Chapter Summaries

Lu Chuan and Xiao Yu entered the Ancient Realm with the Ancient Clan’s guests and traveled to the Ancient Sacred Mountain Range. Gu Nan Hai escorted Lu Chuan to meet several Ancient Clan elders, and Lu Chuan agreed, saying he had something to tell the clan’s leaders.

• An Ancient Clan Elder warned the guests not to wander in the Ancient Realm or disturb its Descendants, and Lu Chuan explained the Descendants’ place in the clan to Xiao Yu.
• The Space Gate opened, and Lu Chuan, Xiao Yu, and the other guests entered the Ancient Realm.
• The guests boarded the Ancient Clan’s Void-Piercing Boats, where the Black Mist Army kept watch over them.
• After reaching the Ancient Sacred Mountain Range, Gu Nan Hai escorted Lu Chuan and Xiao Yu, then invited Lu Chuan to meet the Ancient Clan elders.
• Lu Chuan accepted the invitation and said he had something to convey to the Ancient Clan’s higher-ups.

Lu Chuan persuaded the Ancient Clan elders to grant Xiao Yu a spot in the Heavenly Tomb by arguing that the clan had long occupied the Xiao Clan’s allotted places. After they left, the elders discussed Xiao Yu and warned each other not to pursue Xiao Xuan’s Tomb Mansion.

• Gu Nan Hai brought Lu Chuan and Xiao Yu before the Ancient Clan elders, who welcomed Lu Chuan and asked about his grudge against Soul Hall.
• Lu Chuan introduced Xiao Yu as a member of the Xiao Clan and requested a Heavenly Tomb spot for her.
• The elders questioned Xiao Yu’s identity and resisted giving up a place, but Lu Chuan argued that the Xiao Clan’s spots had been occupied and that the absent Spirit Clan left places available.
• The strongest elder approved a spot for Xiao Yu, and Lu Chuan left the hall with her.
• After Lu Chuan departed, the elders discussed investigating Xiao Yu and warned that Xiao Xuan’s Tomb Mansion was too difficult to enter by force.

Lu Chuan and Xiao Yu attended the Ancient Clan’s coming-of-age ceremony, where young clan members displayed their bloodline grades and received Clan Marks. The ceremony continued with Gu Zhen earning a faint Purple Gold Clan Mark, while Xiao Yu grew more interested in gaining bloodline power.

• Lu Chuan, Xiao Yu, and Gu Nan Hai went to the Ancient Clan’s coming-of-age ceremony at the central plaza.
• Ling Quan revealed a Sixth Grade Bloodline and received a Golden Clan Mark for his service as Seventh Commander of the Black Mist Army.
• Lu Chuan explained to Xiao Yu the bloodline rankings and how Clan Marks could temporarily boost their bearers’ strength.
• Lin Xiu and other young Ancient Clan members received Golden Clan Marks after revealing their bloodline grades.
• Gu Zhen revealed a Seventh Grade Bloodline and, for his military merit and steady temperament, received a faint Purple Gold Clan Mark.

Gu Yao earned an Eight-grade Bloodline Level and a Purple Gold Clan Mark, then challenged Xiao Yu to win back a Heavenly Tomb entry for Gu Zhen. Xiao Yu revealed overwhelming strength, and Gu Yao began unleashing the Great Annihilation Technique as their battle escalated.

• Gu Yao manifested eight stars on the star plate and received a Purple Gold Clan Mark for his bloodline and strength.
• Gu Yao invoked his right to challenge Xiao Yu and proposed that the loser give up their Heavenly Tomb slot, hoping to restore Gu Zhen's qualification.
• Xiao Yu accepted Gu Yao's challenge after Lu Chuan told her not to hold back.
• Xiao Yu and Gu Yao exchanged attacks, forcing the Ancient Clan elders to seal off the square as their clash shattered the ground.
• Gu Yao drew on his combat experience and Heaven-tier techniques, then began forming the Great Annihilation Technique after Xiao Yu displayed her true strength.

Xiao Yu defeated Gu Yao in the plaza, costing him his qualification to enter the Heavenly Tomb. Xun'er then revealed a Nine-grade Bloodline, leaving the Ancient Clan astonished by her potential to become a Dou Saint.

• Xiao Yu used the Great Creation Palm to defeat Gu Yao, who was thrown from the arena and admitted defeat.
• Xiao Yu revoked Gu Yao's qualification to enter the Heavenly Tomb and returned to sit beside Lu Chuan.
• Soul Clan members resolved to report Xiao Yu's victory, while the Black Mist Army commanders remarked on her strength and Gu Yao's lost opportunity.
• Gu Nan Hai repaired the plaza, took over the ceremony, and called Xun'er forward.
• Xun'er activated the star chart, which displayed nine stars and confirmed her Nine-grade Bloodline.

