Chapter Summaries

Xia Mo brought the sentient Nine Profound Golden Lightning under his care, refined it into a Tribulation Lightning Pill, and used the pill to reach Early Nine-star Dou Sheng. After returning to the Heavenly Mansion Alliance, he joined Xiao Yan and Old Yao as they planned an attack on Soul Hall’s Human Hall.

• The Nine Profound Golden Lightning gained intelligence and human form, and Xia Mo named him Xia Jiu Xuan and sent him to recover in the Void Lightning Pool.
• Xia Mo crushed the mindless Nine Profound Golden Lightning into energy and refined it with herbs into a top-tier Nine-grade Profound Tribulation Lightning Pill.
• Xia Mo consumed the pill, cultivated for months, and reached Early Nine-star Dou Sheng while Nine Profound recovered to the pinnacle of Six-star Dou Sheng.
• Xia Mo left the Void Lightning Pool with Nine Profound, visited Zhu Huo on Ancient Dragon Island, and then traveled to Starfall Pavilion.
• Old Yao and the alliance leaders discussed Soul Hall’s attacks on their cities and forces, and proposed retaliating by striking its branch halls.
• Xia Mo arrived as Xiao Yan and Old Yao planned to attack Soul Hall’s Human Hall, and Old Yao agreed to accompany them while other experts stayed to guard the alliance.

Xia Mo led Xiao Yan, Yao Chen, and the Heavenly Mansion Alliance in an assault on Soul Hall’s Human Hall, where Xiao Yan defeated the Great Heavenly Venerate and Xia Mo crushed the Vice Master’s forces. The Human Hall was devastated, its leaders were killed, and Xiao Yan captured the Great Heavenly Venerate’s soul for questioning.

• Xia Mo introduced Nine Profound, whom he had named Xia Jiu Xuan, to Cai Xi and Qing Lin, and the women embraced him as their child.
• Xia Mo and the alliance members traveled to the Corpse Burial Mountain Range and sealed the area around Soul Hall’s Human Hall to prevent reinforcements from arriving.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Chen confronted the Great Heavenly Venerate and Hun Dan while the alliance fought the Human Hall’s defenders.
• Xiao Yan battled the Great Heavenly Venerate, defeated him with the Yellow Springs Demon Sage’s techniques, and captured his escaping soul.
• Xia Mo intervened when the Soul Hall Vice Master attacked Xiao Yan, destroyed the Vice Master’s subordinates, and struck the Vice Master down as the Human Hall collapsed.

Xia Mo and Xiao Yan destroyed Soul Hall’s Human Hall, freed its captive souls, and uncovered Soul Origin gathered from a million victims; Xia Mo and Old Yao later destroyed five more branch halls. Xia Mo arranged for Cai Xi’s Snake People Tribe to relocate to the Beast Region, and Cai Xi gave birth to their exceptionally powerful daughter, Xia Han, who emerged in a glowing nine-colored egg.

• Xiao Yan killed the fleeing Soul Hall experts while Old Yao defeated the Soul Clan Half-Saint, and Xia Mo freed the souls imprisoned beneath the Human Hall.
• Xiao Yan discovered a sphere of Soul Origin condensed from roughly a million souls, and Xia Mo told him to absorb it to strengthen his soul before the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame contest.
• Xia Mo and Old Yao destroyed five Earth Fiend Halls, while the Soul Hall Master learned of the losses and vowed that the Soul Clan would retaliate after pursuing the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Xia Mo helped Cai Xi arrange the Snake People Tribe’s relocation from the Northwest Continent to a new settlement in the Beast Region and left two Heavenly Demon Puppets to protect them.
• Xia Mo and Cai Xi chose the name Xia Han for their daughter, and Cai Xi gave birth to a nine-colored egg containing a sleeping girl whose power had already reached the late seventh tier.

Xia Mo and Cai Xi welcomed their daughter Xia Han, while Xiao Yan reached Heavenly Realm Soul Great Perfection and discovered the location of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. As the flame emerged, the Heavenly Mansion Alliance arrived at its ruined mountain range, where the Soul Hall Master appeared with two Soul Clan experts.

