Recaps

The Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan learned that Hun Xiu and Zi Yan had arrived to demand the Clan Head, and Feng Huang challenged Hun Xiu’s authority. Hun Xiu entered the hall, left Ying Huang barely alive, and pointed at Feng Huang.

• Kun Huang reported that Hun Xiu and Zi Yan had come, and warned that Zi Yan was a powerful Dou Saint.
• Feng Huang asked what Hun Xiu wanted, and Kun Huang said he demanded the Clan Head or the clan would be destroyed.
• Feng Huang angrily questioned who Hun Xiu thought he was, and Hun Xiu replied that he could wipe out the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.
• Hun Xiu and Zi Yan entered the hall after Ying Huang crashed to the floor, barely alive.
• Feng Huang admitted he had made the remark, and Hun Xiu pointed a finger at him.

Hun Xiu killed Feng Huang and seized control of the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s hall, forcing Jiu Feng and the clan’s experts to kneel. He ordered Kun Huang to bring Huang Tian, killing clansmen by the minute until Huang Tian arrived, and then struck down another expert as Huang Tian confronted him.

• Hun Xiu killed Feng Huang with one finger strike and took his tier-nine Demonic Core.
• Hun Xiu ordered Jiu Feng to leave the throne, then sat there with Zi Yan and used his pressure to force the clan’s experts to their knees.
• Hun Xiu told Kun Huang to bring Huang Tian and began killing one clansman every minute when Huang Tian did not appear.
• Kun Huang returned with Huang Tian, while half the experts in the hall had already been killed.
• Hun Xiu killed another Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan expert as Huang Tian confronted him.

Hun Xiu confronted Huang Tian over coveting Hun Xiu’s wife, and Huang Tian rallied the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s strength to fight him. Hun Xiu easily broke Huang Tian’s first attacks, Zi Yan stepped forward to face the next, and a distant crystal ball suddenly lit up with purple light.

• Huang Tian revealed an Ancient Heavenly Phoenix phantom and tried to appease Hun Xiu by offering compensation for the attack on the Nine Netherworld Earth Python Tribe.
• Hun Xiu told Huang Tian that he had come because Huang Tian had coveted his wife, then rejected Huang Tian’s attempt to reconcile.
• Huang Tian summoned the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and used their combined strength to launch the Phoenix Return Shadow and form the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Shield.
• Hun Xiu destroyed the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix phantom and shattered the shield with a single sword strike.
• Zi Yan stepped forward to confront Huang Tian’s Huang Tian Phoenix Finger, and a massive purple dragon phantom appeared around her.
• In the Central Plains Continent’s northeastern region, a burly man’s crystal ball suddenly glowed brilliantly with purple light.

A man followed a crystal ball’s signal to the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan while Zi Yan fought Huang Tian and Hun Xiu protected her. As Hun Xiu prepared to attack, Kun Huang betrayed Huang Tian, claiming he had acted to save the clan.

• A crystal ball finally lit up and led a man toward the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, where he believed the Emperor was located.
• Zi Yan summoned the Dragon Slaying Sword and struck Huang Tian with a Dragon Slaying Slash, but Huang Tian’s attack overcame her and Hun Xiu blocked it with the Xuanyuan Sword.
• Hun Xiu comforted Zi Yan, then stepped forward to face Huang Tian as Zi Yan taunted him.
• Kun Huang struck Huang Tian from within the formation and said he had betrayed the clan head to save the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.
• Huang Tian called Kun Huang a traitor and spat out blood.

Kun Huang betrayed the weakened Huang Tian, deposed him as Clan Head, and secured the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s submission to Hun Xiu. After Jiu Feng sided with Kun Huang, Huang Tian accepted his fate and Hun Xiu killed him, promising to spare the clan.

• Kun Huang offered Huang Tian to Hun Xiu in exchange for the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s survival, and Hun Xiu agreed to target Huang Tian alone.
• Kun Huang declared Huang Tian stripped of his position and expelled from the clan, while the gathered clan members remained silent.
• Jiu Feng sided with Kun Huang and apologized to Huang Tian, leaving his father despairing and alone.
• Huang Tian asked Hun Xiu to spare the clan if he died, and Hun Xiu promised he would.
• Hun Xiu struck Huang Tian with the Xuanyuan Sword, annihilating his body and leaving behind a blood-red Demonic Core.

