Chapter Summaries

Xiao Heng and Zi Yan returned to the magma chamber, where the guardian Zhu Kun recognized Zi Yan as his daughter. Zi Yan confronted him over abandoning her, while Zhu Kun tearfully admitted his fault and tried to comfort her.

• Xiao Heng told the group that the guardian might be Zi Yan’s father, the former Dragon Emperor, and Zi Yan chose to investigate with him.
• Xiao Heng and Zi Yan entered the space beneath the magma while Xiao Yan stayed outside to support them.
• Zhu Kun sensed their arrival, recognized Zi Yan, and transformed into a middle-aged man.
• Zi Yan insisted she was an orphan and accused Zhu Kun of abandoning her, though she could not hide her tears.
• Zhu Kun apologized for pursuing Tusita Ancient Emperor's Ruins and begged Zi Yan to stop crying.

Xiao Heng helped Zi Yan reconcile with her father, Zhu Kun, who explained that he had been trapped in the Tusita Ancient Emperor's Ruins and had not abandoned her by choice. Zhu Kun revealed that he could not stop Hun Tiandi from entering with the complete Ancient Jade, but would be free to fight once the ruins opened.

• Xiao Heng helped Zi Yan decide to give Zhu Kun a chance, and Zhu Kun apologized for leaving her behind.
• Zhu Kun explained that he had been trapped by the Tusita Ancient Emperor's contingency and told Zi Yan about her mother, easing their strained reunion.
• Zi Yan told Zhu Kun to listen to both her and Xiao Heng, and Zhu Kun agreed.
• Xiao Heng asked Zhu Kun for help against Hun Tiandi, who had obtained all the Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Zhu Kun explained that his duty required him to let the Ancient Jade holder pass, but he promised to help once the ruins opened and his restraints were lifted.
• Xiao Heng prepared to leave and report back, while Zi Yan continued holding his hand and Zhu Kun watched resentfully.

Xiao Heng and the alliance prepared for the coming battle as Hun Tiandi led the Soul Clan to Jia Nan Academy. After Hun Tiandi’s forces revealed they had used the deadly Blood Soul Technique, he summoned the phantom of the Tou She Ancient God.

• Xiao Heng told Xiao Yan and the others that Zi Yan had found her father, Zhu Kun, beneath the magma and was speaking with him.
• Hun Tiandi mobilized the Soul Clan’s elites, while Xiao Heng and Xiao Yan awaited the alliance at Jia Nan Academy as the Black Corner Region emptied.
• Gu Yuan led the allied forces to Jia Nan Academy, where Xiao Heng confirmed the Tou She Ancient God’s Cave Mansion lay beneath the magma and required the Ancient God Jade to open.
• Hun Tiandi arrived with the Soul Clan army, and Gu Yuan and the other leaders rejected his offer to help them after he became a Dou Di.
• Bai Yun explained that the Soul Clan had used the Blood Soul Technique to boost its warriors by burning blood souls, risking madness and death.
• Hun Tiandi summoned an old man’s phantom whose appearance revealed the Tou She Ancient God.

Hun Tiandi attacked Jia Nan Academy and began summoning the Tusita Ancient Emperor's Ruins while Gu Yuan and the alliance fought to stop him. Xiao Heng killed Hun Yue and battled two other peak Eight-star Dou Shengs, surviving their successive self-destructions but emerging injured as the wider war continued.

• Hun Tiandi obliterated Jia Nan Academy with a palm strike as Gu Yuan tried to stop him from summoning the Tusita Ancient God's Cave Mansion, while Nihility Devouring Flame and Bai Yun clashed nearby.
• The armies began fighting across the Black Corner Region, and Xiao Heng cut through Soul Clan forces before three peak Eight-star Dou Shengs confronted him.
• Xiao Heng used his Nine-star Dou Sheng strength to kill Hun Yue and wound another opponent while fighting Hun He and the remaining elder.
• The wounded elder burned his soul and essence blood and self-destructed, engulfing Xiao Heng in a massive explosion.
• Hun Tiandi told Gu Yuan that one self-destruction might not kill Xiao Heng, and Hun He then self-destructed as well.
• Xiao Heng staggered out of the second explosion alive but injured as the battle continued.

