Chapter Summaries

The Soul Clan’s attack on Ye City was a diversion intended to draw Gu Yuan away from the Gu Clan and expose its Tou She Ancient God Jade. Xiao Yan sent Gu Xun’er through a space tunnel with Gu Yuan, then stayed behind to stall Hun Tiandi and persuade him to talk.

• The Pill Tower Ancestor appeared to confront the Soul Hall Master, but a Seven-star Dou Sheng from the Soul Clan arrived seeking to consume him.
• Gu Xun’er crushed a Space Jade Slip to summon help, and Xiao Yan realized the Soul Clan’s real target was Gu Yuan and the Tou She Ancient God Jade he might carry.
• Xiao Yan struck Gu Xun’er into the space tunnel with the Black Lock and key, and Gu Yuan took her away as Death Qi tried to close the tunnel.
• Xiao Yan stayed in Ye City and asked Hun Tiandi to talk, saying that Hun Tiandi, not Gu Yuan, was the one who could break through to Dou Emperor.
• Hun Tiandi questioned Xiao Yan’s view as a descendant of the Xiao Clan, and Xiao Yan argued that Gu Yuan’s hesitation and restraint made him incapable of defeating the Soul Clan.

Xiao Yan tried to manipulate Hun Tiandi with the Nether Flame Demon Saint’s inheritance and the Flame Mantra, hoping to protect his allies and buy time. Hun Tiandi saw through the deception, used the Great Annihilation Finger to nearly kill Xiao Yan, and cast his body before Gu Yuan as he arrived.

• Xiao Yan showed Hun Tiandi the Fragmented Maps and claimed they could reveal the Nether Flame Demon Saint’s memories and techniques.
• Xiao Yan gave Hun Tiandi the Flame Mantra and explained that gathering all twenty-two Heavenly Flames might open Tou She Ancient God’s ruins and lead to Dou Emperor.
• Hun Tiandi realized Xiao Yan had received a powerful inheritance and might be protected by the Nether Flame Demon Saint, so he decided he could not risk killing Xiao Yan or injuring himself.
• Xiao Yan tried to convince Hun Tiandi that the inheritance’s Residual Soul might help Gu Yuan, while Hun Tiandi deduced that Xiao Yan had withheld information about the Black Lock and its key.
• A Gu Clan Elder delivered Tou She Ancient God Jade to Hun Tiandi, who revealed that Gu Yuan was approaching with the Black Annihilation King and the Ancient Clan Three Immortals.
• Hun Tiandi struck Xiao Yan with the Great Annihilation Finger, nearly extinguished his life and soul, then threw him before the arriving Gu Yuan.

Xiao Yan survived Hun Tiandi’s attempt to kill him, and Gu Yuan revealed a powerful Half-Emperor Body to drive back Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame. After the Soul Clan forces fled, Gu Yuan returned badly weakened, and Xiao Yan offered Three Thousand Burning Flame to the Ancient Clan in exchange for Gu Yuan’s help.

• Xiao Yan’s White Lotus nearly bloomed, but the Invisible Fire Dragon entered his body and Starry Purple-black Flame began repairing him.
• Hun Tiandi recognized that Nihility Devouring Flame’s Soul Origin was fused with his Heavenly Flame seed and tried to attack it, but Gu Yuan struck Hun Tiandi with a massive fist.
• Gu Yuan attacked Nihility Devouring Flame’s Origin Fire Seed, forcing Nihility Devouring Flame to flee beside Hun Tiandi.
• Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame escaped in different directions, while Gu Yuan pursued the resurrected Soul Clan fighters and the Ancient Clan forces killed the Soul Clan Four Demon Saints.
• Gu Yuan returned pale and weakened, and Xiao Yan offered to deliver Three Thousand Burning Flame to the Ancient Clan after recovering.
• Gu Yuan told Xiao Yan that Xun'er had guarded the two items Xiao Yan gave her and would return them when he visited the Ancient Clan.

Xiao Yan fused the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame into his Emperor Flame, then was summoned to the ancient Star Palace and captured by its Palace Master. She threatened him over the Xiao Clan’s destruction, leaving him to face her hostility and twisted plans for his clan.

