Chapter Summaries

Gu Fei killed Hun Ya and Hun Li, rebuffed Xun’er’s belief that he had saved her out of affection, and continued through the Sky Tomb. A month after the trial began, he reached the second level and found a nine-star energy body’s guarded territory.

• Hun Ya and Hun Li tried to flee toward the third level, but Gu Fei killed them with two palm strikes.
• Xun’er caught up to Gu Fei and tried to approach him, but he slapped her hand away and denied killing the Soul Clan members for her sake.
• Two Soul Clan elders celebrated their plan to have Hun Ya and Hun Li eliminate the Gu Clan geniuses, unaware that the pair were already dead.
• After a month in the Sky Tomb, Gu Fei crossed into the second level and traveled onward through increasingly powerful energy bodies.
• Gu Fei entered a region guarded by seven- and eight-star energy bodies and spotted a black-armored nine-star energy body sitting on a boulder.

Gu Fei spared a Black Armor Figure and ordered him to warn others about a coming Energy Storm, then entered the third level of the Sky Tomb and hunted energy bodies. On the second level, Huo Zhi and Huo Xuan joined Gu Qingyang and Gu Yao in fleeing as the Energy Storm formed behind them.

• Gu Fei spared the Black Armor Figure and gave him a jade tablet, ordering him to avoid living people and crush it in five months to warn them of the coming storm.
• Gu Fei burned through the Energy Crystal Wall with his Heavenly Flames and entered the third level of the Sky Tomb.
• Gu Fei began fighting energy bodies in the third level and seizing their energy cores.
• Huo Zhi killed three eight-star energy bodies, and Huo Xuan remarked on her progress.
• Gu Qingyang and Gu Yao warned Huo Zhi and Huo Xuan that an Energy Storm was approaching, and the four fled together.

The Black Armor Figure triggered the Sky Tomb's great Energy Storm, while Gu Qingyang, Xun'er, and the others struggled to break through the crystal wall into the third level. As the Ancient Devouring Insects sealed their progress and the storm drew near, Gu Fei appeared and melted the wall with his Heavenly Flame.

• The Black Armor Figure crushed a white jade token and faced the approaching Energy Storm, intending to let it destroy the Sky Tomb.
• Gu Fei sensed the token's signal and headed back toward the second level through the crystal wall.
• Gu Qingyang and Gu Yao reached Xun'er at the third-level entrance, where she explained that Ancient Devouring Insects kept sealing the opening she had made.
• Gu Qingyang, Gu Yao, Huo Zhi, Huo Xuan, and the clan members attacked the crystal wall as the Energy Storm approached, but the insects devoured their attacks and closed the passage.
• Huo Zhi sensed Gu Fei's Heavenly Flame, and Gu Fei appeared as the wall melted before the group.

Gu Fei rescued the group from the Ancient Devouring Insects and led them safely to the third level of the Sky Tomb, where he explained the dangers ahead. He then ventured deeper alone, while Xun'er chased after him and Gu Qingyang agreed to travel with Huo Xuan's group.

• Gu Fei used his Heavenly Flames to destroy the Ancient Devouring Insects and guide everyone through the crystal wall to the third level.
• Yao Meier thanked Gu Fei, prompting Xun'er to argue with her, while Huo Zhi and Huo Xuan also expressed their gratitude.
• Gu Fei warned Gu Qingyang and Gu Yao about powerful energy bodies in the third level, including some that could be Middle-Stage Dou Saints.
• Shi Lezhi thanked Gu Fei with a solemn salute, while Lei Luo remained convinced that Lei Dong was stronger.
• Gu Fei headed alone into the depths of the third level, and Xun'er chased after him despite Gu Qingyang's warnings.
• Huo Xuan invited Gu Qingyang to have their clans travel together, and Gu Qingyang accepted.

Gu Fei hunted powerful energy bodies on the Sky Tomb’s third level until Xiao Xuan intervened and ordered him to stop. Gu Fei then secluded himself to cultivate, while Xun'er discovered that her Seven-Colored Clan Mark frightened a Half-Saint energy body.

• Gu Fei defeated three Dou Saint energy bodies and advanced to the middle stage of Two-Star Dou Saint after months of hunting.
• Gu Fei pursued an energy body until Xiao Xuan appeared and dispersed his attack.
• Xiao Xuan explained that the Sky Tomb’s dead were driven to devour others by the Heavenly Tomb Soul and told Gu Fei to stop hunting.
• Gu Fei agreed, withdrew to seclusion, and planned to use his energy cores to reach the peak of Two-Star Dou Saint.
• Xun'er displayed her Seven-Colored Clan Mark, causing a Half-Saint energy body to flee in terror.

