Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan entered the Heavenly Tomb to refine the Void Swallowing Flame and attempt a breakthrough to Nine Star Dou Sheng, while Zi Yan stayed to guard him. The Void Swallowing Flame resisted until Xiao Yan began refining it, then offered a secret about Tou She Ancient God and becoming a Dou Di.

• Yao Wan left to investigate the Soul Clan Branch Hall near the Yao Clan, while Zhuo Kun questioned Xiao Yan about his relationship with her.
• Xiao Yan confirmed he had subdued the Void Swallowing Flame and planned to refine it in the Heavenly Tomb; Zi Yan went with him to stand guard.
• Gu Yuan ordered the Eight Clans Allied Forces to search for the Hun Clan and track the Spirit Devouring Clan, while Zhuo Kun moved the Strange Fire Plaza and statue.
• Inside the Heavenly Tomb, Xiao Yan encouraged Zi Yan to take her time accepting Zhuo Kun as her father and told her about his relationship with Xiao Zhan.
• Xiao Xuan confronted the imprisoned Void Swallowing Flame, and Xiao Yan began refining it to seek a breakthrough to Nine Star Dou Sheng.
• The weakening Void Swallowing Flame offered to reveal a secret about Tou She Ancient God and the path to becoming a Dou Di.

Xiao Yan refused Void Swallowing Flame’s offer of a Dou Di inheritance and absorbed him in the Heavenly Tomb, while Yao Wan discovered and sabotaged the Hun Clan’s Spirit Devouring Life Extinction Array hubs across Central State. Hun Tiandi’s forces were tied up defending the Soul Realm, and the chapter ended with Xiao Yan absorbing Void Swallowing Flame to prepare for nine-star cultivation.

• Void Swallowing Flame revealed a supposed Dou Di inheritance, but Xiao Yan rejected the offer and attacked him.
• Yao Wan discovered the Spirit Devouring Life Extinction Array hub beneath the ruins of the Human Hall and planted her Life Spirit Flame inside it.
• Yao Wan sent the array’s coordinates to the Eight Clans and searched Central State’s major Soul Hall branches, planting her flame in their array hubs.
• Yao Wan learned the Hun Clan had withdrawn most of its forces to protect Hun Tiandi and repel the Spirit Devouring Clan’s Eight Saints from the Soul Realm.
• After half a month, Yao Wan returned to the Gu Realm and relied on the Heavenly Tomb’s different time flow to give Xiao Yan time to absorb Void Swallowing Flame.
• Xiao Yan overcame Void Swallowing Flame with the Flame Mantra and absorbed him.

Xiao Yan erased Void Swallowing Flame’s intelligence instead of making him a fire spirit, then advanced to Nine Star Dou Sheng and gathered the Eight Clans’ forces to depart. As Hun Tiandi began activating the array meant to sacrifice Central State and break through to Dou Di, the Spirit Devouring Clan was blocked by the Hun Clan’s Death Realm Great Array, and Hun Tiandi discovered his own array was not supplying the expected life energy.

• Xiao Yan stripped Void Swallowing Flame of his intelligence and memories, then absorbed his power and advanced to Nine Star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yan emerged from the Heavenly Tomb, confirmed the preparations with Gu Yuan, and set out with Zi Yan and the gathered forces after Yao Wan arrived.
• The Spirit Devouring Clan attacked the Soul Realm, but the Hun Clan’s four living-dead Eight Star Dou Shengs deployed the Death Realm Great Array to block their way.
• Spirit Devouring Venerable Saint sensed Hun Tiandi’s array forming over Central State and realized Hun Tiandi was attempting to sacrifice its people to break through to Dou Di.
• Hun Tiandi activated the Spirit Devouring Life Extinction Array from the blood pool, but no life energy reached him, and he demanded to know what had happened.

Yao Wan sabotaged the Spirit Devouring Life Extinction Array, preventing Hun Tiandi from becoming a Dou Di soon and forcing the Spirit Devouring Clan to withdraw. Xiao Yan and the allied army arrived at the Hun Clan’s Death Realm Great Array, where Xiao Yan asked Yao Wan to try breaking through it.