• Gu Yuan confronted Xiao Yan about having several wives, while Old Yao kicked him into the Three Thousand Burning Flame and agreed to stay with the Ancient Clan.
• Xiao Yan used the Three Thousand Burning Flame as a bridge to fuse the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame into his Emperor Flame, reaching a Heaven Realm Soul and six-star Dou Zun.
• Xiao Yan was drawn from the Heaven Array into the Star Palace, where a purple-robed girl shattered his escape route and seized him.
• The girl ordered Xiao Yan to call her Palace Master and declared that anyone with the Dou Di Bloodline deserved to die.
• Xiao Yan explained that he lacked the Dou Di Bloodline but still carried the Xiao surname and its blood-deep vengeance, prompting the Palace Master to say she would rather keep the Xiao Clan alive and torment them.

The Star Palace Master questioned Xiao Yan about the Three Thousand Burning Flame and revealed that a fading Soul Imprint from an Ancient Race member of the Xiao Clan remained within it. She left Xiao Yan under her control and told him she had once planned to use him to nourish the imprint.

• The Star Palace Master tested Xiao Yan’s account of the Three Thousand Burning Flame by drawing out a star that recorded its experiences, then returned it to his Emperor Flame.
• Xiao Yan explained that an Ancient Void Dragon had sealed a Dragon Seal inside the flame and that he had rescued it, protected its soul, and helped it become Candle Star Flame.
• The Star Palace Master led Xiao Yan to a square filled with star-carved statues and said she had forgotten many things about her past.
• The Star Palace Master recalled that someone from the Xiao Clan had helped her refine the Three Thousand Burning Flame by burning their Dou Di Bloodline, leaving a fading Soul Imprint inside it.
• The Star Palace Master admitted she had planned to drain Xiao Yan’s life force to nourish the imprint, but decided against killing him because he had once separated a Heavenly Flame seed from its soul without harming it.

Xiao Yan was caught in the Yin Yang Twin Flames’ trap as the Fallen Heart Flame girl revealed her history with the Ice God and the fading Dou Di Mark. She entered the star to force the flames together, but the Ice God’s consciousness and the mark did not clash as she expected.

• The statues transformed into black-flame copies of Xiao Yan as the Yin Flame filled the plaza and began devouring his life force.
• The star within Xiao Yan’s Emperor Flame supplied stellar power that restored his life force, and he connected with the Yang Flame’s Soul Imprint but could not awaken it.
• The Fallen Heart Flame girl recalled how the Ice God’s Residual Soul had repeatedly recovered through her and how she had used the Yang Flame to preserve the Xiao Clan Dou Di Mark.
• The girl entered the descending star and overlapped with the Dou Di Mark, drawing the plaza’s Yin Flame into the star.
• The Ice God’s consciousness encountered the Dou Di Mark, but they did not begin fighting as the girl had expected.

Xiao Yan survived the Three Thousand Burning Flame’s eruption and left Star Palace after absorbing the stars and sealing the Yin Yang Twin Flames. Meanwhile, the Bone Spirit Cold Flame drew powerful factions to the Meteor God Ice Plains in search of a possible Dou Emperor relic.

• The girl detonated the origin of the Three Thousand Burning Flame, and Emperor Xiao stopped the Ice God from possessing Xiao Yan.
• The Ice God returned to the Meteor God Ice Plains to gather the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, and the Ice River Valley Master and several teams of Peak Dou Zuns disappeared there.
• The major factions and Ancient Races sent experts to the Meteor God Ice Plains, where more than a dozen Dou Shengs searched for a possible Dou Emperor relic.
• Xiao Yan regained consciousness, used a Seal Technique to control and seal the Yin Yang Twin Flames, and refined the Black Stars into the Emperor Flame.
• Xiao Yan saw a blurry figure fade away, then used the Heavenly Phoenix Wings to leave Star Palace.

After returning from the Star Palace, Xiao Yan reunited with Old Yao and Gu Yuan, who discovered a hidden mark inside Xiao Yan’s evolved Three Thousand Burning Flame and entrusted it to Xiao Xuan to handle. Xiao Yan spent time with Gu Xun'er in the Ancient Realm, where an intimate moment left him awkwardly apologizing to her.