Xun'er discovered that her Seven-Colored Clan Mark frightened Half-Saint energy bodies, then used it to drive off the Blood Blade Saint and save Gu Qingyang's group. The group remained in the outer region while Gu Fei was believed to be deeper in the Sky Tomb.

• Xun'er realized the Half-Saint energy body had fled because it feared the Seven-Colored Clan Mark associated with Gu Fei, and she retreated to train against Nine-Star energy bodies.
• Three days later, Xun'er sensed a battle and found Gu Qingyang, Gu Yao, Huo Zhi, and Huo Xuan fighting the Blood Blade Saint.
• The Blood Blade Saint overwhelmed the four fighters, and Gu Qingyang urged Xun'er to escape when she arrived.
• Xun'er activated her Seven-Colored Clan Mark, causing the Blood Blade Saint to panic and flee.
• Huo Xuan praised Xun'er for saving them, while Huo Zhi thanked her despite their rivalry.
• Gu Qingyang learned that Xun'er had fallen behind Gu Fei, who was believed to have reached the dangerous deepest part of the third level.

Gu Fei advanced to Three-Star Dou Saint in the Sky Tomb, upgraded his cultivation method, and was expelled when the three-year period ended. He reunited with the waiting clans, where the Hun Clan learned Hun Ya and Hun Li had died, and Gu Fei’s allies celebrated his growth.

• Gu Fei used an enlightenment opportunity and absorbed energy for two days, breaking through to Early Three-Star Dou Saint.
• Gu Fei spent 200,000 Emotion Value to upgrade the Great Flame Heart Sutra to Heaven Rank Middle-Level, removing its limit on fusing Heavenly Flames.
• The Sky Tomb’s spatial force expelled Gu Fei as the three-year period ended.
• The waiting clans watched the Lei, Yao, Spirit, Stone, and Yan Clan members emerge, followed by the lifeless bodies of Hun Ya and Hun Li.
• Gu Qingyang, Gu Yao, and Xun'er emerged before Gu Fei, who was the last to return.
• Gu Fei’s allies praised him for increasing his strength by two stars.

After leaving the Sky Tomb, Gu Fei admitted to killing Hun Ya and Hun Li after they attacked Xun'er, then killed a Soul Clan elder who demanded his life in return. He let the surviving Soul Clan member go so the incident would reach the Soul Clan and complicate its plans.

• Gu Fei reunited with Xiao Xianle and Wushuang, but a Soul Clan elder confronted him about Hun Ya and Hun Li's deaths.
• Gu Fei admitted that he had killed them, and Xun'er explained that they had tried to ambush her in the Sky Tomb.
• The Soul Clan elder accused the Gu Clan of mistreating its guests and demanded a life for a life.
• Gu Fei seized and killed the elder, declaring that the Gu Clan did not fear war with the Soul Clan.
• Gu Fei spared the remaining Soul Clan member so he could report the killing back to his clan and potentially delay its plans.

Gu Fei killed three Soul Clan members, then offered to keep Ling Xi in the Gu Realm as his nominal disciple. Three days later, he and Zi Yan traveled to Dragon Island, where her return drew out the Dragon Clan experts.

• The Soul Clan Elder took away Hun Ya, Hun Li, and Hun Xia’s bodies and left, while the other Ancient Races speculated about conflict with the Gu Clan.
• Gu Fei reunited with his children and offered to take Ling Xi as his nominal disciple; she accepted and stayed in the Gu Realm.
• Gu Clan Elders discussed the Soul Clan’s attack on Xun'er and the Soul Clan’s connection to the Xiao Clan’s Ancient Jade, deciding to raise the matter when the Soul Clan demanded an explanation.
• Three days later, Gu Fei agreed to accompany Zi Yan to Dragon Island, and they traveled there through a Space Passage.
• Zi Yan spread her Heavenly Phoenix Wings and flew over Dragon Island as several Dragon Clan experts approached.

Zi Yan proclaimed herself Dragon Emperor, assembled East Dragon Island’s forces, and launched a surprise campaign against North Dragon Island. She defeated the North Dragon King with Gu Fei’s help, leaving the island’s rebellion crushed.

• Zi Yan rallied East Dragon Island’s Dragon Clan and led its army through a space passage to North Dragon Island.
• Zi Yan’s royal bloodline forced most of North Dragon Island’s clansmen to kneel, while the North Dragon King confronted her.
• Zi Yan offered the North Dragon King a chance to surrender, but he refused and transformed into a dragon to flee.
• Gu Fei struck the North Dragon King with a soul soundwave and shattered his bones in a clash of physical strength.
• Zi Yan caught up and stabbed the North Dragon King in the head, causing his flesh and blood to explode.

Zi Yan defeated the North Dragon King, secured North Dragon Island, and agreed to let Gu Fei use the king’s corpse to refine pills. Gu Fei destroyed the North Dragon King’s hidden soul and refined the corpse into two powerful Dragon Essence Pills, which he captured after they survived the lightning tribulation.