• Hun Tiandi activated the Spirit Devouring Life Extinction Array, but Calamity Fire spread through its beams and burned away his living aura, forcing him to sever his connection to it.
• Li Sheng Zhe and Spirit Devouring Venerable Saint recognized that someone had sabotaged the array, and Spirit Devouring Venerable Saint ordered the Spirit Devouring Clan to retreat.
• The Hun Clan kept the Death Realm Great Array active after the Spirit Devouring Clan departed, guarding Hun Tiandi as he pursued his breakthrough.
• Yao Wan explained to Xiao Yan, Gu Yuan, and Zhuo Kun that destroying the array had delayed Hun Tiandi’s rise and formed part of their plan to defeat him.
• Xiao Yan and the allied army reached the Hun Clan’s four-gate Death Realm Great Array, and Xiao Yan asked Yao Wan to try breaking it.

Yao Wan destroyed the Death Realm barrier, allowing the alliance to enter the Soul Realm and confront Hun Tiandi at his blood sea. Xiao Yan brought Hun Tiandi into the Heavenly Tomb, where Xiao Xuan appeared to settle their thousand-year grudge.

• Yao Wan used the Ash Extinction Flame to devour the Death Qi and break the Death Realm Great Array.
• Yan Jin and Lei Ying blocked the four Living Dead Dou Sheng while the alliance forces entered the Soul Realm.
• Yao Wan sensed that the Soul Realm’s life force had nearly vanished, and the group found Hun Tiandi seated in a vast blood pool.
• Hun Tiandi attacked Yao Wan and declared that he would use the group’s strength to advance toward Dou Di.
• Xiao Yan brought Hun Tiandi into the Heavenly Tomb, where Xiao Xuan appeared and challenged him to repay their thousand-year debt.

Xiao Yan and three Nine Star Dou Shengs fought Battle Hun Tiandi in the Heavenly Tomb, where Xiao Yan used his control over its laws to restrain him. Their combined attacks broke through Battle Hun Tiandi’s Blood Lightning defense and struck him, but the chapter ended before his condition was clear.

• Xiao Yan kept Yao Wan away from the fight while he, Gu Yuan, Zhuo Kun, and Xiao Xuan faced Battle Hun Tiandi.
• Xiao Xuan ignited his remnant soul and surged in strength as Yao Wan revealed that his flames had split into emerald-green and black-red fire.
• Xiao Yan used his authority over the Heavenly Tomb to suppress Battle Hun Tiandi and destroy a blood-light attack aimed at Yao Wan.
• Gu Yuan, Zhuo Kun, and Xiao Xuan joined forces against Battle Hun Tiandi, but his Blood Lightning repelled their attacks and left the Heavenly Tomb badly damaged.
• Xiao Yan unleashed three sword strikes with the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and the Void Swallowing Flame, helping the four fighters break through Battle Hun Tiandi’s defense and land their attacks.

Xiao Yan fused twelve Heavenly Flames, including Yao Wan’s Calamity Fire, into a fire lotus that badly wounded Hun Tiandi but failed to kill him. With Hun Tiandi weakened and trapped, Yao Wan and Xiao Yan began a plan to refine him into a Return Pill to help resist the Spirit Devouring Clan.

• Zhuo Kun, Xiao Xuan, and Gu Yuan endured Hun Tiandi’s Blood Lightning and urged Xiao Yan to strike.
• Yao Wan added the Calamity Fire to Xiao Yan’s eleven fused Heavenly Flames, completing a Twelve-Colored Fire Lotus.
• Xiao Yan detonated the fire lotus against Hun Tiandi, whose Blood Lightning edge collapsed in the blast.
• Hun Tiandi survived badly injured and threatened to become a Dou Di and destroy Xiao Yan’s allies and clans.
• Xiao Yan suppressed Hun Tiandi with the Heavenly Tomb’s power while Xiao Xuan, Gu Yuan, and Zhuo Kun blocked his escape.
• Yao Wan used the Ash Extinction Flame and black-and-white flames to begin refining Hun Tiandi into a Return Pill.

Xiao Yan, Yao Wan, and their allies refined Hun Tiandi inside a Flame Cauldron to create an Emperor Pill. The pill took shape and flew free, but everyone hesitated to seize it, unsure whether Hun Tiandi had left a trap behind.

