Chapter Summaries

Huo Xuan reached the ruins’ Main Hall, where ten sealed spheres appeared to contain Heavenly Tier Skills and a Dou Sheng Skeleton sat guarded by powerful Puppets. As the seal began to weaken and the tense crowd gathered, Old Ghost Zhai Xing arrived with Soul Hall, making the impending struggle more dangerous.

• Huo Xuan used a rough map taken from Tang Zhen and the others to find the Main Hall.
• Huo Xuan saw ten sealed spheres, Dou Zun-level Puppets, and a complete Dou Sheng Skeleton in the hall.
• More experts and factions arrived, and many formed alliances while waiting for the seal to weaken.
• Old Ghost Zhai Xing led Soul Hall into the hall and threatened to collect the gathered people’s souls.
• The light around the ten spheres began to fade, signaling that the seal was about to disappear.

Huo Xuan watched the hall descend into chaos as treasure seekers fought over the false scrolls and awakened puppets. After stopping Old Ghost Zhai Xing from touching the Dou Sheng Skeleton, Huo Xuan took it for himself.

• The ten scrolls flew from the spheres of light, and treasure seekers fought to capture them as the stone puppets began to awaken.
• The Ancient Human Puppets slaughtered nearby experts, while Huo Xuan stood aside and waited for the crowd to thin.
• Huo Xuan noticed Old Ghost Zhai Xing and Soul Hall experts approaching the Dou Sheng Skeleton.
• Old Ghost Zhai Xing reached for the skeleton, but Huo Xuan struck him and sent him flying back.
• Huo Xuan revealed the barrier around the skeleton, then pulled the Dou Sheng Skeleton into his hand and stored it in his Storage Ring.

Huo Xuan seized the Dou Sheng Skeleton and slaughtered the experts trapped in the great hall, including the Wind Venerable and Thunder Venerable. After collecting their treasures, he left the Ancient Ruins with his mission complete.

• Huo Xuan killed Old Ghost Zhai Xing, took his Storage Ring and collected souls, then exterminated the other Soul Hall experts.
• Huo Xuan sealed the great hall and slaughtered the fleeing experts who tried to join forces against him.
• The Wind Venerable offered Huo Xuan a place in Starfall Pavilion, but Huo Xuan revealed the Bone Chilling Flame and admitted he had taken it from Yao Chen and turned him into a Puppet, then killed the Wind Venerable's group.
• The Thunder Venerable threatened Huo Xuan with the Wind and Thunder Pavilion and Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, but Huo Xuan revealed that he had already killed Feng Qing Er and killed the Thunder Venerable's group.
• Huo Xuan slaughtered the remaining experts, collected their Storage Rings, and left the great hall with the Heavenly Tier Skill and Pill Beast in hand.

After returning to the Flame Clan, Huo Xuan refined the souls he had collected to strengthen his soul realm. He absorbed Old Ghost Zhai Xing’s purified soul sphere and advanced to the late Heaven Realm.

• Huo Xuan handed the Pill Beast, Great Heaven Creation Palm, Dou Sheng Skeleton, and other treasures to the Flame Clan, improving his standing among its younger geniuses.
• After several days of recovery, Huo Xuan gathered the soul bodies he had hunted and suppressed them with his Heaven Realm Soul.
• Huo Xuan used the Soul Refining Art to extract the soul bodies’ Soul Origins, raising his soul realm slightly.
• Huo Xuan refined the soul sphere Old Ghost Zhai Xing and his companions had gathered, burning away its hidden black qi.
• Huo Xuan absorbed the purified Soul Origins and broke through to the late Heaven Realm.

Hun Sha led the Soul Clan in an assault on the Ling World, overwhelming the Ling Clan and unleashing creatures that devoured flesh, blood, and Dou Qi. Ling Qi recognized them as the supposedly extinct Spirit Devouring Clan as Hun Sha offered the survivors a chance to surrender.