• Zi Yan and Gu Fei overwhelmed the North Dragon King, and Zi Yan killed him after rejecting his plea for mercy.
• The North Dragon Island experts submitted, and Zi Yan began moving their island and clansmen to East Dragon Island.
• Zi Yan agreed to give Gu Fei the North Dragon King’s corpse for pill refinement, while warning Zhu Xi and Zhu Nan to submit or share Zhu Bei’s fate.
• Gu Fei found the North Dragon King’s soul hidden in his crystal core and destroyed it with Heavenly Flames.
• Gu Fei refined the corpse into two pills, split the crystal core between them, and withstood the Black Demon Lightning tribulation.
• The two pills fled after the thunderclouds dispersed, but Gu Fei caught them with fire dragons and brought them back to his palm.

Hun Feng led the Soul Clan in planning retaliation against the Gu Clan for Gu Fei’s killing of Elder Hun Xia. Gu Fei returned to Dragon Island, where Zi Yan had unified the Dragon Clan, and she suggested finding a Dragon Empress to help her rule.

• Hun Feng calmed the enraged Soul Clan experts and said they would make the Gu Clan pay for Elder Hun Xia’s death.
• Hun Feng proposed sending several Dou Saint elders to the Eastern Region to kill Gu Clan members, and three Soul Clan experts left the Soul Realm to carry out the plan.
• After finishing his pill refinement, Gu Fei returned to Dragon Island and saw how much it had changed since the four islands were united.
• Zi Yan welcomed Gu Fei and admitted that ruling the Dragon Clan alone exhausted her.
• Zi Yan said she wanted a Dragon Empress to help her, explaining that her man would hold that position.

Gu Fei told Zi Yan that her father, the former Dragon Emperor, was still alive and brought her to find him beneath the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower. There, two Half-Saint lizardmen warned them that they had entered God's Graveyard and might awaken its guardian.

• Gu Fei told Zi Yan that her father was alive, and she agreed to go see him.
• Gu Fei took Zi Yan to Jia Nan Academy, where she reunited with Su Qian before they continued on their way.
• Gu Fei led Zi Yan beneath the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower and into the Magma Sea, saying her father was below.
• Gu Fei and Zi Yan encountered the Flame Lizard Clan, and Gu Fei's soul power drew a crowd of crimson lizardmen around them.
• Two Half-Saint white lizardmen called the place God's Graveyard and warned Gu Fei and Zi Yan to leave before they awakened its guardian.

Gu Fei and Zi Yan descended through the magma sea and entered the space containing the Ancient Emperor Cave Abode. There, they encountered a colossal purple-gold creature that recognized Zi Yan as its daughter.

• Gu Fei drove back the Flame Lizardmen with his soul pressure and continued deeper into the magma with Zi Yan.
• Gu Fei and Zi Yan reached the bottom of the magma sea and crossed into an ancient hidden space.
• They found a vast stone gate bearing the words “Ancient Emperor Cave Abode.”
• A gigantic purple-gold creature opened its eyes and demanded to know whether they had the Ancient Jade.
• Gu Fei told the creature that Zi Yan was its daughter, and it sensed their blood connection and softened toward her.

Zi Yan reunited with her father, the trapped Old Dragon Emperor Zhu Kun, and learned that he could escape only with the complete Ancient Emperor Jade. Gu Fei explained how the jade had been divided among the Ancient Eight Clans, leaving Zhu Kun's hopes of freedom uncertain.

• Zi Yan touched the colossal creature, and their golden bloodline power merged, confirming that he was her father.
• Zi Yan confronted Zhu Kun for leaving her alone, while Zhu Kun explained that Tou She Ancient God had trapped him after he coveted the Ancient Emperor Cave Abode.
• Zhu Kun questioned Gu Fei, but Zi Yan defended Gu Fei and reproached her father for neglecting his duties.
• Gu Fei comforted Zi Yan, and she told Zhu Kun that she wanted him to leave the place where he was trapped.
• Zhu Kun said he needed the complete Ancient Emperor Jade to escape, and Gu Fei explained that the Xiao Clan had divided it into eight pieces held by the Ancient Eight Clans.

Zi Yan told Zhu Kun how she reunited the Void Ancient Dragon Clan and became its Dragon Emperor, crediting Gu Fei for helping her grow stronger. Zhu Kun urged Gu Fei to take responsibility for Zi Yan, leaving Gu Fei questioning whether he saw her as more than a friend.

