Chapter Summaries

Xiao Han helped Feng Qing'er refine the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, and she awakened with an evolved bloodline before becoming the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan's Patriarch. He then traveled to the Flower Sect, where Yun Yun was being challenged, and arrived just as the Sect Protecting Formation fell.

• Xiao Han used the Four-Colored Glazed Heavenly Flame and Demon Phoenix Blood Essence to refine Feng Qing'er's Dragon Phoenix Crystal Layer, reaching Fourth Level Shining Silver Body along the way.
• Feng Qing'er awakened with Heavenly Phoenix Wings and an Ancient Phoenix Body, and Huang Tian relinquished the Patriarch position to her.
• Xiao Han left for the Flower Sect, while Feng Qing'er insisted she would always call him Young Master and went to cultivate.
• At the Flower Sect, Yun Yun refused to surrender the Old Sect Leader's Dou Qi and faced the Sect Leader and another challenger.
• Xiao Han smashed the Flower Sect's Sect Protecting Formation, landed beside Yun Yun, and put an arm around her waist.

Xiao Han arrived at the Flower Sect, killed Hua Jin and the Demonic Flower Evil Monarch, and secured Yun Yun's position as Sect Leader. He then took Yun Yun away to catch up with her privately.

• Xiao Han reunited with Yun Yun and told Hua Jin to return the Flower Sect leadership to her.
• Xiao Han killed Hua Jin in one strike and earned a reward and the Hundred Flowers Three Crippling Swords Dou Skill.
• Xiao Han pulled the fleeing Demonic Flower Evil Monarch back with Absorption Palm and killed him with Eight Extremes Collapse.
• Xiao Han introduced himself to the Flower Sect elders, who confirmed Yun Yun as the new Sect Leader.
• Xiao Han took Yun Yun to a cliff, teased her about secretly liking him, and kissed her.

Xiao Han traveled with his companions to Ancient Holy City to enter the Gu Clan’s Heavenly Tomb and seek help against Hun Tiandi. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan and Gu Xun Er disagreeing over Xiao Han’s admission, while their feelings toward each other began to sour.

• Xiao Han returned to the Eastern Hun Family after visiting Yun Yun and decided to go to the Gu Clan for the Heavenly Tomb’s opportunity.
• Xiao Han brought Xiao Yu, Ya Fei, Qing Lin, and Hun Susu toward Ancient Holy City, where Hun Susu explained the city’s Dou Di-powered barrier.
• Hun Susu presented the Eastern Hun Family’s invitation, and the guards allowed Xiao Han’s group into Ancient Holy City.
• Xiao Yan questioned Gu Xun Er for allowing Xiao Han inside, but Gu Xun Er argued that he had the right to enter the Heavenly Tomb.
• Xiao Yan apologized after learning that he needed access to the Heavenly Tomb, while Gu Xun Er continued supporting him despite growing disgust toward his ruthless behavior.

After Gu Xun Er awakened the Gu Clan's God-Rank Bloodline, Hun Susu proposed that she marry Xiao Han, offering the Eastern Hun Family’s ancient Gu Clan artifacts as a betrothal gift. Gu Xun Er rejected the match, but Gu Yuan and the elders urged her to consider it, leaving her unconvinced.

• Gu Xun Er awakened the Gu Clan's God-Rank Bloodline at the coming-of-age ceremony.
• Hun Susu proposed that Gu Xun Er marry Xiao Han and offered every ancient item related to the Gu Clan as a betrothal gift.
• Xiao Han told Hun Susu he had agreed only that he did not dislike Gu Xun Er, while Gu Xun Er reassured Xiao Yan that she had no feelings for Xiao Han.
• Gu Yuan told Hun Susu he would consult Gu Xun Er before giving an answer and invited the guests to a banquet.
• Gu Xun Er told Gu Yuan she did not like Xiao Han and reminded him that Xiao Yan was in her heart.
• Gu Yuan and the elders praised Xiao Han and criticized Xiao Yan, but Gu Xun Er answered the Ninth Elder's defense of men liking women with a teasing question.