• Hun Sha gathered Soul Clan experts and advanced on the Ling World with the Void Lord, who sealed it off from escape.
• Ling Qi and the Ling Clan elders discussed the Gu Clan’s rising bloodline and assigned the Ling Clan’s Heavenly Tomb slots to Ling Ci and Ling Xi, with Elders Ling Mo and Ling Yi as escorts.
• Hun Sha’s forces invaded the Ling World, and Ling Qi ordered the Great Elder to seek help before the Soul Clan’s seal trapped them inside.
• Ling Qi fought Hun Sha while the two clans clashed, but the Soul Clan’s greater strength forced the Ling Clan onto the defensive, and some Ling Clan members self-destructed to harm their attackers.
• Hun Sha unleashed black-flame creatures that attacked the Ling World and devoured flesh, blood, and Dou Qi.
• Ling Qi identified the creatures as the Spirit Devouring Clan, and Hun Sha revealed that the Ling Clan still had a use to the Soul Clan and offered the survivors a chance to surrender.

The Hun Clan attacked the Spirit Clan, and Ling Qi summoned the Ling Emperor Remnant Soul to defend them. Void Swallowing Flame devoured the ancestor and the Spirit Clan was exterminated, leaving the Shi Clan as the Hun Clan’s next target.

• Ling Qi activated the Spirit Clan’s protective grand array and summoned the Ling Emperor Remnant Soul.
• Hun Sha called on Void Swallowing Flame, who attacked the Ling Emperor Remnant Soul and damaged his Source Flame.
• Ling Qi and the surviving Spirit Clan members sacrificed their bloodlines to strengthen their ancestor.
• Void Swallowing Flame overwhelmed and devoured the Ling Emperor Remnant Soul, breaking the grand array.
• The Hun Clan killed the Spirit Clan’s defenders, crippled those who surrendered, and captured a million descendants for its blood-sacrifice plan.
• The Spirit Clan fell, and the Hun Clan turned its attention to the Shi Clan.

After the Hun Clan destroyed the Ling Clan, Huo Xuan discussed the threat to the remaining clans with Yan Jin and promised to devise a way to save the Medicine Clan. Yan Jin gave Huo Xuan the Flame Clan’s invitation to the Gu Clan’s Coming of Age Ceremony and assigned him and Huo Zhi the Flame Clan’s two Heavenly Tomb places.

• Hun Sha reported the Ling Clan’s destruction and the Hun Clan’s casualties to Hun Tiandi, who considered their losses acceptable.
• Huo Xuan reflected that he had given Ling Xi a jade pendant to learn when the Ling Clan would fall, and that he had ignored her plea for help.
• Huo Xuan told Yan Jin that the Shi Clan was likely the Hun Clan’s next target and resolved to preserve the Medicine Clan.
• Huo Xuan explained his plan to save the Medicine Clan, and Yan Jin approved it while directing him to visit the Gu Clan.
• Yan Jin gave Huo Xuan a Black Jade Invitation and named him and Huo Zhi to the Flame Clan’s two Heavenly Tomb places.

Huo Xuan plotted to refine Xiao Xuan’s soul while collecting pills from Gu Xun’er, but his attention turned to Huo Zhi when her attempt to absorb two fire pearls caused the Red Lotus Karma Flame to rampage. Huo Xuan suppressed the flame and, after three days, Huo Zhi awoke safely and admitted why she had taken the risk.

• Huo Xuan put the Space Jade Slip and Jade Stone into his Storage Ring after explaining to Yan Jin that he needed them for protection at the Gu Clan stronghold.
• Huo Xuan considered how to refine Xiao Xuan’s soul, then received a sixth delivery of pills from Gu Xun’er through Yan Yang and Yan Ya.
• Huo Zhi swallowed three Frost Condensation Pills and absorbed the energy of two Crimson Fire Pearls, causing the Red Lotus Karma Flame to go berserk.
• Huo Xuan found Huo Zhi as the flame rampaged and suppressed it, leaving her unconscious for three days.
• Huo Zhi awoke and told Huo Xuan she had absorbed the fire pearls to raise her cultivation; he warned her not to take such a risk again.

