Chapter Summaries

After fusing the Pure World Saint Heart Flame with the Nine Profound Golden Lightning, Lin Ran reached the middle Nine-Star Dou Saint stage and entered the Heavenly Tomb to seek Xiao Xuan’s help against the Soul Clan. He reached Blood Saber Saint’s territory and demanded to know where Xiao Xuan was.

• Lin Ran spent twelve days fusing the Pure World Saint Heart Flame and Nine Profound Golden Lightning into the Sacred Golden Lightning Flame, advancing to the middle Nine-Star Dou Saint stage.
• Lin Ran told Gu Yuan he wanted to enter the Heavenly Tomb to seek Xiao Xuan’s help, and Gu Yuan opened a passage for him.
• Lin Ran entered the Heavenly Tomb, crushed nearby energy bodies with his aura, and sped toward its depths.
• Lin Ran arrived at Blood Saber Saint’s territory and asked where Xiao Xuan was.
• Blood Saber Saint recognized Lin Ran’s Nine-Star Dou Saint power and offered to take him to Xiao Xuan.

Lin Ran visited Xiao Xuan in the Heavenly Tomb and learned that Origin Emperor Qi was the missing key to reaching Dou Di, while Hun Tiandi sought the embryonic Emperor Grade Pill and likely knew Lin Ran possessed the final Ancient Jade. Unable to help fight the Soul Clan himself, Xiao Xuan offered to transform into the Heaven Tomb Soul to help Lin Ran advance his soul realm, leaving his breakthrough to the Emperor Realm Soul uncertain.

• Blood Saber Saint led Lin Ran to Xiao Xuan's tomb, where Lin Ran asked the ancient soul to help protect the Xiao Clan and oppose the Soul Clan.
• Xiao Xuan explained that his remnant soul could not be revived, then revealed his discovery that Origin Emperor Qi was needed to break through to Dou Di.
• Lin Ran told Xiao Xuan that Yellow Springs Demon Sage had also described a missing element on the continent, and Xiao Xuan identified it as Origin Emperor Qi.
• Xiao Xuan explained that Hun Tiandi sought the embryonic Emperor Grade Pill in Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion and had likely detected Lin Ran's possession of the final Ancient Jade.
• Xiao Xuan offered to transform into the Heaven Tomb Soul to help Lin Ran attempt a breakthrough from Heaven Realm Great Perfection to Emperor Realm Soul.

Xiao Xuan confronted the Heaven Tomb Soul to free the remnant souls trapped in the Heavenly Tomb and obtain its Soul Origin for Lin Ran. After Xiao Xuan destroyed it by burning his own soul, Lin Ran received the Soul Origin and was told it gave him a ninety-eight percent chance of reaching the Emperor Realm Soul.

• Lin Ran questioned how Xiao Xuan could help him reach the Emperor Realm Soul, and Xiao Xuan revealed that the Heavenly Tomb itself had a powerful soul.
• Xiao Xuan announced that he would fulfill the remnant souls’ pleas and challenge the Heaven Tomb Soul, while the Blood Saber Saint and others watched hopefully.
• The Heaven Tomb Soul appeared and attacked Xiao Xuan, but Xiao Xuan began burning his remnant soul to overwhelm it.
• Xiao Xuan turned the Heaven Tomb Soul’s soul spear back on it and destroyed it with his soul flames.
• Xiao Xuan drew the Heaven Tomb Soul’s crystalline Soul Origin and gave it to Lin Ran, explaining that consuming it offered a ninety-eight percent chance of breakthrough.

Lin Ran entered the Heaven Tomb Soul’s Soul Origin and began purifying and absorbing its vast soul power with his Sacred Golden Lightning Flame, pushing toward Emperor Realm Soul. Meanwhile, Hun Tiandi refined Nihility Devouring Flame but remained a Half-Emperor without source qi, and he ordered the Soul Clan to prepare for an invasion of the Dou Qi Continent.

• Lin Ran entered the Heaven Tomb Soul’s Soul Origin after Xiao Xuan urged him to absorb its power and watched over him from outside.
• Lin Ran discovered that the Soul Origin contained a vast sea of soul power and used his Sacred Golden Lightning Flame to purify and devour it.
• Nihility Devouring Flame’s controlled Soul Clan members rebelled, and Hun Tiandi ruthlessly suppressed them while searching for remnants of its sub-flames.
• Hun Tiandi told Hun Shengtian that refining Nihility Devouring Flame had made him a Half-Emperor, but he still needed the Emperor Pill and source qi to reach Dou Di.
• Hun Tiandi ordered the Soul Clan to prepare to reclaim the two Ancient Jades and counterattack the Dou Qi Continent in three days.