• Xiao Yan contacted Old Yao, who checked that he was unharmed and brought him to meet Gu Yuan in the Ancient Realm.
• Xiao Yan showed Gu Yuan his evolved Three Thousand Burning Flame, and Gu Yuan found a hidden mark within it and took the flame to deal with it.
• Gu Yuan brought the Three Thousand Burning Flame to Xiao Xuan’s grave in the Heavenly Tomb and asked him to cover the mark with the Xiao Clan’s Blood Soul Mark.
• Gu Yuan found Xiao Yan and Gu Xun'er sitting together, then left them alone after seeing Xiao Yan behaving properly.
• Xiao Yan stopped paying attention as Gu Xun'er spoke, then gently brushed her hair; when she said it was the first time he had treated her so gently, he awkwardly apologized.

After refining the Nine Dragon Thunder Gang Fire, Xiao Yan joined Tang Zhen to explore ancient Dou Sheng Ruins in the Beast Region. At the ruins, Xiao Yan intervened in a dispute over a Heavenly Tier Dou Technique and offered the Nine Nether Nether Python Clan a way to temper its bloodline.

• Gu Xun'er accepted Xiao Yan's embrace, and he promised to treat her well as he wondered how to advance to Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yan traveled to Burning Flame Valley, spent a month removing the Blood Soul Mark from the Nine Dragon Thunder Gang Fire, and refined it.
• Tang Zhen invited Xiao Yan to explore the Dou Sheng Ruins in the Skeleton Mountain Range, and Xiao Yan set off with him after contacting Zi Yan.
• Xiao Yan swallowed a Myriad Beast Spirit Flame upon arriving in the Skeleton Mountain Range, then reached the base established by Burning Flame Valley and the Ye Family.
• Xiao Yan told Gu He to yield a Heavenly Tier Dou Technique to the Nine Nether Nether Python Clan, then offered to use the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame and the mountain's Beast Power to temper the clan's bloodline.

Xiao Yan negotiated with Yao Xiaotian to refine the Nine Nether Nether Python Clan’s bloodlines in exchange for Beast Flames, essence blood, medicinal herbs, and the Skeleton Mountain Range. After Zi Yan began refining the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit in the opened Dou Sheng Ruins, Xiao Yan collected the Dou Sheng Skeleton and its inscribed ribs and left.

• Xiao Yan told the departing elder to take news of his offer to the Nine Nether Nether Python Clan, and reassured Zi Yan that he would help her clan after she became Dragon Emperor.
• Yao Xiaotian met Xiao Yan and agreed to cooperate, granting him the Skeleton Mountain Range in exchange for bloodline refinement and a share of the region’s resources.
• Xiao Yan set up a Formation that gathered Beast Power to fuel the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame, which refined the bloodlines of young magical beasts most effectively.
• The seal over the Dou Sheng Ruins shattered, revealing a crimson palace, and the Nine Nether Nether Python Clan’s guards helped protect the bone sea.
• Xiao Yan used Zi Yan’s senses to find the medicinal forest, helped her begin refining the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, and then collected the Dou Sheng Skeleton and three ribs bearing the Great Heaven Creation Palm before leaving.

Xiao Yan studied the Limitless Void Shattering Body after returning to the Gu Clan, then attended its Coming of Age Ceremony and accepted Gu Yao’s challenge. After blocking Gu Yao’s strongest attack with a punch, Xiao Yan appeared behind him while the giant finger continued falling.

• Xiao Yan found that the Limitless Void Shattering Body let him strike through space within a hundred-mile radius, but he could not understand the soul- and time-related seal art in his mind.
• The Gu Clan began its Coming of Age Ceremony, drawing the Ancient Races while the Soul Clan stayed away and the Yao and Yan Clans took interest in Xiao Yan.
• Gu Yao challenged Xiao Yan, who struck him through his Ice Armor and offered to concede if Gu Yao could force him to use Dou Qi.
• Gu Yao used the Emperor Seal Art, but Xiao Yan opened a space rift and banished the attack into the void.
• Gu Yao unleashed the Great Annihilation Finger, and Xiao Yan’s punch shattered the space around it without stopping its descent.
• Xiao Yan appeared behind Gu Yao with a hand on his shoulder and remarked on the Void Storms as the giant finger kept falling.

Xiao Yan defeated Gu Yao without using Dou Qi, then watched Gu Xun'er reveal a Divine Bloodline during the Gu Clan ceremony. The chapter left Gu Xun'er celebrated as a potential Peak Dou Saint while she embraced Xiao Yan and teased him about surpassing him.

