Chapter Summaries

Starfall Pavilion defeated Soul Hall’s attack after Yao Chen returned in a restored body and revealed that he had reached the Half-Saint realm. As the pavilion grew in prestige, Yao Chen offered Bone Spirit Cold Flame to Xia Mo and Xiao Yan, but neither accepted it.

• Hei Qing intervened to save Xiao Yan, and Ninth Heavenly Venerable summoned Eighth Heavenly Venerable before Yao Chen appeared and took over the fight.
• Yao Chen stopped the Heavenly Venerables’ combined attack and revealed his Half-Saint strength, while Xiao Yan and the others defeated the remaining Soul Hall forces.
• Eighth Heavenly Venerable and Ninth Heavenly Venerable fled, but Xia Mo secretly killed them and sent their remains through the spatial passage to Soul Hall.
• Starfall Pavilion gained renown, attracted visitors and guest elders, and began rebuilding its strength under Yao Chen and Venerable Wind.
• Yao Chen offered Bone Spirit Cold Flame to Xia Mo, who declined it; Xiao Yan also refused the flame.

Xia Mo traveled to the Nine Netherworld Yellow Spring to help Cai Xi pursue a possible evolution and found Yao Ming imprisoned at its bottom. After securing Yao Ming’s submission with a soul mark, Xia Mo obtained the Yellow Spring Blood Crystal and prepared to free him.

• Old Yao removed his soul imprint from the Bone Spirit Cold Flame and gave the flame to Xiao Yan to nurture before refining it.
• Old Yao advised Xia Mo to take Cai Xi to the Nine Netherworld Yellow Spring, where she might evolve, and gave him a map to its location.
• Xia Mo traveled with Zi Yan, Cai Xi, and Qing Lin into the Nine Netherworld Nether Python Clan’s territory and descended to the Yellow Spring.
• Xia Mo fought off a swarm of strange snakes in the Yellow Spring and uncovered the imprisoned former clan chief, Yao Ming.
• Yao Ming agreed to submit to Xia Mo and opened his soul so Xia Mo could place a soul mark upon it.
• Xia Mo asked for Yellow Spring Blood Crystals, and Yao Ming gave him the sole crystal he had left.

Xia Mo freed Yao Ming from the Nine Netherworld Yellow Spring and defeated Yao Xiaotian, helping Yao Ming reclaim control of the Nine Netherworld Nether Python Clan. Qing Lin then began using her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to control Yao Xiaotian and the Grand Elder.

• Xia Mo shattered the Yellow Spring Yin Stone, broke Yao Ming's chains, and gave him pills to recover his Dou Qi.
• Zi Yan beat Yao Xiaotian when he arrived at the lake, and Xia Mo defeated him in battle, leaving him unconscious.
• Yao Ming revealed himself to the clan, presented the Nine Netherworld Staff, and challenged the Grand Elder's account of his supposed death.
• Yao Ming defeated the Grand Elder and regained the clan's support, while Zi Yan incapacitated the Grand Elder as he tried to resist.
• Xia Mo asked Qing Lin to control Yao Xiaotian and the Grand Elder with her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, and her green demon pupil entered Yao Xiaotian's body.

Qing Lin controlled the unconscious Yao Xiaotian, letting Xia Mo's group cultivate safely while Yao Ming offered Xia Mo access to the Yellow Spring Stone Tablet. Xia Mo defeated the Yellow Springs Demon Sage's remnant soul, received its techniques and essence blood, and spent a month absorbing its Soul Origin Power before awakening with vastly increased Soul Power.

• Qing Lin used her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to control Yao Xiaotian, and Xia Mo helped ease the strain on her eyes.
• Yao Ming told Xia Mo about the Yellow Spring Stone Tablet and asked him to overcome its guardian so Yao Ming could strengthen his hold over the Nine Netherworld Nether Python Clan.
• Xia Mo entered the tablet, withstood the Yellow Spring Heavenly Wrath, and received the Yellow Springs Demon Sage's techniques and essence blood.
• The Yellow Springs Demon Sage's remnant soul left Xia Mo its Emperor Realm Soul Origin Power, which Xia Mo refined and absorbed.
• Cai Xi, Zi Yan, Qing Lin, and Yao Ming waited as Xia Mo's Soul Power surged around the altar for a month.
• Xia Mo awakened atop the altar, releasing an immense wave of Soul Power.

