Chapter Summaries

Nalan Ye ordered the Great Love Alliance’s forces to retreat into six small worlds to avoid retaliation after he obtained the Tou She Ancient God’s inheritance. As Hun Tiandi arrived at the abandoned headquarters and demanded Nalan Ye appear, the hidden alliance remained silent.

• Nalan Ye assigned the alliance’s sects and families to hide in their designated small worlds, while the Heavenly Flame Saint took Qing Lin and others to the Northwest Territory.
• The Great Love Alliance’s inner forces gathered disciples and resources and withdrew, leaving its Central Plains headquarters empty.
• News spread that Nalan Ye had obtained the Ancient God’s inheritance and would soon advance to Dou God, prompting many factions to rush to join the alliance.
• Hun Tiandi arrived at the headquarters with Soul Clan experts, called for Nalan Ye, and threatened to slaughter the entire Great Love Alliance if he did not appear.

Nalan prepared to refine the Emperor Grade Young Pill into a true Emperor Pill, securing spirit medicines from the Small Pill Tower and other allied factions. As he began the process in the Heavenly Flame Small World, Xiao Yan’s successful refinement of the Purifying Lotus Demon Fire triggered a Dou Sheng tribulation nearby.

• Yao Lao and Old Monster Hou said that refining the Emperor Grade Young Pill would be difficult without an Emperor Pill recipe, and Nalan reasoned that vast quantities of spirit medicines could supply the energy it needed.
• The Great Elder of the Small Pill Tower offered its spirit medicine reserves, and Tang San, Wind Venerable, Thunder Venerable, and Tang Ying pledged supplies from their factions.
• Nalan took Little Fairy Doctor to a valley in the Heavenly Flame Small World and placed the Emperor Grade Young Pill into the Little Fairy Doctor Cauldron over earthly flame.
• Nalan heard Xiao Yan’s excited laughter and saw dark clouds and lightning, realizing Xiao Yan had finished refining the Purifying Lotus Demon Fire and was advancing to Dou Sheng.

Hun Tiandi’s Soul Clan attacked the Great Love Alliance’s headquarters, only to learn that its members had withdrawn into hidden Small Worlds. Nalan Ye gathered the alliance inside the Heavenly Flame Small World, sealed the entrances, and prepared to refine the Emperor Grade Young Pill.

• Hun Tiandi ordered the Soul Clan to attack the Great Love Alliance, and its forces devastated the headquarters and killed many people.
• Hun Miesheng questioned Old Man Zhou and learned that the Great Love Alliance had retreated into Small Worlds.
• Hun Tiandi ordered the Soul Clan to search for alliance members and find their Small World, while Hun Miesheng tasked Old Crow with helping locate it.
• Soul Clan forces swept through the Central Plains, killing or recruiting minor factions left behind by the Great Love Alliance.
• Nalan Ye confirmed that the alliance’s leaders and most of their followers had entered the Heavenly Flame Small World, then ordered every entrance sealed.
• Nalan Ye announced that the alliance would proceed to refine the Emperor Grade Young Pill.

The Second Elder told Zi Yan that the Three Great Dragon Kings had retaken Dragon Island after spreading a false story that Hun Tiandi had left her near death. Zhu Kun led the Ancient Void Dragon Elders back to reclaim the island, while the narrator suspected the incident was strange.

• Zi Yan sensed the Second Elder nearby, and the narrator opened a space channel to bring him into the small world.
• The Second Elder knelt before Zi Yan and reported that the Three Great Dragon Kings had returned and seized Dragon Island.
• The Second Elder explained that the Three Great Dragon Kings had falsely claimed Hun Tiandi had nearly killed Zi Yan in the Ancient Emperor Cave.
• Zhu Kun revealed his identity to the Second Elder and vowed to deal with the Three Great Dragon Kings.
• Zhu Kun led the Ancient Void Dragon Elders back to Dragon Island, while the narrator questioned why the Three Great Dragon Kings had spread the false report.

Nalan Ye kept refining the Emperor Pill while worrying that someone had used false news to draw Zhu Kun and Zi Yan back to Dragon Island. Xiao Yan sensed Xun Er nearby and sneaked out of the sealed Heavenly Flame Small World to meet her, while Hun Tiandi learned that the Soul Clan’s arrays across the Central Plains remained intact.

