Chapter Summaries

Hun Xiu visited the Fire Spirit Clan, and Clan Head Huo Batian rushed to receive the Heavenly Sovereign after learning he carried a Heaven Rank Token from the Hall of Souls. When Hun Xiu gave his name, Huo Batian realized the visitor was Emperor Xiu, Lord of the Hall of Souls.

• Hun Xiu waited outside the Fire Spirit Clan's mountain gate while one of its Sovereigns went to notify the clan.
• Huo San told Huo Batian that a visitor from the Hall of Souls had arrived with a Heaven Rank Token.
• Huo Batian hurried to the mountain gate to greet the Heavenly Sovereign.
• Hun Xiu introduced himself, and Huo Batian recognized him as Emperor Xiu, Lord of the Hall of Souls.

Hun Xiu, master of the Hall of Souls, visited the Fire Spirit Clan, leaving Clan Head Huo Batian terrified that he had come to settle an old grudge. Hun Xiu told Huo Batian to summon the Fire Spirit Ancestor because the matter was beyond the Clan Head’s ability.

• Huo Batian recognized Hun Xiu as Emperor Xiu and nervously welcomed him into the Fire Spirit Clan.
• Two Eighth Grade Sovereigns bragged about stopping Hun Xiu and praised his handsome appearance.
• Huo Batian hosted Hun Xiu in the main hall and anxiously asked why he had come.
• Hun Xiu recalled telling the Fire Spirit Ancestor six years earlier that he would visit, prompting Huo Batian to suspect his ancestor had once helped the Western Heaven War Sovereign fight Hun Xiu.
• Hun Xiu told Huo Batian to invite the Fire Spirit Ancestor, saying the Clan Head was not capable of handling the matter.

Hun Xiu waited at the Fire Spirit Clan for Tou She Ancient God, while Huo Batian summoned Fire Spirit Ancestor for help. Tou She Ancient God arrived and locked eyes with Hun Xiu, bringing the long-awaited meeting to its first moment.

• Huo Batian sent a flaming bird to summon Fire Spirit Ancestor after realizing he could not suppress Hun Xiu.
• Fire Spirit Ancestor received the message while playing chess with Tou She Ancient God, who learned that Hun Xiu had arrived and said he had waited six years for him.
• Tou She Ancient God and Fire Spirit Ancestor finished their game an hour later, and Tou She Ancient God hurried to meet Hun Xiu.
• Huo Batian grew increasingly anxious as Fire Spirit Ancestor failed to arrive, while Hun Xiu rested in the great hall.
• Hun Xiu sensed Tou She Ancient God's arrival, and Tou She Ancient God entered the hall and fixed his gaze on Hun Xiu.

Hun Xiu met Tou She Ancient God at the Fire Spirit Clan and revealed that he intended to refine him to approach Saint Grade and gain another avatar. Tou She Ancient God accepted the challenge, insisting Hun Xiu would need absolute strength to refine him without suffering a backlash.

• Hun Xiu and Tou She Ancient God assessed each other's strength, and Hun Xiu greeted the ancient god as a senior from the Dou Qi Continent.
• Huo Batian realized Hun Xiu and Tou She Ancient God shared the same homeland and thought Hun Xiu had come to visit a senior rather than cause trouble.
• The Fire Spirit Ancestor arrived and greeted Hun Xiu, who congratulated him on advancing to the late stage of Spiritual Grade.
• Hun Xiu asked the Fire Spirit Ancestor and Tou She Ancient God if they knew why he had returned, and both acknowledged that they did.
• Hun Xiu told Tou She Ancient God he could leave with him or be taken by force, making clear he intended to refine him.
• Tou She Ancient God calmly agreed to face Hun Xiu but warned that refining him without absolute strength would backfire.

Hun Xiu told Tou She Ancient God that he had killed Xiao Yan, Tou She Ancient God’s inheritor, and explained how a trace of Origin Qi in a half-finished Emperor Pill had let him become a Dou Di. Tou She Ancient God agreed to battle Hun Xiu before being Absorbed, while the Fire Spirit Ancestor warned Huo Batian that the clan would soon lose its Supreme Elder.

• Hun Xiu and Tou She Ancient God agreed to fight, and they left the great hall to battle.
• The Fire Spirit Ancestor told Huo Batian that Hun Xiu had come to devour Tou She Ancient God and that the clan would soon have no Supreme Elder.
• Tou She Ancient God asked Hun Xiu about Xiao Yan, and Hun Xiu admitted he had killed him and recounted his story.
• Hun Xiu explained that he had broken through to Dou Di using Origin Qi from the half-finished Emperor Pill in Tou She Ancient God’s cave dwelling.
• Tou She Ancient God realized that the pill he had left behind had created the powerful enemy who killed his inheritor.