Xia Mo discovered the Heaven Swallowing Python ruins beneath the Nine Netherworld Yellow Spring, where Cai Xi evolved her bloodline and rose to Dou Sheng after a year of cultivation with him. After learning the Three Dragon Islands were seeking help from the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, Xia Mo led the Nine Netherworld Nether Python Clan toward East Dragon Island to help Zi Yan unify the dragon clan.

• Xia Mo reached the peak of Heavenly Realm Late Stage, found the Heaven Swallowing Python ruins, and shared Yellow Springs Demon Sage essence blood with Yao Ming, Cai Xi, and Zi Yan.
• Yao Ming failed to withstand the Yellow Spring Stone Tablet's soul impact, while Xia Mo arranged for the group to cultivate at the Nine Netherworld Yellow Spring.
• Xia Mo brought Cai Xi to the ruins, where an ancient Heaven Swallowing Python ancestor welcomed her and gave her a final aid to evolve her bloodline.
• Xia Mo and Cai Xi cultivated together for a year, after which Cai Xi reached late four-star Dou Sheng with a nine-colored bloodline and Xia Mo reached late three-star Dou Sheng.
• Yao Ming told Xia Mo that the Three Dragon Islands were negotiating with the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, so Xia Mo decided to depart for the Dragon Islands with Zi Yan and the Nine Netherworld Nether Python Clan.
• Xia Mo led the group through Void Space toward East Dragon Island, where an enormous island appeared ahead.

Zi Yan led East Dragon Island and the Nine Netherworld Nether Python Clan in a campaign to reunify the Grand Void Dragon Clan, killing the North Dragon King and West Dragon King as their forces submitted. The army reached South Dragon Island, where Xia Mo attacked the South Dragon King.

• Zi Yan assembled East Dragon Island's forces, planned to attack North Dragon Island first, and set the army in motion.
• East Dragon Island and the Nine Netherworld Nether Python Clan invaded North Dragon Island, where Zi Yan summoned the Dragon Slaying Sword and killed the North Dragon King.
• North Dragon Island's forces submitted, and Zi Yan ordered them to join the advance on West Dragon Island.
• Xia Mo killed the West Dragon King when he tried to flee, and West Dragon Island's leaders surrendered and were ordered to help attack South Dragon Island.
• The united forces surrounded South Dragon Island, where Zi Yan confronted the South Dragon King and Xia Mo struck his Dragon Claw.

Xia Mo refined the Three Great Dragon Kings into intelligent puppets, then took them to the Void Lightning Pool to strengthen their bodies with Black Demon Lightning. The puppets absorbed the lightning, and Xia Mo watched as increasingly powerful bolts battered them in the depths of the pool.

• Xia Mo killed the South Dragon King, ending the rule of the Three Great Dragon Kings and restoring unity to the Grand Void Dragon Clan.
• Xia Mo refined the Dragon Kings’ bodies with the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame, drew out their hidden remnant souls, and made them into puppets named North King, Xi Wang, and South King.
• Qing Lin emerged from the Ancient Dragon Tomb after refining the Nine-Headed Heavenly Snake’s soul and reached nine-star Dou Zun.
• Xia Mo traveled with Hei Qing to the Void Lightning Pool and let the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame absorb lightning as he advanced into its depths.
• Xia Mo sent the Three Kings into the Black Demon Lightning, where they absorbed its power and endured the bolts’ powerful impacts.

Xia Mo advanced to the Four Star Dou Sheng level and strengthened the Three Great Dragon Kings by cultivating in the Void Lightning Pool before returning to Dragon Island. After Zi Yan decided to confront the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, Huang Tian attacked the Dragon Clan’s delegation, and Xia Mo faced his transformed Demon Phoenix charge.

