Chapter Summaries

After Lei Dong and Zi Yan escaped Soul Yan’s ambush, Soul Tu pursued them toward the Lei Clan, whose surroundings had been sealed by the Void Swallowing Flame. Unable to outrun him, Lei Dong stopped to form a lightning barrier while Zi Yan summoned Zhu Sheng and Zhu Mie for help.

• Soul Yan told Soul Tu that Lei Dong and Zi Yan had defeated his group, killed his subordinates, and seriously wounded him and the Dragon Emperor.
• Soul Tu ordered his subordinates to take Soul Yan and find Soul Blade, then pursued Lei Dong and Zi Yan through the Space Wormhole.
• Lei Dong realized the Lei Clan had not answered his signal and suspected the Soul Clan had sealed the area around the Lei Realm.
• Zi Yan sensed Soul Tu approaching and offered to hold him off, but Lei Dong refused and asked her to summon Zhu Sheng and Zhu Mie with a Jade Slip.
• Lei Dong stopped, used Nine Heavens Divine Lightning to create a defensive sphere around himself and Zi Yan, and Soul Tu arrived and threatened them.

Soul Tu broke through Lei Dong’s lightning barriers and overpowered Lei Dong and Zi Yan, intending to capture them and take Lei Dong’s soul as an offering to Void Lord. Just as his soul attack was about to hit Lei Dong, a sword descended from the heavens and dispelled it.

• Soul Tu battered Lei Dong’s lightning barriers with his blades until his strongest slash shattered them.
• Lei Dong and Zi Yan attacked Soul Tu together, but he dismissed their weakened Dou Skills and demanded the Ancient Jade.
• Lei Dong tried to stall Soul Tu and confirmed that Void Lord had sealed the space outside the Lei Clan.
• Soul Tu charged Lei Dong and Zi Yan, sent Zi Yan flying, and knocked both of them to the ground when Lei Dong counterattacked.
• Soul Tu launched black Dou Qi at Lei Dong, whose soul began to tremble as Zi Yan watched helplessly.
• A sword descended from the heavens and dissolved Soul Tu’s black Dou Qi.

Yun Yun returned to the Middle Continent and saved Lei Dong from Soul Tu, then fought the Soul Clan Demon Saint despite being outmatched. As Soul Tu moved to kill the wounded Yun Yun, Zhu Mie and Zhu Sheng arrived and shattered his attack.

• Yun Yun blocked Soul Tu’s strike against Lei Dong and told him she had returned after hearing about the upheaval in the Gama Empire.
• Yun Yun revealed her Seven Star Dou Sheng Peak strength and fought Soul Tu, who was an Eight Star Dou Sheng.
• Soul Tu urged Yun Yun to leave, but she kept fighting to protect Lei Dong.
• Yun Yun used the Great Silent Extinction Art and was blasted backward by Soul Tu’s counterattack.
• Soul Tu raised his blade to finish Yun Yun, but Zhu Mie and Zhu Sheng appeared and broke his attack with their palms.

Lei Dong and Yun Yun survived Soul Tu’s ambush with help from Zhu Mie and another Ancient Dragon Island Guardian, then returned to the Lei Clan. As Lei Dong began recovering in seclusion, Soul Emperor learned of the failed attack and prepared to punish Soul Yan and Soul Tu.

• Soul Tu escaped after being overwhelmed by Yun Yun, Lei Dong, Zhu Mie, and another Ancient Dragon Island Guardian, while Yun Yun collapsed from her injuries.
• Zhu Sheng carried Lei Dong, Yun Yun, Zi Yan, and the Guardians back to the Lei Clan, where Lei Dong told Lei Ying that the space outside the clan had been sealed.
• Lei Ying learned that the Soul Clan’s Slaying the Emperor Formation prevented the clans from attacking, while Soul Emperor continued seeking the final piece of Tuoshe Ancient Jade.
• Lei Dong gave the remaining Demon Saint Essence Blood to Huo Zhi and entered seclusion to recover from his injuries.
• Soul Tu recounted the ambush to Soul Emperor, who blamed Soul Yan for his greed and summoned the remnant souls of Soul Sha and Soul Jing as Soul Yan and Soul Tu begged for mercy.