Huo Xuan and the Flame Clan group traveled to Gu Sacred City for the Coming of Age Ceremony and the chance to enter the Heavenly Tomb. After entering the city, Huo Xuan injured the Seventh Commander with Strange Fire before rejoining his group at the Gu Clan’s guest manor.

• After Huo Zhi recovered, Huo Xuan and the Flame Clan group set out for the Gu Clan, led by two Half-Saint elders.
• The group arrived at Gu Stone Plaza and flew toward Gu Sacred City, proceeding on foot near the city because flight was forbidden.
• The Seventh Commander checked the Flame Clan’s invitation and let Huo Xuan and the others enter the city.
• After Huo Xuan overheard the Seventh Commander and his soldiers boast about dealing with him, he returned and blasted the commander with a Strange Fire lotus.
• Huo Xuan and Huo Zhi rejoined the group, and the Flame Clan settled in an independent pavilion at the Gu Clan’s guest manor.

Gu Xun'er refused Ling Ying’s advice to give up on Xiao Yan and resolved to save him from Huo Xuan. In Gu Sacred City, Huo Xuan met with his companions before a Gu Clan commander challenged him to a public match.

• Ling Ying told Gu Xun'er that her love for Xiao Yan was a futile dream, but she insisted she would never give him up and dismissed Ling Ying.
• Huo Xuan woke after cultivating and concluded that the Heavenly Tomb Journey could help him break through to the peak of Sixth Revolution Dou Zun.
• Huo Xuan learned that Yan Ling, Huo Yun, and Yan Liao had advanced to Dou Zun after receiving Dou Sheng Essence from the Dou Sheng Skeleton.
• Huo Xuan told his companions to wait for the Gu Clan to approach them rather than seek out trouble themselves.
• The Seventh Commander identified Huo Xuan as the person who injured him, and Yang Hao, Third Commander of the Black Annihilation Army, was announced as Huo Xuan’s opponent.

Huo Xuan accepted Yang Hao’s public challenge and defeated the Gu Clan’s Third Commander in one move, leaving Yang Hao furious and humiliated. As Yang Hao prepared to attack again, someone shouted his name and rebuked him for disgracing the Gu Clan.

• Yang Hao challenged Huo Xuan to a spar before the pavilion crowd, and Huo Xuan accepted.
• Yang Hao used the Gu Clan’s Emperor Seal Technique, but Huo Xuan shattered it with a flaming palm.
• Huo Xuan knocked Yang Hao off the platform and claimed he had used only a low-grade Huang-class Fierce Flame Palm.
• Yang Hao blamed his defeat on Huo Xuan’s Eight Desolations Destruction Flame and demanded another fight.
• Huo Xuan privately called Yang Hao “Third Trash,” and Yang Hao nearly charged at him before a voice shouted his name and condemned his disgraceful conduct.

Huo Xuan defeated Yang Hao and faced Lin Xiu before Gu Shan tried to injure him under the guise of disciplining the Gu Clan juniors. Yan Feng and the Medicine Clan exposed Gu Shan’s scheme, forcing the Gu Clan to leave in disgrace, while Lin Xiu challenged Huo Xuan to meet him again in the Gu World.

• Lin Xiu arrived after Yang Hao’s defeat and challenged Huo Xuan, who accepted without fear.
• Gu Shan appeared and used his Half-Saint pressure to target Huo Xuan while claiming to discipline Lin Xiu and the other Gu Clan juniors.
• Yan Feng blocked Gu Shan’s pressure and accused him of violating the Eight-Clan Pact.
• Huo Xuan and Yan Feng exposed Gu Shan’s excuse, and an elder of the Medicine Clan mocked the Gu Clan for refusing to accept defeat.
• Gu Shan left amid public ridicule, and Lin Xiu carried the injured Yang Hao away after warning Huo Xuan to expect him in the Gu World.

