Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan and Zi Yan entered the Ancient Emperor Palace, where a false inheritance and corrupted Source Seed revealed the Emperor Soul’s trap. As the Emperor Soul attacked, Xiao Yan gambled that the flame vortex still held Tou She Ancient God’s true power and sent his pure origin flame into it.

• Xiao Yan and Zi Yan entered the hall and found the Emperor Flame Source Seed and Tou She Ancient God’s remnant body.
• The remnant body offered Xiao Yan the Source of Ten Thousand Fires, but Xiao Yan sensed something was wrong and refused to accept it.
• The remnant body shattered, revealing the Source Seed as a corrupted decoy and the Emperor Soul as the architect of the trap.
• The Emperor Soul demanded Xiao Yan’s true Ancient Emperor origin flame while black threads attacked him and Zi Yan.
• Xiao Yan charged into the flame vortex and released his pure origin flame, calling upon Tou She Ancient God.

Xiao Yan’s pure Emperor Flame Origin awakened Tou She's protective imprint in Blazing Heaven Purgatory, which sealed the Emperor Soul’s divided thought. Xiao Chen then purified the thought’s scattered corrosive remnants, and the imprint left the true Emperor Flame Source Seed for Xiao Yan.

• Xiao Yan’s pure Emperor Flame Origin awakened Tou She's imprint, which drove back the Emperor Soul’s power and formed a flame figure.
• Tou She's imprint used the purgatory’s Laws to destroy the Emperor Soul’s attack and seal its divided thought in flame chains.
• The Emperor Soul’s divided thought collapsed into corrosive motes that tried to contaminate the protective formation.
• Xiao Chen arrived and used Chaos Return to Ruins to draw in and purify the motes, with the flame formation aiding him.
• Tou She's imprint praised Xiao Yan, dispersed, and revealed the true Emperor Flame Source Seed.

Xiao Yan fused with the Emperor Flame Source Seed and became a Dou Di, gaining the Origin Emperor Flame and a stronger ability to counter the Emperor Soul's corruption. He left the Ancient Emperor Palace with Xiao Chen and Zi Yan to confront the corrupted Zhu Kun.

• Xiao Chen urged Xiao Yan to fuse with the Source Seed, while Zi Yan warned that the Emperor Soul's corruption had made Zhu Kun's condition more dangerous.
• Xiao Yan used the Ancient Emperor Inheritance's method to draw the Emperor Flame Source Seed into himself and undergo a transformation.
• Xiao Chen guarded Xiao Yan as he completed the fusion, and Xiao Yan emerged as a Dou Di with the Origin Emperor Flame.
• Xiao Yan said his new flame could restrain the Emperor Soul's corruption more than ten times as effectively as before.
• Xiao Yan, Xiao Chen, and Zi Yan left the palace and headed toward the struggling Zhu Kun to try to save him and eliminate the Emperor Soul's remaining influence.

Xiao Yan used the Origin Emperor Flame to cleanse Zhu Kun of the Emperor Soul’s corruption, allowing him to awaken and reunite with Zi Yan. Zhu Kun warned them of a Soul Clan scheme involving blood sacrifice, a grand formation, summoning, and the Continent Origin, but the Emperor Soul appeared before they could escape Blazing Heaven Purgatory.

• Xiao Chen and Zi Yan restrained Zhu Kun while Xiao Yan purified the Emperor Soul’s corrosive power with the Origin Emperor Flame, and Xiao Chen repaired the damage with Chaos Energy.
• Xiao Yan reignited Zhu Kun’s Soul Origin, and Zhu Kun awakened, recognized Zi Yan, and thanked Xiao Yan for saving him.
• Zhu Kun told Xiao Yan, Xiao Chen, and Zi Yan that the Emperor Soul had used the purgatory as a foundation for a scheme tied to the Soul Clan, recalling fragments about blood sacrifice, a grand formation, summoning, and the Continent Origin.
• Xiao Yan realized Hun Tiandi had begun shaking the purgatory’s seal with the Ancient Emperor Jade, and Zhu Kun revealed a dangerous Space Node behind the Ancient Emperor Palace.
• The Emperor Soul tore open the fire-cloud sky and confronted Xiao Yan, Xiao Chen, and Zi Yan, declaring that the game was over.

The Emperor Soul Will breached Blazing Heaven Purgatory and demanded Xiao Yan’s Emperor Flame Origin and Xiao Chen’s Chaos seed. As it attacked them, Xiao Yan struck back with a powerful finger technique, while Xiao Chen struggled to hold off the Emperor Soul’s devouring hand.

