Chapter Summaries

Yan Qingshan swallowed the newly formed Ninth Grade Golden Pill, rapidly breaking into the Eight Star realm as its power transformed his soul. The chapter left Nihility Devouring Flame alarmed as Yan Qingshan’s strength and emperor-soul aura continued to rise.

• A Ninth Grade Golden Pill emerged from the heavenly lightning above Medicine Mountain and tried to flee.
• Yan Qingshan intercepted the pill, shattered its illusory form, and swallowed it whole.
• The pill’s power rapidly restored Yan Qingshan’s strength and advanced him into the Eight Star realm, causing his two avatars to grow stronger in their battle with Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Nihility Devouring Flame warned that Yan Qingshan could lose control and destroy everyone, but Yan Qingshan continued absorbing the pill’s power.
• Yan Qingshan’s Heavenly Realm Grand Perfection soul began transforming as golden light and Immortal Golden Property gathered around his colossal soul phantom.

Yan Qingshan awakened an Emperor Realm Soul and overwhelmed Nihility Devouring Flame, breaking the seal on the Medicine Realm. Outside, Soul Heavenly Emperor trapped Gu Yuan and the allied clans in a deadly formation and revealed the supposedly dead Four Soul Clan Elders.

• Yan Qingshan’s Emperor Realm Soul pressured everyone in the Medicine Realm, and he struck Nihility Devouring Flame with a massive energy palm.
• Nihility Devouring Flame blocked the palm but was injured, and Yan Qingshan merged the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and Nine Profound Golden Lightning into his main body.
• Yan Qingshan attacked Nihility Devouring Flame with golden lightning and demonic fire, blasting open the Medicine Realm’s boundary and restoring contact with the outside.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor’s black mist swept over the Shennong Mountain Range, killing its inhabitants and concealing it beneath a sinister formation.
• Gu Yuan, Yan Jin, and Lei Ying arrived with the allied clans, but the black mist surrounded their forces as Soul Heavenly Emperor emerged to confront them.
• Gu Yuan recognized the four figures behind Soul Heavenly Emperor as the Four Soul Clan Elders, whom he had believed died fighting Xiao Xuan.

The Five Clan Alliance attacked the Soul Clan at Shennong Mountain Range, but Soul Heavenly Emperor and his forces held off their assaults. As the battle intensified, Hun Yuantian and the other Soul Clan Elders unleashed four Gates of Silence to trap the allied army and drain its vitality.

• Gu Yuan, Lei Ying, Yan Jin, and the other allied experts launched coordinated attacks that Soul Heavenly Emperor blocked with a net of black chains.
• Gu Yuan engaged Soul Heavenly Emperor while the armies clashed, and the Four Soul Clan Elders descended to confront Lei Ying, Yan Jin, and Gu Lie.
• Hun Yuantian summoned the Gate of Silence and absorbed the three allied leaders’ attacks, then struggled to contain them with its suction and black beam.
• The other three Soul Clan Elders created three more Gates of Silence, surrounding the allied army with a formation that began draining its members’ vitality.

The Soul Clan trapped the Imperial Clan Alliance in the Realm of Death while Soul Heavenly Emperor fought Gu Yuan. Yan Qingshan arrived in pursuit of Nihility Devouring Flame and arranged to face him while Gu Yuan held off Soul Heavenly Emperor.

• Lei Ying, Yan Jin, Gu Lie, and the other alliance experts attacked Hun Yuantian, but the four Gates of Silence completed the Realm of Death formation.
• The four Soul Clan Elders activated the formation, filling the mountain range with deathly aura that killed alliance fighters and blocked their perception.
• Lei Ying and the other leaders searched for Hun Yuantian's damaged Gate of Silence while black spears struck the trapped alliance.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor taunted Gu Yuan and claimed Nihility Devouring Flame had dealt with the Yao Clan, then tried to stop Gu Yuan from reaching the alliance.
• Nihility Devouring Flame emerged from the Medicine Realm, warned Soul Heavenly Emperor, and fled as Yan Qingshan pursued him.
• Yan Qingshan asked Gu Yuan to hold off Soul Heavenly Emperor while he dealt with Nihility Devouring Flame, and Gu Yuan agreed.

Yan Qingshan broke the Soul Clan’s Realm of Death by detonating Soul Demon Elder at its core and unleashing Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath, freeing the Imperial Clan Alliance. As Gu Yuan confronted Soul Heavenly Emperor, the chapter left the two factions on the verge of a decisive battle.

