Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan challenged the Gu Clan’s prodigies and defeated them all, including the Four Great Commanders, proving his strength before the clan. Xun’er then awakened a God Grade Bloodline, received her clan marking, and challenged Yao Wan.

• Gu Qingyang joined Gu Yao and the other Gu Clan prodigies to challenge Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan overwhelmed them with his strength and Heavenly Flame techniques.
• Xiao Yan defeated Gu Yao, Gu Hua, Gu Ao, and Gu Zhen, then spared Gu Qingyang after overcoming his Great Luo Supporting Heaven Palm.
• Profound Elder ended the contest, and the Gu Clan youths accepted that Xiao Yan had defeated their generation.
• Xun’er awakened a Ten-Star God Grade Bloodline, and Profound Elder bestowed the Ancient Clan’s clan marking upon her.
• Xun’er asked to challenge Yao Wan, surprising Profound Elder and the people present.

Gu Xun'er challenged Yao Wan, and their fight over Xiao Yan became a fierce contest between the two God Grade Bloodline inheritors. Yao Wan defeated Xun'er and carried her away unconscious, while the Gu Clan’s leader praised Yao Wan’s self-made fighting style.

• Gu Xun'er requested a match with Yao Wan, who accepted and said she would show Xun'er that a beauty belonged only to the strong.
• Yao Wan and Xun'er began fighting, with Yao Wan displaying exceptional control over space and Xun'er unleashing the Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame.
• Xun'er trapped Yao Wan inside the Golden Emperor Sky Burning Array, but Yao Wan broke through it with Black Demon Lightning and a stone hammer.
• Yao Wan shattered Xun'er's fire phoenix attacks and landed a blow that injured her, while Xun'er continued fighting despite her worsening chances.
• The Gu Clan’s leader concluded that Yao Wan’s strength came from Dou Techniques she had created and mastered herself.
• Xun'er exhausted herself without seriously injuring Yao Wan, who knocked her unconscious and carried her away to treat her injuries.

After defeating Xun'er at the Coming-of-Age Ceremony, Yao Wan carried her away and later confronted her as she recovered. Yao Wan began spanking Xun'er as punishment, and Xiao Yan walked in on them.

• The Ancient Clan Elders accepted that Xun'er would make her own choices, while Xiao Yan noticed the clan geniuses had lost their arrogance after he defeated them.
• Xun'er woke in bed and realized Yao Wan had treated her injuries, then argued with her about the fight and refused to concede.
• Yao Wan said she did not need Xun'er to apologize or reconcile, but Xun'er suspected she was setting a trap.
• Yao Wan seized Xun'er and spanked her, ignoring her protests and sealing the room with restrictions.
• Xiao Yan opened the restrictions and entered, and Xun'er called to him for help.

Xiao Yan returned to find Yao Wan punishing Xun'er, then comforted Xun'er as she admitted she hated and envied Wan'er. As the Heavenly Tomb’s opening approached, Xun'er sought the Ancient Clan Elder to claim the slot originally belonging to the Xiao Clan.

• Xiao Yan opened the guest room restriction and found Yao Wan pinning Xun'er down and slapping her.
• Xiao Yan lifted Xun'er into his arms, and Yao Wan left them alone after teasing him.
• Xun'er told Xiao Yan she hated Yao Wan for taking him from her, but also envied Wan'er's freedom and confidence.
• As they recuperated and the Heavenly Tomb’s opening drew closer, Xun'er demanded that the Ancient Clan Elder return the Xiao Clan's Heavenly Tomb Slot.
• Yao Wan sensed something unusual and told Xiao Yan to ask Xun'er about the slot when she came back.

Xiao Yan and his companions secured a place for him in the Heavenly Tomb and entered it alongside the other ancient clans. The chapter left them inside the strange tomb, where Xiao Yan and Yao Wan recognized a resemblance to the Forgotten Ruins.