• The Emperor Soul Will entered through a dark rift, demanded Xiao Yan’s Emperor Flame Origin and Xiao Chen’s Chaos seed, and threatened to make them foundations for its descent.
• Xiao Yan rejected the demand, affirmed his resolve to protect his world, and purified the Emperor Soul’s soul-spike attack with his Origin Emperor Flame.
• The Emperor Soul Will sent a devouring dark hand after Xiao Chen, who countered with Chaos Return to Ruins and held it at bay despite severe injuries.
• The Emperor Soul Will strengthened its attack, nearly overwhelming Xiao Chen, while Zi Yan and the weakened Zhu Kun could not intervene.
• Xiao Yan seized the opening and used Emperor Flame Origin Skill—Burn Heaven Boil Sea · One Finger, directing a devastating ray at the Emperor Soul Will’s dark eyes.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Chen joined forces to defeat the Emperor Soul Will’s infiltrating fragment, with Xiao Yan sealing a portion of its origin before the rift closed. As Blazing Heaven Purgatory began collapsing under Hun Tiandi’s assault from outside, Zi Yan carried the wounded Xiao Yan, Xiao Chen, and Zhu Kun toward a Space Node.

• Xiao Yan’s Blazing Heaven Finger clashed with the Emperor Soul Will’s soul shield while Xiao Chen seized the distraction to devour part of the giant dark hand.
• Xiao Chen’s interference weakened the shield, allowing Xiao Yan’s ray to break through and injure one of the Emperor Soul Will’s vortex eyes.
• Xiao Yan bound and sealed a small portion of the Emperor Soul Will’s origin, then collapsed from his injuries as Zi Yan caught him.
• Zhu Kun caught the unconscious Xiao Chen and warned Zi Yan that Hun Tiandi was shaking the purgatory core and the realm could not hold much longer.
• Zi Yan stored the sealed origin and carried Xiao Yan, Xiao Chen, and Zhu Kun toward a Space Node as Blazing Heaven Purgatory began to collapse.

Zi Yan used a wisp of Xiao Yan’s Origin Emperor Flame to open a passage out of the collapsing Blazing Heaven Purgatory and escaped with Xiao Yan, Xiao Chen, and Zhu Kun. They emerged in the Endless Fire Domain as Hun Tiandi’s Myriad Souls Blood Sacrifice Array began, while Xiao Yan and Xiao Chen remained unconscious and their marks faintly stirred.

• Zhu Kun revealed that a weak point in the purgatory’s Space Barrier could connect to the Endless Fire Domain, but a destructive shockwave from the Ancient Emperor Palace was approaching.
• Zi Yan carefully drew out a wisp of Xiao Yan’s Origin Emperor Flame and used it to tear open a passage through the fiery abyss.
• Zi Yan shielded Xiao Yan, Xiao Chen, and Zhu Kun as they fled through the unstable passage, which collapsed behind them under the shockwave.
• Zi Yan and the others landed in the Endless Fire Domain, where she found the sealed fragment of the Emperor Soul Will still beside her.
• Zhu Kun recognized the blood pillar rising nearby as the Myriad Souls Blood Sacrifice Array, which Hun Tiandi had activated to pursue a greater power.
• Xiao Yan’s eyelids twitched, and the Chaos Mark on Xiao Chen’s brow faintly flickered as the evil pressure spread.

While Zi Yan sheltered the injured Xiao Chen, Xiao Yan, and Zhu Kun in the Endless Fire Domain, Han Yue reported that Xiao Jin and Xiao Xiao were in danger as the Soul Clan’s blood sacrifice awakened their powers. Xiao Yan set off alone for the Star Realm to save his children, while a faint change stirred within Xiao Chen’s Chaos Universe.

• Zi Yan concealed the injured Xiao Chen, Xiao Yan, and Zhu Kun in a cave and guarded the sealed fragment of the Emperor Soul’s origin.
• Han Yue told Zi Yan that Xiao Jin’s Chaos Fire Eyes were awakening dangerously and an Ancient Heavenly Snake soul was trying to seize control of Xiao Xiao.
• Xiao Yan awoke, learned that his children were in peril, and decided to return to the Star Realm despite his injuries.
• Xiao Yan left Zi Yan to protect Xiao Chen and Zhu Kun, then used his Origin Emperor Flame to travel alone through the dangerous void.
• After Xiao Yan departed, Xiao Chen’s Chaos Emperor Flame twitched faintly and the Chaos Mark between his brows grew slightly clearer.