• Nalan Ye suspected that Hun Tiandi, Gu Yuan, Lei Ying, or Yan Jin had deceived the Three False Kings and hurried the refining of the Emperor Pill.
• Xiao Yan sensed Xun Er calling to him through their secret technique and worried that Nalan Ye would not allow her into the sealed small world.
• Xiao Yan used his unrevoked control permissions to slip out of the small world, telling Yao Lao he was going to cultivate in seclusion.
• Hun Miesheng reported that the Soul Clan had failed to infiltrate the Great Love Alliance’s sealed small world through its outside personnel.
• Hun Miesheng revealed that the Soul Clan’s Arrays of Extinguishing Spirits and Severing Life across the Central Plains had not been damaged, and Hun Tiandi realized Nalan Ye might not know they existed.

Hun Tiandi ordered the Soul Clan to prepare the Array of Extinguishing Spirits and Severing Life, hinting that its other purpose could destroy the Dou Qi Continent. At the ruined Great Love Alliance headquarters, Xiao Yan reunited with Xun Er and learned that her father had approved their relationship; both had reached Dou Sheng, so Xiao Yan invited her to the Heavenly Flame Small World.

• Hun Tiandi told Hun Miesheng to repair and prepare the Array of Extinguishing Spirits and Severing Life, and privately vowed to destroy the Dou Qi Continent rather than let Nalan Ye kill him.
• Xiao Yan emerged at the ruined Great Love Alliance headquarters and saw that the Soul Clan had destroyed its buildings and the Star Realm Great Array.
• Xiao Yan reunited with Xun Er and excitedly told her he had reached Dou Sheng and would take her from the Ancient Clan.
• Xun Er told Xiao Yan that her father had agreed to their relationship and revealed that she had also become a Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yan invited Xun Er to return with him to the Heavenly Flame Small World instead of going back to the Ancient Realm.

Xiao Yan secretly brought Xun Er into the sealed Heavenly Flame Small World, unaware that she had been sent by Gu Yuan to help seize the Emperor Grade Young Pill. As Nalan Ye prepared to complete the pill, Xun Er signaled her father, who arrived and promised to let her be with Xiao Yan after the plan.

• Xiao Yan opened a space channel and secretly brought Xun Er into the Heavenly Flame Small World, where they hid together in his courtyard.
• Nalan Ye and the alchemists finished refining the spirit medicines needed to complete the Emperor Grade Young Pill, while Yao Lao wondered why Xiao Yan had not returned.
• Xun Er urged Xiao Yan to go help Nalan Ye, then secretly sent a signal to Gu Yuan after Xiao Yan left for the mountain valley.
• Gu Yuan entered the small world and revealed that he planned to take the Emperor Grade Young Pill; Xun Er reminded him to honor his promise to let her be with Xiao Yan.
• Gu Yuan realized Xun Er and Xiao Yan had been intimate and assured her he would keep his promise.

Nalan Ye developed a new Human Great Dao Dou Skill by making human aura match the fluctuations of a target’s Dou Qi, allowing it to merge with and disrupt the energy. After naming the technique Red Dust Rolling, he found it could also contaminate Heaven and Earth Energy, then left with Little Fairy Doctor to eat.

• Little Fairy Doctor suggested that Nalan Ye try refining human aura and targeting souls after his attempts to affect Dou Qi had failed.
• Nalan Ye used his Domain of the Dao to match human aura to a prisoner’s Dou Qi fluctuations, then made the aura chaotic and disrupted the prisoner’s Dou Qi.
• Nalan Ye discovered he could draw the human aura back out and restore the prisoner’s Dou Qi, confirming that the technique had an antidote.
• Nalan Ye named his new Dou Skill Red Dust Rolling and tested it on the other prisoners, contaminating their Dou Qi as well.
• Nalan Ye failed to contaminate souls but succeeded in merging human aura with Heaven and Earth Energy, creating a subtler way to disrupt opponents.
• Nalan Ye noticed Little Fairy Doctor was hungry and took her to dinner after they spent the evening experimenting.