• Xun'er arranged for Xiao Yan to use a Gu Clan Heavenly Tomb slot, allowing Yao Ling to enter with a Yao Clan slot.
• At dawn, Xiao Yan, Yao Wan, Yao Ling, and the others traveled toward the Heavenly Tomb as Xun'er explained its dangerous energy bodies and three layers.
• The ancient clans gathered at the entrance, where Xiao Yan noticed Gu Yao was absent and greeted Huo Xuan, Huo Zhi, and Mang Tianchi.
• A vast spatial crack opened into a silver gate, and Xiao Yan, Yao Wan, Yao Ling, and Xun'er entered the Heavenly Tomb.
• The four arrived in a misty, silent land that reminded Xiao Yan and Yao Wan of the Forgotten Ruins, while Yao Wan checked her cultivation.

Xiao Yan, Xun'er, Yao Wan, and Yao Ling explored the Heavenly Tomb, collecting Energy Cores to strengthen themselves. Yao Wan refined the cores into pills to counter their diminishing effects and shared the pills with Xiao Yan and Yao Ling.

• Xun'er revealed an energy body hidden in the fog, explained how its Energy Core could be absorbed, and gave the core to Xiao Yan.
• Yao Wan compared the Energy Cores to Spirit Devouring Clan Evil Cores, absorbed several, and said the Heavenly Tomb’s resources might help her break through her cultivation and soul realm.
• Yao Wan shared the cores she gathered with Xiao Yan and Yao Ling, telling Yao Ling to accept them as a fellow Yao Clan member.
• The four swept through the Heavenly Tomb and collected Energy Cores, while Yao Wan gave most of hers to Xiao Yan and Yao Ling and searched for a Half-Saint-level core.
• As the cores’ effects weakened with repeated absorption, Yao Wan refined them with the Life Spirit Flame and medicinal ingredients into pills that retained about eighty to ninety percent of their effect.

Yao Wan led Xiao Yan, Xun'er, and Yao Ling deeper into the Heavenly Tomb, where she captured a swarm of Ancient Devouring Insects to study their ability to produce pure energy. After traveling and researching on the way, the group reached the passage to the third level.

• Xiao Yan, Xun'er, Yao Wan, and Yao Ling entered the Heavenly Tomb's second level, where Yao Wan gathered energy from powerful energy bodies.
• Yao Wan noticed strange energy crystals scattered along the route and suggested investigating the creature that produced them.
• The group followed the crystals to a huge nest and discovered it was built by countless Ancient Devouring Insects.
• Yao Wan used the Ash Extinction Flame to draw the insects in and sealed them in a jade bottle, while Xun'er admitted she disliked bugs.
• Yao Wan studied the captured insects as the group traveled, and they eventually reached the passage to the third level.

Xiao Yan and his companions reached the third level of the Heavenly Tomb and reunited with Ancestor Xiao Xuan, who welcomed Xun'er and Yao Wan before asking about the Xiao Clan's present state. The chapter ended with Xiao Xuan learning that the clan had dwindled to a remnant and inviting the two women to feel at home in the Xiao Residence.

• Yao Wan led Xiao Yan, Xun'er, and Yao Ling toward the Xiao Residence as Xiao Yan followed an unseen guidance through the third level.
• Xiao Xuan appeared and Xiao Yan greeted him as his ancestor.
• Xun'er introduced herself as Gu Yuan's daughter, and Xiao Xuan accepted her without blaming her for the Gu Clan's past actions.
• Yao Wan introduced herself, and Xiao Xuan praised her God Grade Bloodline and showed approval of her bond with Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Xuan brought the group to the Xiao Residence, arranged for Yao Ling to cultivate outside, and asked Xiao Yan about the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Yan explained that the Xiao Clan had fallen into ruin, and Xiao Xuan told Yao Wan and Xun'er to treat the residence as their home.

Xiao Xuan welcomed Xiao Yan as a descendant of the Xiao Clan and accepted Yao Wan’s Grade Nine pill, promising to help them in the Heavenly Tomb. After discussing Xiao Xuan’s remnant soul and Xiao Yan’s inheritance, Yao Wan asked him to gather Half-Saint Energy Cores so she could break through.