Xiao Yan returned to the Xiao Family courtyard and began treating Xiao Jin’s rampaging Chaos Power while fighting the Ancient Heavenly Snake soul possessing Xiao Xiao. As he struggled to save both children, the Chaos Mark on the unconscious Xiao Chen suddenly brightened in a hidden cave in the Endless Fire Domain.

• Yao Lao warned that Xiao Jin’s activated Chaos Fire Eyes were overwhelming his body, while Cai Lin reported that an ancient snake soul was trying to seize Xiao Xiao’s body.
• Xiao Yan returned to the courtyard badly wounded, learned the children’s condition, and used his Emperor Flame and soul power to calm Xiao Jin’s Chaos Power.
• Xiao Yan confronted the soul possessing Xiao Xiao, which claimed her bloodline and a connection to the World-Swallowing Power made her its perfect vessel.
• Xiao Yan used Purifying Soul Refinement to attack the Ancient Heavenly Snake soul while continuing to guide Xiao Jin, exhausting himself as the struggle for Xiao Xiao’s body began.
• In a hidden cave in the Endless Fire Domain, the Chaos Mark between Xiao Chen’s brows briefly brightened.

Xiao Yan used his heart's blood and Purifying Soul Refining Fire to save Xiao Xiao and stabilize Xiao Jin, but the Ancient Heavenly Snake soul escaped toward the Blood Sacrifice Great Array. Xiao Yan collapsed from the effort, while Xiao Chen's Chaos Emperor Flame began repairing him more quickly.

• The Ancient Heavenly Snake soul resisted Xiao Yan's purification and threatened to seize Xiao Xiao's body as Xiao Jin's Chaos Power destabilized.
• Xiao Yan split a drop of heart's blood between Xiao Jin and Xiao Xiao, calming Xiao Jin and burning the Ancient Heavenly Snake soul out of Xiao Xiao.
• The wounded Ancient Heavenly Snake soul was drawn by the Blood Sacrifice Great Array's dark red beam toward the Endless Fire Domain, escaping Xiao Yan.
• Cai Lin confirmed that Xiao Xiao was comatose but recovering, while Xiao Jin's Chaos Power was temporarily stable.
• Xiao Yan collapsed from exhaustion, and Xiao Chen's Chaos Mark and Chaos Emperor Flame began repairing his body faster.

As the Soul Clan’s blood sacrifice spread across the continent and threatened to erode its fundamental laws, Xiao Yan proposed using a fragment of the Emperor Soul Origin to sabotage the array from within. The alliance began preparing the Origin Reverse Realm Breaking Nail and organizing a coordinated counterattack, while Xiao Chen remained unconscious in the Endless Fire Domain.

• Han Yue reported that the Soul Clan had activated at least fifty Altar Nodes and sacrificed more than eight hundred thousand people, while attacks had destroyed cities and settlements across the continent.
• Huang Jiuxiao and Elder Xing revealed that sacrificial energy was being routed to the Soul Realm and other locations, and that the Blood Sacrifice Great Array was weakening the continent’s Space Barrier and laws.
• Xiao Yan entered the Council Hall and proposed forging an Origin Reverse Realm Breaking Nail from the Emperor Soul Origin fragment to disrupt the array and its receiving passage from within.
• Huang Jiuxiao, the Ice Emperor, Elder Xing, Gu Yuan, and Yao Lao pledged resources and support as Xiao Yan took charge of forging the nail despite his injuries.
• Xiao Yan ordered resistance forces to retreat and preserve their strength, called for Zi Yan, Zhu Kun, and Xiao Chen to be brought back, and formed a team to prepare the counterattack.
• In the Endless Fire Domain, the gray airflow around unconscious Xiao Chen grew denser, and the Chaos Mark on his brow pulsed faintly.

Xiao Chen awakened after several days and discovered that his shattered Chaos Universe had begun to recover, strengthened by Xiao Yan’s essence blood and Emperor-realm aura. Though still badly injured, he planned to leave the cave, contact the Star Realm, and seek allies and ways to counter the Emperor Soul’s scheme.

• After three days of guarding Xiao Chen, Zi Yan saw him awaken and fed him spiritual medicine while Zhu Kun explained that Xiao Yan had returned to the Star Realm to save the children.
• Zi Yan told Xiao Chen that Xiao Jin and Xiao Xiao had been endangered by the Blood Sacrifice Great Array, but Xiao Yan had stabilized them with his essence blood and Origin Emperor Flame.
• Xiao Chen examined his recovering Chaos Universe and realized Xiao Yan’s power had helped stabilize his foundation and slightly advance his Path of Chaos.
• Xiao Chen studied the sealed Emperor Soul Origin and agreed that Xiao Yan’s plan to use it against the Blood Sacrifice Great Array was feasible, but said they needed more strength and allies.
• Xiao Chen decided to leave the Endless Fire Domain’s core region with Zi Yan and Zhu Kun, contact the Star Realm, and have Yao Lao and Gu Yuan investigate locations that might contain ancient powers or disrupt the array.