Xiao Heng survived the Soul Clan’s attacks and continued fighting as the battle devastated the Black Corner Region. The Ancient Emperor’s Cave Mansion emerged, and a powerful creature rose from the magma, interrupting the struggle between the alliance and the Soul Clan.

• Xiao Heng swallowed a pill and used his sword techniques to kill the Soul Clan Dou Sheng who had surrounded him, before Xiao Yan and the others arrived to help.
• Xiao Yi Xian treated Xiao Heng’s injuries, while Xiao Yan and the others returned to the battle and Bai Xi stayed behind to protect him.
• The fighting devastated Jia Nan Academy and the Black Corner Region as Hun Tiandi and Gu Yuan continued their clash.
• An enormous stone gate emerged from the magma, forcing both sides to pause as Gu Yuan tried to stop Hun Tiandi from opening it with the Ancient Jade.
• Xiao Heng warned the alliance to move aside as a powerful creature rose from the magma, prompting Hun Tiandi and Gu Yuan to stop fighting and retreat.

Zhu Kun appeared and attacked Hun Tiandi, allowing Gu Yuan and the alliance to pressure the Soul Clan before Hun Tiandi opened the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion. Both sides entered and raced through its vast inner space, reaching a great hall that might contain the chance to become Dou Di.

• Zhu Kun feigned interest in Hun Tiandi's offer, then attacked him and demanded the Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Gu Yuan joined Zhu Kun in attacking Hun Tiandi while the alliance held off Nihility Devouring Flame and the Soul Clan.
• Hun Tiandi sent the Tou She Ancient God Jade into the stone gate, opening the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion and forcing everyone back with a surge of energy.
• Zhu Kun told Gu Yuan that the cave held an Emperor Grade Pill that Hun Tiandi sought, then reunited with Xiao Heng and the Ancient Void Dragon elders.
• Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame entered first, and Gu Yuan's group followed through a Space Passage into the cave's vast, mist-filled expanse.
• The groups pursued Nihility Devouring Flame and Hun Tiandi to a floating plain, where Xiao Heng and the others found a great hall surrounded by stone pillars.

Xiao Heng and the others reached Tou She Ancient God's hall, where they discovered hundreds of Heavenly Rank techniques and the Emperor Grade Pill. The Nihility Devouring Flame and the Soul Clan launched a desperate assault to seize the pill, and the chapter ended as Soul Clan experts began self-destructing against the alliance.

• Xiao Heng realized the Heavenly Flames displayed on the plaza's pillars had lost their source energy, then identified the two empty pillars as belonging to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and the Nihility Devouring Flame.
• The Nihility Devouring Flame swallowed the hall's mist, revealing Tou She Ancient God's statue and hundreds of Heavenly Rank cultivation methods and combat skills.
• The old man who appeared before the statue was exposed as the Emperor Grade Pill, and he rejected the Nihility Devouring Flame's offer to take him away.
• The Nihility Devouring Flame attacked the Emperor Grade Pill, while Hun Tiandi, Gu Yuan, Zhu Kun, Xiao Heng, and Bai Yun joined the struggle to capture it.
• The alliance fought the Soul Clan and other attackers as Lei Ying blocked the Soul Clan's advance.
• The Soul Clan's Great Elder ordered his experts to self-destruct and charge, triggering a chain of explosions among the alliance forces.

Hun Tiandi and the alliance fought over the Emperor Grade Pill while Nihility Devouring Flame used the Tou She Ancient God Jade to transform the old man into a pill and deliver it to Hun Tiandi. Surrounded by Xiao Heng, Zhu Kun, Gu Yuan, and Bai Yun, Hun Tiandi swallowed the Emperor Grade Pill and unleashed an even more terrifying aura.