After recovering from the battle with Soul Hall, Lei Dong secluded himself to refine the Purple Firmament Divine Lightning while Soul Hall and the Pill Tower alliance fought for control of the Middle Continent. Yun Yun’s return and overwhelming strength helped halt Soul Hall’s expansion, and she explained her rise to Nalan Yanran before being asked about Lei Dong.

• Soul Emperor warned the two failed Eight Star Dou Shengs not to repeat their mistake and sent them away to heal.
• Three days later, Lei Dong, Zi Yan, and Yun Yun had recovered, and Lei Dong ordered Qing Lin to monitor the clans before entering seclusion to refine the Purple Firmament Divine Lightning.
• Lei Dong subdued the restless lightning with his Nine Heavens Divine Lightning and began refining it.
• Over the following half-year, Soul Hall expanded across the Middle Continent and repeatedly defeated the Pill Tower alliance until Yun Yun’s return helped stop its advance.
• Nalan Yanran asked Yun Yun how she had become so powerful, and Yun Yun explained that Lei Dong had reopened the Life and Death Gate for her.
• Nalan Yanran asked Yun Yun whether Lei Dong was doing well.

Yun Yun told Nalan Yanran that the Gama Empire had fallen, Nalan Jie had died, and the surviving Nalan Family had settled in Wu Tan City. Before they could discuss a return, the Soul Hall attacked the alliance, and a peak Seven Star Dou Sheng appeared to challenge Yun Yun.

• Yun Yun reassured Nalan Yanran that Lei Dong was cultivating in seclusion and said the alliance needed to stop the Soul Hall's expansion.
• Yun Yun told Nalan Yanran that the Gama Empire had been destroyed, Nalan Jie had died in battle, and Nalan Yanran's father had survived but was still grieving.
• Yun Yun offered to take Nalan Yanran to Wu Tan City, but Nalan Yanran decided to wait until the Middle Continent conflict was over.
• A Flower Sect elder reported the Soul Hall's attack, and Yun Yun ordered the alliance elders to meet the enemy and its disciples to form an array.
• Soul Extinguisher threatened the alliance and summoned an old Soul Clan powerhouse, whom Yun Yun recognized as a peak Seven Star Dou Sheng.

Yun Yun fought Soul Xing, a powerful elder of the Soul Clan, and followed him into the void so their battle would not endanger the armies. With Yun Yun gone, Soul Extinguisher moved to attack the alliance, but a mysterious child riding an ox appeared and challenged him.

• A Small Pill Tower elder told Yun Yun about Soul Xing’s past as a Half Saint who had single-handedly destroyed the Li Family.
• Yun Yun and Soul Xing traded powerful attacks, and their clash damaged the alliance’s formation and injured Soul Hall soldiers with its shockwaves.
• Soul Xing invited Yun Yun to fight in the void, and the two left the battlefield together.
• Soul Extinguisher prepared to attack the alliance while Yun Yun was away, but a childish voice challenged him.
• A cowherd riding an ox emerged from the void with an aura stronger than Soul Extinguisher’s.

The Pill Tower Old Ancestor confronted Soul Extinguisher while Yun Yun battled Soul Xing, preventing the Soul Hall forces from immediately attacking the alliance. After Qing Lin told Lei Dong about the crisis, he left the Lei Clan with Zi Yan to help Yun Yun.

• The Pill Tower Old Ancestor revealed himself and warned Soul Extinguisher to retreat or die.
• Soul Extinguisher attacked with Void Palm, but the Pill Tower Old Ancestor dodged and struck back with Saint Pill Palm.
• The Pill Tower Old Ancestor stopped the alliance army from engaging the Soul Hall forces while everyone watched Yun Yun and Soul Xing’s battle.
• Lei Dong emerged from seclusion, and Qing Lin told him about Soul Hall’s expansion and Yun Yun’s fight against Soul Xing.
• Lei Dong confirmed that the shepherd boy was the Pill Tower Old Ancestor, then left the Lei Clan with Zi Yan to help Yun Yun.

Lei Dong and Zi Yan arrived at Yun Yun’s battle with Soul Xing, and Lei Dong revealed that the Pill Tower Old Ancestor was a Ninth-Grade Mysterious Pill he intended to refine. After Soul Hall withdrew, Yun Yun led the Pill Tower Old Ancestor to Lei Dong and Zi Yan, where Lei Dong admitted he was from the Lei Clan.

