Chapter Summaries

Ning Luo used an eight-Heavenly-Flame lotus to wound Hun Yan and opened a path for the survivors to escape the Soul Clan’s attack on the Medicine Realm. Yao Dan sacrificed himself to hold off their pursuers, and Ning Luo’s group reached safety beyond the Shen Nong Mountain Range.

• Ning Luo sent King Bei to attack Hun Yan, then unleashed a Flame Lotus made from six Heavenly Flames.
• Ning Luo borrowed the Living Flame and Turtle Spirit Earth Fire from Senior Shennong and Yao Tian, formed an eight-Heavenly-Flame lotus, and blasted Hun Yan with it.
• Ning Luo led Yao Lao, Yao Tian, Yao Ling, and the other survivors toward a spatial rift while Yao Clan experts sacrificed themselves to block the Soul Clan’s pursuit.
• Yao Dan thanked Ning Luo and self-destructed, allowing Ning Luo’s group to escape as the rift closed behind them.
• Hun Yan ordered the Soul Clan to collect bloodline power, while Ning Luo and the survivors regrouped on a distant mountain peak.

Ning Luo arranged for the Yao Clan survivors to seek refuge, but Hun Sha ambushed the group and forced Ning Luo to flee with Yao Ling. As Hun Sha pursued them, Ning Luo sent Yao Tian away and continued toward the Gu Clan with Yao Ling.

• Yao Tian and Yao Ling thanked Ning Luo, and Elder Shennong agreed to accompany the others to the Heavenly Mansion Alliance.
• Ning Luo sent Yao Tian and Yao Ling to the Gu Clan to seek help for the Yao Clan, while the remaining survivors headed for the alliance.
• Ning Luo spotted Hun Sha, one of the Soul Clan’s Four Demon Saints, and met his blade attack head-on.
• Ning Luo fought Hun Sha with the power of the Ninth Grade Profound Pill, then fled as Hun Sha vowed to pursue him.
• Yao Ling knocked Yao Tian out of Ning Luo’s grasp so he could escape, and Ning Luo carried her onward toward the Gu Clan.

Ning Luo fled toward the Gu Clan with Yao Ling, but Hun Sha caught up and attacked him before Gu Dao intervened. After Ning Luo refined the Ninth Grade Profound Pill and reached Six-Star Dou Saint, Hun Sha withdrew, leaving Ning Luo under the Gu Clan’s protection.

• Yao Ling offered Ning Luo her blood to nourish his soul, and Ning Luo carried her toward the Gu Clan while recovering from his injuries.
• Hun Sha ambushed Ning Luo, but Gu Dao appeared and stopped the attack on Gu Clan territory.
• Ning Luo retreated to a mountain peak to refine the Ninth Grade Profound Pill while Hun Sha launched a feint and tried to capture him.
• Ning Luo’s strength rose to Six-Star Dou Saint, forcing Hun Sha to abandon his pursuit and flee.
• Ning Luo thanked Gu Dao for intervening, and Gu Dao reprimanded Ling Quan and the others for failing to match Ning Luo’s courage and ability.

Ning Luo told Gu Yuan that the Yao Clan had been destroyed and warned that the Soul Clan was behind the ancient clans’ downfall. Gu Yuan agreed to contact the Yan and Lei Clans, while Ning Luo later prepared to refine the Profound Pill with Xun’er guarding him.

• Ning Luo asked Gu Dao to bring him to Gu Yuan and revealed that the Yao Clan had been destroyed.
• Ning Luo asked Gu Yuan about the Tunling Clan, and Gu Yuan explained its ancient history and linked the Nihility Devouring Flame to the Soul Clan’s ability to hide.
• Ning Luo urged Gu Yuan to act before the Spirit, Stone, and Yao Clans’ fate befell the remaining clans, and Gu Yuan invited the Yan and Lei Clan chiefs to discuss their survival.
• Gu Yuan sent experts to monitor the Soul Clan as tension spread through the Ancient Realm.
• Xun’er brought Ning Luo the medicinal ingredients he needed, and he asked her to guard him while he refined the Profound Pill’s medicinal power.

