Chapter Summaries

After the Yao Clan survived the Hun Clan’s attack, Yao Dan appointed Yao Wan as Clan Leader, and she organized the clan’s defenses and preparations for war. Yao Wan then approached Xiao Yan and Zi Yan, while Xiao Yan asked how she had known about the Nine Profound Golden Lightning.

• Old Man Shen Nong questioned Yao Wanhua about the Yao Clan’s response, and she said Yao Dan had spoken up when the time was right.
• Yao Dan appointed Yao Wan as Clan Leader, and she assigned the elders to maintain the defenses, assess losses, and investigate the clan’s descendants.
• Yao Wan ordered the Yao Clan to stay alert and said she would visit the other Eight Clans to prepare a war against the Hun Clan.
• Yao Dan expressed concern that leading the clan would burden Yao Wan, but she said she was used to it.
• Zi Yan pushed Xiao Yan toward Yao Wan, and Yao Wan noticed Zi Yan’s recent change.
• Xiao Yan asked how Yao Wan had known the Nine Profound Golden Lightning was in the Void Lightning Pool, and she gave him a vague answer.

Xiao Yan and Yao Wan returned to the Inheritance Land with the portion of Void Swallowing Flame’s origin that the Medicine Emperor had seized, hoping to determine how to use it. The Medicine Emperor warned them about the Hun Clan and Spirit Devouring Clan, while Yao Wan explained that Void Swallowing Flame might be rushing to become a Dou Di.

• Yao Wan revealed that she had kept a portion of Void Swallowing Flame’s origin, including some of its Soul Origin, and Xiao Yan agreed to take it to the Inheritance Land.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Wan returned to the Inheritance Land, where the Azure Firmament Divine Tree had withered after Yao Wan absorbed its essence to advance her cultivation.
• The Medicine Emperor Phantom reassured Yao Wan that Void Swallowing Flame had retreated rather than risk a desperate fight with her.
• Yao Wan explained that Void Swallowing Flame might be unable to wait because the Hun Clan Clan Leader posed competition in the pursuit of becoming a Dou Di.
• The Medicine Emperor urged Xiao Yan and Yao Wan to watch the Spirit Devouring Clan and investigate the Eastern Continent, then identified the seized substance as Void Swallowing Flame’s origin.
• The Medicine Emperor explained that her ancient Strange Fire had a karmic connection to Void Swallowing Flame and Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and that it had ascended with her main body.

The Medicine Emperor explained how she had bound the newly born Void Swallowing Flame and urged Yao Wan and Xiao Yan to refine its origin. After the Medicine Emperor vanished into slumber, Yao Wan absorbed the Flame’s soul while Xiao Yan devoured its Strange Fire, and Yao Wan’s soul began breaking toward the Emperor Realm.

• The Medicine Emperor told Xiao Yan that she had placed a restriction on the Void Swallowing Flame tens of thousands of years ago, and that it now had to repay her intervention.
• The Medicine Emperor said Yao Wan could reach the Emperor Realm Soul by devouring the Flame’s soul, while Xiao Yan could refine its Strange Fire, and declined Yao Wan’s offer to share the soul power with her.
• The Medicine Emperor urged Yao Wan to guard the Yao Clan, then vanished into the Divine Spring and fell asleep.
• Yao Wan and Xiao Yan began refining the Void Origin together, with Xiao Yan using the Flame Mantra on the Strange Fire and Yao Wan devouring the soul.
• The Void Swallowing Flame’s origin resisted and unleashed Black Flames, but Yao Wan and Xiao Yan continued refining it despite the risk of backlash.
• Yao Wan drew in the extracted Soul Power, and Ash Extinction Flame shielded her as a massive soul pillar struck her body.

Yao Wan absorbed the Void Swallowing Flame and the Soul Power gathered in the Inheritance Land, breaking through to Emperor Realm Soul. She sensed that the entire Inheritance Land had become a tiny sphere in her grasp.