• Lei Dong and Zi Yan arrived and watched Yun Yun fight Soul Xing, while Lei Dong identified the Pill Tower Old Ancestor as a Ninth-Grade Mysterious Pill.
• Lei Dong told Zi Yan he planned to refine the Pill Tower Old Ancestor to increase his strength, and Zi Yan agreed to support him.
• Yun Yun lost to Soul Xing, who withdrew his forces after judging that Soul Hall could not defeat the alliance.
• Yun Yun learned the Pill Tower Old Ancestor’s identity and, after Lei Dong’s voice transmission, led him to investigate two nearby Soul Clan auras.
• The Pill Tower Old Ancestor found Lei Dong and Zi Yan, asked why the Lei Clan had come, and Lei Dong confirmed his identity.

Lei Dong, Yun Yun, and Zi Yan captured the Pill Tower Old Ancestor and recovered him as a Profound Pill. Lei Dong stored the pill until after the Purifying Lotus Demonic Flame appeared, then told Yun Yun he would need her help.

• Yun Yun ambushed the Pill Tower Old Ancestor, and Zi Yan locked down the space and struck him, leaving him too injured to escape or resist.
• Lei Dong used Nine-Colored Lightning to stop the Pill Tower Old Ancestor from self-detonating, while Yun Yun and Zi Yan attacked alongside him.
• Lei Dong seized the Profound Pill, sealed it, and asked Yun Yun to return with a cover story and help when the Purifying Lotus Demonic Flame appeared.
• Lei Dong told Lei Ying that he had captured the Mysterious Pill, but said he would wait to refine it until after the demonic flame descended.
• Lei Ying accepted Lei Dong's decision and told him to make his own arrangements.

Lei Dong set out with Huo Zhi and Lei Mo to claim the Purifying Lotus Demonic Flame after it descended in Middle Continent. He concealed his peak Six Star Dou Sheng strength and left Zi Yan and the others in reserve as they approached the flame’s scorching territory.

• Lei Dong wrapped the Mystic Pill in Nine Heavens Divine Lightning to conceal its aura while his people searched for the demonic flame’s location.
• Lei Ying told Lei Dong that the clans had agreed to a truce and barred Strong Persons above Four Star Dou Sheng from the struggle, but Lei Dong insisted on going while hiding his breakthrough.
• Twin moons appeared and nine stars aligned, heralding the Purifying Lotus Demonic Flame’s descent as Huo Zhi, Zi Yan, and the others gathered.
• Lei Dong chose to travel with Huo Zhi and Elder Lei Mo, while Zi Yan stayed hidden nearby and Qing Lin monitored the clans.
• Lei Dong, Huo Zhi, and Lei Mo approached within a thousand miles of the demonic flame, where its residual heat overwhelmed many Six Star Dou Zun Strong Persons.

Lei Dong and Huo Zhi reached the Purifying Lotus Demonic Flame’s scorched desert and encountered the Soul, Flame, and Gu Clan parties gathering nearby. Gu Xun’er arrived determined to demand Xiao Yan’s release from Lei Dong, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Lei Dong shielded Huo Zhi and Lei Mo from the desert’s residual heat and said they would wait in the space ahead.
• Hun Feng arrived with the Soul Clan party, and Lei Dong recognized him as a Four Star Dou Sheng while noticing two five-star Dou Shengs among his group.
• Huo Xuan, Huo Xian’er, and Huo Yao joined Lei Dong, and Huo Yao was shocked by Lei Dong’s Four Star Dou Sheng Peak strength.
• Gu Xun’er arrived with Gu Qingyang and Gu Nanhai, having reached the Dou Sheng realm herself.
• Gu Xun’er focused on Lei Dong because he still held Xiao Yan, and she resolved to demand an answer and rescue him.

Lei Dong entered the Demonic Flame Space with Huo Zhi and Lei Mo, then explained that he had gathered the Demon Flame Remnant Map and carried the Purifying Lotus Demonic Saint's remnant soul. After many entrants were lost inside the prison-like space, thousands of Fire Slaves attacked the survivors, and the battle began.