Xiao Yan and the others completed the Origin Reverse Realm Breaking Nail after a distant Chaos ripple from Xiao Chen briefly disrupted the Emperor Soul consciousness. With the nail sealed and the counterattack being prepared, Xiao Chen set out to find unexpected allies or ancient powers that could help break the stalemate.

• Xiao Yan, Yao Lao, Elder Xing, Elder Kong Yan, Huang Jiuxiao, and the Ice Emperor forged the nail, but the Emperor Soul Origin’s residual consciousness disrupted the final runes and nearly caused the process to fail.
• A faint Chaos ripple from Xiao Chen paused the hostile consciousness, allowing Xiao Yan to complete the reversal core rune and form the Origin Reverse Realm Breaking Nail.
• Xiao Yan and the others sealed the nail, then Xiao Yan stored it in a jade case and assigned Elder Kong Yan, Elder Xing, and Zi Yan to determine when and where to drive it into the Blood Sacrifice Great Array.
• Xiao Yan ordered Gu Yuan and Huang Jiuxiao to gather the forces for an assault once the nail caused chaos in the array.
• Zi Yan’s dragon soul projection told Xiao Chen that the forging had succeeded and asked whether his Chaos ripple had helped; Xiao Chen confirmed that he had sensed the Emperor Soul Origin.
• Xiao Chen asked the Star Realm for information on ancient powers, rule nodes, and the array’s energy flows, then resolved to seek unexpected reinforcements in the Nether Fiend Land and elsewhere.

The Nine-headed Heavenly Boa realized Hun Tiandi intended to use Garuda’s remnant soul to seize its World Devouring power, and planned to exploit the blood sacrifice in turn. As Soul Hall nodes vanished in gray mist and Hun Tiandi prepared for the approaching feast, the conflict converged on the Blood Sacrifice Great Array above the Endless Fire Domain.

• The Nine-headed Heavenly Boa sensed Garuda’s remnant soul entering the Emperor Soul’s Altar and inferred that Hun Tiandi planned to use it as a key to control or devour its power.
• The Nine-headed Heavenly Boa ordered its elders to alert Nine Nether and prepare the secret art Myriad Snakes Return Home so they could enter the blood sacrifice during the chaos.
• Hun Miesheng received reports that Soul Hall Altar nodes across the continent had gone silent amid signs of gray mist, and he suspected the awakened Xiao Chen was destroying them.
• Hun Miesheng ordered surviving nodes to raise their defenses and warned that the Blood Sacrifice Great Array’s core had detected powerful Spatial Fluctuations.
• Hun Tiandi learned that Xiao Chen had awakened, dismissed his attacks on the nodes, and awaited the Emperor Soul’s descent while the seven Tou She Ancient God Jades resonated with the array.

The Alliance prepared a three-pronged assault on the Soul Clan, with Xiao Yan leading an elite strike into the Blood Sacrifice Great Array during a brief opening. Meanwhile, Xiao Chen began covertly disrupting the array from the Southern Region as both operations moved toward the decisive battle.

• Gu Yuan outlined the Alliance’s plan: attack the Soul Realm, strike the Nether Fiend Land, and send an elite team into the array’s core after the Realm Breaking Nail caused a sixty-breath disruption.
• Xiao Yan insisted he could join the dangerous assault despite his weakened condition, determined to stop Hun Tiandi and protect those caught in the catastrophe.
• Xiao Chen studied Zi Yan’s monitoring map and identified abnormal energy nodes that might naturally resist the Blood Sacrifice Great Array.
• Xiao Chen asked Zhu Kun to conceal his movements and used Chaos Energy to begin interfering with the array while Zi Yan maintained contact with the Star Realm.

The alliance launched its assault after Xiao Yan sent the Origin Reverse Realm Breaking Nail into the Blood Sacrifice Great Array, throwing the ritual into chaos. As Hun Tiandi tried to stabilize the array, he sensed Xiao Chen nearby and fired a devastating attack at him, leaving Xiao Chen and Zhu Kun engulfed in its blast.