• Zi Yan vowed to gather the Ancient Jade and free Zhu Kun, while Gu Fei comforted her.
• Zi Yan explained that the Void Ancient Dragon Clan had fractured after Zhu Kun vanished, but she had suppressed the traitors and reunited the four islands as their Dragon Emperor.
• Zi Yan credited Gu Fei with helping her advance from the fifth tier to the ninth tier and defeat the clan's traitors, and Zhu Kun thanked him for caring for her.
• Zhu Kun teased Gu Fei and Zi Yan about getting married, then learned Gu Fei already had a wife.
• Zhu Kun pressured Gu Fei to promise he would never make Zi Yan unhappy, and Gu Fei began questioning whether his feelings for her went beyond friendship.

Gu Fei and Zi Yan confessed their feelings and agreed to marry, while Zhu Kun learned about the continent’s strongest experts and Zi Yan began preparing for seclusion. After Gu Fei returned to the Gu Realm, he investigated attacks in the Eastern Region and suspected the Soul Clan was retaliating against the Gu Clan.

• Gu Fei asked Zi Yan to be his woman, and she happily accepted as Zhu Kun welcomed him as his future son-in-law.
• Gu Fei explained that Gu Yuan and Hun Tiandi were the continent’s only peak Nine-Star Dou Saints and declared he could reach their level within ten years.
• Zi Yan received some of Zhu Kun’s royal bloodline inheritance and told Gu Fei she would enter seclusion before joining him in the Gu Realm.
• Gu Fei gave Zi Yan a Space Jade Slip and more than a hundred bottles of Sugar Pills, then left the Ancient Emperor Space.
• Gu Fei returned to the Gu Realm and told Gu Xiong and Gu Nanhai that the Soul Clan was likely behind the unexplained killings and disappearances in the Eastern Region.

Gu Fei joined Gu Xiong and Gu Nanhai to confront Soul Clan Dou Saints who had been attacking sects in the Eastern Region. After defeating them, Gu Fei urged the elders to take the Soul Hall seriously, warning that it was a valuable source of power for the Soul Clan.

• Gu Fei persuaded Gu Xiong and Gu Nanhai to handle the Soul Clan threat without involving the Clan Chief, then left the Gu Realm with them.
• Gu Xiong and Gu Nanhai found Soul Clan members gathered in a valley after they had destroyed more than ten sects.
• Gu Fei used a soul soundwave to knock Hun Can and Hun Que out of the sky, then helped Gu Xiong and Gu Nanhai fight Hun Du.
• Hun Du was badly wounded and self-destructed after Gu Fei's soul attack left him vulnerable to the elders' strikes.
• Gu Fei argued that the Gu Clan should not dismiss the Soul Hall, since Hun Miesheng had spent centuries building it despite his talent for cultivation.

Gu Fei, Gu Xiong, and Gu Nanhai attacked Soul Hall’s Earth Hall and killed its Vice Hall Master and the other defenders. After freeing the captured souls and destroying the hall, they discovered a vast store of Soul Origin and realized how much Soul Hall might have amassed.

• Gu Fei admitted that he had destroyed Human Hall and announced his plan to attack Earth Hall, so Gu Xiong and Gu Nanhai agreed to accompany him.
• Gu Fei, Gu Xiong, and Gu Nanhai launched a surprise attack on Earth Hall in the southern Central Region, and the Vice Hall Master recognized Gu Fei as the one who had massacred Human Hall.
• Gu Xiong destroyed the Vice Hall Master’s chains, and Gu Nanhai struck him back before the Vice Hall Master’s attempt to escape through a spatial scroll failed.
• Gu Fei, Gu Xiong, and Gu Nanhai killed the Vice Hall Master and wiped out Earth Hall’s other defenders.
• Gu Fei freed the souls bound at Earth Hall and destroyed the great hall, revealing a store of Soul Origin twice the size of the one found at Human Hall.

Gu Fei absorbed the Soul Origins taken from the Earth Hall, doubling his soul power, while Hun Miesheng discovered that the Gu Clan had destroyed the hall and stolen its accumulated Soul Origins. Gu Fei then took Xiao Yi Xian and Cai'er to the Space Trading Fair, where they entered the spatial black hole leading to the gathering.

• Gu Xiong and Gu Nanhai let Gu Fei keep the Soul Origins, and he returned with them to the Gu Realm.
• Hun Miesheng arrived at the Earth Hall ruins, recognized the Gu Clan’s involvement, and raged over the loss of the hall and its Soul Origins.
• Gu Fei absorbed the Soul Origins, doubling his soul power without advancing beyond Heaven Realm Great Perfection.
• Gu Fei invited Xiao Yi Xian and Cai'er to the Space Trading Fair to seek a Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame map fragment and a Nine-Colored Origin Stone.
• Gu Fei left the children in Qing Lin and Ling Xi’s care and traveled with Xiao Yi Xian and Cai'er to the desert fair.
• Gu Fei, Xiao Yi Xian, and Cai'er entered the spatial black hole at the fair’s location.