• Xiao Yan defeated Gu Yao, who admitted the gap between them was still enormous.
• Elder Tong Xuan restored the square and began Gu Xun'er's bloodline ceremony.
• Gu Xun'er awakened a tenth-grade Divine Bloodline, causing the Star Disk to explode and stunning the gathered clans.
• Elder Tong Xuan used the Seven-Colored Heavenly Emperor Brush to draw Gu Xun'er's Clan Mark, prompting many Gu Clan members to prostrate themselves.
• Xiao Yan gave Gu Xun'er a Pill Beast that could improve her chance of breaking through to Half-Saint, and she embraced him while teasing him not to let her surpass him.

Gu Xun'er defended Xiao Yan's right to enter the Heavenly Tomb using the Xiao Clan's slot, silencing the Elders who wanted to deny it. When the Tomb opened, Xiao Yan sensed a connection between its ancient aura and the mysterious Seal Technique before entering with Xun'er.

• The Gu Clan Elders debated whether Xiao Yan should use one of the six slots allocated to the Gu Clan.
• Gu Xun'er argued that Xiao Yan should use the Xiao Clan's slot and warned the Elders that their past use of those slots would be illegitimate if they no longer recognized the Xiao Clan as an Ancient Race.
• Gu Xun'er left the meeting hall after criticizing the Elders' ability, then told Xiao Yan about how she had defeated their argument.
• Gu Xun'er explained the Heavenly Tomb's three layers and revealed that Xiao Xuan was the strongest being in its deepest region.
• When the Heavenly Tomb opened, Xiao Yan sensed that its ancient aura was connected to the mysterious Seal Technique and felt he might be able to control it.
• Xiao Yan and Gu Xun'er flew into the Heavenly Tomb together.

Xiao Yan and Gu Xun'er traveled through the Heavenly Tomb, gathering Energy Cores as Xiao Yan cultivated toward another Nine Revolutions breakthrough. After entering the Second Layer and encountering a deadly energy storm, they joined the other entrants at the sealed passage to the Third Layer, where Gu Qingyang began an attempt to break through.

• Xiao Yan absorbed the Heavenly Tomb's energy while Gu Xun'er supplied him with Energy Cores and cultivated her Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame.
• Xiao Yan and Gu Xun'er reached the Second Layer after a month of travel, where they hunted Nine-star Dou Zun Energy Bodies.
• An energy storm formed in the Second Layer and drove all sixteen entrants to the passage leading to the Third Layer.
• Gu Qingyang asked Xiao Yan to join forces against the solidified light screen, and Xiao Yan agreed.
• Gu Qingyang and three Gu Clan members gathered their Dou Qi and attacked the light screen.

Xiao Yan and the Gu clan members carved through the Heavenly Tomb’s Energy Crystal Layers, where they discovered Ancient Devouring Worms and reached the third layer. The worms pursued them after Xiao Yan took a glowing cocoon, but the Heavenly Tomb destroyed them as they emerged, letting Xiao Yan’s Myriad Beast Spirit Flame consume their essence before the colony retreated.

• Xiao Yan and the Gu clan members dug a passage through the Crystal Layers, using the Heavenly Demon Puppet to help break through.
• Xiao Yan detected Ancient Devouring Worms inside the walls and used the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame and Fallen Heart Flame to suppress and burn them.
• The group reached a final Crystal Wall, and Xiao Yan took a faintly glowing Insect Cocoon before everyone entered the Heavenly Tomb Third Layer.
• The Ancient Devouring Worms surged out after the group, but they burst into white powder under the Heavenly Tomb’s power, and Xiao Yan’s Myriad Beast Spirit Flame devoured them.
• After nearly ten minutes, the Ancient Devouring Worms stopped pursuing Xiao Yan and retreated behind the light screen.

Xiao Yan led Gu Xun'er and the Gu Clan members through the dangerous Third Layer of the Heavenly Tomb and reached Xiao Xuan. Xiao Xuan accepted Xiao Yan as his disciple and allowed the group to cultivate in the safest, most energy-rich place near him.