Gu Yuan settled the Heavenly Tomb slots, including returning two to the Xiao Clan after Xiao Han argued for them. Xiao Han assigned those slots to Xiao Yu and Ya Fei, then refused Xiao Yan entry, leaving Xun Er unable to secure him a place.

• Xiao Han persuaded the Western Hun Family elder to split the Hun Clan's two slots with Hun Susu's Eastern Hun Family, and Hun Susu chose Xiao Han to represent her family.
• Gu Yuan allotted the Gu Clan eight slots and restored the Xiao Clan's two slots after Xiao Han and Gu Xun Er argued that they were owed them.
• Xiao Han assigned the Xiao Clan's slots to Xiao Yu and Ya Fei, saying Ya Fei qualified because she was his wife.
• Xiao Yan demanded a slot, but Xiao Han refused because Xiao Yan had been expelled from the Xiao Clan and was unworthy.
• Xun Er asked Gu Yuan to give Xiao Yan a slot, but Xiao Han insisted the matter belonged to the Xiao Clan and that Xiao Yan was no longer a member.

Xiao Han entered the Heavenly Tomb with Ya Fei and Xiao Yu, intending to reach Xiao Xuan's tomb residence before Xiao Yan and grow strong enough to thwart Hun Tiandi. After Ya Fei discovered that Energy Cores could strengthen her body, Xiao Han hurried the group toward the third level.

• Xiao Han provoked Xiao Yan by embracing Ya Fei and Xiao Yu, while Xiao Yan's attempt to embrace Gu Xun Er ended when she pulled away from him.
• Xiao Han explained that the Heavenly Tomb's three levels held increasingly powerful dead experts and warned Ya Fei and Xiao Yu to stay close to him.
• The Gu Clan opened the Heavenly Tomb's gate, and Xiao Han entered with Ya Fei and Xiao Yu while Xiao Yan and the other entrants went inside as well.
• Ya Fei destroyed an attacking figure, which turned into an Energy Core, and she used it to strengthen her body.
• Xiao Han urged Ya Fei and Xiao Yu to reach the third level quickly so he could get to Xiao Xuan's tomb residence before Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan accused Gu Xun Er of resisting him and siding with Xiao Han, then left to seek Xiao Xuan’s inheritance. Xiao Yu, Ya Fei, and Xiao Han found Gu Xun Er in tears, and Xiao Yu suggested Xiao Yan had pursued her for her beauty and status.

• Xiao Yan confronted Gu Xun Er over her refusal to follow his orders and her resistance when he put his arm around her.
• Xiao Yan accused Gu Xun Er and Gu Yuan of favoring Xiao Han, then told her not to follow him and flew away to find Xiao Xuan’s tomb residence.
• Gu Xun Er remained behind in tears and told Xiao Yu, Ya Fei, and Xiao Han that she and Xiao Yan had gotten separated.
• Xiao Yu comforted Gu Xun Er and claimed Xiao Yan had originally approached her for her beauty and Gu Clan identity.

Xiao Yu tried to convince Gu Xun Er that Xiao Yan had pursued her because of her powerful background, but Gu Xun Er rejected the accusation. Xiao Han then revealed that half his soul came from another world and demonstrated his martial soul, leaving Gu Xun Er reconsidering what she knew about him and Xiao Yan.

• Xiao Yu told Gu Xun Er that Xiao Zhan had encouraged Xiao Yan to spend time with her because of her extraordinary identity, but said Xiao Yan had nurtured her meridians sincerely.
• Gu Xun Er rejected Xiao Yu's accusations and tried to leave to catch up with Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yu stopped her to reveal another secret.
• Xiao Yu claimed that Xiao Yan was not entirely from this world, and Xiao Han confirmed that half his soul came from elsewhere.
• Xiao Han summoned the Cold Rock Golden Flood Dragon and explained that martial souls came from other planes in the Myriad Heavens and Worlds.
• Xiao Han named Snow Empress, Ice Empress, the Titan Snow Demon King, Xiao Bai, and Xiao Qing as beings he had brought from other planes, leaving Gu Xun Er wondering whether Xiao Yan also came from another world.