After Hun Xiu killed Huang Tian, Kun Huang sought to secure peace between the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan and the Hun Clan by offering Hun Xiu a mount. Kun Huang chose Feng Qing'er, who accepted after realizing that following Hun Xiu might offer her more than becoming his mount.

• Hun Xiu collected Huang Tian's Demonic Core and left the surviving Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan experts unharmed.
• Kun Huang called Hun Xiu back and offered him a maidservant or mount to gain his cooperation.
• Hun Xiu accepted Kun Huang's offer of a mount, and the clan members worried about who would be chosen.
• Kun Huang selected Feng Qing'er, and she stepped forward to greet Hun Xiu.
• Kun Huang secretly told Feng Qing'er that following Hun Xiu could be an opportunity, and she reconsidered her plan to refuse.

Jiu Feng tried to stop Kun Huang from giving Feng Qing'er to Hun Xiu, but Feng Qing'er willingly chose to become Hun Xiu's mount. Hun Xiu left with her while Jiu Feng remained stunned and unable to understand her decision.

• Jiu Feng objected to Kun Huang offering Feng Qing'er to Hun Xiu and asked Hun Xiu to choose someone else.
• Hun Xiu told Jiu Feng to ask Feng Qing'er whether she was willing, promising to leave if she refused.
• Feng Qing'er said she was willing to become Hun Xiu's mount, despite Jiu Feng's disbelief.
• Feng Qing'er confirmed her choice to Jiu Feng, then walked to Hun Xiu's side.
• Hun Xiu greeted Kun Huang and left with Feng Qing'er while Jiu Feng stood rooted in shock.

Kun Huang crippled Jiu Feng and took over as Clan Head of the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan. Outside Heavenly Demon Space, Hun Xiu and Zi Yan exposed a hidden observer, who addressed Zi Yan as Emperor.

• Kun Huang crippled Jiu Feng, then had him dragged away and placed under guard.
• Kun Huang announced his bid to become Clan Head, and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan experts accepted him as their new leader.
• Zi Yan asked Hun Xiu why he had spared the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, and Hun Xiu said they still had uses.
• Hun Xiu and Zi Yan called out someone hiding in the void near them.
• Hei Qing emerged, knelt before Zi Yan, and addressed her as the Emperor of the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.

Hei Qing found Zi Yan and confirmed that she was the Dragon Emperor of the Ancient Void Dragon Clan. After hearing about the clan’s dangerous divisions, Zi Yan asked Hun Xiu whether she should return, hoping he would accompany her.

• Hei Qing knelt before Zi Yan and recognized her as the Dragon Emperor after she summoned the Dragon Slaying Sword.
• Zi Yan proudly told Hun Xiu that he had been right about her identity, and Hun Xiu decided to accompany her back to support her.
• Zi Yan ordered Hei Qing to explain the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s situation and warned Feng Qing’er not to reveal its secrets.
• Hei Qing described the clan’s troubles, and Zi Yan asked Hun Xiu whether she should return because she was scared of the danger.

Hun Xiu agreed to accompany Zi Yan to the Ancient Void Dragon Clan and spent several days with his daughter before learning East Dragon Island was under attack. He and Zi Yan set out with Hei Qing to reach the island before it fell.

• Hun Xiu agreed to go with Zi Yan to the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, and Feng Qing'er became his mount after he planted a Soul Imprint in her.
• Hun Xiu and Zi Yan returned to the Hun Clan, where they spent time with Little Soul Xiao while Yun Yun and Medusa remained in seclusion.
• Zi Yan told Hun Xiu that the Three Great Dragon Kings had joined forces to attack East Dragon Island, which was close to falling.
• Hun Xiu and Zi Yan met Hei Qing, who tore open space and took them to the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.

The Three Great Dragon Kings attacked East Dragon Island and broke through its defenses while Zhu Li and the other elders waited for the Dragon Emperor’s descendant to return. The battle turned into a massacre, with the island’s fate still hanging in the balance.

• The Three Great Dragon Kings surrounded East Dragon Island and demanded that Zhu Li and its defenders surrender, but Zhu Li refused and warned that the Dragon Emperor would return.
• The North Dragon King and South Dragon King revealed that they planned to brand East Dragon Island as traitors, and the three kings began bombarding its formation.
• Zhu Li told the elders that Hei Qing had found the Dragon Emperor’s descendant and that she was on her way back, though the eldest worried she might not defeat the three kings.
• The Three Great Dragon Kings shattered the formation and ordered their armies to attack as East Dragon Island’s elders commanded their defenders to fight.
• The battle spread across the island, and both sides suffered heavy casualties while the three kings kept East Dragon Island’s elders from intervening.