Nalan Ye tried to complete the Emperor Grade Young Pill by merging human aura with Medicinal Essence, but the pill remained unfinished. As Gu Yuan attacked to seize it, Little Fairy Doctor was injured protecting the pill, and Nalan Ye demanded to know how Gu Yuan had entered the sealed Heavenly Flame Small World.

• Nalan Ye gathered human aura and fused it with the remaining Medicinal Essence, then poured the energy into the Emperor Grade Young Pill.
• The immense energy formed a tornado around the pill, but after it subsided, the pill had only grown plumper and remained a young pill.
• Gu Yuan secretly approached the valley and declared that Nalan Ye had failed and should hand over the Emperor Pill.
• Gu Yuan rushed for the pill, and Little Fairy Doctor was struck and hurled into a cliff as she tried to protect it.
• Nalan Ye recognized Gu Yuan, questioned how he had entered the sealed Heavenly Flame Small World, and angrily confronted him as Gu Yuan lunged at Little Fairy Doctor again.

Gu Yuan broke into the Heavenly Flame Small World to claim the Emperor Grade Young Pill, and Nalan Ye realized Gu Xun'er had helped him enter. Xiao Yan was left stunned as Nalan Ye accused him of betraying the alliance, while Gu Xun'er defended her father and blamed Nalan Ye.

• Nalan Ye used the Netherworld Undying Body to attack Gu Yuan, but Gu Yuan knocked it into a valley wall with one palm.
• Gu Yuan declared that the Emperor Grade Young Pill belonged to him because the Great Love Alliance had failed to refine it, and Nalan Ye demanded to know how he entered the sealed world.
• Gu Xun'er arrived beside Gu Yuan, and Xiao Yan cried out in shock when he saw her.
• Gu Xun'er told Xiao Yan that the Ancient Clan had helped the Great Love Alliance seize the pill from Hun Tiandi and deserved a share of it.
• Nalan Ye accused Xiao Yan of letting Gu Yuan in and recalled the help he had given Xiao Yan and the Xiao Family.
• Gu Xun'er defended Xiao Yan and claimed Gu Yuan had contributed most to obtaining the pill, while Nalan Ye challenged Gu Yuan about the Dragon Kings' role in luring Zhu Kun away.

Gu Yuan confronted Nalan Ye over the Emperor Grade Young Pill, but the Great Love Alliance hesitated to fight him after Zhu Kun was lured away. Xiao Yan challenged Gu Yuan and unleashed his Rage Fire Lotus while Nalan Ye gathered the Alliance’s strength, leaving Gu Yuan’s barrier battered but intact.

• Gu Yuan denied involvement in the Dragon Island incident and demanded that Nalan Ye hand over the Emperor Grade Young Pill.
• Gu Yuan struck the Netherworld Undying Body back, and the Great Love Alliance Dou Sheng hesitated to oppose him.
• Shi Lezhi withdrew after Gu Yuan promised to help restore the Stone Clan, while Xiao Yan stepped forward to challenge Gu Yuan.
• Gu Yuan knocked Xiao Yan down and warned him not to court destruction, but Xiao Yan rose and attacked again with Rage Fire Lotus.
• Nalan Ye gathered the nearby disciples’ Dou Qi with Thousands Pointing Fingers, cracking Gu Yuan’s barrier before the gathered energy ran out.
• Gu Yuan’s barrier survived, and he declared victory over Nalan Ye.

Nalan Ye and Zi Yan fought Gu Yuan over the Emperor Grade Young Pill, but Gu Yuan summoned the Ancient Clan’s Dou Sheng elders and forced Nalan Ye to flee. As Gu Yuan pursued him, Nalan Ye sent Little Fairy Doctor away through collapsing space and prepared to eat the pill rather than surrender it.

• Zi Yan ambushed Gu Yuan from behind, and Nalan Ye rushed to check on the injured Little Fairy Doctor, who had secured the Emperor Grade Young Pill.
• Gu Yuan summoned more than twenty Ancient Clan Dou Sheng elders, prompting Nalan Ye to flee through a Space Channel with Little Fairy Doctor.
• Xiao Yan tried to hold Gu Yuan back, but Gu Xun'er stopped him and persuaded him not to fight her father.
• Gu Yuan struck the Netherworld Undying Body during the pursuit, and Nalan Ye tried to separate from Little Fairy Doctor by using the pill as bait.
• Nalan Ye sent Little Fairy Doctor into a collapsing space and told her they would meet again in the Northwest Territory.
• Nalan Ye faced Gu Yuan and declared that he would eat the Emperor Pill rather than hand it over.