After refining three Ninth Grade Profound Pills, Ning Luo joined Xun'er at the Gu Clan gathering for the Yan and Lei Clan chiefs. Gu Hua sought his help against Lei Dong, a powerful Lei Clan youth challenging the Black Mist Army, and Ning Luo went to see him.

• Ning Luo spent ten days refining the pills in Xiao Yi's Fire Cauldron and emerged with greater strength.
• Xun'er told Ning Luo that the Yan Clan and Lei Clan chiefs had arrived, and they entered the gathering hall together.
• Gu Hua asked Xun'er for reinforcements after Gu Qingyang lost to Lei Dong, the Lei Clan's most dazzling young genius.
• Ning Luo agreed to go to the training ground and see Lei Dong, who had challenged the Black Mist Army and expressed interest in meeting Xun'er.
• Huo Xuan told Huo Zhi that his clan chief had urged him to get closer to Ning Luo, whose strength and defeat of Hun Miesheng had drawn attention.

Ning Luo arrived at the Gu Clan training ground and swiftly defeated Lei Dong and the other Lei Clan members. He accepted Lei Ying’s challenge to exchange blows, leaving the confrontation with the eight-star Dou Sheng about to begin.

• Xun'er and Ning Luo arrived at the training ground, where Lei Dong recognized Ning Luo and invited him to fight.
• Ning Luo challenged all ten Lei Clan members to attack together, and they unleashed Thunder Dragon Kill.
• Ning Luo caught Lei Dong’s powerful strike with one palm and quickly defeated him and the other Lei Clan members.
• Lei Ying challenged Ning Luo to withstand a strike using fifty percent of his strength, and Ning Luo accepted.
• Gu Yuan voiced concern about Lei Ying fighting Ning Luo, but Ning Luo insisted that the exchange was an honor.

Ning Luo demonstrated the power of his six Heavenly Flames against Lei Ying before Hun Tiandi appeared and the Soul Clan’s plot against the Gu Clan became clear. As Gu Yuan confronted Hun Tiandi, a wounded messenger revealed that Gu Yang had stolen the Gu Clan’s Ancient Jade, and Yan Jin moved to join the fight.

• Ning Luo used a six-colored Flame Lotus to clash with Lei Ying’s Thunder Tribulation Palm, and both fighters were forced back by the explosion.
• Gu Yuan summoned Hun Tiandi from a spatial vortex and challenged him, while Lei Ying questioned him about the disappearances of the Spirit, Stone, and Yao Clans.
• Ning Luo recognized Hun Tiandi as a nine-star Dou Saint, warned Gu Yuan that the Soul Clan was targeting the Gu Clan’s Ancient Jade, and Xun’er noticed that ancestral hall experts had been drawn away.
• A wounded messenger reported that Elder Gu Yang had injured an ancestral hall elder and stolen the Ancient Jade, throwing the Gu Clan into an uproar.
• Yan Jin and Gu Yang charged forward as Gu Yuan’s tidal giant hand collided with the Soul Clan’s black hole.

As the Gu Clan searched for Gu Yang and the stolen ancient jade, they discovered that Gu Yang had been fused with a Soul Clan spy. The jade escaped in a burst of red light, but Hun Tiandi attacked the mountain range, forcing the Gu Clan to counter with its Ancient Emperor Mirror.

• Yan Jin and another Gu Clan expert confronted Nihility Devouring Flame while Gu Dao ordered Xun'er to search for Gu Yang and the elders to protect the clan.
• Ning Luo and Xun'er learned that Gu Yang was a late five-star Dou Saint, and the Black Mist Army searched the mountain range without finding him.
• Magma blasted Gu Yang from his hiding place, and he revealed that Lord Nihility had fused his soul with Gu Yang's over a hundred years earlier.
• The Black Mist King left Ning Luo to pursue Gu Yang and went to fight Hun Yan, while Gu Yang released the ancient jade and self-destructed.
• Ning Luo tried to stop the jade, but Hun Tiandi summoned a massive Destruction Seal, which crashed into the Gu Clan's Ancient Emperor Mirror.