Gu Xun'er revealed a Divine-grade Bloodline, causing the star plate to shatter and overwhelming many Ancient Clan members. Gu Nan Hai then used the Seven-Colored Heavenly Emperor Brush to draw a Seven-Colored Clan Pattern on her forehead, and its power made more onlookers kneel.

• Gu Xun'er's bloodline power reached its peak, cracked the star plate, and manifested a tenth golden star.
• The star plate exploded as a golden pillar rose from Gu Xun'er, and the Ancient Clan recognized her Divine-grade Bloodline.
• Gu Nan Hai summoned the Seven-Colored Heavenly Emperor Brush and began drawing a Seven-Colored Clan Pattern on Xun'er.
• After nearly ten minutes, Gu Nan Hai completed the pattern, which erupted in light and made powerful Ancient Clan members kneel.
• An aged laugh rang out, welcoming the Seven-Colored Clan Pattern's return to the Ancient Clan after a thousand years.

After Gu Xun'er’s Divine-grade Bloodline drew attention and murderous intent from the Soul Clan, Lu Chuan warned her of danger and prepared Xiao Yu for the Heavenly Tomb. The chapter ended with Lu Chuan and Xiao Yu arriving at the gathering place as the Tomb’s opening approached.

• Gu Xun’er’s ceremony revealed her Divine-grade Bloodline, prompting Soul Clan members to plan to kill her inside the Heavenly Tomb.
• Gu Nan Hai took Lu Chuan and Xiao Yu away from the ceremony, and Gu Xun’er followed them to speak with Xiao Yu and meet Lu Chuan.
• Lu Chuan warned Gu Xun’er that hostile figures were targeting her, then left with Xiao Yu.
• When the Heavenly Tomb’s opening day arrived, Lu Chuan reminded Xiao Yu to wait for his signal before using the Spatial Jade Slip to move between its levels.
• Lu Chuan and Xiao Yu reached a mountain peak where the eligible representatives of the Ancient Races had gathered.

The Heavenly Tomb opened, and Xiao Yu entered while Lu Chuan stayed outside and left the Ancient Clan’s territory. Xiao Yu began cultivating inside the tomb as she waited for the right time to contact him.

• Lu Chuan recognized that the Spirit Clan had fallen to the Soul Clan and learned that its two entry slots had gone to the Ancient Clan.
• The Heavenly Tomb’s gate opened, and Xiao Yu entered after Lu Chuan agreed she should contact him with the Communication Stone.
• Lu Chuan declined Gu Nan Hai’s invitation to stay and left, planning to return for Xiao Yu in half a year.
• Xiao Yu arrived safely in the Heavenly Tomb, defeated a phantom, and obtained a low-grade Energy Core.
• Xiao Yu found a quiet place and began cultivating while she waited.

Lu Chuan reunited with Xiao Yu in the Heavenly Tomb and carried her through its first two levels, rescuing Gu Xun'er along the way. They entered the second level and used Lu Chuan's Natal Divine Fire to pass through a solidified energy curtain, where Xiao Yu discovered how the crystal walls repaired themselves.

• Xiao Yu crushed a Space Jade Slip and reunited with Lu Chuan after spending over half a month in the Heavenly Tomb.
• Lu Chuan took Xiao Yu toward the second level and killed the two Soul Clan members attacking Gu Xun'er.
• Lu Chuan and Xiao Yu crossed into the second level, where Lu Chuan swiftly destroyed the energy beings and collected their Energy Cores.
• Lu Chuan and Xiao Yu fled an approaching energy storm and reached a solidified energy curtain blocking their way.
• Lu Chuan summoned his Natal Divine Fire to melt a passage through the curtain, and Xiao Yu noticed energy beings secreting material to repair the crystal wall.

Lu Chuan and Xiao Yu entered the Third Layer of the Heavenly Tomb after Lu Chuan took the Ancient Worm Mother, whose absence drove the Ancient Devouring Worms to burst into powder outside their crystal wall. They traveled onward, and Xiao Yu confronted an energy body who called himself the Blood Saber Saint.

• Lu Chuan explained the Ancient Devouring Worms to Xiao Yu and took their sleeping insect emperor, the Ancient Worm Mother, before leading her through the crystal wall.
• The Ancient Devouring Worms pursued them, but they exploded into white powder when they flew more than ten feet beyond the light curtain; Lu Chuan explained that they had lost their emperor.
• Lu Chuan let Xiao Yu handle eighth- and ninth-tier energy bodies as they crossed the Third Layer of the Heavenly Tomb.
• Lu Chuan and Xiao Yu encountered a powerful energy body seated beside a Ghost-Head Saber atop a giant stone mountain, and Xiao Yu volunteered to fight him.
• The energy body called himself the Blood Saber Saint, became enraged when Xiao Yu dismissed his name, and flashed toward her.