Hun Xiu revealed that Tou She Ancient God's inheritance had fallen into his hands after he killed its inheritor. Tou She Ancient God unleashed his ultimate technique, while Fire Spirit Ancestor warned Huo Batian that Hun Xiu was not frightened by the display.

• Hun Xiu told Tou She Ancient God that he had obtained the inheritance after killing its inheritor and explained that he cultivated a different technique for devouring Heavenly Flames.
• Tou She Ancient God welcomed Hun Xiu as an inheritor and challenged him to withstand his full strength.
• Tou She Ancient God summoned the Heavenly Flame Square and began merging the Stone Pillars and Heavenly Flames into the Heavenly Flame Ancient Ruler.
• Huo Batian marveled at Tou She Ancient God's power and assumed Hun Xiu was too frightened to move.
• Fire Spirit Ancestor corrected Huo Batian, saying Hun Xiu was not frightened witless.

Hun Xiu caught Tou She Ancient God's Heavenly Flame Ancient Ruler and began absorbing his spiritual power. Tou She Ancient God admitted Hun Xiu could absorb him, but said Hun Xiu had only passed the first test and called for Fire Spirit's support as the second began.

• Tou She Ancient God sent the Heavenly Flame Ancient Ruler crashing down at Hun Xiu, who caught it with one hand while a barrier turned aside the flames.
• Fire Spirit Ancestor and Huo Batian watched in shock, and Fire Spirit Ancestor told Huo Batian to set aside his Clan Head duties and travel through the Great Thousand World after the matter was settled.
• Hun Xiu absorbed much of Tou She Ancient God's spiritual power, forcing Tou She Ancient God to break free and return to his red-robed form.
• Tou She Ancient God acknowledged Hun Xiu's strength and said he had passed the first test, but needed to pass a second one before Tou She Ancient God would let him absorb him.
• Tou She Ancient God called to Fire Spirit and explained that he was waiting for Fire Spirit's support, not asking for help.

Tou She Ancient God summoned Fire Spirit Ancestor to help with his second test: Hun Xiu had to defeat them both. Tou She Ancient God merged with Fire Spirit Ancestor, who challenged Hun Xiu with powerful fire attacks, and the battle remained unresolved.

• Tou She Ancient God told Hun Xiu that his second test was to defeat him and Fire Spirit Ancestor together.
• Hun Xiu accepted the challenge, and Tou She Ancient God merged into Fire Spirit Ancestor, raising his strength to near the mid-stage of the Immortal Grade.
• Fire Spirit Ancestor sent a sea of fire at Hun Xiu, but Hun Xiu swallowed the flames.
• Fire Spirit Ancestor formed a fiery bird that grew into a fire phoenix and charged at Hun Xiu, burning through the void.

Hun Xiu defeated the Fire Spirit Ancestor and Tou She Ancient God, then refined Tou She Ancient God and entered seclusion in a volcano within the Fire Spirit Clan. Meanwhile, the Fire Spirit Ancestor arranged to protect Hun Xiu's retreat, and Maha Tian arrived at the Futur Ancient Clan.

• Hun Xiu used Buddha's Fury Lotus to defeat the Fire Spirit Ancestor and force him and Tou She Ancient God to separate.
• Tou She Ancient God accepted his defeat and transformed into the Tou She Ancient Emperor Flame, which Hun Xiu absorbed and began refining.
• Hun Xiu asked to use the Fire Spirit Clan's territory for seclusion, and the Fire Spirit Ancestor agreed.
• Hun Xiu entered a volcano, and the Fire Spirit Ancestor ordered Huo Batian to guard the site and inform the Hall of Souls.
• Maha Tian arrived at the Futur Ancient Clan, where Futur Xuan and members of both clans gathered in the main hall.

Maha Tian brought experts from the Maha Ancient Clan to the Futur Ancient Clan to seek Qing Yanjing’s hand in marriage, hoping to absorb the declining clan through an alliance. Futur Xuan rejected him because he favored Hun Xiu instead, leaving Maha Tian furious and demanding an explanation.

• Maha Tian sought to marry Qing Yanjing so he could eventually bring the Futur Ancient Clan under the Maha Ancient Clan’s control.
• Futur Xuan refused the proposed marriage, explaining that Hun Xiu’s achievements and strength had changed his view of who should marry Qing Yanjing.
• The people in the great hall were stunned by Futur Xuan’s unexpected refusal, and Maha Tian asked if the Great Elder was joking.
• Maha Tian accused Futur Xuan of playing him because Futur Xuan had previously agreed to their marriage arrangement.
• Futur Xuan said their earlier agreement had been only verbal, Qing Yanjing had not known about it, and there had been no betrothal token; he apologized to Maha Tian.