The Three Great Dragon Kings nearly wiped out East Dragon Island before Zi Yan arrived with the Dragon Slaying Sword and revealed herself as the new Dragon Emperor. The Dragon Kings tried to deceive her by posing as her loving uncles, but Zi Yan rejected their act and confronted them.

• The Three Great Dragon Kings defeated East Dragon Island's Great Elders and prepared to destroy the island's remaining experts.
• Zi Yan arrived with Hun Xiu and blocked the North Dragon King's attack with the Dragon Slaying Slash.
• East Dragon Island's survivors recognized Zi Yan as their new Dragon Emperor, while Hei Qing told the Great Elders he had brought her back.
• The Three Great Dragon Kings dismissed Hun Xiu and attempted to lure Zi Yan closer by pretending to be her uncles.
• Zi Yan unleashed her dragon might, called the Three Great Dragon Kings shameless, and refused to believe their claims that East Dragon Island's experts were traitors.

Zi Yan and the West Dragon King fought while Hun Xiu blocked the North Dragon King and South Dragon King from joining in. After Hun Xiu killed the South Dragon King with one sword strike, Zi Yan seized the West Dragon King’s distraction and wounded him, then pursued him with another Dragon Slaying Slash.

• Zi Yan rejected the West Dragon King’s claims of kinship and fought him with the Dragon Slaying Sword.
• Hun Xiu stopped the North Dragon King and South Dragon King from assisting the West Dragon King.
• Hun Xiu destroyed the South Dragon King with one strike, collected his Demonic Core, and warned the North Dragon King not to interfere.
• The North Dragon King learned Hun Xiu’s name and realized he had underestimated his strength.
• Zi Yan struck the distracted West Dragon King with Dragon Sovereign's Dragon Slaying Slash and sent him crashing through islands.
• Zi Yan appeared behind the injured West Dragon King and attacked again with Dragon Slaying Slash as he struggled to evade.

Zi Yan and Hun Xiu defeated the Three Dragon Kings’ forces, prompting the North Dragon King and the Ancient Void Dragons to hail Zi Yan as Dragon Emperor. Zi Yan accepted the title and sentenced the North Dragon King to death, while the West Dragon King escaped the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.

• The West Dragon King transformed into his dragon form to block Zi Yan’s sword, then fled before she could catch him.
• Hun Xiu sealed the surrounding space to prevent the North Dragon King and the Three Dragon Islands’ army from escaping.
• The North Dragon King knelt and proclaimed Zi Yan the Dragon Emperor, and the Three Dragon Islands’ army and the Ancient Void Dragons joined in the acclamation.
• The wounded West Dragon King heard the cries, decided to leave the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, and escaped through a Spatial Tunnel.
• Zi Yan asked whether the North Dragon King acknowledged her as Dragon Emperor, then sentenced him to death for helping divide the clan and cause its members to fight.

Zi Yan and Hun Xiu defeated the North Dragon King and secured the surrender of the three dragon islands’ armies. Zi Yan began unifying the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, though she learned the elders knew nothing about where her father had gone.

• The North Dragon King denied trying to divide the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, then attacked Zi Yan when she prepared to punish him.
• Hun Xiu shattered the North Dragon King’s palm strike and wounded him, and Zi Yan killed him with the Dragon Slaying Slash.
• Zi Yan accepted the three dragon islands’ armies’ surrender and ordered Hei Qing to arrange their forces and unify Ancient Dragon Island.
• The Great Elders told Zi Yan that her father had taken her away as a dragon egg nearly ten thousand years earlier and had never returned.
• The Great Elders thanked Hun Xiu for protecting Zi Yan and helping save the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.

Hun Xiu helped Zi Yan secure control of the Ancient Void Dragon Clan and agreed to stay until her enthronement ceremony. Meanwhile, Soul Emperor postponed the Hun Clan’s planned attack on the Spirit and Stone Clans and ordered the Hall of Souls to hunt the escaped West Dragon King.

