Chapter Summaries

Bai Ge persuaded the ancient clans to unite against the Hun Clan and revealed Xiao Yan’s destiny and the danger awaiting after a Dou Di appeared. Xiao Yan then entered the Tomb of Heaven with Bai Ge to seek Xiao Xuan’s revival, and Blood Blade Saint agreed to guide him deeper inside.

• Gu Yuan, Lei Ying, Yan Jin, and the others agreed to gather their forces and fight the Hun Clan, while Xiao Yan refused to give up the Ancient Jade needed to save his father.
• Bai Ge revealed that Tuoshe Ancient Emperor was the fused form of the Heavenly Flames and that Xiao Yan’s Flame Mantra and improbable survival marked him as the Dou Di destined by the continent.
• Bai Ge warned that a new Dou Di would reopen the seal barring the Devouring Spirit Clan, and Gu Yuan assigned Xiao Xuan’s revival to Bai Ge as the clans prepared to unite in half a month.
• Bai Ge and Xiao Yan entered the Tomb of Heaven, where Xiao Yan quickly traveled to its depths despite the powerful energy bodies in his path.
• Blood Blade Saint recognized Xiao Yan, drove away the energy bodies approaching him, and offered to lead him toward Xiao Xuan.

Xiao Yan met Xiao Xuan in the Tomb of Heaven, where Bai Ge began restoring Xiao Xuan’s soul so he could be revived. As the half-month deadline passed, the allied forces gathered at the Ancient Battlefield to confront the Hun Clan, and the Tianfu Alliance arrived.

• Xiao Yan reached Xiao Xuan’s tombstone, paid his respects, and told Xiao Xuan about his experiences and the state of the world.
• Bai Ge offered Xiao Xuan the Hall of Valor and prepared a Dou Sheng Bone, Ninth-Order Magical Beast Essence Blood, and Nine Revolutions Soul Restoration Pill to restore him.
• Xiao Xuan emerged from the Tomb of Heaven and appeared before Gu Yuan and the other clan leaders as the deadline for Xiao Yan’s return arrived.
• Xiao Yan and Xun Er joined Gu Yuan, Xiao Xuan, Bai Ge, Qian Renxue, and the Medusa Queen as the Ancient, Flame, and Thunder Clans set out for the Hun Clan’s territory.
• The Tianfu Alliance mobilized across the Central Plains, and its forces arrived at the Ancient Battlefield, where Gu Yuan and the allied clans had gathered.

Xiao Yan faced Soul Emperor at the Burial Sky Mountain Range and exchanged the final piece of the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade for his father, Xiao Zhan. After rescuing him, Xiao Yan reunited with Xiao Zhan, while Soul Emperor obtained the jade.

• The Tianfu Alliance forces gathered at the Burial Sky Mountain Range, and Xiao Chen reunited with Xiao Xuan after Xiao Yan explained how he had been resurrected.
• Soul Emperor arrived with Void Swallowing Flame and the Hun Clan forces, and Xiao Yan demanded to see his imprisoned father before exchanging the jade.
• Soul Emperor revealed Xiao Zhan, and Xiao Yan recognized his father and unleashed Emperor Realm Soul Power, startling the Hun Clan experts.
• Xiao Yan offered the final piece of the ancient jade as Soul Emperor released Xiao Zhan, and both sides completed the exchange.
• Xiao Yan freed Xiao Zhan from the black ropes and brought him back to the alliance, where father and son tearfully reunited.

Xiao Yan reunited with his father and joined the allied clans in attacking the Hun Clan after Soul Emperor obtained all the Ancient Jade. As the battle spread across the sky, Xiao Yan killed Soul Extinguisher with his Emperor Realm Soul, then sensed powerful auras hidden within the Hun Clan’s black mist.

• Xiao Yan reunited with Xiao Zhan and assigned Tianfu Alliance experts to protect him.
• Xiao Yan ordered the allied forces to attack Soul Emperor and the Hun Clan, and Lei Ying, Yan Jin, and the Ancient Clan launched their formations.
• Gu Yuan confronted Soul Emperor while the allied forces and Hun Clan engaged across the battlefield, and Bai Ge blocked Void Swallowing Flame.
• Xiao Yan killed dozens of Hun Clan experts before Soul Extinguisher attacked him with a black-flame chain.
• Xiao Yan destroyed Soul Extinguisher with his Emperor Realm Soul and sensed formidable auras concealed in the Hun Clan’s black mist.