• Xia Mo reassured the Snake People Tribe's elders that Cai Xi and Xia Han were safe, and Xia Han soon emerged from her shell in human form as a nine-colored Dragon Phoenix.
• Xia Han displayed her inherited devouring power, so Xia Mo sealed her strength; a month later, the family held her full-month celebration while Xiao Yan entered seclusion to refine the Soul Origin.
• Xiao Yan's breakthrough released immense soul pressure across the Star Realm, which Starfall Pavilion's disciples and elders used as training before the pressure gradually faded.
• Xia Mo and Xiao Yan sensed the Netherworld Burning Flame Space, where the Soul Hall Master attacked Xiao Yan and the Pill Tower Ancestor intervened; Xiao Yan later received a Nine Yin Yellow Spring Pill from Old Yao and the Little Pill Tower Great Elder.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame emerged, prompting Xia Mo, Xiao Yan, Old Yao, and their allies to travel to the scorched mountain range, where they waited outside the ruptured space.
• The Soul Hall Master arrived with two Soul Clan experts, and Xia Mo studied the two companions beside him.

Xia Mo and Xiao Yan confronted the Soul Clan and other ancient clans while waiting for the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s realm to open. After Xiao Yan humiliated Yao Tian and forced Yao Wangui to retreat, Xia Mo entered the realm and broke through its illusion, rescuing Old Yao from the demonic fire.

• The Soul Hall Master assessed Xiao Yan and Xia Mo as dangerous opponents, while the Soul Clan Young Clan Leader claimed he could kill Xiao Yan.
• Huo Xuan, Xun Er, and representatives of the Lei, Stone, and Yao Clans arrived as the shattered space grew hotter and drew more experts.
• Yao Wangui and Yao Tian insulted Old Yao, so Xiao Yan crushed Yao Tian’s soul attack, struck him with a soul avatar, and drove the Yao Clan group away with Xi Wang’s help.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s realm opened, and Xia Mo entered the light ring ahead of Xiao Yan and the others.
• Xia Mo saw through the realm’s illusion and forced the demonic fire out of Old Yao, who warned that the flames had used visions to make people burn themselves alive.
• Xiao Yan joined Xia Mo and Old Yao, and Xia Mo noted that Old Ancestor Huoyun and the others were not in their area before the group prepared to move on.

Xiao Yan and Xia Mo led their group through the Demon Flame Space’s trials, where they encountered and freed the Xiao Clan ancestor Xiao Chen before reaching the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. Xiao Yan realized they were still trapped in the Nightmare Sky Mist and explained that the flame’s apparent power depended on their beliefs, leaving the group facing the illusion’s final confrontation.

• Xia Mo and Xiao Yan escaped the Nightmare Sky Mist and reunited with Xun Er and the Ancient Clan members at a sealed gate.
• The group broke through the gate and fought their way across successive halls filled with increasingly powerful fire slaves.
• Xia Mo used Xi Wang alongside Gu Nanhai to defeat Xiao Chen, and Xiao Yan’s clan mark helped awaken Xiao Chen’s memories of the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Chen led the group to an altar, where the white-robed Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame challenged them to defeat him or become fire slaves.
• Xiao Yan recognized that the group remained inside the Nightmare Sky Mist and explained that the illusion’s strength depended on what they believed.

Xiao Yan broke the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s Nightmare Illusion, freeing the trapped experts and bringing them face-to-face with the flame’s true form. The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame sealed the battlefield and attacked as the gathered forces fought its fire slaves and tried to hold their own against it.

