Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan escaped Hun Tiandi’s array after learning that the Soul Clan had seized three Ancient Jades, then united the continent’s forces into the Ten Thousand Races Alliance. After two months of war preparations, he led its army toward the Burial Sky Mountain Range to confront the Soul Clan.

• Xiao Yan destroyed Hun Tiandi’s spatial vortex, sent word beyond the array, and learned that Gu Yang and the Soul Clan had delivered the Ancient Clan, Lightning Clan, and Flame Clan Ancient Jades to Hun Tiandi’s side.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Ancient Clan’s sacred grounds and gathered the continent’s forces, forming the Ten Thousand Races Alliance with himself as leader and Gu Yuan as deputy leader.
• Xiao Yan assigned the alliance’s legions and preparations, while Old Yao, Zi Yan, Cai Lin, and Xun'er organized alchemy, spatial warfare, and clan forces.
• Two months later, an Ancient Clan elder reported that the Soul Clan had appeared in the Burial Sky Mountain Range without making visible moves, and Xiao Yan ordered the alliance to depart the next day.
• Xiao Yan led the assembled alliance army aboard three hundred warships toward the Burial Sky Mountain Range.

Hun Tiandi proposed joining forces with Xiao Yan and Gu Yuan to pursue the Ancient Emperor's Opportunity, then threatened their loved ones when they refused. After Xiao Yan and Gu Yuan wounded him, Hun Tiandi revealed a trap targeting their allies and gave Xiao Yan one incense stick to choose between cooperation and mutual destruction.

• Xiao Yan withdrew the Ten Thousand Races Alliance army from the Burial Sky Mountain Range and went to investigate with Gu Yuan.
• Hun Tiandi offered to cooperate, claiming he possessed seven of the eight Ancient Jades, but Xiao Yan and Gu Yuan rejected him.
• Hun Tiandi threatened Xiao Yan's loved ones, prompting Xiao Yan to attack with his Heavenly Flame techniques while Gu Yuan struck Hun Tiandi with the Ancient Emperor Sword.
• Hun Tiandi admitted he had another plan and warned that Nihility Devouring Flame and the Soul Clan's Dou Saints would attack Xiao Yan's allies while he stalled Xiao Yan and Gu Yuan.
• Hun Tiandi revealed that a grand formation outside the mountain range could kill everyone Xiao Yan cared about, then gave Xiao Yan one incense stick to decide whether to cooperate or perish together.

Xiao Yan rejected Hun Tiandi’s threat, negotiated a plan to gather the eight Ancient Jades in three months, and prepared to kill Hun Tiandi after they were combined. He refined and consumed Ninth-grade Pills until he broke through to early-stage Nine Star Dou Sheng, then set out to find Zhu Kun.

• Xiao Yan defied Hun Tiandi and threatened to destroy the Tou She Ancient God Jade, forcing Hun Tiandi to accept a meeting in three months to combine the eight Ancient Jades.
• Xiao Yan told Gu Yuan that he planned to contact Zhu Kun and have three Nine Star Dou Sheng Peak experts join forces to kill Hun Tiandi after the Jades were combined.
• Xiao Yan summoned the ancient clans and requested their finest medicinal ingredients so he could refine cultivation-boosting Ninth-grade Pills.
• Xiao Yan secluded himself at Starfall Pavilion, refined pills with his nine Heavenly Flames, and consumed them to strengthen his cultivation.
• After two months, Xiao Yan broke through to early-stage Nine Star Dou Sheng and headed to Jia Nan Academy to find Zhu Kun.