• Yan Qingshan used Soul Demon Elder’s self-destruction to breach the Realm of Death, then struck the formation with Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath.
• Yan Qingshan’s soul attack devastated the Soul Clan experts and shattered the formation, allowing the trapped Imperial Clan Alliance to emerge.
• Yao Dan told Gu Yuan that the Yao Clan had proof Nihility Devouring Flame used the Tunling Clan’s abilities to preserve the Soul Clan’s bloodline.
• Nihility Devouring Flame explained the Medicine Realm events to Soul Heavenly Emperor, who refused to withdraw despite the Soul Clan’s losses.
• Gu Yuan gathered a vast energy tide and rejected Soul Heavenly Emperor’s attempt to turn him against Yan Qingshan.
• Gu Yuan transformed the energy tide into a colossal hand and struck at Soul Heavenly Emperor.

The Imperial Clan Alliance defeated the Soul Clan forces at Shennong Mountain Range, but Soul Heavenly Emperor and Nihility Devouring Flame escaped through a black hole. Gu Yuan then learned that Elder Guyang had defected and the Ancient Jade had been stolen, leaving the alliance facing trouble within its own ranks.

• Soul Heavenly Emperor blocked Gu Yuan's assault while Nihility Devouring Flame ordered Hun Yuantian and the other Four Soul Clan Elders to attack Yan Qingshan.
• Yan Qingshan used Yellow Springs Palm: Death-Announcing Reincarnation to destroy three elders and kill Hun Yuantian, while the alliance destroyed the four Gates of Silence and routed the remaining Soul Clan forces.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor rejected Gu Yuan's offer to surrender and, with Nihility Devouring Flame, opened a black hole for the Soul Clan's retreat.
• Yan Qingshan and the allied experts struck the black hole, killing nearly a hundred Soul Clan experts, but Soul Heavenly Emperor covered the retreat and escaped with Nihility Devouring Flame.
• A messenger told Gu Yuan that Elder Guyang had defected and stolen the Ancient Jade from the ancestral shrine, while Lei Ying and Yan Jin received alarming information of their own.

The Imperial Clan Alliance learned that the Soul Clan had stolen several Ancient Jades and resolved to destroy the weakened Hun Clan before Soul Heavenly Emperor could grow stronger. Yan Qingshan refused to join the alliance, sent the Yao Clan’s promising youths to Danta for safety, and left the Imperial Clans wary of his intentions as turmoil loomed over the Central Plains.

• Yan Jin and Lei Ying reported that the Yan Clan’s and Lei Clan’s Ancient Jades were missing, while Yao Dan and the Stone Clan leader confirmed that their own Jades remained safe.
• Gu Yuan admitted that the Imperial Clans’ past inaction during the Xiao Clan’s destruction had helped the Soul Clan rise, and he asked Yan Qingshan to join forces against them.
• Yan Qingshan refused to involve himself in the Imperial Clans’ internal affairs and urged Gu Yuan to kill Soul Heavenly Emperor while he still could.
• Yan Qingshan arranged for the Yao Clan’s younger generation, including Yao Ling and Yao Tian, to go to Danta, then departed with them aboard the Spatial Ship.
• Gu Yuan and the other leaders set aside their suspicions of Yan Qingshan and began planning to wipe out the weakened Hun Clan.

Yan Qingshan announced his rule over the Central Plains as the Danta Alliance expanded while the Hun Clan and Imperial Clan Alliance fought. After the Hun Clan escaped with the Emperor Jades, Xiao Yi Xian told Yan Qingshan that Xiao Yan had died, and Yan Qingshan went to meet the grieving Gu Xun'er.

• Yan Qingshan revealed that he had attained an Emperor Realm Soul and declared that the Danta Alliance would reign over the Central Plains.
• Danta Alliance forces absorbed most Central Plains factions or drove out those they rejected, while the Imperial Clan Alliance withdrew from the region.
• The Hun Clan and Imperial Clan Alliance fought fiercely, and the Hun Clan used the Soul Realm as a trap to seize the Emperor Jades and escape.
• Yan Qingshan cultivated beneath the Bodhi Ancient Tree while the factions battled, seeking to break through to the ninth star.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Yan Qingshan that the Hun Clan had targeted Xiao Yan for carrying the Tou She Ancient God Jade and that Xiao Yan had died.
• Yan Qingshan traveled with Xiao Yi Xian to Danta's council hall, where Gu Xun'er was mourning Xiao Yan and Yao Ling was receiving her.

Gu Xun'er visited Yan Qingshan to ask the Danta Alliance to help the Imperial Clan Alliance find Soul Heavenly Emperor and stop him from reaching the Ancient Emperor's Cave Dwelling. Yan Qingshan refused to trust the Imperial Clans, and the chapter ended with him coldly asking whether they deserved his trust.