• Xiao Yan used a Nightmare Breaking Talisman to shatter the illusion, freeing Xia Mo’s group and the other trapped experts; he temporarily suppressed the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s control over Xiao Chen.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame emerged from the magma, sealed the spatial passage, and formed a fiery prison around the assembled experts.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame killed nearly eighty percent of the Dou Zun experts and summoned ten Dou Sheng fire slaves, prompting the Soul Hall Master and the other factions to agree to cooperate.
• Xiao Chen stayed with Xiao Yan’s group instead of joining the assault, while seven experts of Four-star Dou Sheng strength or higher attacked the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and were driven back.
• Xiao Yan, Xun Er, and the Little Pill Tower Great Elder fought three fire slaves as battles broke out across the magma sea and the main clash continued.

Xia Mo and the others survived the Flame Slaves’ mass self-destruction, while the Soul Hall Master and five experts sealed the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. The seal sparked a scramble for its origin, and Xiao Yan’s clash with the Soul Hall Master ended with the latter revealing near-Five-Star Dou Sheng strength and attacking Xiao Yan and Xia Mo.

• Xiao Yan placed a soul rune on a weakened Flame Slave and gained temporary control of it as Xia Mo watched Huo Xuan, Xun Er, Hun Feng, and the Lei Clan youth fight other Flame Slaves.
• Xia Mo warned everyone when a Flame Slave prepared to self-destruct; six Flame Slaves exploded, killing more than half the surviving experts in the Demon Flame Space.
• The Soul Hall Master summoned the Heavenly Net Demon Sealing Array and, with five experts’ strength, sealed the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, then tried to seize its origin before Xi Wang knocked it away.
• Xia Mo told Xiao Yan and his allies to feign a struggle while saving their strength as the surviving experts fought over the Demon Flame Origin; Xiao Yan defeated Hun Feng’s defenses and grabbed the sealed pillar.
• The Soul Hall Master attacked Xiao Yan, who detonated a Five-Colored Fire Lotus and wounded him, but the Soul Hall Master survived and revealed strength approaching the early Five Star Dou Sheng stage.
• The Soul Hall Master demanded the Demon Flame Origin and rushed Xiao Yan and Xia Mo, reaching for their heads as they prepared to counterattack.

Xiao Chen rescued Xiao Yan from the Soul Hall Master and severely wounded him, while the Pill Tower Ancestor revealed his Six-star Dou Sheng strength and exposed the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s scheme. The Flame seized control of the Heaven Refining Ancient Array and trapped everyone, but Xiao Yan then manifested the Netherworld Burning Sage, whose consciousness appeared to awaken within him.

• Xiao Chen knocked aside the Soul Hall Master, revealed his overwhelming strength, and grievously wounded him with the Sky Breaking Three Axes.
• Elder Hun Mo appeared, and the Pill Tower Ancestor arrived on a green ox, revealed himself as a Six-star Dou Sheng, and exposed the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s deliberate capture.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame broke free, fought the Pill Tower Ancestor, and activated the Heaven Refining Ancient Array, destroying the exit and trapping everyone in the Demon Flame Space.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor and Elder Hun Mo gathered experts to oppose the array, but the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s refining attack overwhelmed them.
• Xia Mo told Xiao Yan that his opportunity had arrived, and the Netherworld Burning Sage’s figure emerged from Xiao Yan as his eyes turned milky white.

Xiao Yan and Xun Er remained in the Demon Flame Space as Netherworld Burning Sage subdued the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, erased its violent memories, and sacrificed himself with it. The purified Demon Flame Origin remained, and Xiao Yan prepared to refine it while Xia Mo left with Netherworld Burning Sage’s legacy.

• Netherworld Burning Sage took control of the Heaven Refining Ancient Array, held back the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and opened a passage for the others to escape.
• Xun Er sent Gu Nanhai through the passage and stayed behind with Xiao Yan and Xia Mo; outside, the clans and Soul Clan waited for the Demon Flame Space to reopen.
• Netherworld Burning Sage extracted the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s memories and intelligence, then vanished with it in the collapse of the formation.
• Xiao Yan and Xun Er found the purified Demon Flame Origin, and Xia Mo explained that Netherworld Burning Sage had left its spirituality intact while removing its human-influenced memories.
• Xia Mo received Netherworld Burning Sage’s techniques and cultivation insights, then agreed to leave as Xiao Yan prepared to refine the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame with Xun Er beside him.