Futur Xuan apologized and bowed to Maha Tian, ending the proposed marriage between Qing Yanjing and Maha Tian and sending the Maha Ancient Clan away. Maha Tian vowed to retaliate, while Futur Xuan’s own clan members condemned his decision, leaving him to call them shortsighted fools.

• Futur Xuan apologized to Maha Tian and explained that the marriage agreement with Qing Yanjing had been a misunderstanding.
• Maha Tian accepted the apology without conceding, warned that the Maha Ancient Clan would remember the humiliation, and left Futur Continent with his people.
• Maha Tian ordered Maha Zi to monitor the Futur Ancient Clan and report any movements, then departed while Maha Zi concealed himself on the continent.
• Futur Ancient Clan experts criticized Futur Xuan for ruining a chance at an alliance with the Maha Ancient Clan.
• Futur Xuan called the complaining experts shortsighted fools.

Futur Xuan defended Qing Yanjing and urged her to visit Hun Xiu at the Hall of Souls, convinced she would become its mistress. Qing Yanjing traveled to the Western Heaven Continent, unaware that Maha Zi was following her, and arrived at the eerie, mist-shrouded Hall of Souls.

• Futur Xuan silenced the Futur Ancient Clan's experts and threatened to expel anyone who spread gossip about the day's events.
• Futur Xuan told Qing Yanjing to visit Hun Xiu, while she insisted their relationship was only that of master and servant.
• Qing Yanjing agreed to visit Hun Xiu, whom she had not seen in six years.
• Qing Yanjing left the Futur Continent for the Western Heaven Continent, and Maha Zi secretly followed her, suspecting she was meeting a lover.
• Qing Yanjing reached Soul City, where the Hall of Souls stood beneath strange black mist amid deserted streets.

Qing Yanjing entered the Hall of Souls to visit Hun Xiu, while Maha Zi returned to the Maha Ancient Clan with news that she had a lover. Maha Tian learned that her lover might be Hun Xiu and resolved to confront him, though he had never heard of the Hall of Souls or its master.

• Qing Yanjing entered the Hall of Souls after its guards confirmed she was Hun Xiu's friend.
• Maha Zi followed Qing Yanjing to Soul City but left before entering the Hall of Souls, suspecting the Futur Ancient Clan had allied with it.
• Maha Zi told Maha Tian that Qing Yanjing had secretly visited her lover and that Futur Xuan likely rejected Maha Tian's proposal because of him.
• Maha Tian erupted in anger at being passed over and demanded to know who Qing Yanjing's lover was.
• Maha Zi guessed that the lover might be Hun Xiu, the Hall of Souls' master, and explained that Hun Xiu was known as Emperor Xiu.

Maha Tian learned that Hun Xiu had destroyed the Western Heaven War Hall and established the Hall of Souls, then resolved to destroy Hun Xiu and his faction after believing they had replaced him as Qing Yanjing’s match. When Maha Zi warned that attacking the Hall of Souls could devastate the Maha Ancient Clan, he gave Maha Tian intelligence about its strength, leaving Maha Tian shocked as he read it.

• Maha Zi told Maha Tian that Hun Xiu had risen from a Lower Plane, defeated the Western Heaven War Sovereign, destroyed the Western Heaven War Hall, and made the Hall of Souls ruler of the Western Heaven Continent.
• Maha Tian concluded that Futur Xuan had rejected him in favor of Hun Xiu and vowed to kill Hun Xiu and destroy the Hall of Souls.
• Maha Tian announced that he intended to level the Hall of Souls, but the elders remained silent because they feared the cost of a war against the powerful faction.
• Maha Zi urged Maha Tian to consider the attack carefully, explaining that the Hall of Souls controlled the entire Western Heaven Continent.
• Maha Tian demanded an explanation, and Maha Zi sent him intelligence about the Hall of Souls; after reading it, Maha Tian drew a sharp breath and looked stunned.

Maha Tian learned that the Hall of Souls was powerful enough to make a war costly, but he still declared that the Maha Ancient Clan would destroy it. He revealed that he planned to attack one year later, leaving the clan elders waiting to hear his reason.

• Maha Tian read Maha Zi's intelligence about Hun Xiu and the Hall of Souls' formidable forces, then reconsidered his plan to destroy it.
• After weighing the cost of war against his pride and earlier promise, Maha Tian decided that the Hall of Souls must be destroyed.
• The Maha Ancient Clan's experts protested, warning that attacking the Hall of Souls could bring disaster on their own clan.
• Maha Tian silenced them and clarified that he intended to destroy the Hall of Souls one year later.
• The clan elders stopped protesting and waited as Maha Tian asked whether they wanted to know why he had chosen that timing.