• Gu Yuan blocked Hun Tiandi from seizing the Emperor Grade Pill, while Bai Yun held off Nihility Devouring Flame and Xiao Heng and Zhu Kun pursued the old man.
• As the Soul Clan fought recklessly and the battlefield grew chaotic, Hun Tiandi used a blood-sacrifice secret art to trap Xiao Heng's group and buy Nihility Devouring Flame ten breaths.
• Nihility Devouring Flame used the Tou She Ancient God Jade's Pill Transformation Divine Art to turn the old man into a pill, then reunited with Hun Tiandi as the barrier shattered and devastating shockwaves swept across the battlefield.
• Hun Tiandi took the Emperor Grade Pill from Nihility Devouring Flame, refused Gu Yuan's demand to surrender it, and declared that he would not give up after all his sacrifices.
• Hun Tiandi swallowed the Emperor Grade Pill despite Gu Yuan's warning that he would explode and die, then released an aura several times more terrifying than before.

Hun Tiandi escaped with the Emperor Grade Pill after overpowering the alliance, leaving Gu Yuan and the others unable to find the hidden Soul Realm or stop his refinement. The alliance gathered in the Star Realm to wait, while Xiao Heng spent a month resting among his companions as the threat remained unresolved.

• Hun Tiandi used the pill's power to repel Gu Yuan, Zhu Kun, and the others, then retreated with Nihility Devouring Flame and the Soul Clan.
• Gu Yuan and the alliance regrouped, while Zhu Kun took the plaza and its stone pillars before they left the space.
• Gu Yuan discovered that the Soul Clan had destroyed its passages and concealed the Soul Realm, forcing the alliance to wait and leave scouts behind.
• The alliance withdrew to the Star Realm as news of the battle spread and the continent settled into an uneasy calm.
• Xiao Heng spent the following month resting and visiting friends in the Star Realm, while the alliance received no news of Hun Tiandi or the Soul Realm.

After Gu Yuan discovered the Soul Realm, Hun Tiandi activated a massive Formation Array that used the Central Continent to refine him into an Emperor Grade Pill. As living beings across the continent were sacrificed, Xiao Heng rallied the others to prepare for a desperate battle while Hun Tiandi taunted them from above.

• Xiao Yan told Xiao Heng and the others that Gu Yuan had found the Soul Realm and wanted them to come to the central hall.
• Before Gu Yuan could explain his plans, a huge Formation Array formed over the Central Continent, and he revealed that Hun Tiandi had begun refining the Emperor Grade Pill.
• Gu Yuan explained that Hun Tiandi was using himself as the pill, the Central Continent as the cauldron, and its living beings as fuel to become a Dou Di.
• Xiao Heng encouraged the gathered fighters to face the coming battle, and Gu Yuan urged them to conserve their strength and wait for an opportunity to strike.
• The Formation Array slaughtered living beings across the Central Continent and gathered their blood energy as Hun Tiandi watched from above.
• Hun Tiandi taunted Gu Yuan and the others, then sat cross-legged as the Formation Array accelerated.

Hun Tiandi slaughtered the Central Continent with the Spirit Devouring Life Extinguishing Array, forcing Gu Yuan and the others to seek a way to create a Dou Di before Hun Tiandi broke through. Zhu Kun revealed that the stone statue in the Tusita Ancient Emperor's Ruins contained the Origin of the Emperor, and when Xiao Yi activated it, Xiao Yan was chosen, but Xiao Yan began suppressing the statue's power.

• Hun Tiandi's array turned countless people across the Central Continent into blood mist, and Xiao Heng and Gu Yuan resolved to stop him.
• Zhu Kun said they could create a Dou Di using the Origin of the Emperor hidden in the stone statue, and explained that the Tusita Ancient Emperor had once been a flame that devoured all twenty-two Heavenly Flames.
• The assembled experts tried and failed to awaken the stone statue, but Xiao Yi sent a flame into its chest and triggered its power.
• The statue's light and pressure immobilized everyone, while Xiao Heng's Fire Element resonated with it and then settled as Xiao Yan's aura changed.
• Xiao Yan realized the statue had chosen him, then began suppressing its power and called Xiao Yi back.

Xiao Heng gave Xiao Yan the chance to become a Dou Di, trusting him to save the world, and later learned that Little Grass God could provide him with another portion of the Origin of the Emperor if he passed a trial. Xiao Heng entered the trial, while Little Grass God resolved to help him break through even if he failed.

