Chapter Summaries

Lu Chuan's overwhelming strength forced Hun Jing to retreat and made Nihility Devouring Flame reconsider the Soul Clan's assault on the Yao Clan. Nihility Devouring Flame concluded the Soul Clan could no longer press the attack, leaving Hun Yan unwilling to accept a retreat.

• Lu Chuan's golden fist shattered Hun Jing's defense, and Hun Jing fled rather than risk being killed.
• Hun Yan mocked Hun Jing for retreating, but Hun Jing argued that survival mattered more than keeping their wager.
• The Yao Clan members, Cao Ying, and Xue Mei saw Lu Chuan's strength and gained hope that the crisis could be overcome.
• Nihility Devouring Flame warned Hun Yan that Lu Chuan's physical power surpassed even that of the Ancient Void Dragons.
• Nihility Devouring Flame judged that continuing the assault would cost the Soul Clan too much and said the affair could no longer be pursued.
• Hun Yan resisted the prospect of retreating, fearing the Soul Clan's failed plan would drive other clans to unite against them.

Nihility Devouring Flame withdrew the Soul Clan from the Medicine Realm after the spatial blockade fell, while Lu Chuan let them escape to avoid a wider conflict. Hun Sha and Hun Tu learned that the plan had failed and fled, leaving the Yao Clan to mourn its heavy losses.

• Nihility Devouring Flame lifted the spatial blockade and opened a passage so the Soul Clan could retreat from the Medicine Realm.
• The Yao Clan and sect experts attacked the fleeing Soul Clan, but Nihility Devouring Flame blocked them and escaped through the passage.
• Lu Chuan allowed the Soul Clan to leave, noting that Hun Jing had become his spy within their ranks.
• Hun Sha and Hun Tu discovered the blockade had vanished, discussed the Soul Clan's past plans, then received Hun Yan's warning and fled.
• The Medicine Realm lay in ruins, with nearly two-tenths of the Yao Clan's descendants dead and its survivors grieving.

After the Soul Clan withdrew, Yao Dan thanked Lu Chuan and the allied experts for saving the Yao Clan. The Lei and Yan Clans arrived to support the survivors, and Yao Dan explained why Lu Chuan’s power rivaled the Nihility Devouring Flame.

• Yao Dan knelt to thank Lu Chuan and the allied experts, but Lu Chuan urged him to focus on the Yao Clan’s recovery.
• Lu Chuan left the ruined Medicine Realm with Yao Chen, Cao Ying, Xue Mei, and the others using the Void Conversion Banner.
• Lei Ying led the Lei Clan army through a Space Tunnel and offered condolences to Yao Dan.
• Yan Jin arrived with the Yan Clan army and condemned the Soul Clan’s attack.
• Yao Dan told Yan Jin that Lu Chuan had fused seven or eight Heavenly Flames, prompting Yan Jin to acknowledge Lu Chuan’s strength.

After Nihility Devouring Flame transformed into Tunling and caused heavy casualties among the Yao Clan, Yao Dan and the clan leaders discussed the ancient Tunling Clan’s history and its possible connection to the Soul Clan. They suspected the Soul Clan had been stealing other clans’ bloodline power, but concluded it could still be opposed, especially with the Ancient Clan’s strength.

• Yao Dan led Lei Ying, Yan Jin, and the others into a hall, where he explained that Nihility Devouring Flame had split into countless Tunling and caused many Yao Clan deaths.
• Yao Dan, Lei Ying, and Yan Jin recalled how the Tunling Clan had once devoured other Ancient Races’ bloodline power before a coalition destroyed it.
• Yao Dan and Lei Ying noted that the Soul Clan had killed the Tunling Clan’s last leader, and Lei Ying suggested it might have acquired something from him.
• Yan Jin proposed that the Soul Clan had destroyed Ancient Races and gained the Tunling Clan’s bloodline-devouring ability, possibly treating other clans as bloodline sources.
• Lei Ying argued that the Soul Clan was not invincible, citing Soul Heavenly Emperor’s grievous wounds from Xiao Xuan and the Soul Clan’s need to seal the Yao Clan Space.
• Yao Dan agreed that the Ancient Clan would oppose the Soul Clan, and Lei Ying pointed to Gu Yuan’s peak Nine-Star Dou Saint cultivation as a reason the Soul Clan feared it.