Nihility Devouring Flame seized the Ancient Jade while the Soul Clan also stole the Lei and Yan Clans’ jades, prompting Gu Yuan and the clan leaders to agree to resist the Soul Clan. Ning Luo entered the Heavenly Tomb to seek Xiao Xuan’s help and encountered Blood Saber Saint.

• Nihility Devouring Flame escaped with the Ancient Jade as Hun Tiandi warned Lei Ying and Yan Jin that the Soul Clan had also taken their clans’ Ancient Jades.
• Lei Ying and Yan Jin confirmed their Ancient Jades were stolen, and Gu Yuan proposed that the clans ally against the Soul Clan.
• Ning Luo asked Gu Yuan to send him back into the Heavenly Tomb to seek Xiao Xuan and learn whether he could be revived.
• Gu Yuan forcibly opened a crack into the Heavenly Tomb, and Ning Luo entered with orders to return within a year.
• Ning Luo appeared before Blood Saber Saint, who recognized his familiar young face.

Ning Luo met Xiao Xuan in the deepest part of the Heavenly Tomb and learned that Xiao Xuan could not be revived, but could help him pursue an Emperor Realm soul. Xiao Xuan began transforming into the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb, while the Energy Bodies across the land watched in awe.

• The Blood Saber Saint stopped a thousand zhang from the gravestone and left Ning Luo to approach Xiao Xuan alone.
• Xiao Xuan praised Ning Luo's strength and asked him to recount the events of the past years.
• Ning Luo offered to revive Xiao Xuan and asked him to serve against the Soul Clan, but Xiao Xuan explained that he was only a remnant soul and revealed the missing energy needed to reach Dou Di.
• Xiao Xuan explained that Hun Tiandi sought the embryonic Emperor Grade Pill in Tou She Ancient God's cave abode, which required all eight jade pieces to locate and open.
• Xiao Xuan offered to transform into the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb to help Ning Luo attempt to enter the Emperor Realm of the soul.
• Xiao Xuan rose into the sky and spread his pressure across the Heavenly Tomb as the Energy Bodies looked up and fell to their knees.

Xiao Xuan burned his soul to defeat the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb and take its Soul Origin. He gave the immense reserve of Soul Power to Ning Luo, who began refining it in hopes of reaching the Emperor Realm soul.

• The Soul of the Heavenly Tomb confronted Xiao Xuan and demanded that he obey its rules.
• Xiao Xuan used soul self-immolation to overpower the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb and trap it in a formation.
• Xiao Xuan forced the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb to surrender its Soul Origin and gave the resulting crystalline halo to Ning Luo.
• Ning Luo entered the halo and discovered that it contained an ocean of ownerless Soul Power.
• Ning Luo steadied his mind and began refining the Soul Power, determined to grow stronger against the Soul Clan.

Ning Luo refined the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb and reached the Emperor Realm in Soul Power, then emerged to find the clans preparing for war against the Soul Clan. The allied forces planned to depart for the Burial Sky Mountain Range the next day to reclaim or destroy the Ancient Jade.

• Ning Luo spent two years in the Heavenly Tomb refining its Soul, while Xiao Xuan waited outside the sphere of light until his body faded away.
• Ning Luo reached the Emperor Realm soul and left the Heavenly Tomb.
• Gu Yuan, Lei Ying, Yan Jin, and the others were stunned when Ning Luo emerged and revealed that his soul had repelled Gu Yuan's attack.
• Ning Luo declared that he intended to fight the Soul Clan, and Gu Yuan agreed that the allied forces would depart the next day.
• Gu Yuan explained that the Gu, Yan, and Lei Clans were on high alert and that the Heavenly Mansion Alliance would join them at the Burial Sky Mountain Range.