• Gu Xun'er warned Yan Qingshan that Soul Heavenly Emperor threatened the continent and urged him to ally with the Imperial Clan Alliance.
• Yan Qingshan dismissed the danger and said he would wait to reach Nine Star Dou Saint rather than act immediately.
• Gu Xun'er warned that Soul Heavenly Emperor could obtain the Proto-Imperial Pill, but Yan Qingshan said he knew how to become a Dou Emperor and would not gamble like Xiao Xuan.
• Yan Qingshan recounted how the Imperial Clans had allowed the Xiao Clan, the Blazing Flame Ancestor, and Danta's predecessors to fall, explaining why he distrusted them.
• Gu Xun'er asked whether Yan Qingshan did not trust the Imperial Clans, and he replied by asking whether they were worthy of trust.

Gu Xun'er offered herself to Yan Qingshan as the Gu Clan's proof of sincerity, and he accepted her embrace while weighing the risks of opposing the Hun Clan. Afterward, Yan Qingshan entered seclusion as the Imperial Clan Alliance resumed operations, while Nihility Devouring Flame began using the Hun Clan's accumulated soul origins to attempt a breakthrough into the Emperor Realm Soul.

• Gu Xun'er asked Yan Qingshan to act against the Hun Clan if the Gu Clan proved its sincerity, and Yao Ling left them alone at his request.
• Gu Xun'er offered herself to Yan Qingshan as the Gu Clan's greatest pledge, and he warned her not to act impulsively before she kissed him.
• The Danta Alliance master entered seclusion after Gu Xun'er's visit, and the Imperial Clan Alliance resumed operations.
• The Hun Clan hid in its secret Mystic Realm after losing most of its strength, though it had seized the remaining three Emperor Jades during the Soul Realm's destruction.
• Nihility Devouring Flame devoured the Hun Clan's stockpile of over a hundred million soul origins and began attempting to reach the Emperor Realm Soul.

The Imperial Clan Alliance invaded the Hun Clan’s Mystic Realm, with Gu Yuan confronting Soul Heavenly Emperor while Yan Qingshan’s avatars went after Nihility Devouring Flame. Nihility Devouring Flame completed his breakthrough and overwhelmed Yan Qingshan’s clones with a soul technique, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Soul Heavenly Emperor sensed an intruder and discovered Gu Yuan leading elite Imperial Clan experts into the Mystic Realm.
• Gu Yuan and Soul Heavenly Emperor began fighting as the Hun Clan’s experts clashed with the Imperial Clan Alliance.
• Yan Qingshan’s lightning and fire avatars revealed themselves and headed for Nihility Devouring Flame while Gu Yuan blocked Soul Heavenly Emperor.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor tried to turn Gu Yuan against Yan Qingshan, but Gu Yuan rejected the offer and defended his son-in-law.
• Nihility Devouring Flame announced that he had completed his breakthrough and learned that Yan Qingshan had tracked him through the Hun Clan’s other experts.
• Nihility Devouring Flame unleashed Myriad Souls Worship, and his soul storm forced Yan Qingshan’s two clones onto the defensive.

Yan Qingshan and the Imperial Clan Alliance failed to capture Soul Heavenly Emperor and the Nihility Devouring Flame, so they chose to seek the Ancient Emperor's Cave Dwelling for a final battle. Soul Heavenly Emperor regrouped in a hidden hall with all eight pieces of Ancient Jade and began trying to locate the cave dwelling.

• Yan Qingshan's demonic flame and golden lightning trapped the Nihility Devouring Flame, but the Nihility Devouring Flame escaped by abandoning his Heavenly Son Flame and opening a path for Soul Heavenly Emperor and the Hun Clan to flee.
• Yan Qingshan persuaded Gu Yuan and the Imperial Clan Alliance to stop pursuing the Hun Clan and search for clues to the Ancient Emperor's Cave Dwelling instead.
• Gu Yuan spoke with Yan Qingshan about Gu Xun'er, Yan Qingshan's rapid advancement to the ninth star, and his confidence in tracking Soul Heavenly Emperor.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor and the Nihility Devouring Flame regrouped in an abandoned Soul Hall branch in the Endless Earth Abyss, where they discovered Yan Qingshan had planted demonic flame seeds in Hun Clan members.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor gathered all eight pieces of Ancient Jade and spat his essence blood onto them to help locate the Ancient Emperor's Cave Dwelling.

Soul Heavenly Emperor and Nihility Devouring Flame restored the Tou She Ancient God Jade and began searching for the Ancient Emperor's Cave Dwelling, while Yan Qingshan entered seclusion to refine the Bodhi Ancient Tree. Yan Qingshan reached the Nine Star peak and emerged with the tree refined into a small jade artifact.