Xiao Yan captured Hun Feng and defeated the four elders guarding him, but Hun Yuantian appeared and confronted him. Elsewhere, Bai Ge sealed most of Void Swallowing Flame’s origin in the Eight Desolations Qiankun Cauldron, while Xiao Yan’s fight with Hun Yuantian remained unresolved.

• Xiao Yan attacked Hun Feng’s group, burned the four Four-Star Dou Sheng elders with Flame Lotuses, and caught the fleeing Hun Feng.
• Hun Yuantian descended with the aura of an Eight Star Dou Sheng and demanded that Xiao Yan release Hun Feng.
• Bai Ge overwhelmed Void Swallowing Flame and sealed ninety-nine percent of its origin flame in the Eight Desolations Qiankun Cauldron before withdrawing to refine it.
• Hun Yuantian confronted Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan snapped Hun Feng’s neck as Hun Feng began to self-destruct.
• Xiao Yan survived Hun Feng’s explosion, evaded Hun Yuantian’s death-aura strike, and watched Hun Yuantian draw a soul from the blood mist into his sleeve.

Xiao Yan fought Hun Yuantian, who trapped him inside the Gate of Deathly Silence, but Xiao Yan used his Emperor Realm Soul to seize control of the gate and strike back. As the battlefield shifted, Gu Yuan urgently told Lei Ying and Yan Jin to retreat.

• Xiao Yan resisted Hun Yuantian's soul net and attacked him with a six-colored Flame Lotus, but Hun Yuantian swallowed its explosion with the Gate of Deathly Silence.
• Hun Yuantian drew Xiao Yan into the gate, expecting its death aura to weaken and kill him.
• Xiao Yan used the Purification Lotus Demon Fire to withstand the death aura, found the hidden Soul Stone, and erased Hun Yuantian's imprint, taking control of the gate.
• Hun Yuantian attacked Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan unleashed Yellow Springs Sky Wrath and severely damaged Hun Yuantian's body and soul, shocking both sides on the battlefield.
• Gu Yuan urgently warned Lei Ying and Yan Jin to retreat because the situation had changed.

Hun Yuantian and three ancient Hun Clan Living Dead formed a Death Realm Grand Array to trap and drain the Allied Forces, but Xiao Yan used the Gate of Deathly Silence he had seized to lead the army toward the array’s weakest point. As Hun Yuantian moved to stop them, Xiao Yan and Little Yi cleared a path through the deathly aura.

• Three Hun Clan Living Dead emerged from black coffins and summoned three Gates of Deathly Silence to form a Death Realm around the Allied Forces.
• Hun Yuantian joined the array after revealing that Xiao Yan had taken the fourth gate, leaving the formation incomplete.
• The deathly aura began draining the Allied Forces’ vitality, while black spears attacked and turned some fighters into dry bones.
• Xiao Yan appeared atop his captured gate and led the Allied Forces toward the Death Realm’s weakest direction, using the gate to absorb the deathly aura.
• Little Yi blocked a giant deathly hand with Purification Lotus Demon Fire as Xiao Yan’s soul soundwaves dispersed the aura and exposed Hun Yuantian ahead.

Bai Ge helped the Allied Forces break the Hun Clan’s Death Realm, but Soul Emperor escaped with the Hun Clan after a fierce clash. Gu Yuan and Xiao Yan prepared to monitor the Hun Clan’s search for the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Cave Abode while the Allied Forces regrouped at the Tianfu Alliance.

• Bai Ge used the Great Creation Palm to destroy the Death Realm, and Xiao Yan’s theft of the Gate of Deathly Silence was revealed as the reason the formation had failed.
• Void Swallowing Flame arrived, blamed Hun Yuantian for losing the Gate of Deathly Silence, and Soul Emperor ordered the Hun Clan to retreat.
• Xiao Yan struck the Hun Clan’s escape route with Yellow Springs Sky Wrath, but Soul Emperor confronted Xiao Yan before withdrawing into a Black Hole with the Hun Clan.
• Xiao Xuan explained that Soul Emperor had used the Slaying Emperor Ghost Blood Blade and that Gu Yuan had been badly wounded in their battle.
• Gu Yuan agreed to watch the Hun Clan for signs that it was seeking the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Cave Abode, while Xiao Yan proposed destroying the Soul Hall’s branches.
• The Allied Forces moved to the Tianfu Alliance, and news of the battle spread across the Central Plains.