Xiao Yu’s Xiao Clan bloodline mark frightened Blood Saber Saint, who revealed a safe route through the Heavenly Tomb before two Soul Clan Dou Saints attacked her. Blood Saber Saint tried to protect her, but Xiao Xuan appeared and freed them from the Soul Clan elders’ spatial restraint.

• Xiao Yu fought Blood Saber Saint and activated the Heavenly Fire Three Profound Transformations, revealing a Xiao Clan bloodline mark that made him retreat after directing her west.
• Lu Chuan explained that Xiao Xuan might remain in the Heavenly Tomb, and two Soul Clan elders appeared and declared their intent to kill Xiao Yu.
• One elder froze Xiao Yu in place, but Blood Saber Saint intervened and slashed apart the restraint.
• The Soul Clan elders froze Blood Saber Saint and one moved to kill him, but an ancient voice shattered the frozen space.
• Xiao Xuan emerged from the void, terrifying the two Soul Clan Dou Saints as Xiao Yu felt her bloodline stir.

Xiao Xuan’s projected image destroyed two Soul Clan Dou Saints and welcomed Xiao Yu as a descendant of the Xiao Clan. He led Lu Chuan and Xiao Yu to the deepest part of the Heavenly Tomb, where an ancient stone stele stood.

• Xiao Xuan collapsed space and killed the two Soul Clan Dou Saints as they tried to flee.
• Xiao Xuan recognized Xiao Yu as a descendant of the Xiao Clan, and she paid her respects to him.
• Xiao Xuan allowed Blood Saber Saint to remain in the Heavenly Tomb, and Blood Saber Saint left.
• Xiao Xuan praised Lu Chuan’s abilities, and Lu Chuan replied that powerful bloodlines were not necessary for becoming a Dou Emperor.
• Xiao Xuan led Lu Chuan and Xiao Yu to the deepest part of the Heavenly Tomb and pointed out an ancient stone stele.

Xiao Xuan explained how the Xiao Clan’s bloodline nearly vanished and revealed that its clan markings came from the Heavenly Fire Three Profound Transformations. He poured the bloodline power he had preserved into a pool and urged Xiao Yu to inherit it, leaving the Xiao Clan’s last hope in her hands.

• Xiao Yu told Xiao Xuan that the Xiao Clan had dwindled to a fallen family, and he said he had expected its decline but was glad the lineage survived.
• Xiao Xuan recounted how the clan transferred its bloodline power into him in a final attempt to produce a Dou Emperor, only for the Soul Clan to ambush and fatally wound him.
• Xiao Xuan revealed that the Heavenly Fire Three Profound Transformations could cultivate the Xiao Clan’s markings and promised to teach Xiao Yu its missing final step.
• Xiao Xuan entered the pool and released the bloodline power he had sealed, growing old as the water turned red.
• Xiao Xuan called on Xiao Yu to enter the blood pool and inherit the Xiao Clan’s final bloodline power.

Xiao Yu underwent Xiao Xuan's bloodline inheritance, enduring Blood Replacement before absorbing the Xiao Clan's bloodline power and reaching One Star Dou Saint. Xiao Xuan gave her the complete Heavenly Fire Three Profound Transformations, and she began cultivating the Xiao Clan's powerful clan mark.

• Xiao Yu entered the blood pool and endured the painful Blood Replacement while Lu Chuan and Xiao Xuan watched over her.
• After more than twenty days, Xiao Xuan began infusing Xiao Yu with bloodline power, and she absorbed the energy stored in the pool.
• Xiao Yu advanced through the Half-Saint stages and broke through to One Star Dou Saint.
• Xiao Xuan gave Xiao Yu the complete Heavenly Fire Three Profound Transformations, including its final step.
• Xiao Yu practiced the technique, causing a pattern to emerge between her brows as she began forming the Xiao Clan's clan mark.

Lu Chuan returned from the Heavenly Tomb and learned that Xiao Yu was cultivating the Xiao Clan’s mark, then decided to take Queen Medusa to the Nine Nether Yellow Springs to help her advance. They reached the guarded Nine Nether Abyss, one of the entrances to the Nine Nether Underworld Python Clan’s underground territory.

• Lu Chuan left Xiao Yu in the Heavenly Tomb to cultivate and used the Space Conversion Banner to return to the Harem.
• Lu Chuan told Yun Yun and the others that Xiao Yu’s cultivation could let her rival a Two-Star Dou Sheng, and promised to find treasures to help them advance.
• Lu Chuan considered Queen Medusa’s potential to evolve into a Nine-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python and planned to take her to the Nine Nether Yellow Springs.
• Queen Medusa agreed to go with Lu Chuan, and they used the Space Conversion Banner to reach the Beast Region.
• Lu Chuan and Queen Medusa traveled to the Nine Nether Abyss, the guarded passage into the Nine Nether Underworld Python Clan’s underground territory.