• Soul Heavenly Emperor fused the eight Ancient Jades, but Tou She Ancient God's phantom repelled his attack and revealed a map of the Ancient Emperor's Cave Dwelling.
• Nihility Devouring Flame warned Soul Heavenly Emperor that Gu Yuan was watching, but Soul Heavenly Emperor ordered the Hun Clan to search widely because Yan Qingshan had reached the Nine Star realm.
• Yan Qingshan told Cao Ying, Xiao Yi Xian, Gu Xun'er, and the others that he would enter seclusion, and Gu Xun'er worried that the timing was dangerous.
• Yan Qingshan merged his two avatars into his main body and refined the Bodhi Ancient Tree with the Pill Realm's power and the tree's energy.
• Yan Qingshan reached the Nine Star peak as the Bodhi Ancient Tree vanished from the Pill Realm, leaving a small jade Bodhi tree in his palm.

Yan Qingshan returned to the Jia Ma Empire with Yun Yun, Nalan Yanran, and the others, then visited the Mitel Merchant Guild in Jia Ma Holy City. There he reunited with Mitel Ya Fei, while Nalan Yanran was left uneasy by the women’s familiarity with him.

• Yan Qingshan told Xiao Yi Xian to prepare their return to the Northwestern Continent and arranged for Xun'er’s group to ambush the Ancient Emperor’s Cave Dwelling.
• Yan Qingshan and his companions arrived in Jia Ma Holy City, where Nalan Yanran and Yun Yun remarked on how much it had changed.
• Yan Qingshan brought the group to the Mitel Merchant Guild’s auction and saw how Mitel Ya Fei’s modernized business had flourished.
• Mitel Ya Fei welcomed Yan Qingshan into her private room, and they embraced and kissed while the others waited outside.
• Nalan Yanran blushed and worried that Yan Qingshan’s intimacy with the other women hinted at what he expected of her.

Yan Qingshan brought Nalan Yanran into the Misty Cloud Sect’s Gate of Life and Death forbidden ground to access its sealed origin energy and break through to the Dou Emperor realm. At the depths of the trial ground, he uncovered the ancient war against the Outer Realm Evil Race and found the origin energy he needed.

• Yan Qingshan told Ya Fei to settle her affairs and accompany him to the Misty Cloud Sect, then traveled there with Yun Yun, Nalan Yanran, and the others.
• Yan Qingshan explained that Nalan Yanran was fated to master the Gate of Life and Death and brought her through the Stone Door into its secret realm.
• Yan Qingshan carried the shaken Nalan Yanran through the forbidden ground and destroyed the barriers that had previously stopped him.
• Yan Qingshan reached the forbidden ground’s core, where origin energy suppressed demonic energy, and read the ancient account of the Dou Qi Continent’s war against the Outer Realm Evil Race.
• Yan Qingshan sensed the abyss’s dangerous demonic aura and confirmed that the origin energy left by the ancient formation could support his breakthrough.

Soul Heavenly Emperor and Nihility Devouring Flame summoned the Ancient Emperor's Cave Dwelling beneath Jia Nan Academy while Yan Qingshan secretly monitored them and prepared to seize the Proto-Imperial Pill. The cave dwelling emerged from the magma, and Soul Heavenly Emperor used the Tou She Ancient God Jade to begin opening its gate.

• Soul Heavenly Emperor and Nihility Devouring Flame approached Jia Nan Academy, sealed the surrounding void, and began summoning the Ancient Emperor's Cave Dwelling while avoiding a direct fight with the nearby Yan Qingshan.
• Yan Qingshan watched the Hun Clan through his Heavenly Flame Clone and planned to take the Proto-Imperial Pill after Nihility Devouring Flame sealed it.
• Yan Qingshan warned Ziyan to hide as Dragon Emperor Zhukun concealed himself beneath the magma and waited for the cave dwelling to emerge.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor's summoning ritual triggered a massive magma eruption that flooded Jia Nan Inner Academy and spread toward the Black Corner Region.
• The Ancient Emperor's Cave Dwelling rose from the magma, and Soul Heavenly Emperor and Nihility Devouring Flame hurried to its gate.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor raised the Tou She Ancient God Jade, causing the ancient gate to show signs of opening.

Soul Heavenly Emperor and Nihility Devouring Flame entered Tou She Ancient God’s cave dwelling to seize the Proto-Imperial Pill, while Yan Qingshan and Gu Yuan followed them. After the Proto-Imperial Pill exposed Nihility Devouring Flame’s forgotten promise, Soul Heavenly Emperor and Nihility attacked, but the pill effortlessly split their first assault.