• Xia Mo and the Three Great Dragon Kings absorbed Black Demon Lightning for a month, raising Xia Mo to the Initial Stage Four Star Dou Sheng level and strengthening the puppets to the point that they could face Five Star Dou Shengs.
• Xia Mo returned to Dragon Island, where Zi Yan introduced him to the returned Supreme Elders, including Zhu Huo, Candle Demon, and Zhu Tian.
• Zi Yan chose to make the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan submit, and the Grand Void Dragon Clan assembled its forces and arrived at the Phoenixfall Mountains.
• Huang Tian challenged the delegation, and Xia Mo fought him, saw through his Demon Phoenix Steps, and badly wounded his arm with Prison Devour and Prison Burst.
• Huang Tian transformed into his enormous Demon Phoenix form and charged at Xia Mo with overwhelming speed and force.

Cai Xi and Zi Yan helped the Ancient Void Dragon Clan defeat the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, then Xia Mo and Zi Yan used Yao Ming’s gathering to bring the Beast Region’s hidden clans under their control. After the region was unified and Soul Hall’s protest was brushed aside, Xia Mo returned to Starfall Pavilion, where Old Yao began explaining a secret spatial trade meet connected to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.

• Cai Xi revealed her Nine-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python form and, with Zi Yan, severely injured Huang Tian before Candle Demon forced the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan to surrender to the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.
• Yao Ming gathered fourteen hidden bloodline clans and invited Soul Hall’s Gu You, but Zi Yan, Xia Mo, Cai Xi, Qing Lin, and the Ancient Dragon experts arrived and exposed Yao Ming’s allegiance to them.
• Candle Demon killed Gu You, Zi Yan demanded the clans submit, and Xia Mo began refining Gu You’s corpse into a puppet; Lang Mie and the other clan chiefs then pledged loyalty and helped slaughter Soul Hall’s Venerable Elders.
• The Ancient Dragon Clan consolidated the Beast Region, and Soul Hall’s demand for Gu You’s murderer was dismissed after the clans claimed he had already left; Cai Xi and Qing Lin helped Zi Yan establish rule and a spatial passage to the Northwest Continent.
• Xia Mo returned to Starfall Pavilion and reunited with Old Yao and Xiao Yan, then listened as Old Yao introduced a secret spatial trade meet whose participants were powerful experts from across the continent.

Xiao Yan learned about the Eight Ancient Clans and accepted an invitation to the Ancient Clan’s coming-of-age ceremony, while Xia Mo and Xiao Yi Xian joined him on the journey to Ancient Saint City. At the city gate, Ling Quan angrily challenged Xiao Yan, setting up a confrontation.

• Old Yao explained the Spatial Trade Meet’s map fragment connected to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and urged Xiao Yan to strengthen himself before pursuing it.
• Xiao Yan learned that his Xiao Clan was a fallen ancient clan, and Old Yao revealed that he had been abandoned by the Yao Clan because of his weak Dou Di bloodline.
• Old Yao gave Xiao Yan an invitation to the Ancient Clan’s coming-of-age ceremony and sent Xia Mo with him as support.
• Xiao Yi Xian returned to Starfall Pavilion with her Poison Body of Calamity condensed into a rune and her strength at the peak of the Ninth Transformation Dou Zun level.
• Xia Mo, Xiao Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, and their companions traveled to Ancient Saint City and entered the queue at its gate.
• Ling Quan recognized Xiao Yan and angrily demanded to know who had allowed him to come.

Xia Mo and his companions waited in Ancient Saint City while Xiao Yan faced hostility from the Ancient Clan and defeated Yang Hao in a public spar. After the group went out to eat, three Soul Clan figures approached and revealed themselves as members of the Soul Hall, leaving Xiao Yan on guard.