• As the Demonic Flame Space opened, Lei Dong brought Huo Zhi and Lei Mo through its ring of light and used the Nine Heavens Divine Lightning to protect them from the heat and illusion.
• Lei Dong explained that the Demonic Flame had mastered the Nightmare Sky Mist and reassured Huo Zhi that the remnant soul inside him would help subdue it.
• The Soul Clan, Gu Clan, Flame Clan, and other factions arrived at the platform, while many entrants who had entered earlier failed to emerge from the prison-like space.
• Thousands of Fire Slaves appeared and charged the gathered Strong Persons after a faction leader warned that they were refined by the Purifying Lotus Demonic Flame.
• The Strong Persons blasted away half of the Fire Slaves, and the remaining figures reached them as a battle erupted.

Lei Dong and the other clans fought through increasingly powerful halls of Fire Slaves in the Demonic Flame Great Hall, then encountered a withered figure stronger than Gu Nanhai. Lei Dong and the strongest fighters joined forces to attack him, and the battle began.

• Lei Dong led Lei Mo and Huo Zhi through the stone door, and the Fire Slaves stopped pursuing them as the other clans followed.
• The teams broke through successive halls of Fire Slaves, which grew stronger until some rivaled Dou Sheng Strong Persons.
• Lei Dong smashed open another hall and found no Fire Slaves, but Gu Nanhai spotted a withered figure with Four Star Dou Sheng strength.
• Lei Dong called on Hun Feng, Gu Nanhai, and Huo Yao to join forces against the figure, who summoned a Blood-Red Giant Axe.
• Lei Dong, Lei Mo, Gu Nanhai, Hun Feng, and Huo Yao attacked the withered figure together, shaking the hall as they clashed.

Lei Dong and the others defeated Xiao Chen and reached the Purifying Lotus Demonic Flame’s altar, where Lei Dong revealed that their journey was an illusion created by the Nightmare Sky Mist. The Purifying Lotus Demonic Flame challenged them, but Lei Dong used a Nightmare Breaking Rune, shocking him.

• Xiao Chen revealed his Xiao Clan Clan Mark, but Lei Dong, Lei Mo, Huo Yao, and Gu Nanhai joined forces to defeat him.
• The group climbed the stairs to an altar, where the white-robed Purifying Lotus Demonic Flame demanded that they defeat him or become Fire Slaves.
• Lei Dong explained that the Nightmare Sky Mist made the people and dangers they had encountered seem real, and warned that following the illusion’s path would lead them to Xiao Chen’s fate.
• Lei Dong mocked Gu Nanhai over the Gu Clan’s past seizure of the Xiao Clan’s foundation, leaving Gu Nanhai and Gu Xun’er stunned.
• The Purifying Lotus Demonic Flame questioned Lei Dong’s knowledge, then erupted in shock when Lei Dong used the Nightmare Breaking Rune.

Lei Dong broke the Purifying Lotus Demonic Flame’s Nightmare Illusion and confronted its true body in a vast Magma Sea. Trapped in a fiery prison with the other survivors, he joined the three other clans’ leaders to fight the flame while Huo Zhi and the others faced its Fire Slaves.

• Lei Dong shattered the illusion, and the Purifying Lotus Demonic Flame appeared in its true form above the Magma Sea.
• The flame concealed the spatial passage and trapped everyone inside a prison of milky-white fire, where it killed people by triggering flames within them.
• The Purifying Lotus Demonic Flame made all Dou Zun Strong Persons explode and summoned ten powerful Fire Slaves.
• Lei Dong called on the other three clans to join him in fighting the flame, while Huo Zhi and the others dealt with the Fire Slaves.
• The Purifying Lotus Demonic Flame summoned a bone-white halberd and unleashed a massive wave of demonic flame at Lei Dong and the other three leaders.

Hun Feng and the other fighters struggled against the Purifying Lotus Demonic Flame until Hun Yin and Hun Shen arrived to help capture him. As the flame unleashed the Heaven Refining Ancient Formation, the Purifying Lotus Demonic Saint appeared through the Nine Heavens Divine Lightning and restrained him.