Maha Tian announced that he would reach the Saint Grade within a year and attack the Hall of Souls, while Hun Xiu continued cultivating in seclusion at Flaming Mountain. A year later, a terrifying tribulation gathered over the Maha Ancient Clan as Maha Tian emerged on the verge of completing his breakthrough.

• Maha Tian claimed he could become a Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign within a year and declared that he would attack the Hall of Souls after cultivating in seclusion.
• The Maha Ancient Clan's experts accepted Maha Tian's plan, though his promised breakthrough was also a gamble meant to pressure himself.
• Qing Yanjing visited the Hall of Souls to see Hun Xiu, waited for several months, and left without meeting him.
• Hun Xiu remained motionless in seclusion beneath the magma at Flaming Mountain, absorbing fire spiritual energy for a year.
• Maha Tian's cultivation drew dark clouds and lightning over the Maha Ancient Clan, and the gathered experts believed he was undergoing his Saint Grade tribulation.
• Maha Tian opened his eyes after finding and passing through the threshold to the Saint Grade.

After Maha Tian survived his Thunder Tribulation and became a Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign, he summoned the Maha Ancient Clan elders to discuss destroying the Hall of Souls. The elders tried to avoid the issue, but Maha Tian pressed them to act and Maha Zi finally named the plan.

• Maha Tian stood through the Thunder Tribulation unharmed and completed his breakthrough to Saint Grade.
• Maha Tian summoned the Maha Ancient Clan elders to the main hall, where he sensed that a realm existed above Saint Grade.
• The elders congratulated Maha Tian and avoided mentioning the plan to attack the Hall of Souls, fearing the cost of provoking a superpower.
• Maha Tian insisted that the elders had forgotten something and considered using the Hall of Souls' destruction to secure absolute authority within the clan.
• Maha Tian singled out Maha Zi, who chose to support him and asked whether he meant attacking the Hall of Souls.

Maha Tian revealed his Saint Grade breakthrough and ordered the Maha Ancient Clan to destroy the Hall of Souls in one month, making the Great Thousand World react with shock and anticipation. When the threat reached the Hall of Souls, Soul Emperor assembled its experts to prepare for the fight.

• Maha Zi flattered Maha Tian and affirmed that he remembered the Clan Head’s plan to attack the Hall of Souls.
• Maha Tian demanded that the Maha Ancient Clan support his attack, then ordered the army to assemble and announced that he would lead it against the Hall of Souls in one month.
• The Maha Ancient Clan spread news of Maha Tian’s Saint Grade breakthrough and its plan to destroy the Hall of Souls, stirring debate across the Great Thousand World.
• Soul Emperor gathered the Hall of Souls’ experts, including those in seclusion, after learning that the Maha Ancient Clan intended to attack.
• About a hundred Earth Sovereigns and more than ten Heavenly Sovereigns assembled in the Hall of Souls’ main hall.

The Hall of Souls prepared for an attack by the Maha Ancient Clan, whose leader Maha Tian had reached the Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign realm. The Azure Robe Sword Saint asked Qin Tian to intervene, and Qin Tian began investigating the Hall of Souls’ strength before deciding what to do.

• Soul Emperor told the Hall of Souls’ experts that the Maha Ancient Clan would attack in one month, and they unanimously chose to fight.
• Soul Emperor ordered the Earth Sovereigns to gather in Soul City and said Hun Xiu would be notified while he remained in seclusion with the Fire Spirit Clan.
• The Azure Robe Sword Saint told Xuanyuan Chuanqi to deliver a letter asking Qin Tian to persuade Maha Tian not to attack the Hall of Souls.
• Qin Tian received the letter, dismissed Xuanyuan Chuanqi, and questioned an aide about the Hall of Souls’ forces and Hun Xiu’s strength.

Qin Tian examined the Hall of Souls’ rapid rise and wondered whether its master, Hun Xiu, had already reached Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign. The Great Thousand Palace’s records offered no recent estimate of Hun Xiu’s strength, but traced the Hall’s growth to a Lower Plane supplying it with experts.

• Qin Tian recalled how he had once dismissed Hun Xiu and the Hall of Souls, but grew interested after the Azure Robe Sword Saint praised Hun Xiu’s talent and asked him to intervene.
• A black-robed man reported that the Great Thousand Palace’s latest record rated Hun Xiu as a late-stage Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereign and had no newer information.
• Qin Tian speculated that Hun Xiu might have broken through to Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign, while the black-robed man said such rapid advancement seemed impossible.
• Qin Tian asked whether the Hall of Souls’ rapid rise involved the Outer Domain Evil Race, and the black-robed man explained that a Lower Plane had been supplying it with experts.