• Elder Kong Yan and Zi Yan opened a spatial rift, and Xiao Yan sent the Origin Reverse Realm Breaking Nail through it toward the array’s core.
• The nail and Xiao Chen’s earlier disruptions at several Southern Region nodes destabilized the Blood Sacrifice Great Array.
• Gu Yuan ordered the armies to attack the Soul Realm and Nether Fiend Land while Elder Gu Dao led the elite force toward the array’s core.
• Hun Tiandi ordered Hun Miesheng to activate the Myriad Souls Devour Heaven Array’s backup energy and repel the alliance’s forces.
• Hun Tiandi sensed Xiao Chen’s Chaos aura and fired a Blood Soul Annihilation Cannon toward his suspected location.
• Xiao Chen expanded his Chaos Domain and tried to escape with Zhu Kun, but the cannon engulfed their mountain range.

Xiao Chen faced Hun Tiandi’s blood-sacrifice attack and awakened a deeper aspect of the Path of Chaos: nihility. His and Zhu Kun’s auras vanished into a tiny gray singularity, leaving Hun Tiandi uncertain whether they had been destroyed as he resumed the summoning.

• Hun Tiandi unleashed a blood-red attack that erased the mountains and trapped Xiao Chen and Zhu Kun in a dead zone.
• Xiao Chen used Chaos Energy to shield them, but the cocoon cracked under the overwhelming assault and both were close to being destroyed.
• At the brink of annihilation, Xiao Chen comprehended nihility and collapsed his remaining Chaos Energy, soul, and vitality inward.
• The resulting gray singularity lost its target to the blood-red energy, which could no longer properly erode or destroy it.
• The singularity vanished from sight, and Hun Tiandi sensed that Xiao Chen and Zhu Kun’s auras had disappeared without clear proof of their deaths.
• Hun Tiandi turned back to stabilizing the great array, while a faint gray speck continued flickering deep within the crater.

Xiao Yan and the alliance assault team fought through the Blood Sacrifice Great Array to reach its core Altar, but the Emperor Soul Will stopped their attack once their sixty-breath window ended. Surrounded with no escape, Xiao Yan prepared to charge forward despite the overwhelming danger.

• Elder Gu Dao led the alliance assault team through the Spatial Rift into the outer perimeter of the Blood Sacrifice Great Array, where the crimson energy began corroding them.
• Xiao Yan and the others fought off the Soul Clan elites, and Xiao Yan unleashed his Fire Domain to purify the energy and break through toward the core Altar.
• The assault team reached the Altar and attacked it as their sixty-breath window expired, but the Emperor Soul Will froze the space and blocked every strike.
• The Emperor Soul Will pressed toward the team as Soul Clan forces encircled them, leaving no retreat; Xiao Yan chose to face the Altar and charge forward.

As the Emperor Soul Will overwhelmed the Alliance Commando Team, Xiao Yan sacrificed his Emperor Flame Origin to disrupt the seven Tou She Ancient God Jades and interrupt the summoning. His attack gave the others a chance to escape, while Xiao Yan vanished into the chaotic energy storm.

• The Emperor Soul Will attacked the Alliance Commando Team, and Xiao Yan realized it was targeting his Emperor Flame Origin as nourishment.
• Xiao Yan told Elder Gu Dao, Yao Lao, and the others to escape when he interfered with the Ancient Emperor Jade, then faced the Emperor Soul Will alone.
• Xiao Yan used Emperor Flame Burns Heart to send his Emperor Flame Origin into the seven Tou She Ancient God Jades, throwing the Blood Sacrifice Great Array and summoning passage into chaos.
• Hun Tiandi suffered backlash, and the Emperor Soul phantom’s descent was delayed as the Ancient Emperor Jade’s energy field destabilized.
• Elder Gu Dao, Wind Venerate, Yao Lao, Xuan Yi, and the others broke through the Soul Clan’s encirclement and fled.
• Xiao Yan vanished into the energy storm as his golden-white flames contracted around him.

Xiao Chen emerged from Chaos Returns to Origin with a transformed understanding of the Path of Chaos after sensing Xiao Yan’s life-threatening aura. Joined by Zhu Kun, he set out through a Chaos passage toward the blood sacrifice core to find his Third Brother.

• The Alliance Commando Team escaped the Soul Clan’s encirclement amid the energy storm, while Xiao Yan’s fate remained uncertain.
• Xiao Chen’s consciousness sensed Xiao Yan’s final, fading aura and broke out of its deep Return to Origin state at the cost of burning his recovered origin.
• Xiao Chen and Zhu Kun manifested within the crater, and Xiao Chen realized he had reached the threshold of Return to Origin Void.
• Xiao Chen sensed that Xiao Yan had vanished at the blood sacrifice core and resolved to go there, while Zhu Kun agreed to accompany him.
• Xiao Chen opened a stable Chaos passage through the hostile space, and he and Zhu Kun entered it toward the core.