Chapter Summaries

Lei Dong questioned Gu Xun'er about rumors that she loved Xiao Yan, and she claimed she had gone to the Xiao Clan only to obtain the Tou She Ancient God Jade. Lei Dong remained convinced she had protected Xiao Yan and the Xiao Clan because she loved him, and the chapter ended with Gu Xun'er insisting she did not like Xiao Yan at all.

• Lei Dong and Lei Luo cultivated in the Heavenly Tomb's Third Layer for two months, reaching Nine-Star and Seven-Star Dou Zun respectively.
• Gu Xun'er arrived alone, and Lei Dong reacted to her with solemnity and unease.
• Gu Xun'er asked Lei Luo to leave, then said Huo Xuan had driven a wedge between her and Lei Dong by claiming she loved Xiao Yan.
• Gu Xun'er said she had gone to the Xiao Clan to seek the Tou She Ancient God Jade, while Lei Dong privately concluded she had stayed there to protect Xiao Yan.
• Lei Dong asked Gu Xun'er if she truly did not like Xiao Yan, and she denied liking him at all.

Gu Xun'er tried to recruit Lei Dong into a plan to poison Huo Xuan and the Medicine Clan pair, but Lei Dong rejected her and destroyed the pills. Elsewhere in the Heavenly Tomb, Huo Xuan’s group discussed their scarce Energy Cores, and Huo Xuan insisted he trusted Lei Dong.

• Gu Xun'er told Lei Dong she did not like Xiao Yan and claimed her hatred for Huo Xuan came from his theft of the Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Gu Xun'er gave Lei Dong six poisoned pills and proposed they use them to kill Huo Xuan, Huo Zhi, Yao Tian, and Yao Ling, with Lei Dong and Lei Luo taking pills to avoid suspicion.
• Lei Dong accused Gu Xun'er of trying to poison him, shoved her away, shattered the bottle, and crushed several pills.
• In the Heavenly Tomb, Yao Tian and Huo Xuan discussed their limited Energy Cores and the debts Yao Tian owed Huo Xuan for borrowing them for Yao Ling.
• Yao Tian warned Huo Xuan that Gu Xun'er would likely try to kill him indirectly and asked whether Lei Dong could be trusted; Huo Xuan said he believed Lei Dong would not betray him.

Huo Xuan convinced Yao Tian that Lei Dong would never side with Gu Xun'er once he learned she loved another man, and Yao Tian planned to use the broken engagement to weaken the Gu Clan. In the Heavenly Tomb, Hun Ya and Hun Li hunted Energy Bodies and decided to avoid confronting Huo Xuan or Gu Xun'er while they focused on growing stronger.

• Huo Xuan persuaded Yao Tian that Lei Dong would reject Gu Xun'er if he learned she had been using him and loved someone else.
• Yao Tian decided to embellish the story and spread it through the Lei Clan, hoping Lei Ying would break Lei Dong's engagement and end the Gu-Lei Alliance.
• Hun Ya ambushed and destroyed a nine-star Energy Body, then took its Energy Core.
• Hun Ya suggested targeting Gu Xun'er or Huo Xuan, but Hun Li warned that neither was safe to attack.
• Hun Li concluded Huo Xuan had likely killed Gu Yao and urged Hun Ya to avoid provoking their powerful rivals and concentrate on cultivation.

Huo Xuan defied his ancestor’s warnings and prepared to confront Xiao Xuan, gathering Lei Dong and borrowing several Heavenly Flames for the mission. The group reached the deepest part of the Heavenly Tomb and found an ancient stone stele that Huo Xuan identified as Xiao Xuan’s Tomb Estate.

• Huo Xuan shattered Lei Dong’s communication token, and his Flame Clan ancestor appeared and urged him to abandon his plan against Xiao Xuan.
• Huo Xuan insisted he had a ninety percent chance of success, so his ancestor gave him a safe route and agreed to protect the others left behind.
• A month later, Lei Dong arrived, and Huo Xuan borrowed the Nine Nether Wind Flame from Yao Tian, the Turtle Spirit Earth Flame from Yao Ling, and the Red Lotus Karma Flame from Huo Zhi.
• Huo Xuan, Yao Tian, and Lei Dong followed the ancestor’s route through the Heavenly Tomb without encountering any Dou Sheng Energy Bodies.
• The three reached the deepest part of the Heavenly Tomb, where Huo Xuan recognized an ancient stone stele as Xiao Xuan’s Tomb Estate.