• Xiao Yan chose the northwest route through the Third Layer to avoid paths guarded by Dou Sheng energy bodies.
• Blood Saber Saint blocked the group, but Xiao Yan offered him books about the Dou Qi Continent, and Blood Saber Saint let them pass.
• Xiao Yan and the others reached the ancient stele where Xiao Xuan resided, and Xiao Xuan praised Xiao Yan's talent.
• Gu Xun'er introduced herself as Gu Yuan's daughter and said she would call Xiao Xuan Ancestor because she intended to be with Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Xuan accepted Xiao Yan as his disciple so Xiao Yan and Gu Xun'er would be of equal seniority.
• Xiao Xuan told the group to cultivate nearby, where World Energy was abundant and even Dou Sheng energy bodies would not venture.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Xuan discovered that the Three Thousand Burning Flame could help Xiao Xuan take control of the Heavenly Tomb, so Xiao Xuan confronted the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb. Xiao Xuan suppressed its opening attack, while the Energy Bodies watched with renewed hope.

• Xiao Xuan explained that he had transformed the Three Thousand Burning Flame with a Blood Soul Mark and that Xiao Yan could use it to gain the Xiao Clan Dou Di Bloodline.
• Xiao Xuan revealed that refining the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb could let him control the tomb, and Xiao Yan agreed to let him do so because he had the Spirit Transformation Emperor Soul Fruit.
• Xiao Xuan absorbed the Three Thousand Burning Flame and rose into the sky, stirring the Energy Bodies and prompting the Blood Saber Saint to recognize that Xiao Xuan was challenging the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb.
• The Soul of the Heavenly Tomb appeared as a giant face and attacked Xiao Xuan with a soul storm.
• Xiao Xuan used the Heavenly Fire Three Profound Transformations and his nine-stroke Clan Mark to suppress the soul storm with his aura.

Xiao Xuan overwhelmed the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb and used a flame formation to extract a crystalline halo from its body. The Soul of the Heavenly Tomb’s attempt to burn itself for power failed, leaving the halo fully pulled free.

• Xiao Xuan used Heavenly Tier Dou Techniques to defeat the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb and began refining it with Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Xiao Xuan trapped the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb in a flame formation and steadily destroyed its consciousness.
• Xiao Xuan’s fire threads drew a crystalline halo from the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb, whose light stirred greed among nearby Energy Bodies.
• The Soul of the Heavenly Tomb tried to burn itself for power, but Xiao Xuan extinguished the flames with a palm strike and pulled the halo completely out.

Xiao Yan refined the Soul Origin of the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb and gained control of the Heavenly Tomb, while the fallen Soul of the Heavenly Tomb was destroyed by the Energy Bodies. After a year of cultivation in the Soul Ocean, Xiao Yan emerged with a greatly improved soul and gave the Yin Yang Twin Flames to Xiao Xuan.

• Xiao Xuan extracted the Soul Origin of the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb, leaving it powerless to resist as the Energy Bodies tore it apart and its rules faded.
• Xiao Xuan recognized the Mysterious Seal Technique in Xiao Yan's mind as an inheritance from the Xiao Clan Dou Emperor and sent Xiao Yan into the Soul Origin to refine it.
• Xiao Yan used the Soul Ocean and his Fallen Heart Flame Sub-flames to refine Soul Power while he fused with the Three Thousand Burning Flame in seclusion.
• After a year in the Soul Ocean, Xiao Yan emerged at Heavenly Realm Great Perfection, Nine-turn Dou Zun, but failed to break through the Emperor Realm Soul bottleneck.
• Xiao Yan gave the Yin Yang Twin Flames to Xiao Xuan, warning that the Soul Clan's Nihility Devouring Flame could threaten him.

Xiao Yan cultivated a Heavenly Tier Dou Technique and forged a powerful Heavenly Demon Puppet from a Dou Sheng skeleton, a Fallen Heart Flame Sub-flame, and a Seven-star Dou Sheng Energy Core. The newly awakened puppet recognized Xiao Yan as its master, and he ordered it to learn the Great Heaven Creation Palm.

• Xiao Yan received Dou Sheng Energy Cores from Xiao Xuan and began nourishing a Dou Sheng skeleton to prepare a Heavenly Demon Puppet.
• Xiao Yan learned the Heavenly Wrath Soul Breaking Finger and spent a month sparring with Blood Saber Saint to improve his technique and control of his Dou Qi.
• After a month, Xiao Yan finished nourishing the skeleton, removed its Death Qi, and began refining it with the Fallen Heart Flame Sub-flame and Seven-star Dou Sheng Energy Core.
• After a year of refinement, the materials fused into a powerful puppet whose strength seemed capable of rivaling the Soul Hall Master.
• The puppet awakened with a soul flame, called Xiao Yan its master, and received the three ribs inscribed with the Great Heaven Creation Palm so it could learn the technique.