• Yao Wan gave Xiao Xuan a Grade Nine Gathering Spirit and Solidifying Soul Pill, and he accepted it before offering to fulfill a request in return.
• Xiao Xuan explained that he could survive only within the Heavenly Tomb and asked Xiao Yan to complete important matters for the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Xuan recognized Xiao Yan’s Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Transformations and examined Yao Wan’s Life Spirit Flame, which had developed from remnants of his Yin Yang Dual Flames.
• Yao Wan asked Xiao Xuan to help her obtain Half-Saint Energy Cores before Xiao Yan received his inheritance.
• Xiao Xuan agreed, and a thunderous force struck the Half-Saint Energy Bodies on the Heavenly Tomb’s third level.

Yao Wan used Half-Saint Energy Cores to break through to Half-Saint, then tried to use the breakthrough’s Soul Power and the Heavenly Tomb’s energy to reach Heaven Realm Great Perfection. She remained cocooned in concentrated energy as Xiao Yan and Xiao Xuan watched, uncertain whether her second breakthrough would succeed.

• The Half-Saint Energy Cores Xiao Xuan had promised arrived, and Yao Wan began absorbing them to break through.
• Xiao Yan worried over Yao Wan, but she reassured him and asked him to watch over her in case anything went wrong.
• Yao Wan used a technique formed from Ancient Devouring Insects as her aura rapidly rose and she successfully entered Half-Saint.
• The transformed energy gathered around Yao Wan in a cocoon, and Xiao Yan realized she was using the breakthrough to try to reach Heaven Realm Great Perfection.

Yao Wan struggled to break through to Heaven Realm Great Perfection, and Xiao Xuan explained that her unusually powerful soul made the transformation difficult. Xiao Yan joined her cultivation despite the risks, and Yao Wan began to reveal a way he could help.

• Yao Wan’s Soul Power changed too little after reaching Half-Saint, leaving her unable to break through her soul shackle.
• Xiao Xuan explained that Yao Wan’s soul was too advanced to transform like an ordinary person’s and that she was trying to reach Heaven Realm Great Perfection in one step.
• Xiao Yan insisted on helping Yao Wan, and Xiao Xuan warned that the attempt could harm him.
• Xiao Yan entered Yao Wan’s energy cocoon, took her hands, and circulated their shared Glass Body Sculpting Art and Soul Cultivation Method.
• Xiao Yan’s soul merged naturally with Yao Wan’s, and she asked him not to speak before saying there was a way to help her.

Yao Wan broke through to Heaven Realm Great Perfection with Xiao Yan’s help, while Xiao Yan also advanced his soul realm to Heaven Realm. They emerged from the energy cocoon with a new, intimate connection, leaving Xun’er to struggle with her jealousy.

• Xiao Yan and Yao Wan resonated through their souls as he helped her overcome the barriers to her breakthrough.
• Xun’er worried about the pair and admitted to Xiao Xuan that she had a small conflict with Yao Wan.
• After a month, the energy cocoon loosened, and Yao Wan and Xiao Yan absorbed its remaining energy to stabilize their cultivation.
• Xun’er sensed Yao Wan’s Soul Power had advanced, while Xiao Xuan recognized that Xiao Yan had reached Heaven Realm Soul Great Perfection.
• Yao Wan and Xiao Yan awoke together, clasped hands, and faced Xiao Xuan and Xun’er as Xiao Xuan praised Yao Wan’s breakthrough.

Xiao Yan began inheriting the preserved Xiao Clan bloodline in the Heavenly Tomb, using Yao Wan’s Glass Body Sculpting Art to help absorb it. When the fusion proved too slow, Xiao Xuan proposed adding Gu Clan and Yao Clan bloodlines to help harmonize the inheritance, and Yao Wan agreed.

• Xiao Xuan explained that Xiao Yan’s clan mark required the final step of the Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Transformations and the support of bloodline power.
• Xiao Yan agreed to undergo the inheritance immediately, and Xiao Xuan turned the pool into a blood pool using the Dou Di Bloodline he had preserved.
• Yao Wan urged Xiao Yan to cultivate the Glass Body Sculpting Art during the inheritance, and Xiao Yan entered the pool and began absorbing the bloodline.
• The Glass Body Sculpting Art’s dharma body absorbed the Xiao Clan bloodline, but Xiao Xuan saw that the fusion was progressing too slowly.
• Xiao Xuan asked Xun'er and Yao Wan for Gu Clan and Yao Clan bloodline power to help harmonize the fusion, and Yao Wan cut her wrist to add her blood to the pool.