• Hei Qing and East Dragon Island experts purged the Three Great Dragon Kings’ trusted followers, while Zi Yan ordered the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s dissidents eliminated.
• Hei Qing reported that the West Dragon King had escaped, and Zi Yan told him to pacify Ancient Dragon Island as preparations began for her enthronement.
• Zi Yan insisted on leaving with Hun Xiu, but Hun Xiu persuaded her to wait until after the ceremony and sent Soul Emperor a message that he would return later.
• Soul Emperor postponed the attack on the Spirit and Stone Clans, then ordered Hun Miesheng to track Xiao Yan and find and kill the wounded West Dragon King.
• Soul Emperor and Nihility Devouring Flame went to visit Little Soul Xiao, while Hun Miesheng summoned the Hall of Souls’ Venerable-level experts.

Hun Miesheng sent the Hall of Souls after the gravely wounded West Dragon King, while Hun Bufan revealed his new Five-Star Dou Saint strength and resolved to pursue the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. Near Starfall Pavilion, the West Dragon King hid from Xiao Yan, Yao Chen, and Feng Xian, but Xiao Yan sensed the powerful Dou Saint lurking nearby.

• Hun Miesheng revealed the West Dragon King's identity and injuries, then offered a great reward to anyone who found or killed him.
• Hun Bufan told Hun Miesheng he had advanced to Five-Star Dou Saint, but still considered himself far weaker than Hun Xiu and hoped to obtain the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• The Hall of Souls spread a wanted notice for the West Dragon King throughout its branches.
• The West Dragon King fled to the forest near Starfall Pavilion as the Dragon Slaying Sword's energy worsened his injuries, then hid when he sensed people approaching.
• Xiao Yan arrived with Yao Chen and Feng Xian, and Xiao Yan sensed the hidden West Dragon King as a powerful Dou Saint.

Xiao Yan discovered that the hidden presence near Starfall Pavilion was a severely injured Dou Saint, not a member of the Hall of Souls. After forcing the West Dragon King out of hiding and wounding him, Xiao Yan confronted him and demanded to know who he was and why he had entered Starfall Pavilion's territory.

• Yao Chen and Feng Xian reacted with alarm when Xiao Yan sensed a Dou Saint hiding nearby.
• Xiao Yan identified the concealed figure as a badly injured powerhouse who was not from the Hall of Souls, and recognized him as the West Dragon King.
• The West Dragon King stayed hidden, hoping Xiao Yan was bluffing, but Xiao Yan struck the void and forced him out.
• The West Dragon King crashed into trees with a puncture wound through his chest and spat blood.
• Xiao Yan approached with his massive ruler and held it to the West Dragon King's neck while demanding his identity and purpose.

Xiao Yan defeated the West Dragon King and considered sparing him after he begged to become Xiao Yan’s subordinate. After revealing that he was an Ancient Void Dragon, the West Dragon King claimed to be the Dragon Emperor, leaving Xiao Yan astonished.

• Xiao Yan held the injured West Dragon King at sword’s edge, and the West Dragon King begged for his life by offering to acknowledge Xiao Yan as his master.
• Xiao Yan asked the West Dragon King to identify himself before deciding whether to spare him.
• Yao Chen explained that the Ancient Void Dragon Clan was a powerful Magical Beast clan that had vanished from the continent.
• The West Dragon King revealed that he was an Ancient Void Dragon and claimed to be the clan’s Dragon Emperor.
• Xiao Yan questioned the West Dragon King’s claim, staring at him in disbelief.

Xiao Yan believed the West Dragon King’s fabricated account of being betrayed by the other Dragon Kings and offered to help him reclaim his throne. He then demanded to plant a Soul Imprint on the West Dragon King, leaving the injured Dragon Saint shocked at the prospect of becoming Xiao Yan’s servant.

• The West Dragon King claimed he had once been the Dragon Emperor and blamed the North Dragon King, South Dragon King, and East Dragon King for ambushing and defeating him.
• Xiao Yan, Yao Chen, and Feng Xian sympathized with the West Dragon King, and Xiao Yan decided to spare him and use his identity to gain influence over the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.
• Xiao Yan promised to heal the West Dragon King and help him reclaim his position as Dragon Emperor, while the West Dragon King secretly planned to kill Xiao Yan once he recovered.
• Xiao Yan demanded to plant a Soul Imprint on the West Dragon King’s soul, causing the West Dragon King’s grateful expression to freeze.