Ning Luo and Xun'er spent their last quiet night together before joining Gu Yuan, the Yan and Lei Clans, and the Heavenly Mansion Alliance at the Burial Sky Mountain Range. The allies gathered at the site of the ancient Soul Clan and Xiao Clan war, preparing to face the Soul Clan as Cai Lin approached Ning Luo.

• Ning Luo reflected on his years in the Central Plains and embraced Xun'er before they spent the night together.
• Ning Luo and Xun'er joined Gu Yuan as the Yan and Lei Clans brought their experts to depart for battle.
• Gu Yuan led the allied forces through a spatial passage to the Burial Sky Mountain Range.
• Ning Luo sensed the Heavenly Mansion Alliance arriving, and Yao Lao brought Cai Lin, Xiao Yi Xian, Xiao Chen, the Pill Tower Ancestor, and Elder Shennong.
• Cai Lin approached Ning Luo while Xun'er watched her with a gentle smile.

Ning Luo and the allied clans launched a major assault on the Soul Clan to reclaim the Ancient God Jade, while Ning Luo revealed that his soul had reached the Emperor Realm. He killed Hun Miesheng and then moved to confront Hun Feng, leaving the battle raging around them.

• Cai Lin welcomed Ning Luo back after his injuries healed, and the allied forces gathered at the Burial Sky Mountain Range.
• Hun Tiandi appeared with the Soul Clan and the Ancient God Jade, and Ning Luo ordered the allied forces to attack.
• Lei Ying, Yan Jin, and Gu Yuan unleashed their clans' formations against the Soul Clan as the battle spread across the mountain range.
• Ning Luo destroyed Hun Miesheng's black flame chain with his soul power and killed him before sensing the Soul Clan's forces in the north.
• Ning Luo targeted Hun Feng and appeared before him just as Hun Feng prepared to withdraw.

Ning Luo defeated Hun Feng, seized the Gate of Silence from Hun Yuantian, and used Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath to gravely injure him. The battlefield fell briefly silent as Ning Luo’s Emperor Realm soul power shocked both clans.

• Ning Luo subdued the four Soul Clan elders and caught Hun Feng as he tried to flee.
• Hun Yuantian appeared and attacked Ning Luo, but Ning Luo’s defenses stopped his strike.
• Ning Luo’s Destruction Fire Lotus carried him into the Gate of Silence, where he severed Hun Yuantian’s connection and took control of the treasure.
• Hun Yuantian attacked a Gu Clan elder and gathered power from the Gate of Silence before discovering Ning Luo had taken it.
• Ning Luo unleashed Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath, severely wounding Hun Yuantian and knocking down Soul Clan fighters with the soul shockwave.
• The battlefield briefly fell silent as the clans witnessed Ning Luo’s immense soul power.

Ning Luo helped the allied forces survive the Soul Clan’s Realm of Death formation by using the seized Gate of Silence to shield them and break the formation. As the Soul Clan retreated on Hun Tiandi’s orders, Nihility Devouring Flame erupted into battle against the allied forces.

• Gu Yuan warned Lei Ying and Yan Jin to retreat as three Soul Clan elders emerged from coffins and formed a Realm of Death around the allied army.
• Hun Yuantian revealed that Ning Luo had taken his Gate of Silence, leaving the formation incomplete.
• Ning Luo used the Gate of Silence to shield the allied forces from the deathly aura and urged Lei Ying and Yan Jin to attack the formation’s barrier.
• Lei Ying, Yan Jin, and the other experts shattered the barrier, ending the Realm of Death before it could cause heavy losses.
• Hun Tiandi ordered the Soul Clan to retreat and told Nihility Devouring Flame to act, but Nihility Devouring Flame unleashed his power against the allied forces’ attacks.

Hun Tiandi rescued the Soul Clan from Ning Luo and the allied forces, then escaped with the Ancient Jade and vowed to destroy them after becoming Dou Di. The alliance stationed itself at the Heavenly Mansion Alliance, while Gu Yuan began monitoring the Soul Clan and Ning Luo led a campaign against Soul Hall strongholds.