Xiao Han explained why he believed Xiao Yan had deliberately approached Gu Xun Er, then agreed to help her uncover Xiao Yan’s true feelings. The group reached the barrier to the Heavenly Tomb’s third level, where Xiao Han discovered a chance encounter that made him wonder whether he had a protagonist halo.

• Gu Xun Er questioned Xiao Han’s motives, but after Xiao Yu and Ya Fei pleaded, she apologized and asked him to help reveal Xiao Yan’s true feelings.
• Xiao Han explained the Heavenly Tomb’s energy-core ranks and levels as he, Gu Xun Er, Xiao Yu, and Ya Fei traveled toward its third level.
• The group found the third-level barrier had formed a thick Energy Crystal Layer, and Xiao Han used the Four-Colored Glazed Flame to melt a passage through it.
• Xiao Yu noticed the passage behind them had healed shut, and Xiao Han realized he had encountered an opportunity that had originally belonged to Xiao Yan.

Xiao Han led Gu Xun Er, Xiao Yu, and Ya Fei through a passage in the Energy Crystal Wall, where they discovered Ancient Devouring Worms and learned that only Heavenly Flames could kill them. He used Heavenly Flames to reach a valuable object embedded in the wall and collected nine jade-like items before the story ended.

• Gu Xun Er, Xiao Yu, and Ya Fei sensed pressure in the passage as the Energy Crystal Wall healed, and Xiao Han realized that creatures inside it were repairing the gap.
• Ya Fei cracked the wall and saw wriggling creatures, while Gu Xun Er identified them as Ancient Devouring Worms that could devour attacks and be killed only by Heavenly Flame.
• Xiao Han swallowed the Demon Phoenix Blood Essence, then used his Heavenly Flames as Gu Xun Er brought out the Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame to melt through the crystal wall.
• Xiao Han led the group toward a fist-sized, light-red object in an unusually hard section of the wall, despite Xiao Yu warning that they were going the wrong way.
• Xiao Han smashed open the wall and collected nine cool, jade-like objects with his Dou Qi, storing them in his Storage Ring.

Xiao Han reached Xiao Xuan’s tomb with Gu Xun Er, Xiao Yu, and Ya Fei, where Xiao Yan was seeking the ancestor’s inheritance. Xiao Yan exposed Xiao Han’s Hun Clan bloodline, then revealed that he was a transmigrator after winning their couplet contest, leaving Gu Xun Er furious.

• Xiao Han gave Gu Xun Er one of the nine Ancient Devouring Worm cocoons and kept the other eight.
• Xiao Yan met Xiao Xuan at the tomb, but Xiao Han arrived with his companions and was welcomed as another Xiao Clan descendant.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Xuan that Xiao Han carried Hun Clan blood, and Xiao Han gave up hope of receiving Xiao Xuan’s inheritance.
• Xiao Han challenged Xiao Yan to a best-of-five couplet contest, and Xiao Yan correctly matched three lines with Xiao Yu’s help.
• Xiao Yan declared that he had been a Jinshi in his previous life and called himself the winner, while Gu Xun Er cursed him in anger.

Gu Xun Er confronted Xiao Yan over his past attempts to use her and severed their relationship, while Xiao Han celebrated his success. Xiao Xuan stopped Xiao Han from leaving and left his choice of successor unresolved as he turned his attention to Gu Xun Er.

• Gu Xun Er accused Xiao Yan of secretly entering her room to nourish her meridians and using her when she was young.
• Xiao Yan admitted he had initially wanted to get close to Gu Xun Er for his own purposes, then claimed he had fallen in love with her.
• Gu Xun Er cut her dress, rejected Xiao Yan, and said she should have stayed away from him; Xiao Yan spat blood in anger.
• Xiao Han prepared to leave with Xiao Yu, Ya Fei, and Gu Xun Er, but Xiao Xuan ordered everyone to stay.
• Xiao Xuan said Xiao Han's promise to leave did not bind him and dismissed the importance of Xiao Han's Hun Clan blood.
• Xiao Yu and Ya Fei paid their respects to Xiao Xuan, who then looked to Gu Xun Er to see what she would choose.