Xiao Yan fused the Xiao, Yao, and Gu Clan bloodlines in the Heavenly Tomb, forming a new Dou Di Bloodline. With the transformation stable, he began absorbing Xiao Xuan’s remaining energy while Xun'er and Yao Wan recovered and cultivated nearby.

• Yao Wan and Xun'er each offered their bloodline power to help Xiao Yan, and Yao Wan stopped Xun'er's bleeding after she grew pale.
• Yao Wan's bloodline loosened the Dharma Body's restrictions, allowing Xiao Yan's Xiao, Yao, and Gu Clan bloodlines to merge into a crimson-gold Dou Di Bloodline.
• Xiao Xuan explained that the new bloodline rested in Xiao Yan's Heart Meridian and would need to grow before it could circulate through his entire body.
• Xiao Yan began cultivating to absorb the remaining energy in the blood pool as Xiao Xuan told Yao Wan and Xun'er to cultivate while they waited.
• Xun'er entered deep cultivation to recover, and Yao Wan thanked Xiao Xuan before joining her; Xiao Yan continued absorbing energy as time passed.

Xun'er cultivated in the Heavenly Tomb while Xiao Yan absorbed energy to strengthen himself and his dharma body, and Yao Wan quietly stabilized her breakthroughs. After a year and a half, Xiao Yan's long seclusion ended with a violent eruption from the blood pool, while Xun'er realized Yao Wan had been aware of her all along.

• Over the first year, Xun'er recovered much of her depleted bloodline power and slightly advanced her cultivation, while Yao Wan remained nearly motionless as she stabilized her soul and cultivation.
• Xun'er watched Xiao Yan absorb the Heavenly Tomb's energy, which strengthened his purple-gold Lapis Lazuli Dharma Body without yet raising his aura.
• Yao Wan awakened, and Xiao Yan sensed her familiar aura as his dharma body grew more solid and majestic.
• After another half year, Xiao Yan's still pool erupted in a huge pillar of water, and Yao Wan shielded herself and Xun'er from the falling spray.
• Xun'er realized Yao Wan had been observing her with Soul Power and feared that her earlier thoughts of taking revenge could have led to another humiliating defeat.

Xiao Yan cultivated in the blood pool and broke through to One Star Dou Zun as his Lapis Lazuli Dharma Body advanced toward its next realm. Xun'er recovered from her embarrassing thoughts about Yao Wan, while Xiao Yan sensed the immense soul power of Yao Wan and Xiao Xuan.

• Xun'er imagined Yao Wan teasing and restraining her, then blushed and denied that anything was wrong when Yao Wan noticed her staring.
• Yao Wan turned her attention to Xiao Yan as his cultivation stirred the pool and his Lapis Lazuli Dharma Body improved greatly.
• Xiao Yan broke through Eight Star and Nine Star Dou Zun, then tried to compress his power but ultimately advanced to One Star Dou Zun.
• Yao Wan sensed that Xiao Yan could likely kill one or two Half-Saints if he fought at full strength, while Xiao Xuan watched his progress without intervening.
• Xiao Yan opened his eyes, sensed Xiao Xuan and Yao Wan's overwhelming soul auras, and reflected on how he had once fought Yao Wan without understanding her strength.

Xiao Yan completed his bloodline inheritance and spent half a year cultivating the Xiao Clan’s nine-stroke clan mark, giving the clan hope of revival. Xiao Xuan warned him about the Hun Clan, then learned from Xiao Yan and Yao Wan that the Spirit Devouring Clan was also active and might possess strength comparable to the ancient clans.