After two years of soul cultivation in the accelerated sea of souls, Lin Ran attained an Emperor Realm Soul, refined the Heaven Tomb Soul, and gained control of the Heavenly Tomb. He returned to find Hun Tiandi threatening the Ancient Clan, and his overwhelming soul pressure interrupted the confrontation.

• Lin Ran's Emperor Realm Soul emerged in the Heavenly Tomb, and Xiao Xuan vanished after entrusting the fight against the Soul Clan to him.
• Lin Ran collected Xiao Xuan's life imprint and discovered he could control the Heavenly Tomb and sense its every corner with his soul power.
• Lin Ran left the Heavenly Tomb and found Hun Tiandi had invaded the Ancient Realm, defeated Gu Yuan, and taken the Ancient Clan's Ancient Jade.
• Gu Yuan and the Ancient Clan used the Blood Sacrifice Formation and Ancient Emperor Mirror to fight back, but Hun Tiandi demanded Lin Ran's whereabouts and threatened to erase the clan.
• Lin Ran's powerful soul fluctuation shattered the Soul Clan experts' gathered force, prompting both sides to recognize that he had an Emperor Realm Soul.

After returning from the Heavenly Tomb with a middle nine-star Dou Saint cultivation and an Emperor Realm Soul, Lin Ran found Hun Tiandi attacking the Ancient Clan after devouring Nihility Devouring Flame and reaching half-step Dou Di. Hun Tiandi used his captured Sacred Sect allies to force Lin Ran to surrender the Xiao Clan Ancient Jade, and the chapter ended with Lin Ran revealing it to stop him from torturing Xiao Yi Xian.

• Lin Ran emerged from the Heavenly Tomb, and Xun Er warned him that Hun Tiandi knew he had the Xiao Clan Ancient Jade.
• Hun Tiandi attacked Lin Ran and revealed that he had devoured Nihility Devouring Flame, while Gu Yuan and the Ancient Clan used the Ancient Emperor Mirror to block his blood lightning.
• Lin Ran told Gu Yuan that Xiao Xuan’s soul had dispersed after helping him attain an Emperor Realm Soul, and Gu Yuan revealed that the Ancient Clan’s jade had been lost.
• Hun Tiandi showed Lin Ran the captured Sacred Sect members and offered to release them if Lin Ran surrendered the Xiao Clan Ancient Jade.
• When Lin Ran refused, Hun Tiandi crushed captive souls, killed Fairy Qing, Fairy Hua, and Feng Xian, then tortured Xiao Yi Xian.
• Lin Ran revealed the Xiao Clan Ancient Jade and ordered Hun Tiandi to stop.

Lin Ran traded the Ancient Jade to Hun Tiandi to rescue Cai Lin, Xiao Yi Xian, and the others, leaving Hun Tiandi with all eight jades and poised to seek the Emperor Pill. Lin Ran revealed that he knew the location of Tuoshe Ancient God's Cave Mansion and planned to gather Heavenly Flames to strengthen himself before confronting Hun Tiandi.

• Lin Ran exchanged the Ancient Jade for the release of the imprisoned Sacred Sect members, then healed Cai Lin, Xiao Yi Xian, and the others and sent them into the Ancient Clan's formation.
• Hun Tiandi took the jade, announced that all eight Ancient Jades were complete, and departed with the Soul Clan without attacking Lin Ran or Gu Yuan.
• Gu Yuan asked how they could stop Hun Tiandi, and Lin Ran said he knew where Tuoshe Ancient God's Cave Mansion was and urged him to summon Lei Ying and Yan Jin.
• Lin Ran asked Gu Yuan to find him Heavenly Flames so he could increase his strength by absorbing them, following the path of Tuoshe Ancient Emperor.
• Lin Ran revealed that the cave mansion lay beneath Jia Nan Academy in the Black Corner Region and explained that the Xiao Clan Ancient Jade had reacted to the depths beneath its magma.

Lin Ran devoured five more Heavenly Flames and broke through to the late stage of the nine-star Dou Saint realm, while Yan Jin arrived with additional flames. In the Soul Realm, Hun Tiandi assembled the eight Ancient Jades, summoned Tou She Ancient God's phantom, and began investigating its secrets.