• Xiao Heng suppressed his connection to the stone statue and forced Xiao Yan to accept its opportunity, and Xiao Yan promised to repay him before being drawn inside.
• Xiao Heng explained to Bai Yun, Gu Yuan, and the others why he had yielded the Origin of the Emperor to Xiao Yan, and they left with renewed hope.
• After returning to the courtyard, Xiao Heng heard Little Grass God call him and went alone to their grassy space.
• Little Grass God offered Xiao Heng enough Origin of the Emperor to break through if he passed a trial, in exchange for a future favor to kill a powerful person.
• Xiao Heng stepped through the trial door, and Little Grass God vowed to help him become a Dou Di even if he failed.

Xiao Heng fought a powerful woman who appeared to be Little Grass’s favored projection in an empty city, and the battle devastated the surrounding world. After defeating her with Sword River, he learned her name was Li Hua before collapsing from his injuries.

• Xiao Heng entered an empty, realistic city and met a white-dressed woman holding a bloodstained blade.
• The woman attacked Xiao Heng, and their clash destroyed the city as they exchanged powerful sword and blade techniques.
• The woman unleashed A Hundred Lifetimes Splendor, leaving Xiao Heng with a nearly fatal chest wound.
• Xiao Heng summoned a five-colored Formation Array and attacked with Sword River, eventually cracking the woman’s blade and overwhelming her.
• The woman named herself Li Hua and said they would meet again before disappearing; Xiao Heng fell unconscious in the rain.

Xiao Heng recovered and used Little Grass’s branch to cultivate toward Dou Di, but stalled at the peak of Nine-star Dou Sheng as Hun Tiandi completed his breakthrough through mass slaughter. Hun Tiandi crushed the alliance’s resistance and began destroying the continent, until Xiao Yan emerged as a Dou Di to confront him.

• Little Grass revived Xiao Heng, whose injuries healed and cultivation reached the middle stage of Nine-star Dou Sheng, then gave him a branch and urged him to prepare for a Dou Di breakthrough.
• The Soul Clan slaughtered Central Continent’s people and fed them to the blood pool, while Hun Tiandi ordered Nihility Devouring Flame to sacrifice even the Soul Clan.
• Xiao Heng rapidly reached the peak of Nine-star Dou Sheng with the branch’s power, then fell into a deathlike state after hitting a bottleneck.
• Hun Tiandi devoured Nihility Devouring Flame and broke through to Dou Di, then overwhelmed Gu Yuan and the alliance’s formation.
• Hun Tiandi sent scarlet energy across Central Continent, but Xiao Yan emerged, burned away the attack, and declared that he would stop Hun Tiandi.

Xiao Yan broke through to Dou Di and fought Hun Tiandi, but Hun Tiandi’s desperate attacks were stopped when Xiao Heng arrived as a second Dou Di. After the two defeated Hun Tiandi, Xiao Heng and Xiao Yan flew beyond the heavens to settle their own score, leaving the winner unknown.

• Xiao Yan revealed that he had become a Dou Di through Tou She Ancient God's inheritance and battled Hun Tiandi across the Central Continent.
• Hun Tiandi summoned the Emperor Slashing Array and prepared to sacrifice the Soul Clan, while Xiao Yan gathered the Heavenly Flames into the Ancient Eternal Flame Ruler.
• Xiao Heng arrived as a Dou Di and joined Xiao Yan against Hun Tiandi, who burned his Emperor blood and origin to strengthen his blade.
• Xiao Heng and Xiao Yan struck together, defeated Hun Tiandi, and watched his body and blood-colored energy disperse as the world began to recover.
• Xiao Heng and Xiao Yan flew beyond the heavens to fight each other, and no one learned who won their final clash.

Xiao Heng spent the day shopping with Medusa and the other girls, then received a message on a jade token while sitting with his mother. He left after she told him to come back early, and the author ended the book.

• Xiao Heng carried shopping bags as Medusa and the other girls continued shopping.
• Xiao Heng watched the sunset with his mother after dinner.
• Xiao Heng took out a jade token and told his mother he had to go.
• Xiao Heng's mother told him to come back early, and he nodded.