Huo Xuan confronted Xiao Xuan with news of the Xiao Clan and used that information to persuade him to appear in person. Xiao Xuan's image vanished, and the real Xiao Xuan emerged from a spatial vortex demanding to know the clan's condition.

• Huo Xuan struck Xiao Xuan's tombstone with Flame Skill Palm, prompting an angry voice to appear.
• Xiao Xuan appeared as an image and warned Huo Xuan to leave, but Huo Xuan insisted on meeting him in person and offered news of the Xiao Clan.
• Huo Xuan refused to reveal anything unless Xiao Xuan showed himself, and Xiao Xuan recalled how his failed Dou Di attempt had brought the Xiao Clan to ruin.
• Xiao Xuan's image disappeared, and a spatial vortex formed beside the tombstone.
• The real Xiao Xuan stepped out of the vortex and asked what had happened to his Xiao Clan.

Huo Xuan told Xiao Xuan how the Gu Clan betrayed the Xiao Clan, stole its foundations, and pursued the Tou She Ancient God Jade, then revealed that Xiao Yan had fallen in love with Gu Yuan’s daughter. Xiao Xuan erupted in grief and rage before Huo Xuan, Yao Tian, and Lei Dong revealed that they had come to refine his remnant soul.

• Xiao Xuan demanded to know what had happened to the Xiao Clan, and Huo Xuan introduced himself, Yao Tian, and Lei Dong.
• Huo Xuan recounted how the Gu Clan took the Xiao Clan’s foundations, erased its past, and sent Gu Yuan’s daughter to steal the Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Huo Xuan told Xiao Xuan that Xiao Yan had overcome a severe decline in cultivation and become a promising genius.
• Huo Xuan explained that Xiao Yan loved Gu Yuan’s daughter, whose God Grade Bloodline meant the Gu Clan would likely kill him, and Xiao Xuan blamed Gu Yuan for betraying his trust.
• Huo Xuan proposed that Xiao Xuan let them refine his remnant soul, then admitted that he, Yao Tian, and Lei Dong had come for it and formed an encirclement around him.

Huo Xuan tried to make Xiao Xuan submit by threatening the surviving Xiao Clan, but Xiao Xuan refused and attacked. After Huo Xuan was engulfed by his eight Strange Fires and Yao Tian and Lei Dong faced Xiao Xuan, a Golden Red Flame emerged from the smoke and formed Yan Jin.

• Huo Xuan threatened the Xiao Clan’s remaining members and offered Xiao Xuan a choice between surrendering his remnant soul and dealing with the Heavenly Tomb Soul, but Xiao Xuan refused to trust him.
• Xiao Xuan froze the space around Huo Xuan and struck him with a massive black palm, so Huo Xuan used Human-Flame Fusion with eight Strange Fires to withstand the attack.
• Lei Dong called Yao Tian to his side and begged Xiao Xuan to spare them, but Xiao Xuan attacked them with a gigantic finger.
• Yao Tian crushed a Jade Stone, summoning a medicine cauldron that carried a preserved Seven Star Dou Sheng strike from Yao Dan and blocked Xiao Xuan’s attack.
• The smoke cleared to reveal Huo Xuan unconscious inside a Golden Red Flame, which gathered into an illusory figure that Xiao Xuan recognized as Yan Jin.

Yan Jin’s remnant soul joined the battle against Xiao Xuan, while Huo Xuan used Lei Ying’s stored attack to ambush Xiao Xuan. The combined assault left Xiao Xuan badly wounded and falling from the sky.