• Lin Ran devoured Three Thousand Burning Flame after having already absorbed Han Feng's Sea Heart Flame, but the two flames were not enough to advance his cultivation.
• Yao Dan arrived with Elder Shen Nong and two Yao Clan youths, offering Turtle Spirit Earth Fire, Nine Nether Wind Flame, and Living Flame to help Lin Ran grow stronger.
• Elder Shen Nong and the Yao Clan youths surrendered their flames, and Lin Ran absorbed all three, breaking through to the late stage of the nine-star Dou Saint realm.
• Yan Jin arrived with three others as Lin Ran prepared to absorb more Heavenly Flames.
• Hun Tiandi joined the eight Ancient Jades with his essence blood, forming the complete Tou She Ancient God Jade and summoning the phantom of Tou She Ancient God.
• Hun Tiandi's attack rebounded from the phantom and sent him flying, after which he began studying it for the secrets of becoming a Dou Di.

Hun Tiandi discovered that Tuoshe Ancient God's Cave Mansion was likely beneath the Black Corner Region and ordered the Soul Clan to seize the area. As the Sacred Sect evacuated and the allied forces prepared to resist, Hun Tiandi ordered an army to surround the region, determined to obtain the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill.

• Hun Tiandi learned that the Black Corner Region matched the illustration of the cave mansion's location and ordered the Soul Hall to clear the area.
• At Jia Nan Academy, Gu Yuan and the allied leaders discussed their defenses while Lin Ran continued stabilizing the many Heavenly Flames he had absorbed.
• Soul Clan forces attacked a Sacred Sect city, but Yao Chen killed their leader with a Golden Token and ordered the sect members to evacuate.
• Yao Chen returned to Jia Nan Academy and warned Gu Yuan that the Soul Clan had discovered the Black Corner Region and war was imminent.
• After learning that Hun You's mission had failed, Hun Tiandi ordered Hun Shengtian, Hun Yuantian, and Hun Yao to move an army toward the Black Corner Region.

Hun Tiandi led the Soul Clan army to Jia Nan Academy and tried to open the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion, while Gu Yuan and the alliance fought to stop him. Lin Ran arrived with a newly awakened platinum-white Heavenly Flame, and the confrontation with Hun Tiandi began in earnest.

• Hun Tiandi appeared before Gu Yuan and offered to help him advance to Dou Di if he joined forces with the Soul Clan, but Gu Yuan refused.
• The Soul Clan army arrived, and Hun Tiandi used the Tou She Ancient God Jade to summon the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion beneath Jia Nan Academy.
• Gu Yuan and the alliance attacked Hun Tiandi's giant palm, but the clash destroyed Jia Nan Academy and exposed the magma hiding the Cave Mansion.
• Hun Tiandi sensed the Cave Mansion beneath the magma and overwhelmed Gu Yuan in their fight.
• Lin Ran arrived at peak nine-star Dou Saint strength, surprising Hun Tiandi with a platinum-white Heavenly Flame that made Hun Tiandi's own flames recoil.

Lin Ran and Gu Yuan battled Hun Tiandi as he used the Tuoshe Ancient God Jade to summon the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion. The cave mansion emerged from the magma, but a late-stage Nine-Star Dou Saint appeared beneath the sea, leaving both armies facing a new threat.

• Lin Ran revealed a fused Heavenly Flame and joined Gu Yuan in attacking Hun Tiandi, but Hun Tiandi struck them back and began activating the jade above the magma sea.
• Lin Ran left Gu Yuan to watch Hun Tiandi and went to investigate as a vast vortex formed in the magma.
• Hun Tiandi blocked Gu Yuan's attack while the vortex expanded, and the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion rose from the magma.
• Lin Ran warned the alliance armies to retreat from the magma just before a colossal roar and towering waves announced the emergence of a late-stage Nine-Star Dou Saint creature.

A mysterious purple-gold dragon aided Hun Tiandi against Gu Yuan after Hun Tiandi claimed to have summoned the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion. When the dragon saw Zi Yan, he turned against Hun Tiandi and revealed that he knew her mother and had loved her.