• Ning Luo and the allied experts attacked the black hole, but Hun Tiandi appeared and swallowed their attacks in a spatial rift.
• Gu Yuan arrived as Hun Tiandi retreated into the black hole, warning that he would destroy the three clans and the Heavenly Mansion Alliance after advancing to Dou Di.
• Gu Yuan and the others acknowledged the Soul Clan’s overwhelming strength and agreed that Gu Yuan would personally monitor them to prevent them from reaching the Ancient Emperor’s Cave Mansion.
• Ning Luo proposed keeping the allied army at the Heavenly Mansion Alliance and eliminating Soul Hall strongholds across the Central Plains.
• The allied forces recovered at the Star Realm while Gu Yuan entered seclusion to watch the Soul Realm, then dispatched organized teams to search for Soul Hall branch halls.

After the Allied Army destroyed Soul Hall, Ning Luo realized the Soul Clan had already evacuated and emptied its branches, so he sought to grow stronger before they found Tou She Ancient God's cave dwelling. In the Heavenly Tomb, he refined the Nine Profound Golden Lightning, crafted a Tribulation Lightning Pill, and swallowed it to increase his strength.

• The Allied Army razed Soul Hall's branches and Heaven and Earth Halls, but Ning Luo and the others discovered the Soul Clan had already removed its people and Soul Origin.
• Ning Luo decided to refine the Nine Profound Golden Lightning sealed within Xiao Yi to gain strength before the Soul Clan found Tou She Ancient God's cave dwelling.
• Ning Luo asked Blood Saber to guard him in the Heavenly Tomb, then seized and refined the thunder dragon with his Emperor Realm soul power.
• Ning Luo completed the Ninth Grade Profound Pill, the Tribulation Lightning Pill, and sent King Bei to absorb its pill lightning.
• Ning Luo swallowed the Tribulation Lightning Pill and used the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame to refine its violent energy into Dou Qi.

Ning Luo reached Seven-Star Dou Saint while Nihility Devouring Flame entered the soul Emperor Realm and Hun Tiandi used the eight Ancient Jades to find Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion. Ning Luo recalled that the jade had reacted in Jia Nan Academy’s Underground Magma World and set out to investigate it.

• Ning Luo emerged from his breakthrough as a Seven-Star Dou Saint and declared that he would face Hun Tiandi.
• Nihility Devouring Flame devoured Soul Origins and entered the Emperor Realm of the soul.
• Hun Tiandi gathered all eight Ancient Jades and used his blood essence to reveal an image of Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion beneath a magma sea.
• Ning Luo recalled that the Tou She Ancient God Jade had reacted in the Underground Magma World beneath Jia Nan Academy’s Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower.
• Ning Luo ordered ten Dou Saint experts to join him and chose Xun'er and Cai Lin to accompany him to the Underground Magma World.

Ning Luo suspected Jia Nan Academy held clues to Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion and hurried there with Cai Lin and Xun'er, while Soul Clan Chief Hun Tiandi sent Soul Hall forces to search the Black Corner Region. Hun You's force attacked Jia Nan Academy, leaving Su Qian, Wu Hao, and the defenders facing overwhelming Dou Venerate enemies.

• Ning Luo ordered Yao Lao to alert Gu, Lei Ying, and Yan Jin, then departed for Jia Nan Academy with Cai Lin and Xun'er.
• A Soul Clan elder reported that the Black Corner Region best matched the illustrated guide, and Hun Tiandi ordered Hun You to gather Soul Hall forces and clear the area.
• Hun You's black-robed force arrived at Jia Nan Academy, where they attacked after spotting a statue of Ning Luo and ordered everyone killed.
• Su Qian and Wu Hao mobilized the academy's defenders, but Hun You and another expert killed Xiao Sect guards and revealed their Dou Venerate strength.
• Hun You sent five black-robed five-star Dou Venerates forward to attack the academy's defenders.