• Xia Mo and his companions entered Ancient Saint City and learned that the gate to the Ancient Realm would not open for three days, while Xun Er heard that Xiao Yan and Xia Mo had arrived.
• Xia Mo's group learned about the Black Annihilation Army and its leaders, and Xia Mo explained that Xiao Yan could contend with most of them but that the Black Annihilation King was a Dou Sheng.
• Yang Hao challenged Xiao Yan at the tavern, but Xiao Yan defeated him decisively, and Lin Xiu tried to provoke Xiao Yan before Gu Xun intervened and warned him that trouble awaited him in the Ancient Realm.
• Xia Mo and Xiao Yi Xian browsed shops and bought medicinal herbs before meeting Xiao Yan and Heavenly Fire Venerable for dinner at Emperor's Descent Tower.
• Three black-robed men approached the group, and Xiao Yan recognized them as people from the Soul Hall before their leader said he preferred to be called Soul Clan.

Xia Mo, Xiao Yi Xian, and Xiao Yan entered the Ancient Realm, where Xiao Yan learned about the Heavenly Tomb and reunited with Xun Er. The group settled at Xun Er’s secluded residence as Xiao Yan began facing the Ancient Clan’s hostility.

• Hun Ya threatened Xiao Yan by invoking his ancestor’s role in Xiao Xuan’s death, and Xiao Yan vowed to make Hun Ya pay in the Ancient Realm.
• Gu Xun opened the Ancient Realm’s gate, and Xia Mo sent Lin Xiu flying when he tried to block the group from entering.
• Aboard a Void Shuttle, Huo Xuan explained the Heavenly Tomb’s rules and warned Xiao Yan about the Soul and Yao Clans.
• Xun Er welcomed Xiao Yan at the Ancient Clan’s headquarters, and Xia Mo dispelled the elders’ pressure when they tried to intimidate him.
• Gu Yao decided that he would kill Xiao Yan if he refused to leave Xun Er, while Xia Mo’s group later joined Xun Er at her secluded bamboo house.

Xun Er’s Coming of Age Ceremony began amid tension as Ancient Clan elders tried to exclude Xia Mo and Xiao Yan, but Xia Mo forced them to relent. After the ceremony revealed the younger generation’s bloodline grades, Gu Yao challenged Xiao Yan and demanded he prove himself or leave the Ancient Realm.

• Xia Mo, Xiao Yi Xian, Xiao Yan, and Xun Er joked together before the ceremony, while Xun Er warned that Gu Yao might target Xiao Yan.
• Ancient Clan elders blocked the group from entering the central seats, but Xia Mo’s feigned departure pressured them into granting an exception.
• Xia Mo injured Gu Qian and Gu Xu with his aura after they obstructed Xun Er, and Mang Tianchi arrived and joined the group.
• The Coming of Age Ceremony began, and Ling Quan, Lin Xiu, Gu Zhen, and Gu Yao received bloodline assessments and clan tattoos.
• Gu Yao revealed an eighth-grade bloodline and a Purple-Gold clan tattoo, then challenged Xiao Yan and demanded that he fight or leave the Ancient Realm.

Xiao Yan accepted Gu Yao’s challenge at the Ancient Clan’s Coming of Age Ceremony and fought him in a battle that escalated to their strongest techniques. After Xiao Yan defeated Gu Yao, Elder Tong Xuan stopped him from killing his opponent, and Xia Mo secured Xiao Yan a place in the Heavenly Tomb expedition and demanded compensation.

• Gu Yao provoked Xiao Yan into accepting a duel, while Xun Er protested and Xia Mo encouraged Xiao Yan to fight.
• Xiao Yan and Gu Yao exchanged attacks, with Xiao Yan using his Heavenly Flames, defensive techniques, and magma attacks against Gu Yao’s stronger Dou Qi.
• Gu Yao unleashed the Great Annihilation Art, but Xiao Yan’s hidden five-colored fire lotus destroyed his Great Nirvana Finger and left Gu Yao unable to defend himself.
• Xiao Yan charged at Gu Yao with the fire lotus, but Elder Tong Xuan appeared and shattered it before Xiao Yan could kill him.
• Xia Mo healed Xiao Yan and confronted Elder Tong Xuan, who agreed to let Xiao Yan join the Heavenly Tomb expedition and provide compensation.