• A colossal creature emerged from the magma, transformed into a purple-haired man, and agreed to help Hun Tiandi fight Gu Yuan in return for opening the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion.
• Hun Tiandi struck Gu Yuan from behind while the mysterious man attacked him, driving Gu Yuan to begin self-destructing his body.
• Lin Ran arrived with Zi Yan and used Holy Flame to stop Gu Yuan's self-destruction, then joined Zi Yan in resisting Hun Tiandi's attack.
• The mysterious man recognized Zi Yan as his child after Hun Tiandi wounded her and attacked Hun Tiandi instead.
• The mysterious man addressed Elder Zhu Huo and called himself the Ancient Void Dragon Emperor, but Zi Yan asserted that she was the Dragon Emperor.
• The mysterious man told Zi Yan that she resembled her mother and said her mother had been the person he loved most in his life.

Zi Yan discovered that Zhu Kun, the vanished Old Dragon Emperor, was her father and struggled with whether to accept him, while he pledged to kill Hun Tiandi for her. As the Ancient Emperor’s Cave Mansion opened, Lin Ran, Gu Yuan, and Zhu Kun prepared to stop Hun Tiandi from claiming the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill.

• Zi Yan and Zhu Kun joined hands, and their golden light confirmed their blood connection; she initially rejected him, saying she had no parents.
• Zhu Kun comforted Zi Yan, and she asked him to kill Hun Tiandi; Zhu Kun agreed, while Elder Zhu Huo and the Ancient Dragon Clan elders recognized him as their lost Dragon Emperor.
• Elder Zhu Huo explained how the Ancient Dragon Clan had fractured and how Lin Ran had helped it, and Zhu Kun accepted Lin Ran as the clan’s Prince.
• The Ancient Emperor’s Cave Mansion began opening, and Zhu Kun warned that Hun Tiandi sought the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill to become a Dou Di.
• Lin Ran, Gu Yuan, and Zhu Kun agreed to enter the cave mansion first and stop Hun Tiandi, while Lin Ran told Zi Yan to follow her heart about acknowledging her father.
• The cave mansion’s stone doors fully opened, and the gathered fighters braced for the battle ahead.

Lin Ran and the others entered the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion and followed Hun Tiandi through its Heavenly Flame-filled plaza to a giant statue of Tou She Ancient God. They discovered that the figure on the statue was the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill, which Hun Tiandi still sought to claim.

• Hun Tiandi rushed into the cave mansion ahead of Lin Ran, Gu Yuan, and Zhu Kun after attacking them at the entrance.
• Lin Ran followed a mysterious pull through the cave mansion until he caught up with Hun Tiandi, and the group reached a plaza lined with weakened Heavenly Flames.
• Lin Ran revealed the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and told Hun Tiandi that the Nihility Devouring Flame within him was reacting fearfully to the plaza.
• Hun Tiandi dispersed the mist at the plaza's end, revealing a colossal statue of Tou She Ancient God surrounded by Heaven Class cultivation methods and Dou Techniques.
• A figure resembling Tou She Ancient God appeared atop the statue, and Lin Ran identified him as the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill.

Lin Ran, Hun Tiandi, Gu Yuan, and Zhu Kun fought the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill, which proved powerful enough to overpower them and activate a formation to refine everyone in the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion. As the formation closed around them, Hun Tiandi sensed that the Tou She Ancient God Jade might be the key to escaping.

• Hun Tiandi attacked the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill to claim its origin qi, and Lin Ran, Gu Yuan, and Zhu Kun joined the fight against it.
• The Emperor Grade Nascent Pill unleashed its Emperor Pill Palm and a massive wave of pill energy, forcing the four experts to defend themselves together.
• The Emperor Grade Nascent Pill struck Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun down, then Lin Ran warned Hun Tiandi to stop holding back as they prepared to fight at full strength.
• The Emperor Grade Nascent Pill activated Pill Transformation into Heaven, forming a grand formation that began drawing on the cave mansion to refine everyone inside.
• Hun Tiandi noticed that the connection from the Tou She Ancient God Jade grew stronger as the formation rose and suspected the jade was the key to breaking it.

The Emperor Grade Nascent Pill trapped everyone in the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Cave Mansion and attacked with the Emperor Flame, but Lin Ran’s Holy Flame protected the group and resonated with it. Hun Tiandi used the Pill Refining Ring to capture the Emperor Pill, then escaped through a spatial rift while Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun attacked.