Xiao Xuan welcomed Xiao Han, Ya Fei, Xiao Yu, Gu Xun Er, and Xiao Yan into his tomb residence and asked about the Xiao Clan’s fate. Xiao Yu explained that Hun Susu had helped gather more than fifty thousand descendants, leaving Xiao Xuan to learn that Hun Susu was Xiao Han’s mother.

• Gu Xun Er respectfully greeted Xiao Xuan, who criticized the Gu Clan’s handling of its agreement with him and learned that Gu Yuan was her father.
• Xiao Xuan led the group into his tomb residence, while Ya Fei joined Xiao Yu and helped place Gu Xun Er’s hand in Xiao Han’s.
• Xiao Han and Gu Xun Er entered through the bloodline-activated tombstone, and Xiao Yan watched them go in before vowing revenge against Ya Fei and Xiao Han.
• Inside the hall, Xiao Han told Xiao Xuan that the Xiao Clan had become the Xiao family, and Xiao Yu described how Hun Susu had helped reunite over fifty thousand Xiao Clan descendants.
• Xiao Yu told Xiao Xuan that Hun Susu was Xiao Han’s mother.

Xiao Xuan questioned Xiao Yan, Xiao Han, and Xiao Yu about their ambitions for the Xiao Clan and its inheritance. Xiao Yan believed he had won, but Xiao Xuan clarified that he wanted him to help Xiao Han revive the clan together.

• Xiao Han revealed that his maternal grandfather was Hun Wo Xing, and Xiao Xuan recognized him and recalled knowing Hun Susu.
• Xiao Xuan explained that Hun Susu had been one of the ancient era’s Five Great Powerhouses and that Hun Tiandi had seized the Hun Clan patriarch position from her.
• Xiao Yan vowed to restore the Xiao Clan and take revenge on the Hun Clan, while Xiao Han said he would seek peace between the two clans.
• Xiao Yu withdrew from the competition and said she would vote for Xiao Han, while urging the Xiao Clan to build its strength carefully.
• Xiao Yan assumed Xiao Xuan had chosen him for the inheritance, but Xiao Xuan told him he should assist Xiao Han in reviving the Xiao Clan.

Xiao Xuan chose Xiao Han as the one to inherit the Xiao Clan’s Dou Di bloodline, while Xiao Yan’s anger drove him into Demonhood. Xiao Xuan sent Xiao Yan away and began transferring the preserved bloodline, asking Xiao Han and Xiao Yu who would enter the pool first.

• Xiao Xuan told Xiao Yan he had chosen Xiao Han because the Xiao Clan needed peace and Xiao Xuan had grown tired of war.
• Xiao Yan’s hair turned white as his hatred deepened, and Xiao Xuan sent him out of the Heavenly Tomb after he asked to leave.
• Xiao Xuan told Xiao Han that Xiao Yan had entered Demonhood, then asked Xiao Han to bring him back before he fell too deeply; Xiao Han hesitated.
• Xiao Xuan explained that Xiao Yu, Ya Fei, and Gu Xun Er’s affection for Xiao Han and his possession of the Three Mysterious Transformations of Heavenly Flame had influenced his choice.
• Xiao Xuan poured his preserved Dou Di bloodline into the pool, aged as his hair turned white, and asked Xiao Han and Xiao Yu who would enter first.

Xiao Yu began inheriting the Xiao Clan’s Dou Di Bloodline while Xiao Han left her to endure the process. Xiao Xuan revealed another opportunity to Xiao Han: ten chests filled with Energy Cores.

• Xiao Han persuaded Xiao Yu to absorb the Xiao Clan’s Dou Di Bloodline, and she entered the Blood Pool to begin the painful Blood Exchange.
• Xiao Yu asked Xiao Han to leave so he would not see her aged appearance, and Ya Fei led him farther into the great hall.
• Gu Xun Er admired Xiao Han for giving up the bloodline for Xiao Yu, unaware that he had come to Xiao Xuan’s tomb residence for another purpose.
• Xiao Xuan told Xiao Han that the bloodline was not the only opportunity available and revealed ten chests filled with Energy Cores.