• Xiao Xuan, Yao Tian, and Lei Dong realized that Huo Xuan had brought Yan Jin’s remnant soul to fight Xiao Xuan.
• Yan Jin explained that he had acted for the sake of his clan and began battling Xiao Xuan.
• Huo Xuan gave his unconscious body to Yao Tian and Lei Dong, then fought Xiao Xuan in the Heavenly Tomb.
• Huo Xuan took Lei Ying’s full-powered attack from a Jade Stone and struck Xiao Xuan from behind while he was occupied with Yan Jin.
• Yan Jin pressed his advantage and struck Xiao Xuan in the chest, sending him plummeting from the sky.

Huo Xuan, Yan Jin, Yao Tian, and Lei Dong used the Soul Refining Grand Array and their Strange Fires to refine Xiao Xuan’s remnant soul. After half a month of fighting, Xiao Xuan’s soul dispersed, leaving behind a transparent orb filled with immense Soul Power.

• Yan Jin joined Huo Xuan in attacking the already wounded Xiao Xuan until Xiao Xuan collapsed.
• Huo Xuan activated the Soul Refining Grand Array and trapped Xiao Xuan in a cauldron formed from eleven Strange Fires.
• Yao Tian and Lei Dong took their assigned positions, helping refine Xiao Xuan while Lei Dong used the Lei Clan’s Killing Array to strike him with lightning.
• Huo Xuan, Yao Tian, and Lei Dong repeatedly replenished their Dou Qi with pills as they continued the lengthy refinement.
• After half a month, Xiao Xuan’s remnant soul dispersed into white specks, leaving a transparent orb of powerful Soul Power.

After defeating Xiao Xuan, Huo Xuan claimed the Soul Origin while giving Yao Tian and Lei Dong the Energy Core, then refined the energy he had absorbed from the grand array. He emerged ten days later at Nine Star Dou Zun Peak.

• Huo Xuan reclaimed nine Strange Fires, returned two to Yao Tian, and took Xiao Xuan's Soul Origin and Energy Core.
• Yao Tian and Lei Dong feared Huo Xuan would seize both treasures, but Huo Xuan agreed to give them the Energy Core and keep the Soul Origin.
• Yao Tian and Lei Dong left to discuss the Energy Core while Yan Jin stayed to guard Huo Xuan.
• Huo Xuan suffered backlash from the energy he had absorbed during the soul refinement, swallowed Eighth Grade Pills, and began cultivating as Yan Jin stood watch.
• After ten days of cultivation, Huo Xuan absorbed the stored energy and reached Nine Star Dou Zun Peak.

After reaching Nine Star Dou Zun Peak, Huo Xuan refined Xiao Xuan’s Soul Origin in the Heavenly Tomb and raised his soul beyond Heaven Realm Great Perfection, possibly to Half-Step Emperor Realm. He decided to leave the Heavenly Tomb.

• Huo Xuan discovered that absorbing Xiao Xuan’s energy had brought him to Nine Star Dou Zun Peak, and Yan Jin praised his progress before warning him to avoid further danger.
• Yan Jin told Huo Xuan he could safely absorb the Soul Origin, then faded away as his remnant soul ran out of time.
• Huo Xuan drew out Xiao Xuan’s lingering resentment by promising not to destroy the Xiao Clan, then used his Strange Fires to purify the Soul Origin.
• Over three days, Huo Xuan absorbed the purified Soul Origin until his soul reached a realm beyond Heaven Realm Great Perfection.
• Huo Xuan sensed a sovereign aura from his soul, speculated that it might be Half-Step Emperor Realm, and prepared to leave the Heavenly Tomb.

Huo Xuan destroyed Xiao Xuan's tomb estate and explained to Yao Tian and Lei Dong why Xiao Xuan's inheritance could only have been the Xiao Clan's Dou Di Bloodline. Before they left, Lei Dong asked them to inspect two pills from Gu Xun'er, and Huo Xuan warned that they contained something they should not.

• Huo Xuan shattered Xiao Xuan's tombstone and declared that Xiao Xuan's era had ended.
• Yao Tian and Lei Dong met Huo Xuan and learned that his soul had reached Heaven Realm Great Perfection.
• Huo Xuan reasoned that Xiao Xuan's inheritance was likely the Xiao Clan's Dou Di Bloodline, but said he had destroyed the Tomb Estate where it was kept.
• Lei Dong gave Huo Xuan and Yao Tian two pills from Gu Xun'er that had been intended for them.
• Yao Tian could find nothing wrong with the pills, but Huo Xuan insisted they contained something that should not be there.