Nalan Ye swallowed the Emperor Grade Young Pill and gained enough power to fight Gu Yuan, but his body could not withstand the pill’s energy. After Gu Yuan and the Ancient Clan Elders combined their power to attack, Nalan Ye’s body began to shatter.

• Nalan Ye swallowed the Emperor Grade Young Pill, his cultivation surged, and Gu Yuan vowed to refine him to recreate the pill.
• Nalan Ye and Gu Yuan exchanged attacks, but the pill’s power damaged Nalan Ye’s fist and began cracking his meridians.
• Nalan Ye tried to bluff Gu Yuan into retreating, but Gu Yuan called on the Ancient Clan Elders to help eliminate him.
• Gu Yuan and more than twenty Ancient Clan Dou Shens combined their strength to empower the Ancient Emperor Seal and suppress Nalan Ye.
• Nalan Ye unleashed the Emperor Pill’s energy to resist the seal, but the blast sent him flying and his body began shattering like porcelain.

Nalan Ye fled Gu Yuan’s pursuit through an underground river, using the cramped tunnels and collapsing banks to slow his pursuers. After Gu Yuan caught and destroyed the figure ahead, he realized it was only Nalan Ye’s avatar, leaving the true body’s whereabouts unknown.

• Nalan Ye’s body began breaking down from the Emperor Pill’s power, so he fled Gu Yuan and shattered a golden spear with a punch that cracked his arm bones.
• Unable to outrun Gu Yuan in the sky, Nalan Ye drilled into the ground and escaped through an underground river, recalling an earlier flight from the Wind and Lightning Pavilion.
• Gu Yuan followed underground while the other Gu Clan Elders split up to pursue through the tunnels and above ground.
• Nalan Ye collapsed the riverbanks behind him to obstruct Gu Yuan as they raced through the underground river for about an hour.
• Gu Yuan caught up and blasted the figure ahead, then realized he had destroyed an avatar rather than Nalan Ye’s true body.

Nalan Ye hid deep beneath the Central Plains after escaping Gu Yuan, then recovered from the Emperor Grade Young Pill’s damage with help from Cai Lin, who had reached the Eighth Rank. He revealed his hidden plan to use the Soul Clan’s arrays to sacrifice the Central Plains and become a Dou God, then set off with Cai Lin.

• Gu Yuan ordered the Gu Clan elders to pursue Nalan Ye after he escaped with the Emperor Grade Young Pill.
• Nalan Ye hid his true body deep underground while a clone lured Gu Yuan away, then swallowed Seventh-Rank Pills and began healing.
• Cai Lin found Nalan Ye in the magma caves, revealed she had advanced to the Eighth Rank, and gave him a Saint-Rank healing treasure.
• Nalan Ye told Cai Lin he could use the Blood Sacrifice of the Central Plains to become a Dou God, activating the arrays the Hall of Souls had hidden beneath major cities.
• Nalan Ye blamed Gu Yuan for forcing his hand, grabbed Cai Lin, and rushed toward the surface.

Hun Tiandi and the Soul Clan activated 2,952 Arrays of Extinguishing Spirits and Severing Life across the Central Plains, slaughtering its inhabitants and harvesting their blood and souls. Hun Tiandi then revealed that the central formation could connect beyond the world and summoned Xuechi to help him become an emperor.

• Hun Miesheng crushed the signal crystal, and Soul Clan experts activated the formations beneath 2,952 major cities across the Central Plains.
• The formations killed cultivators and ordinary people alike, absorbed their blood and souls, and sent pillars of blood-red light into the sky.
• Cai Lin recognized the red pillars as the Array of Extinguishing Spirits and Severing Life, while I realized Hun Tiandi had activated it before I could.
• Hun Tiandi told the Void Devouring Flame that the central formation could connect outside the world and summoned Xuechi in exchange for the people’s bodies and souls.
• An evil, powerful presence descended as the heavens and earth changed and violently resisted it.