Xiao Han found Xiao Xuan’s enormous store of treasures in the Heavenly Tomb and urged Ya Fei to use the Energy Cores to strengthen herself, promising he could still reach Dou Di. Xiao Xuan entrusted the resources to Xiao Han and agreed to craft Ancient Insect Emperor Armor before they left.

• Xiao Han persuaded Ya Fei to take the Energy Cores for her cultivation, while Xiao Xuan praised his generosity and named him Patriarch of the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Xuan opened dozens of chambers filled with Energy Cores, medicinal ingredients, weapons, defensive gear, and scrolls, explaining that he had collected them from the tomb’s deceased experts.
• Xiao Xuan told Xiao Han to cultivate with the resources and take the remainder to help the Xiao Clan rise, then gave Gu Xun Er a chamber of Energy Cores.
• Xiao Han asked Gu Xun Er for her Ancient Devouring Worm Empress cocoon and presented Xiao Xuan with eight more cocoons, asking him to make Ancient Insect Emperor Armor.
• Xiao Xuan agreed to craft the armor before they left, then realized Xiao Han had arranged the grueling task for him.

Xiao Han reached Nine-Star Dou Sheng by devouring vast stores of Energy Cores, then learned the Three Mysterious Transformations of Heavenly Flame from Xiao Xuan. He used the technique to raise the Xiao Clan's Clan Rune to its highest level, forming a nine-stroke rune.

• Xiao Han advanced from Three-Star to Nine-Star Dou Sheng in ten days by devouring Energy Cores, emptying fifteen stone chambers.
• Xiao Han stopped consuming resources so the Xiao Clan could use the remaining Energy Cores to improve their cultivation.
• Xiao Xuan gave Xiao Han the Three Mysterious Transformations of Heavenly Flame scroll and urged him to condense a Clan Rune before leaving the Heavenly Tomb.
• Xiao Han learned the technique, obtained the Xiao Clan's Clan Rune, and spent 8,000,000 Points to raise it to its highest level.
• Xiao Han performed the Three Mysterious Transformations of Heavenly Flame and formed a nine-stroke Clan Rune, stunning Xiao Xuan.

Xiao Han fused the Xiao and Hun Clan Runes, gaining a new trump card, while Xiao Yu’s bloodline power rapidly raised her cultivation to Six-Star Dou Sheng. Xiao Xuan warned her against relying on effortless gains and sent both her and Xiao Han out to train.

• Xiao Han spent 10,000 Energy Points to fuse the Xiao Clan's and Hun Clan's Clan Runes, astonishing Xiao Xuan.
• Xiao Han followed Xiao Xuan to the Outer Hall, where Xiao Yu’s breakthrough began as the Blood Pool cleared.
• Xiao Yu’s cultivation surged from Nine Revolutions Dou Zun peak to Six-Star Dou Sheng, powered by her Dou Di Bloodline and Xiao Xuan’s sealed energy.
• Xiao Xuan warned Xiao Yu that her rapid advancement could endanger her future progress, and she insisted she had not lost her true nature.
• Xiao Xuan ordered Xiao Yu to stop raising her cultivation and sent her and Xiao Han out to train; Xiao Han took her hand and agreed.

Xiao Han revealed that he could sense the Heavenly Tomb Soul and asked Xiao Xuan to restrain it while he tried to refine it. Xiao Xuan confronted the massive soul, leaving the Heavenly Tomb Soul unaware that Xiao Han was the threat.

• Xiao Yu asked whether Xiao Xuan would remain trapped in the Heavenly Tomb, and Xiao Han explained that Xiao Xuan’s incomplete soul could not be fully revived by ordinary means.
• Xiao Han promised to revive Xiao Xuan by mastering the profound meanings of multiple elemental energies, while Xiao Xuan offered to help him obtain another treasure.
• Xiao Han revealed that the treasure was the Heavenly Tomb Soul and asked Xiao Xuan to keep it from escaping or ejecting him from the Heavenly Tomb.
• Xiao Xuan unleashed his pressure across the Heavenly Tomb, drawing the energy beings’ attention as a colossal ghostly face appeared in the sky.
• The Heavenly Tomb Soul challenged Xiao Xuan, who said someone else could defeat it and asked Xiao Han whether he was ready to begin.