Xia Mo returned from the Demon Flame Space and told the Heavenly Mansion Alliance that Xiao Yan was refining the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. As Soul Hall launched a devastating invasion of the Stone Realm, Xia Mo secretly plundered the Stone Clan’s treasures and cultivation records while the clan faced destruction.

• Xia Mo left Xiao Yan and Xun Er in the Demon Flame Space, then returned to the Heavenly Mansion Alliance and reassured Old Yao that Xiao Yan was safe.
• Xia Mo introduced Demon Fire Stones to the alliance leaders, who prepared to compete with Soul Hall for the new resources.
• Xia Mo spent time with Cai Xi and Xia Han before sensing Soul Hall’s impending attack on the Stone Clan and leaving for the Stone Realm.
• Nihility Devouring Flame and the Soul Clan’s forces invaded the Stone Realm, overwhelming the Stone Clan while Xia Mo slipped inside unnoticed.
• Xia Mo raided the Stone Clan’s Scripture Pavilion, Treasure Pavilion, and repositories of pills and medicinal herbs, storing their contents before preparing to escape.
• Nihility Devouring Flame defeated the Stone Clan’s giant defender, and members of the Tunling Clan rushed to devour him.

Xia Mo helped the Stone Clan break the Soul Clan’s lockdown, rescued a group of bloodline heirs, and brought them to the Heavenly Mansion Alliance after the Stone Clan was destroyed. News of the Stone Clan’s disappearance spread across the continent, prompting the Yao Clan, Lei Clan, and Yan Clan to form an alliance as the Heavenly Mansion Alliance continued growing through its conflict with the Soul Hall.

• Xia Mo agreed to help the dying Stone Clan Chief, while the Stone Clan activated its Heaven Shaking Stone Array and summoned the Stone Emperor’s remnant soul to resist Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Zhu Kun’s phantom broke the Space Lockdown as the Stone Clan Chief and elders charged Nihility Devouring Flame, and the Stone Emperor’s remnant soul sacrificed itself to protect the clan’s descendants.
• Xia Mo rescued Shi Yi, two other adults, and a group of Stone Clan children from a Soul Clan Dou Sheng, then led them away while the Soul Clan massacred the remaining Stone Clan members.
• Xia Mo brought the survivors to the Heavenly Mansion Alliance, where Old Yao agreed to shelter the children and let Shi Yi and the others establish Stone City and search for more descendants.
• The Stone Clan’s disappearance became public, and the Yao Clan, Lei Clan, and Yan Clan formed the Three Clans Alliance while the Heavenly Mansion Alliance expanded through its ongoing war with the Soul Hall.

Xia Mo endured the Lightning Tribulation Creation Pill’s fused lightning-and-fire tribulation, broke through to Peak Dou Sheng, and discovered a passage toward the Great Thousand World that he chose not to open. Elsewhere, Xiao Yan emerged from seclusion after refining the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and he and Xun Er found that the flame had become a Fire Infant.

• Xia Mo took the Lightning Tribulation Creation Pill and endured half a year of lightning and flames that destroyed and reforged his body while strengthening his battle qi.
• Xia Mo let his Monster Core fill to its limit and shatter, transforming his body into energy-storage spaces and reaching the tenth tier at Peak Dou Sheng.
• Xia Mo detected a planar passage toward the Great Thousand World, judged that opening it might expose the Dou Qi Continent to danger, and withdrew without breaking through the planar restraints.
• Xiao Yan emerged from seclusion after a year and a half with the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame refined, having reached the initial stage of Five Star Dou Sheng, while Xun Er’s strength rose to the late stage of Four Star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yan summoned the flames within his body and discovered they had taken the form of an affectionate Fire Infant.

Xia Mo returned to the Star Realm, reunited with Zi Yan and Han Han, then went to the Demon Fire Plain at Old Yao’s request to check on Xiao Yan and deal with the Soul Hall. He destroyed the branch there and returned to the Star Realm with Xiao Yan, leaving the Heavenly Mansion Alliance newly confident about facing the Soul Hall.