Xiao Yan defeated Gu Yao, and Xun Er revealed a Divine Bloodline during the Ancient Clan ceremony. Gu Yuan arranged for Xiao Yan to receive both Xiao Clan slots in the Heavenly Tomb, allowing Xiao Yan to invite Xia Mo; as the group arrived for the Tomb’s opening, an ancient aura began to spread.

• Xiao Yan recovered from his hard-fought victory over Gu Yao while Xun Er’s test revealed her ten-star Divine Bloodline, and Elder Tong Xuan inscribed her clan pattern with the Seven-Colored Heavenly Emperor Brush.
• Xiao Yan asked Xun Er to secure Xia Mo a Heavenly Tomb slot, and Gu Yuan later told Xia Mo that the Xiao Clan’s two slots would be returned for Xiao Yan to allocate.
• Xun Er obtained one slot for Xiao Yan, but the elders refused to grant another to Xia Mo until Gu Yuan ordered the return of both Xiao Clan slots.
• Gu Yuan explained the Heavenly Tomb arrangements to Xia Mo and urged him to hunt the Dou Sheng-level energy bodies on the third level.
• On the day the Heavenly Tomb opened, Xun Er took Xiao Yan and Xia Mo to the gathering site and identified the Soul, Yao, Lei, and Stone Clan members present.
• The sky darkened and the assembled groups felt the Heavenly Tomb’s ancient aura as its opening began.

Xia Mo entered the Heavenly Tomb, cultivated in the energy wall until he reached the late four-star Dou Sheng stage, then joined Xiao Yan and the Ancient Clan group in the third level. As they neared Xiao Xuan’s tomb, two Soul Clan Dou Sheng energy bodies attacked, and Xia Mo launched a counterattack against them.

• Xia Mo entered the Heavenly Tomb separately from Xiao Yan and Xun Er, traveled through its first two levels, and refined energy secreted by the Ancient Devouring Insects until he broke through to late four-star Dou Sheng.
• Xia Mo met Xiao Yan, Xun Er, and the Ancient Clan group on the third level, and they traveled together toward the deepest region while Xia Mo supported them with his Heavenly Demon Puppets.
• Xiao Yan and the group fought the Blood Saber Saint, who stopped the battle after seeing Xiao Yan’s Xiao Clan bloodline mark and directed them through a passage toward Xiao Xuan’s tomb.
• Hun Ya and Hun Li confronted the group with two Soul Clan Dou Sheng energy bodies, and one elder froze the surrounding space to immobilize Xiao Yan and the others.
• Xia Mo released the group from the frozen space and attacked the two elders with a massive Purple-Gold magical beast phantom.

Xia Mo defeated Hun Diao and another Dou Sheng, then joined Xiao Yan and Xun Er in meeting Xiao Xuan at his tomb residence. Xiao Xuan passed the Xiao Clan’s remaining bloodline power to Xiao Yan, while Xia Mo gathered energy cores and advanced; more than a year later, Xiao Yan completed the inheritance and began breaking through, leaving his cultivation at a critical point.

• Xia Mo transformed into a purple-gold giant beast and killed Hun Diao and his companion, while Hun Ya and Hun Li fled.
• Xiao Xuan emerged, recognized Xiao Yan as his descendant, and led Xiao Yan, Xun Er, and Xia Mo to his tomb residence.
• Xiao Yan learned that Xiao Xuan was only a remnant soul, and Xia Mo described a difficult method that might revive him.
• Xiao Xuan used the blood pool to restore the Xiao Clan’s bloodline power in Xiao Yan, who endured the blood replacement while Xia Mo cultivated with a Soul Crystal.
• Xia Mo left the tomb residence to collect Dou Sheng energy cores, defeated a Lei Clan energy body, and returned to refine the cores.
• After more than a year, Xiao Yan finished absorbing Xiao Xuan’s inheritance and surged toward the nine-star Dou Zun level, while Xia Mo advanced to Five-Star Dou Sheng.