Huo Xuan and Yao Tian discovered that Gu Xun’er’s pills contained Child Flames of the Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame, and Lei Dong revealed that she had intended to poison them. Lei Dong ended his attachment to Gu Xun’er and agreed to join Huo Xuan and Yao Tian in targeting the Gu Clan, leaving them to recover before planning their attack.

• Huo Xuan and Yao Tian burned the pills and found that they contained Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame Child Flames that could be controlled by the source flame.
• Lei Dong explained that Gu Xun’er had planned to trick them into swallowing the pills and showed that she had prepared a dose for him as well.
• Lei Dong declared that his feelings for Gu Xun’er were gone and that he would ask his clan leader to annul their engagement.
• Huo Xuan revealed that he had killed Gu Yao and proposed targeting Gu Qingyang and other Gu Clan members; Yao Tian and Lei Dong agreed to join him.
• Huo Xuan assured Yao Tian and Lei Dong that they would be safe after leaving the Heavenly Tomb, then said he would find every Gu Clan member hiding there.

After half a year of pursuing Gu Xun’er and her companions through the Heavenly Tomb, Huo Xuan, Yao Tian, and Lei Dong cornered them and ended their game of cat and mouse. Huo Xuan let Gu Xun’er leave but declared that the others would die, leaving Gu Qingyang and the rest facing Yao Tian.

• Gu Xun’er recovered while Gu Qingyang and the other Gu Clan members relied on an ancestor’s protection to escape Huo Xuan’s pursuit.
• Huo Xuan’s group learned the Gu Clan members’ location and set out to finish the chase, with Lei Dong asking when they would make their move.
• Huo Xuan found two Dou Sheng Energy Cores among the traces of battle and collected them before confronting Gu Xun’er and the others.
• Gu Xun’er invoked the Ancient Eight Clans’ alliance and threatened Huo Xuan with Gu Yuan, but Huo Xuan dismissed her objections and said she was not his target.
• Yao Tian demanded that Gu Qingyang and the others choose who would die first, while Huo Xuan allowed Gu Xun’er to leave.

Huo Xuan, Yao Tian, and Lei Dong fought the Gu Clan’s Black Annihilation Army commanders within the Heavenly Tomb. Lei Dong, Yao Tian, and Huo Xuan killed Gu Xing, Gu Hua, Gu Zhen, and Gu Qingyang, while Gu Xun’er remained restrained by the elders.

• Huo Xuan assigned Lei Dong to fight Gu Xing, Yao Tian to fight Gu Hua, and took on Gu Qingyang and Gu Zhen himself.
• Lei Dong overcame his reluctance, broke Gu Xing’s arm, and killed him with Demon Lightning Fall.
• Yao Tian burned Gu Hua to death with the Nine Nether Wind Flame after Gu Hua was distracted by Gu Xing’s death.
• Gu Zhen tried to self-destruct, but Huo Xuan’s Strange Fire swallowed him and reduced him to ashes.
• Huo Xuan shattered Gu Qingyang’s skull, killing the Black Annihilation Army Great Commander.

Huo Xuan’s group left Gu Xun’er alive after killing Gu Qingyang and the other Gu Clan members, and she blamed herself for their deaths. When the Heavenly Tomb survivors returned to the Gu World, Xun’er emerged alone and revealed that Qingyang and the others had been killed.

• Huo Xuan slapped Gu Xun’er, warned her not to provoke him again, and left with his group.
• Gu Xun’er collected Gu Qingyang and the others’ bodies and wondered whether greater strength could have changed what happened.
• Members of the Hun, Shi, Lei, Medicine, and Flame Clans emerged from the Heavenly Tomb with stronger cultivation.
• Huo Xuan and Huo Zhi returned, impressing Elder Yan Feng with their progress.
• Gu Xun’er emerged alone, and when Elder Tongxuan asked where the others were, she said they had all been killed.