• The Purifying Lotus Demonic Flame wounded Huo Yao, then defeated Gu Nanhai and Lei Mo, leaving Hun Feng and Lei Dong as the only ones still fighting in the air.
• Hun Feng called for the Soul Clan elders, and Hun Yin and Hun Shen appeared to join the battle.
• Gu Nanhai accused the Soul Clan of breaking the clans’ agreement, but Hun Yin dismissed the threat of war and defended the Soul Clan’s actions.
• The Purifying Lotus Demonic Flame summoned the Heaven Refining Ancient Formation, causing Hun Yin and Hun Shen to react with alarm.
• The Purifying Lotus Demonic Saint appeared through the Nine Heavens Divine Lightning, enveloped the Purifying Lotus Demonic Flame in thunder, and brought the unstable space to a stop.

Lei Dong fought Hun Yin and Hun Shen while keeping the Purifying Lotus Demonic Saint and the Purifying Lotus Demonic Flame trapped inside a lightning halo. After driving off the Soul Clan elders, he enlisted Lei Mo and Huo Zhi to help bombard the halo as he prepared to refine the remnant soul and demonic flame.

• Lei Dong used lightning to trap the Purifying Lotus Demonic Saint and the Purifying Lotus Demonic Flame, then clashed with Hun Yin and Hun Shen while the other factions fled.
• Lei Dong struck Hun Shen back and severely wounded Hun Yin with the Nine Nether Yellow Springs Sky Wrath and Great Creation Palm.
• Hun Feng and Hun Shen rescued Hun Yin and withdrew when the lightning halo began trembling.
• Lei Dong called on Lei Mo and Huo Zhi to attack the halo while he compressed the energy of the Purifying Lotus Demonic Saint and the Purifying Lotus Demonic Flame.
• The Purifying Lotus Demonic Saint tried to escape with the demonic flame's power but found that accumulated Thunderbolt Power had sealed the lightning space.

Lei Dong destroyed the Purifying Lotus Demonic Saint’s remnant soul, absorbed its stored energy, and left the Demonic Flame Space with the Demonic Flame Source. The Gu and Flame Clans let the Lei Clan depart, while the Soul Clan lost Hun Yin and Hun Shen but escaped with Hun Feng.

• Lei Dong shattered the Demon Saint Remnant Soul and absorbed the energy from the lightning ring before taking the Demonic Flame Source.
• Lei Dong, Huo Zhi, and Lei Mo emerged to find Hun Yin and Hun Shen fighting Gu Dao and Huo Xuan, while Hun Feng was missing.
• Zi Yan joined Lei Dong, who said he was fine, and opened a spatial rift so their group could return to the Lei Realm.
• Gu Xun'er stopped Gu Qingyang from pursuing the Lei Clan after Lei Dong privately promised to release Xiao Yan in one month.
• Huo Yao did not stop the Lei Clan from leaving, and Gu Dao and Huo Xuan killed Hun Yin and Hun Shen while Hun Xuzi escaped with Hun Feng.
• Gu Dao accepted that the Demonic Flame Source had likely gone to the Lei Clan and decided to return to report to the Gu Clan chief.

Gu Dao and Huo Xuan decided not to challenge the Lei Clan over Lei Dong’s violation of the clans’ rules, while Lei Dong and Huo Zhi refined the Purifying Lotus Demonic Flame’s power. After reaching peak Seven Star Dou Sheng, Lei Dong took the imprisoned Xiao Yan out of the Lei Realm to meet Gu Xun’er.

• Gu Dao left with Gu Xun’er and the others, planning to report Lei Dong’s violation to Gu Yuan, while Huo Xuan chose not to oppose the Lei Clan over the Exotic Flame.
• Lei Dong failed to refine the Purifying Lotus Demonic Flame himself and instead helped Huo Zhi absorb its power through dual cultivation.
• Lei Dong refined the Demon Saint Remnant Soul’s Soul Power and the demonic flame’s remaining power, reaching peak Seven Star Dou Sheng, while Huo Zhi advanced to Three Star Dou Sheng and Heaven Realm Middle Stage Soul Power.
• Lei Dong pulled the disheveled Xiao Yan from his dungeon and secretly left the Lei Realm with him, known only to Lei Ying, Qing Lin, and the gate guard.
• Lei Dong washed Xiao Yan in a pool and headed to meet Gu Xun’er, privately resenting the idea of her being with Xiao Yan.