level, and Xiao Lin and the Nine Profound Golden Lightning refined them as well.
• Xiao Lin left the Heavenly Tomb with the Energy Cores, leaving fewer than a hundred beings there, including Xiao Xuan and the Dou Saint energy bodies.

Xiao Lin used the Heavenly Tomb’s Energy Cores to strengthen the Xiao Clan while cultivating for greater power himself. As the allied clans struggled to locate the hidden Hun Clan, Hun Tiandi completed his breakthrough and emerged as a Half Emperor.

• Xiao Lin summoned every Xiao Clan bloodline member to headquarters and assigned the Nine Profound Golden Lightning, Yao Lao, the Heavenly Fire Saint, and Zi Yan to protect them.
• Xiao Clan members cultivated with the Energy Cores, rapidly advancing their realms, while Xiao Zhan and the three Wutan City elders focused on reaching Dou Zun.
• Xiao Lin explained that raising the clan’s strength would increase his Family System feedback, then began cultivating as he considered his potential future realm.
• After fifteen days without finding the Hun Clan, Gu Yuan told the allied leaders that the Soul Realm passage was destroyed and the Hun Clan’s space had been concealed.
• Following a hundred-day energy surge in the Soul Realm, Hun Tiandi emerged with power equal to the Half Emperor realm.

Hun Tiandi entered the Half Emperor realm by sacrificing the Soul Clan’s bloodline and dead warriors, while Xiao Lin neared his own breakthrough as the Xiao Clan grew stronger. The Soul Clan then activated its Spirit Devouring Life Annihilation Array across the Middle Continent, turning the region into a blood-clouded killing ground.

• Hun Tiandi broke through to Half Emperor and alarmed the recovering Nihility Devouring Flame with his power.
• Over three months, Xiao Zhan, the three great elders, and other Xiao Clan members advanced rapidly using resources Xiao Lin had distributed.
• Xiao Lin checked his system and found his cultivation progress at 89 percent toward breaking through to Six-star Dou Sheng.
• The Ancient Clan Alliance Army continued searching the Middle Continent for the Soul Clan’s hidden arrays.
• The Soul Clan activated its Spirit Devouring Life Annihilation Array, causing bloody pillars of light to destroy cities and kill countless people.
• The array covered the Middle Continent in blood clouds, and an attempt by united factions to attack it ended with most of them killed by a single strike.

As blood mist consumed most of Middle Continent, Gu Yuan and the allied factions gathered to face Hun Tiandi at the Burial Heaven Mountain Range. Hun Tiandi suppressed the assembled Dou Saints, and Gu Yuan launched a massive ancient mirror attack against him.

• Middle Continent's surviving factions assembled under the Ancient Clan Alliance, and Gu Yuan said Xiao Lin would act when necessary.
• Gu Yuan, Yan Jin, and Lei Ying sensed a terrifying aura and rushed toward the Burial Heaven Mountain Range, followed by the other Dou Saints.
• Yan Jin and Lei Ying attacked Hun Tiandi with flames and thunder dragons, but he effortlessly repelled their combined strike.
• Hun Tiandi summoned a vast net of black chains that suppressed Yan Jin, Lei Ying, and the arriving Dou Saints, then taunted Gu Yuan.
• Gu Yuan unleashed a multicolored ancient mirror at Hun Tiandi with a strike powerful enough to threaten even a Nine-star Dou Sheng.

Hun Tiandi overwhelmed Gu Yuan and the other clans with Half Emperor power and launched another attack, while Xiao Lin’s months of investment strengthened the Xiao Clan and propelled him to Seven-star Dou Sheng. Xiao Lin sensed an oppressive force from heaven and earth, then flew toward the battle as Hun Tiandi’s assault threatened Gu Yuan’s group.

• Hun Tiandi defeated Gu Yuan in their clash, broke the restraints holding Yan Jin, Lei Ying, and the Dou Saint experts, and revealed his Half Emperor realm beneath a blood lotus.
• Hun Tiandi declared that he would dominate the Dou Qi Continent and sent a bloodline attack slicing through the sky toward Gu Yuan and the others.
• Xiao Lin’s resources helped Xiao Chen reach Six-star Dou Sheng and Xiao Yan reach Five-Star Dou Saint, while Xiao Zhan and other Xiao Clan members also gained major advances.
• Xiao Lin’s Clan Member System feedback and Xiao Yan’s breakthrough pushed Xiao Lin from Six-star to Seven-star Dou Sheng, and his four-element combat strength reached the peak of Dou Sheng Nine Stars.
• Xiao Lin sensed that heaven and earth were constraining him, checked his system panel, and flew toward the distant battle after feeling Hun Tiandi’s bloody aura.

Xiao Lin learned that fusing his four elemental powers would let him reach the Great Thousand World’s cultivation system, but he postponed the transformation until after confronting Hun Tiandi and exploring Tou She Ancient God’s tomb. As Hun Tiandi defeated Gu Yuan’s combined attack at the Burial Heaven Mountain Range, Xiao Lin crossed the void and assessed the strength separating Half Emperors from Dou Emperors.