After the Allied Forces destroyed the Soul Hall, Soul Emperor reunited the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade and discovered that the cave abode was hidden beneath a vast Magma Sea. While the Hun Clan began searching for its location, Xiao Yan and Bai Ge waited at Starfall Pavilion, watching for their next move.

• The Allied Forces searched the Central Plains and reduced the Soul Hall's branch halls and Heaven and Earth Two Halls to ruins, but found that the Hun Clan had already withdrawn its members and Soul Origin.
• Bai Ge brought Zi Yan from East Dragon Island and told her about Zhu Kun, then secluded himself to absorb Void Swallowing Flame's Origin Flame.
• Soul Emperor used Essence Blood to reunite the eight pieces of Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade, revealing an image of Tuoshe Ancient Emperor.
• Void Swallowing Flame used its power to reveal the cave abode's location beneath a Magma Sea, and Soul Emperor ordered the Four Demon Saints to organize a search.
• At Starfall Pavilion, Xun Er reported that Gu Yuan had seen little Hun Clan activity, and Bai Ge advised Xiao Yan to remain patient while the Hun Clan held back.

Xiao Yan learned that Soul Emperor had identified the Black-Corner Region as the location of the Ancient Emperor Cave, while Soul Hall forces began slaughtering its factions. At Canaan Academy, Su Qian sensed an approaching threat during the ceremony and called for Wu Hao.

• Xiao Ding and Xiao Li reunited with Xiao Yan, and Xiao Li reported that unidentified Soul Hall-like experts had appeared in the Black-Corner Region.
• Bai Ge told Xiao Yan that the tomb of the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor lay beneath the Burning Sky Qi Refining Tower at Canaan Academy.
• Soul Emperor learned that the Black-Corner Region matched the illustrated guide and ordered Elder Hun You to clear the region of its inhabitants.
• Elder Hun You and his black-robed forces destroyed the Demon Blade Sect's gate and began killing its members while ordering other units to attack across the region.
• At Canaan Academy's ceremony, Su Qian, Xiao Yu, Hu Jia, and Wu Hao reflected on Xiao Yan as the academy honored him with a statue.
• Su Qian sensed rushing figures and killing intent approaching the academy, then called Wu Hao.

Hun You and the Soul Hall forces attacked Canaan Academy, overwhelming its defenders and threatening to destroy Xiao Yan’s statue. Xiao Yan appeared atop the statue, killed a Hun Clan Half-Saint with a gesture, and left Hun You terrified.

• Hun You demanded that Canaan Academy evacuate the Black-Corner Region within an hour, then ordered his forces to slaughter everyone after recognizing Xiao Yan’s statue.
• Su Qian sent a signal for help, but two black-robed attackers killed the Xiao Gate reinforcements, and Wu Hao was badly wounded when he challenged five Five-Star Dou Zuns.
• The Thousand-Hundred Elders confronted the invaders, but Hun Chi revealed himself as a Dou Sheng and defeated them with a single attack.
• Hun Chi struck Xiao Yan’s statue, but it remained intact, and Xiao Yan appeared on top of it.
• Xiao Yan killed Hun Chi by clenching his hand, and Hun You retreated in terror after recognizing him.

Xiao Yan arrived at Canaan Academy and wiped out the attacking Soul Hall forces, reuniting with old friends and former allies. He and Mang Tianchi warned the academy that the Hun Clan army might soon descend on the Black-Corner Region, prompting plans to evacuate the students and prepare for battle.

• Xiao Yan appeared at Canaan Academy, killed the Soul Hall attackers with ease, and struck Hun You down as he fled.
• Mang Tianchi arrived with Dou Saint reinforcements, and Xiao Yan reunited with Su Qian, Xun Er, Hu Jia, Wu Hao, and Xiao Yu.
• Cai Lin reported that the remaining Hun Clan forces elsewhere had been eliminated, and Xiao Yan told Su Qian that the academy faced a greater crisis.
• Mang Tianchi explained that the Hun Clan was seeking something beneath the academy in the magma world and recounted the conflict between the Allied Forces and the Hun Clan.
• Xiao Yan warned that the Hun Clan army might arrive soon, and Bai Ge proposed sheltering the students in the Tomb of Heaven.

Bai Ge took Zi Yan into the magma beneath the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower to find her father, Zhu Kun, and fought past the Flame Lizardmen guarding the way. They discovered the hidden Ancient Emperor Cave and found Zhu Kun trapped inside, leaving Zi Yan about to meet him.