Xiao Yan forced the injured West Dragon King to choose between submission and death, then placed a Soul Imprint on him. The West Dragon King survived but lost his freedom and pretended to accept Xiao Yan as his master.

• Xiao Yan demanded that the West Dragon King submit, and the West Dragon King hesitated rather than accept a Soul Imprint.
• Xiao Yan formed a Buddha's Fury Lotus from six Heavenly Flames, making the West Dragon King fear for his life.
• The West Dragon King knelt and agreed to submit to Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan marked the West Dragon King's soul with a Soul Imprint that let him control or kill him.
• The West Dragon King rose at Xiao Yan's command and concealed his resentment while feigning submission.

Xiao Yan recruited the injured West Dragon King, Zhu Yizhi, and promised to help him reclaim the Ancient Void Dragon throne. After Zi Yan unified the clan, Hun Xiu returned to the Hun Clan, where Soul Emperor asked about the clan’s next move and Hun Xiu reflected on his unmatched strength.

• Xiao Yan learned that the West Dragon King was named Zhu Yizhi and promised to heal him and help him regain the Dragon Emperor position.
• Zhu Yizhi thanked Xiao Yan and went with him toward Starfall Pavilion, while secretly resenting the soul mark Xiao Yan had placed on him.
• After Zi Yan’s coronation unified the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, the three Great Elders announced that she had entered seclusion when she left the clan.
• Hun Xiu returned to the Hun Clan and visited Little Soul Xiao before meeting Soul Emperor and Nihility Devouring Flame in the main hall.
• Soul Emperor praised Hun Xiu for anticipating the Hun Clan’s next move, while Hun Xiu considered how his strength and Xuanyuan Sword left him with few rivals.

Soul Emperor sent Hun Xiu and Nihility Devouring Flame to destroy the Spirit Clan as the Hun Clan began its plan to gather the strength needed for Soul Emperor to become a Dou Emperor. The chapter ended by revealing that the Spirit Clan’s bloodline and members were intended as nourishment for that goal.

• Soul Emperor ordered Hun Xiu and Nihility Devouring Flame to attack the Spirit Clan in three days, and Hun Xiu agreed to go ahead of time.
• Soul Emperor and Nihility Devouring Flame discussed whether to bring the Four Demon Saints and agreed to add Hun Sha while remaining wary of the Gu Clan.
• Soul Emperor said the Hun Clan hoped the Gu Clan would stay out of its plans, but warned that it could become the next target if it opposed them.
• Hun Xiu returned to his room and began cultivating.
• The account described the Spirit Clan’s decline and revealed that the Hun Clan planned to use Ancient Clan members with Dou Emperor Bloodlines as nourishment for Soul Emperor’s path to becoming a Dou Emperor.

Hun Xiu secretly explored the Spirit Realm to assess the Spirit Clan, knowing he could not openly oppose the Hun Clan’s plan to become Dou Emperors. He was discovered by a strange little girl who could see the hidden Heavenly Flames inside his body.

• Hun Xiu reflected on the Hun Clan’s long-planned scheme to turn the semi-finished Emperor Pill into a path to becoming Dou Emperors.
• Hun Xiu entered the Spirit Realm in secret and assessed its weak defenses and dwindling population.
• Hun Xiu concluded that he could defeat the Spirit Clan alone and take its million members.
• A little girl with no detectable cultivation appeared beside Hun Xiu and asked who he was.
• The girl told Hun Xiu that she could see the many hot flames inside his body and asked if they were Heavenly Flames.

Hun Xiu discovered that the Spirit Clan girl Ling'er had once possessed a Dou Emperor Bloodline, which had been forcibly taken from her, and that she had rare Spirit Eyes. He set her down when she asked who he was, but Ling'er suddenly claimed she knew his identity.

• Hun Xiu examined Ling'er and realized her Dou Emperor Bloodline had been forcibly taken when she was born, leaving her with little time to live.
• Hun Xiu recognized Ling'er's purple eyes as Spirit Eyes, a rare ability that let her see through concealment and detect his Heavenly Flames.
• Hun Xiu reflected that Ling'er could have become a powerful expert, but her stolen bloodline and the Hun Clan's plans threatened her chances of survival.
• Ling'er complained that Hun Xiu had not answered her question, and he set her down without revealing that he had come to end the Spirit Clan.
• Ling'er complimented Hun Xiu's appearance, then suddenly screamed that she knew who he was.