• The Emperor Grade Nascent Pill activated the formation, sealed the cave mansion, and blocked Zi Yan and the Ancient Void Dragons from escaping.
• Lin Ran, Hun Tiandi, Gu Yuan, and Zhu Kun joined forces to attack the formation as the Emperor Pill unleashed its Emperor Flame.
• Lin Ran’s Holy Flame shielded the group from the flames and resonated with them, drawing the Emperor Pill’s attention to him.
• Hun Tiandi used the Ancient Jade to summon the Pill Refining Ring and began refining the Emperor Pill while Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun attacked him.
• Zhu Kun struck Hun Tiandi and sent him flying, but Hun Tiandi captured the Emperor Pill in the ring and escaped through a spatial rift.

After Hun Tiandi seized the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill, Lin Ran entered an enlightenment while Zi Yan stayed beside him. In a vision, Tuoshe Ancient Emperor revealed the Dou Qi Continent’s history and gave Lin Ran the Origin Qi and Emperor Flame needed to break through to Dou Di, leaving Lin Ran absorbing them as the ancient emperor vanished.

• Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun recognized that Lin Ran had entered enlightenment through his connection to the Emperor Flame, while they feared Hun Tiandi might refine the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill.
• Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun set a barrier around Lin Ran and left to prepare their forces, while Zi Yan chose to remain with him.
• Lin Ran’s consciousness entered a void, where he met Tuoshe Ancient Emperor and learned that Origin Qi had vanished after the ancient Dou Di sealed the passage to the Great Thousand World during an invasion by the Outer Realm Evil Clan.
• Tuoshe Ancient Emperor gave Lin Ran a strand of Origin Qi and the origin essence of Emperor Flame, saying they could let him reach Dou Di.
• Lin Ran absorbed the Emperor Flame, and Tuoshe Ancient Emperor’s remnant soul faded away.

After months of waiting, Hun Tiandi emerged from the Soul Realm having advanced to Dou Di and attacked the allied forces, while Lin Ran remained in seclusion. The chapter ended with Hun Tiandi's first strike shattering Gu Yuan's combined defense as he declared himself Emperor.

• The alliance discussed Hun Tiandi's possible breakthrough and pinned its hopes on Lin Ran receiving the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's inheritance.
• Three months later, Hun Tiandi appeared over Central Continent, revealed that he had become a Dou Di, and declared that he would claim the title of Emperor.
• Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun prepared the allied army to fight Hun Tiandi while Lin Ran remained in seclusion.
• Hun Tiandi offered to spare the alliance if its members submitted, but Lei Ying rejected him.
• Hun Tiandi attacked with a dark-red palm print, and Gu Yuan's Ancient Emperor Mirror shattered against it.

Hun Tiandi overwhelmed Gu Yuan’s alliance and began destroying the Central Continent, but Lin Ran emerged as a second Dou Di and stopped the black flames. The two emperors faced each other, each declaring that he would defeat the other and establish his rule.

• Hun Tiandi shattered the alliance’s attacks, sealed Gu Yuan’s access to the energy of heaven and earth, and defeated him and Zhu Kun with ease.
• Hun Tiandi summoned the Soul Clan army and offered Gu Yuan a chance to surrender, but Gu Yuan refused to submit.
• Hun Tiandi unleashed black flames across the Central Continent, breaching the alliance’s defenses and devouring countless people.
• Lin Ran appeared in holy light, extinguished the black flames, and revealed that he had also reached Dou Di.
• Hun Tiandi realized Lin Ran had obtained Tuoshe Ancient Emperor’s inheritance, and Lin Ran declared that he would defeat the Soul Emperor and become the Sacred Emperor.

Lin Ran and Hun Tiandi fought as Dou Di, trading attacks evenly until Hun Tiandi activated the Soul Clan’s hidden Spirit Devouring Life Severing Array across the Central Continent. After devouring the blood energy of countless victims and transforming into a colossal flesh-and-blood body, Hun Tiandi faced Lin Ran as Lin Ran summoned holy light and lava.

• Hun Tiandi attacked Lin Ran with black flames, blood mist, and blood lightning, but Lin Ran countered with a Saint Flame Lightning Dragon.
• Lin Ran and Hun Tiandi exchanged blood blades and holy flames in a fierce battle that ended in a draw.
• Hun Tiandi activated the Soul Clan’s Spirit Devouring Life Severing Array, causing cities across the Central Continent to fill with blood mist as their inhabitants died.
• Hun Tiandi devoured the accumulated blood energy and grew into a gigantic blood-armored body of a Dou Di.
• Lin Ran faced Hun Tiandi’s transformed body as holy light and molten lava poured into him.