• Yao Wan used her Ash Extinction Flame to devour the Void Swallowing Flame mixed into the Soul Power.
• The Medicine Emperor watched Yao Wan's Soul Power approach the Emperor Realm and chose not to absorb it for himself.
• After about a month, Yao Wan absorbed all the surrounding Soul Power and unleashed a gale across the Inheritance Land.
• Yao Wan's Soul Power formed a sovereign-like figure as she broke through to Emperor Realm Soul.
• Yao Wan sensed that the Inheritance Land had transformed into a tiny sphere in her palm.

Yao Wan broke through to Emperor Realm Soul, strengthened the Medicine Emperor’s remnant soul, and found Xiao Yan nearing the end of refining Void Swallowing Flame’s origin fragments. She contacted Fire Spirit Fairy to confirm that the time had come to resume their postponed plans.

• Yao Wan used her expanded Soul Power to sense the Medicine Emperor’s strength and the full reach of the Inheritance Land.
• Yao Wan gave the Medicine Emperor a portion of her Soul Power to help restore her damaged remnant soul.
• Yao Wan checked on Xiao Yan and saw him refining the final fragments of Void Swallowing Flame’s origin with the help of Pale Flame.
• Yao Wan contacted Fire Spirit Fairy through the fiery-red jade talisman and confirmed that the time was ripe.
• Fire Spirit Fairy reacted with joy and relief at Yao Wan’s confirmation.

Yao Wan discussed the Eight Clans’ response to the Hun Clan with Fire Spirit Fairy and prepared to coordinate their next moves at the Gu Clan. After Xiao Yan broke through to Seven Star, Yao Wan leaned against him and admitted she was tired.

• Yao Wan told Fire Spirit Fairy that the Yao Clan had survived the Hun Clan’s attack and downplayed her role in summoning the Medicine Emperor’s remnant soul.
• Fire Spirit Fairy said the Yan Clan’s leader would travel to the Gu Clan to discuss the Hun Clan, while Yao Wan would help capture the rebels when the leader left.
• Yao Wan sensed a presence retreat into the Soul Realm, then ended her negotiation with Fire Spirit Fairy.
• Yao Wan told the Medicine Emperor she feared the Spirit Devouring Clan’s lack of activity more than the Hun Clan’s exposed intentions.
• Xiao Yan completed his breakthrough to Seven Star, and Yao Wan rested her head on his shoulder and said she was tired.

Xiao Yan and Yao Wan left the Inheritance Land after teasing each other, while the Medicine Emperor lamented being forced to listen. Yao Wan then went to the Ancestral Hall, where Yao Wangui awaited an uncertain fate and saw her arrive with Yao Wanchun and Yao Wanzhu.

• Xiao Yan comforted Yao Wan as she spoke of using the Azure Firmament Divine Tree's power to reach Nine Star Dou Sheng together.
• Xiao Yan teased Yao Wan by calling her “Wan Jiejie,” and she struggled to stop him.
• The Medicine Emperor interrupted them by asking what he had said earlier, prompting Yao Wan to take Xiao Yan and leave the Inheritance Land.
• Yao Wan and Xiao Yan left for a while as the Medicine Emperor's remnant soul sank into the Divine Spring.
• After about a month imprisoned in the Ancestral Hall, Yao Wangui saw Yao Wanchun and Yao Wanzhu arrive with an unfamiliar white-haired young man.

Yao Chen returned to the Yao Clan’s North Pavilion to have his parents’ names entered in the ancestral register, where Yao Wangui recognized and provoked him. Yao Wan intervened, revealed as the new Clan Leader, and decreed Yao Wangui’s punishment before crushing his cultivation.

• Yao Chen followed Yao Wanzhu and Yao Wanchun toward the North Pavilion to add his parents’ names to the ancestral register.
• Yao Wangui recognized Yao Chen and insulted him, but Yao Chen said he had already let go of the past and left Yao Wangui’s fate to the clan.
• Yao Wan used her power to pin Yao Wangui to the ground, and Yao Wanchun revealed that she had become the Yao Clan Leader.
• Yao Wan condemned Yao Wangui for betraying the clan and ordered his bloodline crippled, his inheritance severed, and his exile to Starfall Pavilion as a slave for a thousand years.
• Yao Wangui tried to self-destruct, but Yao Wan crushed his bones and dispersed his Dou Qi.