• Xiao Yan and Yao Wan reignited their flames and trapped Hun Tiandi in a massive Flame Cauldron, intending to refine him into an Emperor Pill.
• Hun Tiandi’s Blood Lightning battered the cauldron, so Xiao Yan absorbed its backlash while the others reinforced the formation and intensified the flames.
• As the cauldron shrank, Hun Tiandi targeted Yao Wan, but their soul confrontation showed him a future in which the Spirit Devouring Clan had destroyed the Dou Qi Continent.
• Hun Tiandi lost control as his body and soul fused with the pill’s medicinal properties, and the Emperor Pill formed with his soul leaving a faint silver pattern.
• The Emperor Pill broke through the fading cauldron and flew away, while Xiao Yan, Yao Wan, and the others held back, wary of a trap.

Xiao Yan defeated Hun Tiandi and gave the Emperor Pill to Yao Wan, explaining that he intended to pursue another path to becoming a Dou Di. After they left the Heavenly Tomb, Xiao Yan destroyed the blood pool, and Yao Wan led the allied army to annihilate the Hun Clan.

• Xiao Yan took the Emperor Pill and gave it to Yao Wan, while Zhuo Kun and Gu Yuan questioned whether she could safely refine it and whether Xiao Yan should keep it.
• Xiao Yan revealed that the Void Swallowing Flame had told him of another Ancient Emperor inheritance within Tou She Ancient God's statue, so he expected to pursue that path to Dou Di.
• Yao Wan said she might need to return to the Yao Clan's Inheritance Land to refine the Emperor Pill, and Xiao Yan brought everyone out of the Heavenly Tomb.
• Xiao Yan burned the thousand-li blood pool, and his Divine Sense announced throughout the Soul Realm that Hun Tiandi was dead.
• Yao Wan killed Hun Yan and ordered the Eight Clans' allied army to leave no Hun Clan member alive.

After the Hun Clan fell, Xiao Yan and Yao Wan separated to pursue their Dou Di inheritances while the Spirit Devouring Clan remained an approaching threat. Yao Wan returned to the Yao Clan to prepare for her breakthrough, where the clan celebrated her prospects despite her fears that the attempt could cost her life.

• Gu Yuan, Zhuo Kun, and Xiao Yan annihilated most of the Hun Clan, leaving the allied army to clear the Soul Realm.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Wan parted ways so he could seek Tou She Ancient God's inheritance while she cultivated at the Yao Clan.
• Xun'er and Zi Yan accompanied Yao Wan to the Yao Clan, and Zi Yan offered to protect her during the breakthrough.
• Xun'er asked about Yao Wan's chances of reaching Dou Di, and Yao Wan acknowledged that she had to make the most of the Emperor Pill Xiao Yan gave her.
• Yao Wan returned to the fortified Yao Clan, where elders welcomed her and the clan cheered at the prospect of a new Dou Di.
• Yao Wan complained that the clan was celebrating while she was about to risk her life.

Yao Dan admitted that the Yao Clan could offer little help with Yao Wan’s breakthrough to Dou Di, and she prepared to cultivate in the Inheritance Land. Before she left, Xun'er asked when Yao Wan had fallen for Xiao Yan and learned that her own past words may have pushed Yao Wan toward him.

• Yao Dan told Yao Wan that the clan could not help much with her path to becoming a Di, and she promised to handle the rest herself.
• Yao Wan sent Qing Lin and Feng Qing'er outside to guard her grotto-heaven and said Zi Yan and Xun'er could stay while she entered the Inheritance Land.
• Xun'er asked Zi Yan to leave so she could speak privately with Yao Wan about her feelings for Xiao Yan.
• Yao Wan said she had first found Xiao Yan interesting and had gradually come to like him, though she had once considered keeping her feelings unspoken.
• Yao Wan suggested Xun'er's earlier tirade had indirectly led her to seek Xiao Yan, leaving Xun'er flustered and angrily protesting.

Yao Wan returned to the Inheritance Land to use the Emperor Pill and the Azure Firmament Divine Tree’s essence to break through to Dou Di before the Spirit Devouring Saint King emerged. The Medicine Emperor showed her a faster, riskier method, and Yao Wan stepped into the gathered essence as it began to pulse around the pill.

• Yao Wan left Xun'er and returned to the Inheritance Land to attempt her breakthrough, while Xun'er agreed to protect her with Zi Yan and the others.
• The Medicine Emperor examined the Emperor Pill and learned from Yao Wan that Hun Tiandi had died after colluding with an outside race.
• The Medicine Emperor explained that the safest method was to absorb the Azure Firmament Divine Tree’s essence until Yao Wan reached Nine Star Peak, then take the Emperor Pill.
• When Yao Wan asked for a faster approach, the Medicine Emperor told her to use the Ash Extinction Flame to ignite the Azure Firmament Divine Tree and release all its essence.
• Yao Wan burned the tree, gathered its Divine Tree Essence into a vast ocean, and threw the Emperor Pill into it before stepping inside.