• Bai Ge collected the Fallen Heart Flame and entered the magma world with Zi Yan after Xiao Yan and the others returned.
• Bai Ge defeated the Flame Lizardmen, including two Half-Saint leaders, when they tried to stop him.
• Bai Ge found an independent space hidden beneath the magma and led Zi Yan inside.
• Bai Ge and Zi Yan reached the enormous Stone Gate marked “Ancient Emperor Cave.”
• Bai Ge illuminated the darkness and revealed Zhu Kun’s massive purple-gold body, then urged Zi Yan to meet her father and explained that a Dou Di had trapped him.

Zi Yan reunited with her father in the Ancient Emperor Cave, while Soul Emperor prepared to seize the cave and Gu Yuan learned that Xiao Yan had uncovered its location. The chapter ended with Gu Yuan ordering the Allied Forces to advance on the Black-Corner Region as Xiao Yan reflected on his days at Canaan Academy.

• The mysterious creature recognized Zi Yan as his daughter, and their shared bloodline confirmed their bond, but Zi Yan rejected him for having left her alone.
• Soul Emperor learned that Xiao Yan had defeated Hun You and his group in the Black-Corner Region and decided to move against the Ancient Emperor Cave.
• Soul Emperor tried to recruit Gu Yuan and revealed his ambition to reach the Dou Emperor realm, while Gu Yuan inferred that he planned to hold him back.
• Gu Yuan confirmed that Xiao Yan had helped uncover the Ancient Emperor Cave's location and ordered the Allied Forces to advance on the Black-Corner Region.
• Xiao Yan rested at Canaan Academy and recalled his younger days there.

Xiao Yan shared a quiet moment with Xiao Yu before sensing the Hun Clan’s arrival and preparing Canaan Academy for war. The Hun Clan and the Allied Forces gathered above the Black-Corner Region, where Soul Emperor again offered Gu Yuan a chance to surrender as both armies faced off.

• Xiao Yu told Xiao Yan how the Xiao Clan honored him and how its younger members were training to help him, and Xiao Yan fell asleep beside her.
• Xiao Yan sensed the Hun Clan approaching, asked Xiao Yu to gather the academy’s students, and promised Xun Er they would hold a grand wedding if they survived the battle.
• Xiao Yan crushed Bai Ge’s Space Jade Slip and rallied against the Hun Clan as its black-clouded army advanced on Canaan Academy.
• The Allied Forces arrived with the three ancient clans’ full strength, while Xiao Yan explained that Bai Ge and Zi Yan were waiting below for Soul Emperor to summon the Dou Di tomb palace.
• Soul Emperor urged Gu Yuan to surrender, but Gu Yuan silently ordered the Allied Forces to release their auras and prepare to fight.

Soul Emperor used the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade to awaken the hidden Ancient Emperor Cave, while the resulting eruption of magma turned the Black-Corner Region into a battlefield. Xiao Yan trapped Hun Yuantian inside the Gate of Deathly Silence and destroyed it in a blast, just as a vast vortex formed in the Magma Sea and the Ancient Emperor Cave began to emerge.

• Soul Emperor summoned an illusory image of Tuoshe Ancient Emperor and struck Canaan Academy, unleashing magma that spread across the Black-Corner Region.
• Gu Yuan rallied the Allied Forces against the Hun Clan army, while Gu Yuan and the other experts fought to stop Soul Emperor from summoning the Ancient Emperor Cave.
• Hun Yuantian confronted Xiao Yan over the stolen Gate of Deathly Silence, and Xiao Yan countered his attacks with powerful Dou Skills.
• Xiao Yan drew Hun Yuantian and his companion into the Gate of Deathly Silence, then trapped them inside with the Purification Lotus Demon Fire.
• Xiao Yan detonated more than ten Destruction Fire Lotuses and destroyed the Gate of Deathly Silence, engulfing Hun Yuantian in the resulting explosion.
• A massive vortex appeared in the Magma Sea as the Ancient Emperor Cave began to emerge.

The Ancient Emperor Cave emerged from the Magma Sea, and Bai Ge, Gu Yuan, and Xiao Xuan joined forces to severely injure Soul Emperor. Soul Emperor still used the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade to open the cave, unleashing an ancient ripple that scattered the armies.