Yao Wan crippled Yao Wangui and set out with Xiao Yan for a gathering of the ancient clans, where her newly revealed power drew widespread attention. At the Gu Clan meeting, the clan leaders prepared to proceed with the matter they had discussed earlier, and Yao Wan asked Gu Yuan to open it.

• Yao Wan drained Yao Wangui's Dou Qi, crippled him, and ordered him to accept punishment at Starfall Pavilion after he awoke.
• Yao Wanchun and Yao Wanzhu realized Yao Wan's soul realm might have reached the Emperor Realm, and Yao Chen said the clan's revival had hope.
• Yao Wan and Xiao Yan traveled to Ancient Saint City and entered the Gu Clan's gathering, where the clan leaders and elders watched them closely.
• Xun'er greeted Xiao Yan and sat beside him, prompting Yao Wan to hide her irritation as the gathering began.
• Lei Ying had Lei Dong thank Yao Wan for helping save Lei Xiao and Lei Long, and he offered the Lei Clan's support in return.
• Yao Wan confirmed that everyone was prepared to address the matter discussed earlier and asked Gu Yuan to open the proceedings.

Yao Wan revealed that she had reached Emperor Realm Soul as Gu Yuan sensed Hun Tiandi approaching the Gu Realm. Hun Tiandi arrived with Void Swallowing Flame and the Soul Clan’s Four Demon Saints, leaving Gu Yuan and the gathered clans facing a tense confrontation.

• Gu Yuan asked Yao Wan whether she had reached Emperor Realm Soul, and she explained that defeating Void Swallowing Flame would still require Gu Yuan’s help.
• Gu Yuan sensed an intruder and vanished from the hall, prompting the clan leaders, Yao Wan, Xiao Yan, and others to follow him into the sky above the Gu Realm.
• Gu Yuan warned Hun Tiandi to stop hiding, and the void shattered as the Ancient Clan mobilized its defenses.
• Hun Tiandi emerged from a vortex with Void Swallowing Flame and the Soul Clan’s Four Demon Saints, while the Ancient Clan formed a defensive barrier.
• Yao Wan taunted Void Swallowing Flame about his defeat at the Yao Clan and the loss of his origin, and he answered with a threat.
• Gu Yuan told Hun Tiandi that the Gu Realm was no place for him, but Hun Tiandi claimed there was nowhere he could not go.

Hun Tiandi confronted Gu Yuan and the allied clan leaders while a Hun Clan spy tried to steal the Ancient Clan’s Ancient Jade. Gu Lie exposed and captured the spy, and Yao Wan revealed that the Yan Clan had also stopped the Hun Clan’s scheme, leaving Hun Tiandi to ask how they had learned of his plans.

• Hun Tiandi met Gu Yuan, Lei Ying, and Yan Jin at the Ancient Clan, where he recognized Yao Wan’s Emperor Realm Soul and praised her strength.
• Disguised as Gu Yang, a Hun Clan spy entered the ancestral hall to seize the Ancient Jade, but Gu Lie killed his body and captured his soul.
• Gu Lie arrived before the gathered clans and revealed that the spy had failed to take the Ancient Jade, exposing the Hun Clan’s scheme.
• Yao Wan contacted the Fire Spirit Fairy, who confirmed that the Yan Clan had also thwarted the Hun Clan’s plan.
• Hun Tiandi asked how the allied clans had learned of the Hun Clan’s movements, and Gu Yuan replied that it was a coincidence.

Hun Tiandi failed to obtain the Ancient Jade and turned his attention to Yao Wan, prompting Gu Yuan and the other clan leaders to fight the Hun Clan in the Gu Realm. The battles favored the allied clans, but a powerful tremor suddenly spread across the battlefield, leaving everyone startled.