• Soul Heavenly Emperor used the Ancient Jade to open the stone gate, and he and Nihility Devouring Flame entered the cave dwelling as Yan Qingshan, Gu Yuan, and the Imperial Clan Alliance followed.
• Nihility Devouring Flame led Soul Heavenly Emperor to the plaza, where they saw the Heavenly Flame pillars and a statue of Tou She Ancient God.
• Nihility Devouring Flame revealed that the figure atop the statue was the Imperial Grade Embryonic Pill, not Tou She Ancient God.
• The Proto-Imperial Pill accused Nihility Devouring Flame of forgetting his promise to rescue him, and Nihility admitted he remembered nothing but said he had come to take him out.
• Nihility Devouring Flame and Soul Heavenly Emperor attacked the Proto-Imperial Pill, who cleaved apart Soul Heavenly Emperor’s energy tide with one finger.

The Imperial Grade Embryonic Pill overwhelmed the Hun Clan, forcing Soul Heavenly Emperor to enlist Gu Yuan and Yan Qingshan before Nihility Devouring Flame used the Tou She Ancient God Jade to trap it in a Pill Transformation Ring. Just as Nihility Devouring Flame seized the pill, Zhu Kun returned, pierced him with a surprise attack, and took the ring.

• The Imperial Grade Embryonic Pill devastated the Hun Clan forces with his Imperial Pill Palm, leaving Soul Heavenly Emperor and Nihility Devouring Flame badly outmatched.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor called Gu Yuan and Yan Qingshan out of hiding, and they joined him in surrounding the Imperial Grade Embryonic Pill.
• Nihility Devouring Flame used the Tou She Ancient God Jade to create a Pill Transformation Ring that restrained the Imperial Grade Embryonic Pill and began turning him into a pill.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor attacked Gu Yuan and Yan Qingshan to hold them off while Nihility Devouring Flame drew the Imperial Grade Embryonic Pill into the ring.
• Zhu Kun suddenly appeared, pierced Nihility Devouring Flame with a purple-gold beam, and took the Pill Transformation Ring.

Zhu Kun appeared at Heavenly Flame Plaza, seized the Imperial Grade Embryonic Pill, and reunited with Ziyan as Soul Heavenly Emperor’s scheme to sacrifice the continent was exposed. Soul Heavenly Emperor fused with Nihility Devouring Flame and wielded the Emperor Slaying Ghost Blood Blade, while the gathered clans prepared to hold him off and Yan Qingshan took the pill.

• Zhu Kun injured Nihility Devouring Flame and took the Imperial Grade Embryonic Pill, revealing himself as a Half-Emperor who knew Yan Qingshan.
• Yan Qingshan accused Soul Heavenly Emperor and Nihility Devouring Flame of planning to sacrifice the continent through the Soul Devouring Life Extinguishing Array, and Zhu Kun revealed that he was the former Dragon Emperor of the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.
• Ziyan appeared and reunited with Zhu Kun, but Soul Heavenly Emperor and Nihility Devouring Flame attacked during their distraction.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor ordered the Hun Clan experts to activate the Soul Blood Array, fused with Nihility Devouring Flame, and summoned the Emperor Slaying Ghost Blood Blade by sacrificing the Hun Clan members.
• Zhu Kun gave the Pill Transformation Divine Ring to Yan Qingshan, while Gu Yuan, Yan Jin, Lei Ying, and Ziyan rallied their clans and arrays to hold Soul Heavenly Emperor back.

Yan Qingshan’s avatars entered the battle at Heavenly Flame Plaza as he broke through to the Dou Emperor realm. He manifested a colossal Dou Emperor’s Body, defeated Soul Heavenly Emperor with one hand, and left the Imperial Grade Embryonic Pill with Ziyan.

• Yan Qingshan watched Gu Yuan, Zhu Kun, and the clan formations struggle to contain Soul Heavenly Emperor while Ziyan prepared to send the Imperial Grade Embryonic Pill away.
• Yan Qingshan’s two avatars turned toward Soul Heavenly Emperor, and Zhu Kun recognized a change in their power and withdrew the formations.
• Yan Qingshan’s breakthrough caused verdant light and rain to spread across the Jia Ma Empire, strengthening people with blood ties to him.
• Yan Qingshan’s avatars merged with the mysterious radiance, forming a colossal green-gold Dou Emperor’s Body that appeared above the Ancient Emperor’s Cave Dwelling.
• Yan Qingshan caught Soul Heavenly Emperor in his palm and killed him, while Ziyan held the Imperial Grade Embryonic Pill.