• Gu Yuan broke through Hun Shengtian and the other two Soul Clan experts, but Soul Emperor held him off as the Magma Sea’s vortex expanded and the Ancient Emperor Cave rose.
• Xiao Yan sensed danger in the Magma Sea and warned everyone to retreat; Zhu Kun then emerged from the magma as a colossal violet-gold dragon.
• Bai Ge struck Soul Emperor with the Creation Profound Universe Nirvana Finger, and Gu Yuan and Xiao Xuan followed with their own powerful attacks.
• Soul Emperor sacrificed six Soul Clan experts to form the Ten Thousand Souls - Blood Emperor Armor, survived the three attacks, and recovered some strength with medicinal pills.
• Soul Emperor activated the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade, opening the Ancient Emperor Cave and sending an ancient ripple across the battlefield that disrupted both armies.

The Ancient Emperor Cave opened, and Xiao Yan, Gu Yuan, Zhu Kun, Soul Emperor, and the others entered in pursuit of the Emperor Grade Young Pill. They reached an immense square lined with weakened Heavenly Flames, where Little Yi and Void Swallowing Flame both showed signs of recognizing the place.

• The ancient Stone Gate opened under immense pressure, and Bai Ge, Gu Yuan, Zhu Kun, Soul Emperor, Void Swallowing Flame, Xiao Xuan, Xiao Yan, and the other experts entered the passage.
• Xiao Yan and the others landed in the Ancient Emperor Cave, where Void Swallowing Flame led Soul Emperor and the Hun Clan toward an ancient Stone Hall, and Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun followed.
• The two groups reached a vast square lined with pillars bearing weakened Heavenly Flames, and Little Yi told Xiao Yan that the place felt familiar.
• Xiao Yan and the others hurried past pillars displaying increasingly higher-ranked Heavenly Flames, while Void Swallowing Flame also appeared bewildered by the place.
• At the square's end, everyone found the pillars for the top two Heavenly Flames empty, and Xiao Yan noticed Little Yi and Void Swallowing Flame staring strangely at the final pillar.

Xiao Yan and the others discovered that the figure resembling Tuoshe Ancient Emperor was actually the Emperor Grade Young Pill, and the battle to capture it erupted. The pill revealed Half-Step Dou Di strength and unleashed a devastating attack against the five experts fighting it, leaving Xiao Yan watching a battle that could decide the war.

• Void Swallowing Flame dispelled the mist and revealed a colossal statue of Tuoshe Ancient Emperor surrounded by more than a hundred Heaven Rank cultivation methods and Dou Skills, which Bai Ge collected.
• The Emperor Grade Young Pill appeared in Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's likeness and accused Void Swallowing Flame and Purification Lotus Demon Fire of once promising to free it; neither remembered the agreement.
• Void Swallowing Flame ordered an attack, and Soul Emperor, Gu Yuan, Zhu Kun, Bai Ge, and Xiao Xuan fought the Emperor Grade Young Pill while Xiao Yan and the others held back the Hun Clan experts.
• Xiao Xuan recognized that the Emperor Grade Young Pill possessed Half-Step Dou Di strength, and Xiao Yan warned everyone not to breathe its pill fragrance.
• The Emperor Grade Young Pill unleashed Emperor Pill Palm, gathering the flames of heaven and earth into a destructive ball of light as Gu Yuan and the other four raised their strongest defenses.

Bai Ge subdued the Emperor Grade Young Pill while Xiao Xuan, Zhu Kun, and Gu Yuan drove Soul Emperor and the Hun Clan from the battlefield. The allies later uncovered the secret of Tuoshe Ancient Emperor’s stone statue, and Little Yi revealed that he could open it.

• Bai Ge trapped the Emperor Grade Young Pill in the Eight Desolations Qiankun Cauldron and began refining it as Soul Emperor rushed to claim it.
• Xiao Xuan, Zhu Kun, and Gu Yuan attacked Soul Emperor while Zi Yan urged her father to help Bai Ge; Soul Emperor used self-destructing Ninth Grade Treasure Pills to break free and ordered the Hun Clan to retreat.
• Xun Er and Xiao Yan subdued Void Swallowing Flame, and the allies found that the Hun Clan’s passages had been destroyed and its hidden space could not be located.
• Zhu Kun moved the Strange Fire Square from Tuoshe Ancient Emperor’s cave, then explained that Tuoshe Ancient Emperor had been the first Heavenly Flame and the former master of the Flame Mantra.
• Bai Ge told Xiao Yan that the Flame Mantra had belonged to Tuoshe Ancient Emperor and that Xiao Yan was his successor; Zhu Kun explained that Emperor Origin was sealed inside the stone statue.
• Little Yi said he could open the stone statue, leaving Xiao Yan, Zhu Kun, and Gu Yuan staring at him in surprise.