• Xiao Xuan told Xiao Yan that his newly awakened bloodline was still weak and that reaching the Emperor realm could restore and strengthen the Xiao Clan’s bloodlines.
• Xiao Xuan gave Xiao Yan a Scroll containing the final cultivation method for the clan mark, and Xiao Yan spent the next half year cultivating it.
• Xiao Yan completed a crimson-gold, faintly seven-colored nine-stroke clan mark, and Xiao Xuan declared that the gap between Xiao Yan and the eight clans had been leveled.
• Xiao Xuan warned Xiao Yan that the Hun Clan would pursue the Emperor Jade and urged him to be careful.
• Yao Wan asked Xiao Xuan about the Spirit Devouring Clan, and Xiao Yan described their encounter with the clan on the Northwest Continent.
• Xiao Xuan concluded that the Spirit Devouring Clan likely had a Dou Saint-level expert and might rival the powerful clans, leaving Xiao Yan, Yao Wan, and Xun'er concerned about the threats ahead.

Xiao Xuan planned to enlist Gu Yuan and the Eight Clans against the Spirit Devouring Clan, asking Xiao Yan and the others for evidence. Yao Wan revealed a sinister technique that produced energy resembling Demonic Qi, leaving Xiao Xuan and the others wondering what she had uncovered.

• Xiao Xuan told Xiao Yan, Yao Wan, and Xun'er that he would contact Gu Yuan and ask him to rally the Eight Clans against the Spirit Devouring Clan.
• Xun'er agreed to tell Gu Yuan that Xiao Xuan wanted to meet an old friend when she left the Heavenly Tomb.
• Xiao Yan explained that Demonic Qi vanished when its master died and gave Xiao Xuan a pure crystal left behind by an Evil Core.
• Yao Wan asked Xiao Xuan whether evidence could unite the Eight Clans, then displayed a twisted technique that made energy resembling Demonic Qi condense into a black sphere.
• Xiao Yan and Xun'er reacted with alarm and disgust as Xiao Xuan watched the sphere, and Yao Wan began to explain what it was.

Yao Wan demonstrated that she could recreate Demonic Qi and warned Xiao Xuan that the Hun Clan intended to destroy the Stone Clan. As Xiao Yan and Yao Wan left the Heavenly Tomb, she reassured him about her research and asked him to stop her if Demonic Qi ever corrupted her.

• Yao Wan used Dou Qi to reproduce Demonic Qi, corrupting a green lotus into a sickly Black Lotus, then sealed it for Xiao Xuan to show Gu Yuan.
• Yao Wan asked Xiao Xuan to warn Gu Yuan that the Hun Clan planned to attack the Stone Clan, which faced possible extermination.
• As Xiao Yan, Xun'er, and Yao Wan prepared to leave the Heavenly Tomb, Xiao Yan wondered why Yao Wan had exposed herself to Demonic Qi.
• Xiao Yan asked Yao Wan not to endanger herself, and she explained that studying Demonic Qi could help her develop countermeasures against the Spirit Devouring Clan.
• Yao Wan asked what Xiao Yan would do if Demonic Qi corrupted her, then told him to stop her with his own hands and choose what was right.

Yao Wan led Xiao Yan, Xun'er, and Yao Ling out of the Heavenly Tomb, but Soul Cliff and Soul Li ambushed them with two One Star Dou Sheng. Yao Wan revealed her Heaven Realm Soul Great Perfection and shattered the space they had sealed, leaving the Hun Clan experts alarmed and preparing to attack together.

• Yao Wan brought Yao Ling along and led Xiao Yan and the others out of the third layer of the Heavenly Tomb.
• Soul Cliff and Soul Li intercepted the group as they approached the second layer and summoned two gray-clothed One Star Dou Sheng.
• The Hun Clan experts identified Xiao Yan as a threat and prepared to kill him before Xiao Xuan could intervene.
• Yao Wan unleashed her silver-gray Soul Power, breaking the sealed space and forcing the two Dou Sheng to retreat with Soul Cliff and Soul Li.
• The gray-clothed elders recognized Yao Wan's Heaven Realm Soul Great Perfection and realized her Soul Power rivaled that of a Two Star Dou Sheng.
• The two Hun Clan Dou Sheng exchanged a look and decided to attack together and finish the fight quickly.