• Xia Mo returned to the Star Realm and found Zi Yan playing with Han Han; Zi Yan complained that she had been burdened with Dragon Island duties after leaving seclusion.
• Old Yao asked Xia Mo to check on Xiao Yan at the Demon Fire Plain and handle the Soul Hall’s clashes with the Heavenly Mansion Alliance.
• Xia Mo saved Captain Jin and the Xuan Team from Soul Hall forces, killed their attackers, and reunited with Xiao Yan and Xun Er.
• Captain Jin told Xiao Yan that the Stone Clan had vanished and warned Xia Mo that a Soul Hall branch nearby was guarded by a one-star Dou Sheng.
• Xia Mo took Captain Jin to the branch, killed Saint Hun Qing, and destroyed the Soul Hall branch; he promoted the Xuan Team to Earth-rank inner alliance members and revealed himself as Young Alliance Master Xia Mo.
• Xia Mo and Xiao Yan returned to the Star Realm, where the Alliance learned Xiao Yan could stand against the Soul Hall Master; Xia Mo then went back to the courtyard to see Han Han.

The Heavenly Mansion Alliance and Soul Hall prepared for a decisive battle, which began at Fallen Peak with Xiao Yan accepting Soul Hall's challenge. After Xiao Chen clashed with Hun Qianmo and was driven back, the Soul Hall Master stepped forward as the third fighter.

• Han Han named Zi Yan's longevity cat Bun, and Xia Mo returned to the courtyard to spend time with his family.
• Old Yao ordered the Heavenly Mansion Alliance to prepare for war, and Soul Hall's blood-red challenge letter called Xiao Yan to fight at Fallen Peak.
• Xiao Yan accepted the challenge, and both factions gathered before a vast crowd at Fallen Peak three days later.
• The Soul Hall Master proposed a best-of-three death match, and Xiao Yan accepted to avoid the losses of an all-out war.
• Xiao Chen challenged Hun Qianmo but was forced back by their clash, while Zi Yan offered to intervene and Xia Mo said someone else would act.
• The Soul Hall Master stepped forward to serve as Soul Hall's third fighter.

The Pill Tower Ancestor joined the Heavenly Mansion Alliance’s decisive battle and fought Hun Qianmo to a draw, while Xiao Chen and Elder Hun Mo also fought to a draw after both exhausted themselves. With two rounds tied, the outcome rested on Xiao Yan’s final match against Soul Hall Master Hun Miesheng, who faced him over their shared history and the Xiao Clan’s blood debt.

• The Pill Tower Ancestor appeared to confront Hun Qianmo, and the two entered a constructed space to fight.
• Xiao Chen battled Elder Hun Mo, who unleashed a Soul Guava; Xiao Chen raised his strength to Late Stage Five Star Dou Sheng, while Hun Mo devoured the Gu insect to survive his final attack, and their round ended in a draw.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor and Hun Qianmo emerged from their battle and declared it a draw, leaving the Alliance’s score tied.
• Hun Qianmo and Elder Hun Mo urged Soul Hall Master Hun Miesheng to take the final match against Xiao Yan.
• Hun Miesheng admitted his role in ordering Xiao Zhan’s capture and said he wanted to settle his responsibility, while Xiao Yan vowed to settle the Xiao Clan’s blood debt.

Xiao Yan fought Hun Miesheng at Fallen Peak, where the Soul Hall Master revealed a child flame of the Nihility Devouring Flame to counter Xiao Yan’s Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. Little Yi overcame and devoured the child flame, helping Xiao Yan defeat Hun Miesheng as both sides avoided a full-scale battle, leaving the Heavenly Mansion Alliance poised to surpass Soul Hall as the Central Continent’s leading force.