• Xiao Lin studied the Great Thousand World’s cultivation realms and recognized that the flawless white power formed from his four elements was its Spiritual Energy.
• Xiao Lin chose not to merge the four powers completely yet, intending to grow further and deal with Hun Tiandi before ascending.
• At the Burial Heaven Mountain Range, Gu Yuan joined forces with Lei Ying, Yan Jin, and other Dou Saints to unleash the Ancient Emperor Mirror’s attack against Hun Tiandi.
• Hun Tiandi halted and shattered the mirror’s pillar of light with a single palm, then declared himself destined to win the war.
• Xiao Lin traveled through the void and concluded that Hun Tiandi’s Half Emperor power was three times that of a peak Dou Sheng Nine Stars, while his own sixfold power placed him near the Dou Emperor realm.

Hun Tiandi overwhelmed the allied army and began destroying the Middle Continent with bloody lightning. Xiao Lin, the vanished Immortal Palace Lord and current Xiao Clan Leader, returned and sealed Hun Tiandi, revealing that he had advanced beyond Nine-star Dou Sheng.

• Hun Tiandi crushed the allied army’s attacks, killed Dou Saints with a casual strike, and sealed Gu Yuan off from the energy of heaven and earth.
• Gu Yuan struck back with Ancient Emperor Shattering Finger, but Hun Tiandi’s blood beam broke through his attack and injured him.
• Gu Yuan rallied the allied army to form a Dou Qi dragon, but Hun Tiandi’s bloody lightning shattered it and wounded the gathered experts.
• Hun Tiandi unleashed a canopy of bloody lightning that ravaged the Middle Continent and threatened to annihilate all life.
• A distant voice halted the lightning, and a white radiance appeared above the continent.
• Xiao Lin returned, spoke the word “Seal,” and imposed a seal on Hun Tiandi, displaying power beyond Nine-star Dou Sheng.

Xiao Lin arrived at the battlefield and overwhelmed Hun Tiandi with his Half Emperor-level power. Hun Tiandi then activated the Hun Clan’s long-prepared Emperor Slaying Array across the Middle Continent, threatening to trap Xiao Lin and destroy the region.

• Gu Yuan and the other fighters watched as Xiao Lin descended, and his white light sealed Hun Tiandi and the Blood Lotus.
• Hun Tiandi broke free of Xiao Lin’s seal and attacked with a vast sea of blood, but Xiao Lin crushed the waves with a giant palm.
• Hun Tiandi unleashed blood-red lightning, and Xiao Lin countered it with a White Giant Palm that suppressed and shattered the attack.
• Hun Tiandi sent blood-red light into the earth, activating linked Spirit Devouring Absolute Life Arrays across the Middle Continent.
• Hun Tiandi revealed that the combined formation was the Emperor Slaying Array and declared that it would kill Xiao Lin.

Hun Tiandi summoned a projection of the Emperor Slaying Ghost Blood Blade and attacked Xiao Lin with its power. Xiao Lin met the assault with Spiritual Energy, and their battle ended on the verge of revealing its victor.

• Hun Tiandi drew blood from a rift and formed the Emperor Slaying Ghost Blood Blade within the Emperor Slaying Formation.
• Gu Yuan recognized the legendary Emperor Weapon, while Xiao Lin realized it was only an unstable projection weakened by the Gu Clan Alliance’s destruction of the Hun Clan’s formations.
• Hun Tiandi fed the blade his blood essence, then wielded it to unleash a devastating attack on Xiao Lin.
• Xiao Lin covered himself in immortal clouds formed from Spiritual Energy and charged through Hun Tiandi’s crimson assault.
• Xiao Lin and Hun Tiandi clashed in a battle of Spiritual Power against Dou Qi and the Emperor Weapon, devastating the surrounding sky and ground.
• The crimson and white auras shifted, and Gu Yuan and the others realized that the battle’s victor had been decided.

After defeating Hun Tiandi and ending the war, Xiao Lin withdrew from the world for more than a decade, leaving the continent’s leaders waiting to learn whether he would open the Ancient Emperor’s Cave Mansion. As celestial signs stirred over Small Mirror Lake, Xiao Ding dismissed the guards and Xiao Yan, Zi Yan, Xiao Chen, Gu Yuan, Yan Jin, Lei Ying, and other powerful experts gathered outside Xiao Lin’s retreat.

• Xiao Lin defeated Hun Tiandi, and the allied forces destroyed the Hun Clan after discovering its members had been sacrificed in a blood pool within the Soul Realm.
• Xiao Lin killed Nihility Devouring Flame while protecting the clans’ Ancient Jades, then withdrew from public life as Middle Continent recovered and the Immortal Palace Alliance remained aloof.
• More than a decade later, Gu Yuan and the other experts grew anxious that Xiao Lin would not open the Ancient Emperor’s Cave Mansion before they died.
• As Small Mirror Lake rippled beneath shifting celestial phenomena, Xiao Ding arrived and ordered the guards to leave.
• Xiao Yan, Zi Yan, Xiao Chen, Gu Yuan, Yan Jin, Lei Ying, and other high-level Dou Saints arrived at Small Mirror Lake to await Xiao Lin.