Xiao Yan entered Tou She Ancient God's inheritance as he and Yao Wan prepared to break through to Dou Di. Sensing the continent's power gathering and learning that Hun Tiandi was dead, Spirit Devouring Venerable Saint sent his forces toward the source, which appeared to be the Yao Clan.

• Xiao Yan entered the Tou She Ancient God statue and met Tou She Ancient God, who recognized his reincarnation connection to the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• After three months, the Spirit Devouring Clan detected an intense gathering of the Dou Qi Continent's power despite Hun Tiandi's failed breakthrough.
• Li Sheng Zhe reported that Xiao Yan, Yao Wan, and two others had killed Hun Tiandi, after which the alliance army wiped out the Hun Clan.
• Spirit Devouring Venerable Saint ordered the Spirit Devouring Clan to move toward the gathering of the world's power to prevent a Dou Di from emerging.
• The Spirit Devouring Clan's Demonic Qi surged toward the Central State, where local factions raised formations to contain it.
• Li Sheng Zhe identified the Shennong Mountain Range, home of the Yao Clan, as the source of the gathering phenomenon.

The Spirit Devouring Clan attacked the Yao Clan’s stronghold, but the Yao Clan used the Medicine Emperor Cauldron to withstand the Spirit Devouring Venerable Saint’s strike. Zi Yan fought Li Sheng Zhe until he nearly seized her, when her father suddenly appeared and struck him down.

• The Spirit Devouring Venerable Saint led the Spirit Devouring Clan to the Shennong Mountain Range and attacked the Yao Clan with a massive blast of purple light.
• Yao Dan and the Yao Clan joined their spiritual veins, protective formation, and clan power to form the Medicine Emperor Cauldron, which endured the attack.
• Zi Yan warned that the Spirit Devouring Venerable Saint was altering the rules of heaven and earth, then clashed with Li Sheng Zhe.
• The Spirit Devouring Venerable Saint blocked Yao Dan’s attempt to aid Zi Yan while Li Sheng Zhe attacked her.
• Zi Yan’s father arrived, struck Li Sheng Zhe out of the sky, and promised to protect his daughter.

Zhuo Kun arrived at the Shennong Mountain Range and joined the fight to protect Yao Wan from the Spirit Devouring Clan, but Spirit Devouring Venerable Saint began drawing power from the spiritual veins in the sky. Gu Yuan arrived too late to stop the technique’s formation, leaving him and Zhuo Kun to face the empowered enemy.

• Zhuo Kun arrived, caught Li Sheng Zhe, and reassured Zi Yan before promising to protect Yao Wan and block the Spirit Devouring Clan.
• Zhuo Kun and Spirit Devouring Venerable Saint clashed, while Yao Dan used the Medicine Emperor Cauldron to help Zhuo Kun fend off the enemy’s attacks.
• Spirit Devouring Venerable Saint prepared the Ancient Emperor Shattering Annihilation Finger, but Gu Yuan’s attack struck the purple light above them.
• Spirit Devouring Venerable Saint activated Qian For Heaven, forming a vast purple halo that drew power from the sky’s spiritual veins and greatly increased his strength.
• Gu Yuan joined Zhuo Kun, acknowledged that he had arrived late, and said Xiao Yan was protected while they dealt with the battle.

The Spirit Devouring Clan’s assault on the Shennong Mountain Range wore down the allied forces, and Spirit Devouring Venerable Saint shattered the Medicine Emperor Cauldron after four months of fighting. As he moved to breach the Yao World Boundary Passage, a surge of Dou Di Bloodline power suddenly repelled him and restored the Yao Clan Elders.

• Gu Yuan and Zhuo Kun fought Spirit Devouring Venerable Saint while the allied army battled the Spirit Devouring Clan around the Shennong Mountain Range.
• Over four months, Spirit Devouring Venerable Saint gained the upper hand as Gu Yuan and Zhuo Kun struggled with their injuries and the Medicine Emperor Cauldron steadily weakened.
• Spirit Devouring Venerable Saint trapped Gu Yuan and Zhuo Kun, then shattered the Medicine Emperor Cauldron despite Yao Dan and the Yao Clan pouring their power into it.
• Yao Dan ordered the Yao World Boundary Passage sealed, but Spirit Devouring Venerable Saint attacked it while the allied forces neared collapse.
• A mysterious radiance burst from the passage and sent Spirit Devouring Venerable Saint flying back, as the Yao Clan Elders’ power surged with the awakening of Dou Di Bloodline.