• Xiao Yan used the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and Yellow Spring Heavenly Wrath against Hun Miesheng, but the Soul Hall Master endured the attacks with his soul techniques and a child flame of the Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Hun Miesheng absorbed Xiao Yan’s flames with the child flame, but Little Yi broke its flame prison, overpowered it, and devoured it.
• Hun Qianmo and Elder Hun Mo moved to rescue the child flame, but Old Yao, Xiao Chen, the Pill Tower Ancestor, and the Sky Mansion experts stopped them, and Hun Qianmo ordered both sides to withdraw rather than start a decisive battle.
• Little Yi attacked Hun Miesheng with fire lotuses, and Xiao Yan struck him while he was distracted, forcing the Soul Hall Master to retreat and declare that he would reclaim the debt later.
• Little Yi launched another barrage of fire lotuses that engulfed Hun Miesheng, and the observers judged Xiao Yan the winner as the Heavenly Mansion Alliance’s position in the Central Continent rose.

After the Heavenly Mansion Alliance defeated the Soul Hall, Old Yao took Xia Mo to an ancient ruin where he had found the Fen Jue, intending to retrieve another inheritance at great personal risk. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan discovered Little Yi could absorb the devouring power from a black bead and feed pure energy back to him; Old Yao and Xia Mo reached the ruin and began searching for the hidden inheritance.

• Hun Qianmo retreated with the Soul Hall after Xiao Yan killed the Soul Hall Master, and the Heavenly Mansion Alliance became the Central Continent’s new hegemon.
• Old Yao told Xia Mo that he owed him a gift, then revealed to Venerable Wind that he planned to return to the ruin tied to the Fen Jue and its dangerous hidden inheritance.
• Xiao Yan watched Little Yi absorb the black bead formed from the Nihility Devouring Flame’s child flame, gaining the ability to devour energy and strengthen Xiao Yan through feedback.
• Old Yao took Xia Mo to the ancient ruin where he had obtained the Fen Jue and explained how he had escaped from it years before.
• Old Yao cleared rubble from a damaged hall and found a palm-sized depression in the floor.

Old Yao brought Xia Mo to a sealed inheritance gate and sacrificed his own life force to open it, sending Xia Mo inside. Xia Mo reached a blood-red realm of deadly Heavenly Stairways, where he climbed alone as cultivators across the realm were slaughtered and his body strengthened toward a possible tribulation.

• Old Yao revealed that the left passage held an unknown inheritance and led Xia Mo to a sealed gate bearing a Taiji diagram.
• Xia Mo chose to enter despite the danger, and Old Yao used his blood, soul, and Dou Qi to open the gate at great cost to his life force and cultivation.
• Xia Mo crossed a heavenly road into a dark-red world and began climbing a ten-thousand-step Heavenly Stairway, learning that only physical strength worked on its steps and that anyone who fell was devoured below.
• Xia Mo climbed past the two-thousandth step with little difficulty as other Dou Sheng cultivators struggled and many climbers fell to their deaths.
• Blood Shadows massacred the cultivators left behind in the passages, while Xia Mo continued climbing, grew stronger under the pressure, and sensed that he could trigger a heavenly tribulation.

Xia Mo climbed the Heavenly Ladder while Blood Shadows hunted the cultivators below, and he learned that the ladder’s pressure made rapid flight dangerous and cultivation energy deadly to use. At the four-thousandth step, he rested as a group of exhausted cultivators faced the Blood Shadows below, and Xia Mo sought a way to help them despite being unable to retreat.

• Xia Mo continued climbing cautiously, while more Dou Sheng cultivators entered the Heavenly Ladder and climbed behind him.
• Blood Shadows emerged from the dark crimson world and pursued the cultivators, forcing them to balance their speed against the ladder’s increasing pressure.
• Two cultivators separately sacrificed themselves by dragging Blood Shadows off the Heavenly Ladder, frightening the remaining pursuers and prey.
• Xia Mo reached the four-thousandth step, adapted to the pressure, and waited on its platform as a battered group warned him that Blood Shadows were coming.
• The exhausted cultivators stopped to fight when they could climb no farther, and Xia Mo tried to find a way to help them as more than a dozen Blood Shadows charged.