Lu Chuan and Queen Medusa secretly reached the Nine Nether Yellow Springs so Queen Medusa could cultivate there, while Lu Chuan descended to its depths. He uncovered massive chains after hearing a faint plea for help, leaving the imprisoned being's identity unknown.

• Lu Chuan used Space Power to bring Queen Medusa unseen through the Underworld Snake Earth Vein to the Nine Nether Yellow Springs.
• Lu Chuan told Queen Medusa to begin cultivating in the Yellow Springs' surface waters and plunged into the depths himself.
• Black strange snakes attacked Lu Chuan with dark water arrows, but he continued toward the bottom.
• Lu Chuan heard someone faintly call for help and found a massive iron chain buried in the sandy ground.
• Lu Chuan pulled up the chain, causing three more massive chains to rise from the silt.

Lu Chuan freed Yao Ming, the former Nine Nether Underworld Python Clan Leader, from his centuries-long imprisonment in the Nine Nether Yellow Springs after Yao Ming pledged to serve him. The seal’s breaking alerted Yao Xiao Tian, who realized Yao Ming had escaped.

• Yao Ming begged Lu Chuan to save him and promised that the Nine Nether Underworld Python Clan would acknowledge Lu Chuan as its master.
• Yao Ming revealed that Yao Xiao Tian had poisoned him, seized his leadership, and sealed him in the Yellow Springs.
• Lu Chuan showed Yao Ming his Five-Star Dou Saint strength, and Yao Ming willingly submitted to him.
• Lu Chuan shattered the Yellow Springs Yin Stone, allowing Yao Ming to break free from his chains.
• Yao Xiao Tian sensed that the seal suppressing Yao Ming had broken and alerted an elder in his palace.

Lu Chuan freed Yao Ming from the Nine Nether Yellow Springs and gave him a Yellow Springs Blood Crystal and a healing pill. After Yao Xiao Tian confronted them, Lu Chuan restrained him and left the brothers to settle their grudge; their first clash ended in a draw.

• Yao Xiao Tian left the clan hall after an elder warned him that Yao Ming might escape, while the old man reassured the gathering.
• Yao Ming gave Lu Chuan his remaining Yellow Springs Blood Crystal, and Lu Chuan gave him a restorative pill before they ascended from the springs.
• Yao Ming and Lu Chuan emerged from the Yellow Springs, where Yao Ming confronted Yao Xiao Tian and vowed revenge.
• Yao Xiao Tian threatened Lu Chuan and Yao Ming, but Lu Chuan sealed Yao Xiao Tian's Dou Qi and then released him so Yao Ming could face him.
• Yao Xiao Tian attacked with the Yellow Springs Finger, and Yao Ming met it with the same Dou Skill, causing both attacks to dissipate.

Yao Ming revealed his identity and challenged Yao Xiao Tian for control of the Nine Nether Underworld Python Clan. After proving his claim with the Nine Nether Dark Staff and overpowering Yao Xiao Tian, he faced the Great Elder’s attack.

• Yao Xiao Tian tried to send the tribal leaders away and claimed Yao Ming was an impostor, but Yao Ming told the clan that Yao Xiao Tian and the Great Elder had poisoned and sealed him.
• Elder Xian, Elder Ming, and Elder Liu recognized Yao Ming, and Yao Ming presented the Nine Nether Dark Staff as proof of his claim to the clan leadership.
• The elders affirmed that possession of the staff made Yao Ming the rightful Clan Leader, while Yao Xiao Tian and the Great Elder resolved to kill him rather than surrender the position.
• Yao Ming revealed his Two-Star Dou Sheng strength and attacked Yao Xiao Tian, injuring him badly despite being able to use only part of his power.
• The Great Elder moved to kill Yao Ming with the Withered Leaf Great Poison Palm.

Lu Chuan helped Yao Ming defeat the Nine Nether Underworld Python Clan’s Great Elder, and Yao Ming killed Yao Tian Xiao to reclaim his position. The Great Elder escaped by turning into countless energy snakes, but Lu Chuan tracked him into the Underworld Snake Earth Vein.

• Lu Chuan blocked the Great Elder’s attack, sealed his Dou Qi, and left his fate to Yao Ming.
• Yao Ming defeated Yao Tian Xiao in a brutal fight and killed him, ripping out his Magic Core.
• Yao Ming confronted the Great Elder, who tried to escape by exploding into a swarm of energy snakes.
• Lu Chuan sent a streak of light into a fissure after the Great Elder, and a scream came from below.