Chapter Summaries

Lei Dong entered the Heavenly Tomb with Gu Xun'er after injuring Gu Qingyang and rejecting his devotion to her. Inside, Lei Dong restrained Gu Xun'er with Nine Heavens Divine Lightning when she attacked him, leaving her Dou Qi sealed and her body in pain.

• Lei Dong stopped attacking after Gu Dao apologized for Gu Qingyang, then mocked Gu Qingyang’s hopeless love for Gu Xun'er.
• Gu Xun'er entered the Heavenly Tomb with Lei Dong without offering Gu Qingyang comfort, while Gu Lie and Gu Dao persuaded the injured Gu Qingyang not to follow them.
• Lei Dong and Gu Xun'er emerged into the Heavenly Tomb, where Gu Xun'er demanded to know his intentions.
• Lei Dong grabbed Gu Xun'er's chin, caught her when she attacked, and used Nine Heavens Divine Lightning to block her Dou Qi.

Lei Dong brought Gu Xun'er to the deepest part of the Heavenly Tomb to find Xiao Xuan's remnant soul. After Xiao Xuan appeared, Gu Xun'er urged him to kill Lei Dong, and Xiao Xuan demanded to know whether her accusation was true.

• Lei Dong kept Gu Xun'er's Dou Qi sealed, fed her a recovery pill, and warned her to behave while taking her with him.
• After five days, Lei Dong and Gu Xun'er reached the third level of the Heavenly Tomb, where Lei Dong revealed that he sought Xiao Xuan's remnant soul.
• Lei Dong and Gu Xun'er traveled another day to the Heavenly Tomb's deepest region and found an ancient stone tablet.
• Xiao Xuan appeared from the void after Lei Dong called him out.
• Gu Xun'er asked Xiao Xuan to kill Lei Dong and accused him of harming Xiao Yan and the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Xuan became enraged and asked Lei Dong whether Gu Xun'er's accusation was true.

Lei Dong told Xiao Xuan how the Gu Clan had driven the Xiao Clan into decline and revealed that three Xiao Clan survivors were hiding in Canaan Academy. Xiao Xuan threatened Gu Xun'er, but Lei Dong stopped him and offered the survivors’ safety in exchange for Xiao Xuan’s cooperation.

• Lei Dong explained that the Soul Clan had captured the Xiao Clan and that the Gu Clan had taken the Xiao Clan’s resources, forcing the family to flee to Wu Tan City.
• Gu Xun'er confirmed Lei Dong’s account, and Xiao Xuan attacked her in anger until Lei Dong intercepted him.
• Lei Dong revealed that Xiao Yu, Xiao Mei, and Xiao Ning had survived and were hiding in Canaan Academy.
• Lei Dong demanded Xiao Xuan’s remnant soul in exchange for letting the three survivors live safely.
• Gu Xun'er struggled in Lei Dong’s arms, but he threatened her into silence, while Xiao Xuan questioned why he should trust Lei Dong.

Lei Dong tried to force Xiao Xuan to surrender his remnant soul by threatening the Xiao Clan and provoking him with Gu Xun'er, but Xiao Xuan saw through the ploy and drew on the Heavenly Tomb’s soul energy. Lei Dong attacked, and the two began fighting as Xiao Xuan demonstrated the power he had retained.

• Xiao Xuan offered Lei Dong his remnant soul in exchange for bringing the surviving Xiao Clan members to him, but Lei Dong refused and threatened to kill them.
• Lei Dong claimed he had tortured Xiao Xuan’s promising clan junior to death and pointed out that Gu Xun'er had loved him, but Xiao Xuan recognized the attempt to provoke him.
• Xiao Xuan absorbed soul energy from the Heavenly Tomb, making his remnant figure more solid, and challenged Lei Dong to refine him.
• Lei Dong unleashed his Eight Star Dou Sheng strength and attacked Xiao Xuan, who used the Three Mysterious Transformations of Skyfire to dodge and counter.
• Lei Dong and Xiao Xuan exchanged powerful attacks, and Xiao Xuan blocked Lei Dong’s Nine Nether Yellow Springs Finger.

Lei Dong overwhelmed Xiao Xuan, protected Gu Xun'er from the blast, then devoured Xiao Xuan's soul and refined the energy body. Gu Xun'er tried to interrupt him but was stopped by his lightning precautions, leaving her furious and unable to move.