Yao Dan broke through to Dou Di inside the Yao World and used her flames and formation to turn the battle at the Shennong Mountain Range against the Spirit Devouring Clan. She annihilated the clan’s forces and the Spirit Devouring Venerable Saint, who warned that the Saint King would still descend.

• The Yao Clan’s Dou Di Bloodline awakened, and Yao Dan’s aura surged from within the Yao World as she completed her breakthrough.
• Yao Dan’s Calamity Fire swept across the Shennong Mountain Range, destroying Spirit Devouring Clan members while her Life Spirit Flame healed the allied experts and restored the land.
• The Spirit Devouring Venerable Saint sent a purple wheel of light crashing down, but Yao Dan formed a Dou Di formation that shattered it and badly wounded him.
• Yao Dan declared that every Spirit Devouring Clan member in the Shennong Mountain Range would die, and the remaining clan forces, including Li Sheng Zhe, burned to nothing.
• The Spirit Devouring Venerable Saint succumbed to the Ash Extinction Flame after warning that the Saint King would descend, and Yao Dan replied that they would face that calamity too.

After Yao Wan became a Dou Di and defeated the Spirit Devouring Clan, she healed the allied army and invited its members to the Yao Clan. In the Yao World, she restored the Medicine Emperor’s remnant soul, while Hun Tiandi sensed her breakthrough from the Heavenly Tomb.

• Yao Wan purified the Demonic Qi over the Shennong Mountain Range, healed the allied army, and invited its members to the Yao Clan.
• Gu Yuan and Zhuo Kun reflected on Yao Wan’s extraordinary Dou Di power as the allied army thanked her.
• Yao Wan spoke with the Medicine Emperor Phantom about her breakthrough and postponed choosing an imperial title.
• Yao Wan used her Dou Di Soul Power to restore the Medicine Emperor Phantom’s fading remnant soul and clarify her appearance.
• Hun Tiandi sensed Yao Wan’s powerful aura from the Heavenly Tomb and realized she had reached the Dou Di realm before him.

After breaking through to Dou Di, Yao Wan welcomed the Eight Clans’ leaders to the transformed Yao Realm and then went alone to purge the Spirit Devouring Clan’s demonic corruption. She found the Spirit Devouring Saint King still enclosed in its cocoon and attacked it with Ash Extinction Flame, but the cocoon reacted before it could be destroyed.

• Yao Wan left the Inheritance Land after becoming a Dou Di and changed into formal black robes before departing with the Medicine Emperor.
• The Eight Clans’ experts arrived in the Yao Realm and were astonished by its greatly increased Heaven and Earth Energy.
• Yao Wan welcomed the visitors, introduced the Medicine Emperor, and told them she would handle what remained while Xiao Yan stayed in seclusion.
• Yao Wan crossed the continent and used Calamity Fire to burn away the Demonic Qi corrupting Central State’s Eastern Region and the Eastern Continent void.
• Yao Wan found the Spirit Devouring Saint King inside a flesh-and-blood cocoon and struck it with Ash Extinction Flame, causing the cocoon to tremble.

Yao Wan destroyed the Demon Cocoon and discovered that the Spirit Devouring Saint King had emerged from a black hole in a body modeled on her and Xiao Yan. They clashed across the Eastern Continent, where Yao Wan's Black Sword sent the Saint King crashing away.

• Yao Wan burned the Demon Cocoon and the Insect Dragon that had once been the Northern Dragon King to ash with the Ash Extinction Flame.
• A black hole appeared, and the Spirit Devouring Saint King emerged in a body resembling a fusion of Yao Wan and Xiao Yan.
• The Spirit Devouring Saint King revealed that he had been reborn because of Yao Wan and Xiao Yan, then demanded that Yao Wan submit before attacking her.
• Yao Wan met the Saint King's Demonic Qi with her Calamity Fire and fought off his close-range assault with her Black Sword.
• Yao Wan struck the Spirit Devouring Saint King in the chest with her Black Sword and sent him crashing ten thousand miles away.