Nalan Ye learned from the Black Stone Fragment that Hun Tiandi was sacrificing the Central Plains to the Outside Territory Evil Clan in exchange for becoming a Dou God. The chapter ended as Hun Tiandi sent the harvested blood and souls through the World Barrier to Xuechi, who eagerly consumed them.

• Nalan Ye saw a hostile presence descending above the Barren Ridge, and the Black Stone Fragment in his Ring of Holding began to vibrate.
• Nalan Ye received images revealing the Great Thousand World, its many Lower Planes, and the Outside Territory Evil Clan beyond it.
• Nalan Ye realized Hun Tiandi had sacrificed the Central Plains to contact the Outside Territory Evil Clan and secure help becoming a Dou God.
• Xuechi told Hun Tiandi that the World Barrier prevented his descent but that Hun Tiandi could send energy across it from within.
• Hun Tiandi activated the formation and sent the Central Plains' blood and souls through the World Barrier, and Xuechi devoured them.

Gu Yuan confronted Hun Tiandi over the Central Plains blood sacrifice, while Nalan Ye and Cai Lin withdrew to the Northwest Territory and wrestled with what to do next. Nalan Ye entered the Yun Lan Small World and encountered Yun Qianbei.

• Gu Yuan ordered the Gu Clan Elders to attack the Soul Clan’s Arrays of Extinguishing Spirits and Severing Life, then challenged Hun Tiandi himself.
• Hun Tiandi and Gu Yuan fought fiercely, destroying the city and surrounding landscape as Nalan Ye watched from afar.
• Nalan Ye decided to return to the Northwest Territory, while considering whether to use a blood sacrifice there to complete the Emperor Pill.
• Cai Lin returned toward the Snake-People Tribe, and Nalan Ye discovered that the Nalan and Xiao families had taken refuge in the Yun Lan Small World.
• Nalan Ye entered the Yun Lan Small World and greeted Yun Qianbei when she came to investigate the intruder.

Nalan Ye asked Yun Yun whether she would sacrifice the Nalan Empire to save the Yun Lan Sect, then confided in the Heavenly Flame Saint about his crisis and the possibility of blood-sacrificing the Northwest. After deciding he still had a trump card and setting out to find people, he left the chapter with Xiao Yan returning to the Xiao Family Residence.

• Nalan Ye asked Yun Yun if she would slaughter the Nalan Empire to protect the Yun Lan Sect, and she refused to kill innocent people.
• Nalan Ye toured the Yun Lan Small World, where he saw the settled clans and disciples, including Nalan Yanran, Xiao Meier, and Little Medicine Residue.
• Nalan Ye told the Heavenly Flame Saint about the danger posed by Hun Tiandi and asked whether he should blood-sacrifice the Northwest; the Saint hesitated to support it.
• Nalan Ye reflected that Yun Yun, the Heavenly Flame Saint, the Little Fairy Doctor, and Cai Lin would oppose sacrificing those close to them, then said he had a trump card and left to find people.
• Xiao Yan returned to the New Xiao Family Residence in Nalan Holy City, carrying his ruler and thinking of Xiao Family and Yanran.

Xiao Yan reunited with his Canaan Academy friends at the Xiao Family Residence and confessed that he and Xun Er had separated because he could not choose between helping her and betraying Nalan Ye. After they drank together, Nalan Ye sobered Xiao Yan and called him to attend to their business.

• Xiao Yan found Lin Xiuya, Hu Jia, and Wu Hao living at the Xiao Family Residence after Canaan Academy took refuge there.
• Hu Jia explained that Nalan Ye had moved the Xiao Family, the Nalan Family, and the Yun Lan Sect into a Small World, while Canaan Academy occupied the residence.
• Xiao Yan told his friends that he and Xun Er would never meet again, then recalled that he had left her in the Heavenly Flame Small World rather than help the Ancient Clan against Nalan Ye.
• Hu Jia, Lin Xiuya, and Wu Hao offered to help Xiao Yan reunite with Xun Er, but he refused, and they drank together until they were all drunk.
• Nalan Ye melted the alcohol from Xiao Yan's body and told him their business was not finished.