• Lei Dong struck Xiao Xuan with three powerful battle skills, then shielded Gu Xun'er from the explosion's aftermath.
• Lei Dong found Xiao Xuan still lingering and used the Soul Devouring Art and Nine Heavens Divine Lightning to destroy and absorb him.
• Lei Dong began refining Xiao Xuan's purified soul power and energy body while Gu Xun'er watched and worried about their growing strength gap.
• Gu Xun'er charged at Lei Dong as he cultivated, but his lightning defense knocked her back and paralyzed her.
• Gu Xun'er cursed Lei Dong, who had set the precaution to keep her from injuring herself on his lightning.

Lei Dong awakened with Emperor Realm Soul Power after a month of cultivation in the Heavenly Tomb, then continued tormenting the powerless Gu Xun'er. After more than a month, he released the lightning sealing her strength, but when she attacked, he easily subdued her again.

• Lei Dong awakened with Emperor Realm Soul Power, though his cultivation remained at the early Eight Star Dou Sheng stage.
• Lei Dong refused to release Gu Xun'er and coerced her into submitting to his demands while she remained powerless.
• Lei Dong spent more than a month training Gu Xun'er, and she reached the Two Star Dou Sheng realm after he withdrew the lightning from her body.
• Gu Xun'er attacked Lei Dong as soon as her strength returned, but he teleported behind her and subdued her with ease.

Lei Dong pressured Gu Xun'er to marry him by threatening Xiao Yan, and she agreed on the condition that Lei Dong surpass her father, Gu Yuan. In the Gu Realm, Gu Yuan continued worrying about his daughter while her Life Jade Slip remained unchanged.

• Lei Dong kissed Gu Xun'er and promised to marry her, but she refused and demanded that he kill her.
• Lei Dong mentioned Xiao Yan, and Gu Xun'er realized she had revealed that Xiao Yan might still be alive.
• Lei Dong threatened to search for Xiao Yan, so Gu Xun'er agreed to marry him if he surpassed Gu Yuan and promised not to send anyone after Xiao Yan in the meantime.
• Lei Dong accepted Gu Xun'er's conditions and warned her not to break her promise once he surpassed Gu Yuan.
• In the Gu Realm, Gu Yuan worried about Gu Xun'er and considered opening the Ancient Tomb early, but her Life Jade Slip had not changed.

Soul Emperor halted the Soul Clan’s attack on the Lei Clan and sent a puppet to the Gu Clan to negotiate peace. Gu Yuan met him at the Gu Realm, where Soul Emperor unexpectedly proposed a ceasefire.

• Soul Extinguisher reported that Lei Ying had delivered the final piece of Tuoshe Ancient Jade to the Gu Clan, and Soul Emperor decided there was no point in attacking the Lei Clan.
• Soul Emperor ordered Soul Tu and Soul Yan to withdraw, directed Nihility to train new members, and put the Soul Clan into seclusion for ten years.
• Soul Emperor assigned Soul Extinguisher to reorganize Soul Hall by winning over or destroying secluded sects in Central State’s Northern Region.
• Soul Emperor sent a puppet carrying a wisp of his soul to the Gu Clan, where Gu Yuan greeted it outside the Gu Realm.
• After Gu Yuan mocked him, Soul Emperor announced that he had come to negotiate peace and a ceasefire, stunning Gu Yuan and the Gu Clan elders.

Soul Emperor proposed a truce to Gu Yuan, arguing that the clans needed time to rebuild and develop. Gu Yuan, Lei Ying, and Yan Jin agreed to a ten-year truce, though Soul Emperor’s ambition and tensions over the ancient jade remained.

• Gu Xian challenged Soul Emperor’s truce proposal, but Soul Emperor said he had kept his promise not to attack the Xiao Clan for a thousand years.
• Gu Yuan and the Gu Clan’s Supreme Elders considered the benefits of a truce and rejected the idea of demanding ancient jade from Soul Emperor.
• Gu Yuan summoned Lei Ying and Yan Jin, and Soul Emperor proposed that the four Clan Leaders discuss a truce and new rules.
• Lei Ying and Yan Jin asked for the ancient jade, but Soul Emperor refused to return it, and both Clan Leaders accepted the truce anyway.
• The four Clan Leaders agreed to a ten-year truce and barred each clan’s High Level Dou Sheng from entering the Middle Continent, with violations punishable by the other three clans acting together.
• The Flame Clan resented that the Lei Clan had entrusted its ancient jade to the Gu Clan, creating a slight crack in the clans’ friendly relationship.

Gu Yuan opened the Heavenly Tomb early and brought Lei Dong and Gu Xun'er out, where their handholding bewildered the Gu Clan. Gu Xun'er claimed she still hated Lei Dong and concealed what had happened, leaving to bear the burden herself.