• Hun Tiandi suspected Gu Yuan had uncovered the Hun Clan’s century-long plan, but Gu Yuan refused to explain and declared that Hun Tiandi was unwelcome in the Gu Realm.
• With the Ancient Jade beyond his reach, Hun Tiandi targeted Yao Wan, and Gu Yuan intercepted his attack before striking back.
• Gu Yuan and Hun Tiandi clashed as Yan Jin and Lei Ying joined the battle, while Void Swallowing Flame blocked them and the other fighters engaged across the Gu Realm.
• Yan Jin and Lei Ying began suppressing the injured Void Swallowing Flame, while the wounded Four Demon Saints struggled against Gu Lie, the Three Immortals of Gu Dao, and the Black Submergence King.
• A sudden, powerful tremor spread across the battlefield, and the fighters turned toward its source.

Spatial disturbances from the Eastern Continent interrupted the Gu Clan’s confrontation with the Hun Clan, and Gu Yuan sensed that something serious had happened there. Yao Wan volunteered to investigate and asked to visit the Ancient Clan Heavenly Tomb with Xiao Yan before departing.

• Strange spatial folds appeared throughout the Gu Realm, and Gu Yuan sensed their source was the Eastern Continent.
• Hun Tiandi denied responsibility for the disturbance, left with the Hun Clan, and tried to kill Xiao Yan before Gu Yuan’s intervention protected him.
• Gu Yuan and the others agreed that someone needed to investigate the Eastern Continent despite the Hun Clan threat.
• Yao Wan volunteered to go, arguing that her Emperor Realm Soul made her well suited to uncover the cause.
• Yao Wan asked to enter the Ancient Clan Heavenly Tomb with Xiao Yan to meet the remnant soul of Xiao Xuan before leaving.

Yao Wan and Xiao Yan entered the Heavenly Tomb so Xiao Yan could settle there while Yao Wan prepared to travel to the Eastern Continent. The chapter left them crossing into the tomb as Xun'er watched with concern.

• Yao Wan proposed seeking Xiao Xuan's help through the Heavenly Tomb, and Gu Yuan agreed to open it for her and Xiao Yan.
• Yao Wan, Xun'er, and the others discussed the Spirit Devouring Clan's likely cooperation with the Hun Clan as they traveled to the Heavenly Tomb.
• Gu Yuan warned Yao Wan and Xiao Yan not to remain in the Heavenly Tomb for more than a year and asked whether they wanted helpers.
• Gu Yuan tore open a crack in the Heavenly Tomb, and Yao Wan and Xiao Yan flew inside together.
• Xun'er silently watched them depart as someone asked whether she was worried.

Xiao Yan and Yao Wan returned to the Heavenly Tomb to help Xiao Yan advance his Soul Power, while Yao Wan prepared to investigate the Spirit Devouring Clan’s activity in the Eastern Continent. Xiao Xuan drew out the Heavenly Tomb Soul, and Yao Wan prepared to confront it.

• Gu Yuan teased Xun'er about her feelings for Yao Wan, and Xun'er admitted that she envied Yao Wan's motivation and courage.
• Xiao Yan worried that Yao Wan was going alone to the Eastern Continent, which he suspected was tied to the Spirit Devouring Clan, but Yao Wan insisted she would return if she could not resolve the situation.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Wan reached Xiao Xuan's tombstone, where Xiao Xuan praised Xiao Yan's progress and recognized Yao Wan's Emperor Realm Soul.
• Yao Wan asked Xiao Xuan to help draw out the Heavenly Tomb Soul so she could face it without risking his remnant soul.
• Xiao Xuan summoned the Heavenly Tomb Soul, and the enormous entity demanded to know why he had broken their usual distance.

Yao Wan returned to the Heavenly Tomb to obtain what Xiao Yan needed and fought the Heavenly Tomb Soul with her Emperor Realm Soul and Ash Extinction Flame. As the Heavenly Tomb Soul tried to escape, Xiao Xuan seized its Soul Origin, and the flames destroyed the weakened being.

• Xiao Xuan cautioned Yao Wan to act within her limits, and she told the Heavenly Tomb Soul she had returned because the tomb could still help Xiao Yan.
• The Heavenly Tomb Soul attacked Yao Wan, but her Emperor Realm Soul and stone hammer overwhelmed its assaults.
• Yao Wan unleashed the Ash Extinction Flame, which spread through the Heavenly Tomb and badly burned the Heavenly Tomb Soul.
• The Heavenly Tomb Soul tried to escape by pushing its Soul Origin through an opening in the flames, but Xiao Xuan bound and seized it.
• The flames wrapped around the weakened Heavenly Tomb Soul and burned it into nothingness.