Huo Xuan met Shi Mo, who delivered the Shi Clan’s proposal for an alliance and tried to use it to bargain for personal benefits. The chapter ended with Shi Mo eagerly imagining Huo Xuan would give him pills, while Huo Xuan regarded him as an idiot.

• Shi Mo demanded to see Huo Xuan, and Huo Yun and Yan Ling confronted him until Huo Xuan came out.
• Shi Mo gave Huo Xuan a letter from Shi Po Tian proposing an alliance with the Flame Clan because the Spirit Clan and Ling World had vanished from contact.
• Shi Mo asked whether Huo Xuan had been involved with Ling Xi, and Huo Xuan denied the rumor about a relationship and a token of love.
• Shi Mo hinted that he would support the alliance if Huo Xuan stayed away from Ling Xi and gave him some of his valuable collection.
• Shi Mo imagined Huo Xuan handing him eight or ten high-grade Eighth Grade Pills, while Huo Xuan silently thought he was an idiot.

Huo Xuan rejected Shi Mo’s attempt to use an alliance with the Flame Clan to gain personal benefits. He declared that the Flame Clan would sever all ties with the Shi Clan and knocked Shi Mo unconscious.

• Shi Mo asked Huo Xuan for benefits in exchange for keeping the Shi Clan’s alliance with the Flame Clan and distancing himself from Ling Xi.
• Huo Xuan burned the jade invitation and punched Shi Mo, pinning him to the ground.
• Shi Mo claimed the clans would become allies, then admitted the alliance still needed approval from the Shi Clan’s chief and elders.
• Huo Xuan announced that the alliance was off and that the Flame Clan would sever every connection with the Shi Clan.
• Huo Xuan struck Shi Mo again, and Shi Mo passed out.

Huo Xuan gave Huo Yun nine Eighth Grade Pills to strengthen the Flame Clan’s allies and traded two Soul Infant Pills to Yao Tian and Yao Ling for portions of their Strange Fire Source Flames. He then gave them Chen Venerable, leaving the siblings with a powerful Puppet as the chapter ended.

• Huo Yun reported that the Shi Clan had reacted angrily to Huo Xuan’s actions against Shi Mo, further straining ties between the Shi Clan and the Flame Clan.
• Huo Xuan gave Huo Yun nine Eighth Grade Pills to share with Yan Ling and Yan Liao so the three could improve their strength while he was in the Heavenly Tomb.
• Huo Xuan offered Yao Tian and Yao Ling two Soul Infant Pills in exchange for small portions of the Source Flame from their Strange Fires.
• Yao Tian gave up some of the Nine Nether Wind Flame’s Source Flame, and Yao Ling followed by surrendering some of the Turtle Spirit Earth Flame’s Source Flame.
• Huo Xuan offered Chen Venerable to the siblings, and Yao Tian accepted the Puppet and stored it in his Storage Ring.

Huo Xuan and the others entered the Gu Realm after its gate opened in Gu Sacred City. Before leaving, Huo Xuan injured Lin Xiu with a fire lotus, while the gate closed behind the gathered entrants.

• A Gu Clan Dou Zun elder warned visitors not to wander in the Gu Realm or disturb Gu Clan descendants, then opened the Space Gate above the lake.
• Huo Xuan led his group toward the gate and confronted Lin Xiu, who threatened that the Gu Clan's younger-generation experts would deal with him inside.
• Huo Xuan entered the Space Gate after telling Lin Xiu he would be waiting for him in the Gu Realm.
• Lin Xiu insulted Huo Xuan after he disappeared, so Huo Xuan sent a fire lotus back through the gate that exploded and left Lin Xiu severely injured.
• The Gu Clan soldiers retrieved Lin Xiu for treatment, and the Space Gate closed after everyone had entered.