• Gu Yuan ignored the remaining two days of the agreed term and joined Gu Xian to open the Heavenly Tomb.
• Lei Dong and Gu Xun'er emerged holding hands, shocking Gu Yuan, Gu Qingyang, and the others.
• Lei Dong said he had gained a full harvest, and Gu Xun'er blushed before he left the Gu Realm.
• Gu Xun'er insisted she hated Lei Dong and blamed their handholding on a Heavenly Tomb Storm.
• Gu Xun'er denied that Lei Dong had bullied her and kept their agreement and her experiences secret to protect Xiao Yan.

After leaving the Gu Clan, Lei Dong learned from Yao Dan that the clans had agreed to a ceasefire with the Soul Clan and that the Yao Clan was returning home. The chapter ended with Yao Dan inviting Lei Dong to the Yao Clan’s Alchemist Convention.

• Gu Yuan and Gu Xian questioned Gu Xun'er after she emerged from the Heavenly Tomb, but she left without explaining what had happened.
• Gu Xun'er bathed in her residence and privately struggled with her shame and continued devotion to Xiao Yan Gege.
• Lei Dong left the Gu Realm feeling pleased about obtaining Xiao Xuan's soul and his time with Gu Xun'er.
• Lei Dong encountered Yao Dan as the Yao Clan relocated from the Gu Realm and asked why the clans had ceased fighting.
• Yao Dan explained that the Soul Clan had proposed a ceasefire, which the other clans had accepted, and invited Lei Dong to the Yao Clan's Alchemist Convention.

Lei Dong met Yao Ling, who examined him after learning he cultivated the Soul Clan’s Soul Devouring Method. She treated his soul with her special blood, and Lei Dong discovered it helped his Soul Power flow more smoothly.

• Lei Dong planned to attend the Alchemist Grand Meeting in hopes of finding Old Man Shen Nong and the Life Spirit Flame for Cao Ying.
• Yao Ling approached Lei Dong, and he flirted with her before pulling her into an embrace.
• Lei Dong sniffed Yao Ling’s scent, then admitted he cultivated a method that devoured souls.
• Yao Ling examined Lei Dong and warned that the Soul Devouring Method could cause backlash to the user’s soul.
• Yao Ling gave Lei Dong her blood to prevent danger, and Lei Dong sensed his Soul Power flowing more smoothly after absorbing it.

Lei Dong returned to the Lei Realm and revealed that his Soul Power had reached the Emperor Realm, defending his decision to give the Ancient Jade to the Gu Clan. He warned the Lei Clan to prepare for the Soul Clan’s future threat, then fled before Lei Ying could make him clan leader.

• Yao Ling gave Lei Dong a pill formula and told him to return to the Yao Clan in a month for further treatment before leaving to meet Yao Tian.
• Lei Dong returned to the Lei Realm and entered the main hall while Lei Ying and the elders discussed the truce.
• Lei Dong released his Emperor Realm Soul Power, forcing the elders to their knees, and explained that the Nine Heavens Divine Lightning and soul energy bodies in the Heavenly Tomb had helped him reach that realm.
• Lei Dong defended trading the Ancient Jade for practical gains and warned the elders that the Soul Clan could become an even greater threat after ten years of recovery.
• Lei Ying considered passing the clan leader position to Lei Dong, but Lei Dong quickly left, and Lei Ying ordered the elders to train the clan members and nurture the younger generation.

Lei Dong reunited with his three-year-old daughter Lei An and promised to spend more time with her. After bringing her to visit Huo Zhi, he took Huo Zhi to their room once Lei An fell asleep.

• Lei Dong visited Lei Ying and Huo Yu, where he met Lei An for the first time and comforted her after she cried over his absence.
• Lei Ying scolded and hit Lei Dong for neglecting Lei An, but Lei An ran to protect her father and Lei Dong promised to stay with her every day.
• Lei Dong took Lei An to visit Huo Zhi, who welcomed the girl and carried her while Lei Dong accompanied them through the Lei Realm.
• After Lei An fell asleep, Lei Dong arranged for a maid to watch her and took Huo Zhi into another room.

Lei Dong arrived at the Yao Clan Celebration with Cao Ying, where Yao Ling confessed that she liked him and secured her brother’s agreement to marry him. After Cao Ying secluded herself to prepare for the alchemy contest, Lei Dong secretly went to Gu Xun’er’s room.

• Lei Dong brought Cao Ying to the Yao Clan and Yao Ling recognized him despite his mask and suppressed strength.
• Yao Ling confessed her feelings for Lei Dong, but insisted he ask her brother for her hand before they became intimate.
• Lei Dong met Gu Xun’er, Gu Qingyang, and Gu Hua, then traveled with Yao Ling to meet Yao Tian and Yao Dan.
• Yao Dan agreed to Yao Ling marrying Lei Dong, despite Yao Tian’s objections, to honor her feelings and build ties between their clans.
• Cao Ying secluded herself to prepare for the alchemy competition, while Lei Dong secretly slipped into Gu Xun’er’s residence and sealed the surrounding space.