Xiao Yan began refining the Heavenly Tomb Soul’s vast, ownerless Soul Power to strengthen his soul, while Yao Wan left to deal with the crisis in the Eastern Continent. She arrived beneath a Black Sun surrounded by demonic energy and sensed something was wrong.

• Xiao Xuan gave Xiao Yan the Light Orb containing the Heavenly Tomb Soul’s Soul Origin, and Xiao Yan began refining it to pursue the Emperor Realm Soul.
• Xiao Xuan and Yao Wan discussed the burdens she carried, and Yao Wan left the Heavenly Tomb after asking him to look after Xiao Yan.
• Yao Wan traveled from Central State to the Eastern Continent, a region she knew little about.
• Yao Wan arrived beneath a Black Sun wreathed in Black Purple Demonic Qi and sensed an unusual presence with her Emperor Realm Divine Sense.

Yao Wan investigated the Spirit Devouring Clan’s heavily polluted Eastern Continent and discovered Shi Xun alive in an Insect Dragon’s lair. After the clan’s Eight Saints detected her Divine Sense, she revealed herself, fought through their Demonic Sea, and escaped, leaving the Spirit Devouring Clan alarmed by her strength.

• Yao Wan sensed that Demonic Qi had polluted the Eastern Continent’s spirit veins and found that a vast Demonic Sea threatened even souls.
• Yao Wan detected Shi Zhen, Shi Dui, and other Spirit Devouring Clan Dou Shengs at a mountain peak, where they extracted Shi Xun from an Insect Dragon’s body.
• Shi Xun revived from the blood egg, and Yao Wan suspected the abyss beneath the peak held a connection to the Northern Dragon King.
• The Spirit Devouring Clan’s Demonic Qi exposed Yao Wan’s Divine Sense, and the purple-robed man attacked her with lightning.
• Yao Wan used Tribulation Flame to break through the Demonic Sea and escape, while Xun Saint and the other Eight Saints recognized her and reacted to her power.

Yao Wan launched a devastating Calamity Fire attack across the Eastern Continent after discovering the Spirit Devouring Clan had a hidden Nine Star Dou Sheng. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan cultivated in a strange inner region of the Heavenly Tomb and approached the Emperor Realm in soul power.

• Shi Zhen ordered the Spirit Devouring Clan experts to stop Yao Wan from reaching the Eastern Extremity and protect the Saint King's revival.
• Yao Wan withdrew her Divine Sense after it was detected by a powerful soul presence in the east, which she suspected belonged to a Nine Star Dou Sheng.
• Yao Wan ignited the Demonic Qi across the Eastern Continent with Ash Extinction Flame, spreading a vast sea of Calamity Fire that burned Spirit Devouring Clan members.
• Shi Zhen and other Spirit Devouring Clan Dou Sheng headed toward the expanding fire, while Shi Zhen said Yao Wan was determined to prevent a peaceful outcome.
• Xiao Yan sensed that time flowed differently in a secluded region of the Heavenly Tomb, and Xiao Xuan watched as Xiao Yan's soul approached the Emperor Realm.

Xiao Yan reached the Emperor Realm Soul and learned that refining the Heavenly Tomb could turn it into a powerful Spiritual Tool. With Xiao Xuan’s guidance, he refined the Heavenly Tomb into a stone tablet, gaining a close connection to it and the strength it could provide.

• Xiao Yan broke through to the Emperor Realm Soul, and Xiao Xuan congratulated him on the achievement.
• Xiao Yan discovered that he had inherited control of the Heavenly Tomb and could open passages to it or move it at will.
• Xiao Xuan explained the ancient art of refining tools and urged Xiao Yan to refine the Heavenly Tomb into a Spiritual Tool.
• Xiao Yan used his Emperor Realm Soul and Strange Fire to refine the Heavenly Tomb into a stone tablet that he could control without acknowledging it as his master.