Xiao Yan completed his training in the Heavenly Tomb, strengthened his clan mark, and left with Xia Mo and Xun Er after Xiao Xuan warned them about the Soul Clan. Back in the Ancient Realm, the Soul Clan suspected Xiao Yan and Xia Mo of killing Hun Ya and Hun Li, while news that the Spirit Realm had sealed itself off suggested the Soul Clan’s campaign against the ancient clans had begun; Xiao Yan and Xia Mo then departed with an invitation to the Yao Clan Pill Gathering.

• Xiao Yan and Xia Mo advanced in strength, and Xiao Yan received Xiao Xuan’s warning about the Soul Clan and the complete Heavenly Fire Three Profound Transformations.
• Xiao Yan practiced until he activated all nine strokes of the Xiao Clan’s clan mark, then prepared to leave the Heavenly Tomb with Xia Mo and Xun Er.
• The group emerged from the Heavenly Tomb, where the clans discovered Hun Ya and Hun Li’s corpses and the Soul Clan elders accused Xiao Yan and Xia Mo.
• Xun Er learned that the Spirit Realm had sealed itself off, and Xia Mo warned that the Soul Clan might be targeting the ancient clans for their resources, bloodlines, and Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Yao Xingji gave Xiao Yan an invitation to the Yao Clan Pill Gathering, and Xiao Yan and Xia Mo left the Ancient Realm while Xun Er stayed behind.

Xia Mo and Xiao Yan returned to Starfall Pavilion, learned that Soul Hall had helped the Lion Nether Sect conquer much of the Northwest Continent, and prepared to travel there through a new Space Wormhole. While they were on their way, Cai Xi destroyed the Lion Nether Sect and Soul Hall forces attacking the Black Corner Region, and Xia Mo's party arrived in the northern Northwest Continent and headed southeast.

• Xia Mo and Xiao Yan left the Ancient Realm, defeated two Soul Clan elders, and returned to Starfall Pavilion, where Old Yao told them the Yan Alliance was being pushed back by the Lion Nether Sect and Soul Hall.
• Old Yao prepared a Space Wormhole to the Northwest Continent, and Xiao Yan met the talented You Quan, who wanted Xia Mo to guide her.
• Xia Mo constructed the passage with Old Yao, and he and Xiao Yan set out for the Northwest Continent with several Starfall Pavilion experts.
• Cai Xi appeared above the Black Corner Region and destroyed Shi Tian, the Lion Nether Sect, and Soul Hall forces with a single palm strike, then bound the surviving experts to serve Phoenix Dragon City for twenty years.
• Cai Xi's victory made the Snake People Tribe and Phoenix Dragon City the Northwest Continent's leading powers, while Xia Mo's party emerged from the Space Wormhole in the north and headed southeast toward the Black Corner Region.

Xia Mo returned to Phoenix Dragon City, reunited with Cai Xi, and learned she might be pregnant with their child. He developed an eighth-grade Zhutian Pill to nourish the unborn child and began refining it publicly; by the chapter’s end, eight-colored pill lightning had appeared overhead.

• Xia Mo returned to Phoenix Dragon City, praised Hai Bodong and Ya Fei for managing the city, and reunited with Cai Xi while Xiao Yan went to the Jia Ma Empire.
• Cai Xi took Xia Mo to meet the Snake People Tribe's four elders, who approved their marriage after Xia Mo accepted their traditional punishment.
• The Grand Elder revealed that Cai Xi might be pregnant and explained the tribe’s prenatal nourishment techniques, prompting Xia Mo to offer to refine a pill for the child.
• Xia Mo studied the Heavenly Soul Blood-Fusion Pill formula and created an eighth-grade, eight-colored Zhutian Pill with gentler effects for the unborn child.
• Xia Mo began refining the Zhutian Pill in Phoenix Dragon City as Hai Bodong, Ya Fei, Xiao Yan, and a growing crowd watched; after eight days, eight-colored pill lightning formed overhead.