After Gu Xun'er revealed the dead Gu Clan geniuses, the clans nearly clashed until Gu Yuan learned that Black Demon Lightning had been found on Gu Xing's corpse and chose to delay retaliation. Back in Yan World, Yan Jin stripped Huo Xuan of his position as Young Clan Leader for provoking the crisis.

• Gu Xun'er presented the bodies of Gu Xing, Gu Hua, and Gu Qingyang, and Elder Tongxuan mourned the dead.
• Gu Clan elders attacked the Flame Clan and Yao Clan, but Yao Dan arrived and forced them to stop.
• Gu Xun'er accused Huo Xuan and his companions of killing Gu Qingyang, prompting Elder Tongxuan to attack before Yao Dan sent him flying.
• Gu Yuan arrived and demanded the Flame and Yao clans surrender their juniors, but Gu Dao told him Black Demon Lightning had been found on Gu Xing's corpse and warned him against starting a war while the Hun Clan lurked nearby.
• Lei Dong gave Gu Yuan a medicinal pill and said Lei Ying would visit to resolve the matter, while Yan Jin took Huo Xuan back to Yan World.
• Yan Jin rebuked Huo Xuan for repeatedly causing trouble and stripped him of his Young Clan Leader position.

Huo Xuan received reports that the Jia Ma Empire had fallen and several Central Plains factions had disappeared or weakened after Xiao Yan’s death and other changes. Gu Yuan punished Gu Xun'er for her attachment to Xiao Yan, then ordered Lin Xiu to hunt down and kill the Xiao Clan’s surviving members.

• Huo Xuan told Yan Yang and Yan Ya to call him Young Master and heard that the three empires had destroyed the Jia Ma Empire and that several Central Plains factions had changed.
• Gu Xun'er admitted she could not forget Xiao Yan, so Gu Yuan slapped her and ordered her into seclusion until she became a Dou Sheng.
• Gu Yuan summoned Lin Xiu, newly appointed Great Commander of the Black Annihilation Army, and ordered him to find and slaughter the Xiao Clan remnants on the Northwest Continent.
• Lin Xiu questioned whether the Xiao Clan had already been exterminated, but Gu Yuan insisted that survivors remained and commanded him to search them out.

Lei Ying went to the Gu Clan to end Lei Dong and Gu Xun'er's engagement, while Gu Yuan swallowed his anger over the Heavenly Tomb losses. In the Yan World, Yao Tian entrusted Medicine Clan children to the Flame Clan for safekeeping, and Huo Xuan weighed whether to use the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning to strengthen the alliance.

• Lei Ying told Gu Yuan he would dissolve Lei Dong and Gu Xun'er's engagement, rejected Gu Yuan's appeal, and offered compensation for Lei Dong killing Gu Xing.
• Yao Tian brought about twenty young Medicine Clan children to the Yan World and entrusted them to White-Robed Old Men for five or six years.
• Huo Xuan assured Yao Tian that the Flame Clan would support the Medicine Clan, while understanding that the Medicine Clan might hide some of its people elsewhere.
• Yao Tian and Huo Xuan discussed whether the Flame, Thunder, and Medicine Clans could stand against the Gu Clan, and Huo Xuan considered whether to give Lei Ying the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning or keep it for himself.

Huo Xuan secretly left the Flame Clan with Huo Yun, Huo Zhi, Yan Ling, and Yan Liao to attend the Space Trading Fair and seek the final Purifying Lotus Demon Flame Remnant Map. They reached the fair’s hidden entrance, a Space Black Hole in the desert, while expecting the clan to send people after them.

• The Lei Clan joined the alliance with the Flame Clan and Medicine Clan after the Gu Clan’s losses during the Heavenly Tomb Journey.
• Huo Yun gave Huo Xuan three high-grade pills, and Huo Xuan said he would reveal their purpose when they left the clan.
• Huo Xuan took Huo Yun, Huo Zhi, Yan Ling, and Yan Liao to the Space Trading Fair despite Yan Jin forbidding him from leaving.
• Huo Xuan explained that he wanted the final piece of the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame Remnant Map and chose to attend in person because his available subordinates were too weak to secure it.
• Huo Xuan and his companions crossed the desert and reached the hundred-zhang Space Black Hole where the fair was held.