Huo Xuan and the other guests traveled into the Gu World aboard the Gu Clan’s Shuttle Sky Boats for the Heavenly Tomb gathering. After discussing Lei Dong’s attachment to Gu Xun’er and plotting to break the Gu-Lei Alliance, Huo Xuan arrived with the others at the Gu Sacred Mountain Range.

• Huo Xuan and the other guests entered the Gu World and boarded the Gu Clan’s Shuttle Sky Boats.
• Huo Xuan spoke with Lei Dong, who admitted he had come for both the person in the Heavenly Tomb and Gu Xun’er.
• Huo Xuan decided that breaking Lei Dong’s marriage agreement with Gu Xun’er could dismantle the Gu-Lei Alliance, and considered creating events to make Lei Dong give up on her.
• The Shuttle Sky Boats reached the Gu Sacred Mountain Range, where the guests were invited to proceed.

Huo Xuan and the Flame Clan arrived at the Gu Sacred Mountain Range, where Gu Xun'er approached Lei Dong and Huo Xuan faced a hostile show of force from Gu Qian. After Gu Qian withdrew, Huo Xuan secretly planted two Strange Fires in him, leaving the elder unaware of the danger.

• Huo Xuan sensed a powerful aura on Cloud Peak, where Gu Xun'er watched the arriving warship with intense killing intent.
• Gu Xun'er boarded the warship and flirted with Lei Dong, strengthening the appearance of an alliance between the Gu and Lei Clans.
• Huo Xuan and his companions left the warship for the Gu Clan's reception area, where powerful gazes pressed against them and froze the surrounding space.
• Huo Xuan shattered the frozen space and released his aura, confronting Gu Qian, who admitted he had been testing Huo Xuan's strength.
• A voice from deep within the mountains ordered Gu Qian to withdraw, and Huo Xuan secretly planted the Azure Lotus Earth Core Flame and Wind Fury Dragon Flame inside him.

Huo Xuan met Gu Yuan on a secluded mountain peak, where the Gu Clan leader tested whether he could kill the Flame Clan junior without consequences. Huo Xuan convinced Gu Yuan that harming him could unite the Flame Clan and its allies against the Gu Clan, and Gu Yuan left without attacking.

• Huo Xuan sensed a figure watching him on a mountain path, and Gu Yuan used Space Displacement to bring him to the peak.
• Gu Yuan revealed his identity, praised Huo Xuan's cultivation, and hinted that the strained relations between their clans might make him kill the junior.
• Huo Xuan said he feared death but trusted that Gu Yuan would not bully a junior, then warned that the Flame Clan leader would unite every available force if he and the others were harmed.
• Gu Yuan's killing intent faded, and he disappeared after telling Huo Xuan to leave room for others.
• Huo Xuan realized his gamble had succeeded and resolved that the Gu Clan would eventually pay for Gu Yuan's hesitation.

After meeting Gu Yuan, Huo Xuan reassured Huo Zhi that the Gu Clan would not harm them. At the Gu Clan's Coming-of-Age Ceremony, the Flame Clan was barred from the central seating area, and members of the Medicine Clan arrived as tensions rose.

• Huo Xuan returned to his residence after Gu Yuan disappeared, and Huo Zhi checked that he was unharmed.
• Huo Xuan told Huo Zhi that Gu Yuan had visited and said he had conveyed the clan leader's warning.
• At dawn, an elderly Gu Clan guide escorted Huo Xuan and the Flame Clan party by winged unicorns to the ceremony.
• Huo Xuan led the Flame Clan toward the central seats, but Gu Clan soldiers stopped them and directed them elsewhere.
• A young man from the Medicine Clan angrily challenged the Gu Clan soldiers, and Huo Xuan recognized the arriving Medicine Clan group.