Lei Dong cornered Gu Xun'er in her room and sealed her Dou Qi after she tried to escape. When she threatened to die rather than let him cross her bottom line, he stopped rather than force her.

• Lei Dong entered Gu Xun'er's room unnoticed and confronted her after she heard his footsteps.
• Lei Dong grabbed Xun'er and taunted her, while she protested that he had no right to control her.
• Xun'er tried to flee through the window, but Lei Dong's Thunderbolt Power drove her back.
• Lei Dong sealed Xun'er's Dou Qi and reminded her that he had promised only not to search for Xiao Yan.
• Xun'er threatened to die if Lei Dong touched her, and Lei Dong chose not to force her.

Lei Dong forced Gu Xun'er into sexual acts after she threatened him, while Gu Qingyang and Gu Hua waited outside, unaware of what was happening. Lei Dong let Gu Xun'er answer their questions through a gap in the barrier, and Gu Qingyang left believing she was safe.

• Lei Dong released Gu Xun'er, but when she threatened to die rather than let him target Xiao Yan, he pulled her onto the couch.
• Gu Hua urged Gu Qingyang to give up on Gu Xun'er, but Gu Qingyang said he loved her and believed Xiao Yan was unworthy of her.
• Gu Qingyang grew worried when Gu Xun'er stayed silent for a long time, then went upstairs with Gu Hua to check on her.
• Lei Dong continued forcing himself on Gu Xun'er and warned that Gu Qingyang and Gu Hua were approaching.
• Lei Dong opened a gap in the barrier so Gu Xun'er could answer Gu Qingyang, and she said she was fine.
• Gu Qingyang accepted her answer and left with Gu Hua, while Gu Xun'er could not speak further.

At the Yao Clan Celebration’s opening ceremony, Lei Dong confronted Gu Xun'er and used their past encounter to get her alone under the pretext of discussing a bloodline-restoring spiritual object. He sealed her Dou Qi and carried her away, leaving Gu Qingyang worried and unaware of what would happen next.

• Lei Dong, Cao Ying, and Yao Ling arrived at the Yao Clan’s opening ceremony, where Cao Ying was drawn into demonstrating her alchemy.
• Lei Dong recognized Gu Xun'er in the audience, and she became frightened when he approached her with Gu Qingyang and Gu Hua nearby.
• Lei Dong claimed he wanted to discuss a spiritual object that could repair bloodlines, and Gu Xun'er agreed to speak with him after warning Gu Qingyang to use the Help-Seeking Ancient Jade if she did not return within half an hour.
• After leaving the ceremony, Lei Dong sealed Gu Xun'er's Dou Qi with the lightning inside her body, scooped her up, and vanished.

Lei Dong restrained Xun Er while the Yao Clan Celebration selected the final competitors for its alchemy contest. As Cao Ying and Yao Ling waited for him, he continued teasing Xun Er and dismissed her threat to kill him.

• Lei Dong sealed Xun Er's strength, pinned her down, and forced intimacy on her while she struggled and protested.
• Yao Tian, Yao Ling, Cao Ying, Old Man Shen Nong, and Tantai Zhenren were chosen for the final competition.
• Cao Ying and Yao Ling went looking for Lei Dong, and Yao Ling admitted she liked him and had once regretted not competing with Huo Zhi.
• Cao Ying and Yao Ling sat down to wait for Lei Dong, assuming he would return when he was tired of playing.
• Lei Dong continued teasing Xun Er in private, and she warned that she would kill him if she ever got the chance.

Gu Xun'er returned from her private meeting with Lei Dong and began refining a spiritual object while Gu Qingyang worried over her. Back at the square, Lei Dong reunited with Yao Ling and Cao Ying, then asked Yao Ling to treat the hidden ailment she had claimed he had.

• Gu Hua reassured Gu Qingyang that Xun'er was safe, though neither knew what she and Lei Dong had been doing.
• After bathing, Gu Xun'er told Lei Dong she would definitely kill him, and he taunted her before she left.
• Gu Xun'er returned to the square, nodded to Gu Qingyang without explaining where she had been, and began refining the spiritual object Lei Dong had returned to her.
• Lei Dong returned and learned that Yao Ling and Cao Ying had passed their alchemy assessment because their Soul Power had reached the late Heaven State.
• Yao Ling doubted Lei Dong's claim that he had gone to drink Gu Clan wine, and Lei Dong asked her to remove his supposed hidden ailment.