After emerging from seclusion, Xiao Lin assembled the Ancient Emperor Jade and led the gathered powerhouses to the Black Corner Region to open the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion. Zhu Kun broke free from the magma as the cave appeared, but Xiao Lin immediately restrained him with the power of heaven and earth.

• Xiao Lin emerged from Small Mirror Lake and combined the eight Ancient Jades into the complete Tou She Ancient God Jade, crushing its apparition of the Old Man's Shadow.
• Xiao Lin revealed the cave's location in the Black Corner Region and opened a spatial passage so the powerhouses could travel there.
• Xiao Lin used the Ancient Jade at the former site of Jia Nan Academy, raising a sea of magma and revealing the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion.
• Zhu Kun erupted from the magma and declared that he had finally seen daylight again.
• Zhu Kun recognized Xiao Lin and the Ancient Jade, and Xiao Lin sensed his desire before immobilizing him with the power of heaven and earth.

Xiao Lin subdued Zhu Kun and entered the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion, where he found Tou She Ancient God's legacy and searched for the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill. He confronted an aged figure with Tou She Ancient God's appearance, who appeared on the statue's shoulder and addressed him with a warning.

• Zhu Kun attacked Xiao Lin, but Xiao Lin shattered his dragon claw, captured him, and spared him for Zi Yan's sake.
• Xiao Lin bound the injured Zhu Kun, handed him to Zi Yan, and led the way into the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion.
• Xiao Lin left Gu Yuan, Xiao Chen, Yan Jin, Lei Ying, and the other experts behind as he reached the Stone Hall and examined the Heavenly Flames and the information they contained.
• Xiao Lin cleared the mist from the plaza, saw Tou She Ancient God's statue and treasury, and searched for the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill with his Soul Power.
• An aged figure resembling Tou She Ancient God appeared on the statue's shoulder and spoke; Xiao Lin sneered and slapped at him.

Xiao Lin confronted the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill in Tou She Ancient God's cave mansion, subdued it, and gained access to the inheritance grounds. There he met the manifestation of Tou She Ancient God's source power, who explained that Xiao Lin's forceful approach might have destroyed the inheritance site.

• The Emperor Grade Nascent Pill attacked Xiao Lin with its Pill Fragrance Force and a blazing orb, but Xiao Lin resisted and overpowered it with a stronger palm strike.
• Xiao Lin forced the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill back into pill form, seized it, and stored it away.
• Xiao Lin addressed Tou She Ancient God's statue, identified the legend of Emperor Flame, and demanded entry; the statue opened its chest to reveal a cavern.
• The Dou Emperor power from the statue swept through the cave mansion and forced Gu Yuan and the others traveling behind Xiao Lin to their knees.
• Xiao Lin entered a sea of Heavenly Flames and met the old man who was the manifestation of Tou She Ancient God's source power.

Xiao Lin discussed cultivation with Tou She Ancient God and learned that the Dou Qi Continent had exhausted its Dou Di Origin Qi and that Tou She Ancient God had failed to reach the Great Thousand World. As Tou She Ancient God revealed that ancient Dou Di experts vanished amid repeated historical calamities, Xiao Lin connected their departure to an invasion by the Outer Realm Demons and recognized the Flame Mantra as the legacy of the expert who resolved the crisis.

• Tou She Ancient God summoned a fiery lotus for Xiao Lin, whose close observation of the ancient expert gave him new insight into cultivating flames.
• Tou She Ancient God explained that the Dou Qi Continent could no longer produce Dou Di experts because its Dou Di Origin Qi had been exhausted.
• Xiao Lin asked about ancient Dou Di experts leaving the continent, and Tou She Ancient God described discovering the Great Thousand World beyond sealed restrictions he could never break through.
• Tou She Ancient God revealed that earlier Dou Di experts had vanished around the same time and that the continent's history had suffered repeated breaks and buried wars.
• Xiao Lin connected the ancient departures and historical calamities to an invasion by the Outer Realm Demons and guessed that a Great Thousand World expert had intervened.
• Xiao Lin identified the Flame Mantra as that expert's legacy, and Tou She Ancient God confirmed that his speculation was correct.

Xiao Lin emerged from seclusion as a Dou Emperor, awakening the Xiao Clan’s Dou Emperor Bloodline during Xiao Yan’s child’s birth. He then discovered a passage to another world being gnawed open by the dwindling power of the Outer Realm Demons.

• Xiao Lin claimed the Flame Lotus Seed and Emperor Grade Nascent Pill from the Dou Di Ancient Tomb, then left the remaining treasures for the others.
• After several years in seclusion, Xiao Lin’s son was born in Wutan City, and the gathering celebrated with Xiao Yan.
• The newborn’s birth awakened the Xiao Clan’s Dou Emperor Bloodline, raising Xiao Zhan from Half-Saint to late-stage Eight-star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Lin appeared above the continent as a Dou Emperor, while Gu Yuan and the others watched the celestial phenomenon.
• Xiao Lin concealed himself in the clouds and examined a passage to another world, where the power of the Outer Realm Demons was eroding his Dou Qi seal.