The leaders of the Yao, Yan, and Lei Clans discussed the Ancient Clan’s strength and assessed the formidable Demon Saint and the forces under his command. Lei Ying concluded that the Demon Saint would not join their side against the Soul Clan, so the clans turned back to planning their resistance.

• Lei Ying, Yan Jin, and Yao Wanhuo acknowledged that the Ancient Clan’s experts and foundations surpassed those of their clans.
• Yao Wanhuo estimated that more than ten Dou Saints served the Demon Saint and speculated that his total forces could be twice those already revealed.
• Yao Dan compared the Demon Saint’s feat of nearly killing a Seven-Star Dou Saint in one strike with the limits of his own and the other clan leaders’ strength.
• The clan leaders debated whether the Demon Saint’s giant form and immense power came from a bloodline talent, Dou Technique, or ancient bloodline.
• Lei Ying stated that the Demon Saint was not an Ancient Clan member and would neither plunder their bloodlines nor join them against the Soul Clan.
• The three clans resumed discussing how to resist the Soul Clan.

The Yao, Yan, and Lei Clans decided to seek an alliance with the Ancient Clan after the Soul Clan’s attack left them vulnerable, while Lu Chuan’s followers grew stronger from powerful pills. Lu Chuan then planned to use his remaining pills to strengthen Zi Yan’s Great Void Dragon Clan.

• Lei Ying proposed that the Yao, Yan, and Lei Clans form a Four Clans Alliance with the Ancient Clan, and Yan Jin and Yao Dan agreed.
• The three clans gathered their people and armies and departed the ruined Medicine Realm for the Ancient Realm.
• Yao Chen advanced to early Six-Star Dou Saint, Xiao Chen reached late Six-Star, and Lu Chuan’s other followers also improved their cultivation.
• Lu Chuan decided to use his remaining pills to support Zi Yan’s Great Void Dragon Clan and asked how many Dou Saints it had.
• Zi Yan said her clan had twenty Dou Saints besides herself, including Zhu Xi and Zhu Nan at early Four-Star and the Great Elder at Three-Star.

Lu Chuan strengthened the magical beast clans with pills while the Yao, Lei, and Yan Clans arrived in Ancient Clan territory to warn Gu Yuan that the Soul Clan was behind the destruction of the Ling and Shi Clans. Gu Yuan learned the Soul Clan had nearly destroyed the Yao Clan, and the Ancient Clan prepared to face the growing threat.

• Lu Chuan gave Zi Yan pills for the Dragon Clan and sent pills to the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and the Nine Nether Underworld Python Clan.
• The armies of the Yao, Lei, and Yan Clans reached Ancient Clan territory after traveling through spatial transmission passages.
• Gu Yuan stopped the armies and asked Lei Ying, Yan Jin, and Yao Dan whether they intended to fight the Ancient Clan.
• Yao Dan told Gu Yuan that the Soul Clan had destroyed the Ling and Shi Clans and had recently attacked the Yao Clan.
• Gu Yuan recognized the danger posed by the Soul Clan, and the Three Immortals of the Ancient Clan arrived to join him.

Gu Yuan learned that the Soul Clan had used the Nihility Devouring Flame to steal bloodline power and swallow the Medicine Realm, then agreed to ally with the Lei, Yan, and Yao Clans against them. The allied clans gathered in the Ancient Realm as the Ancient Clan prepared for war and sheltered the weakened Yao Clan.

• Gu Yuan learned from Yao Dan, Lei Ying, and Yan Jin that the Nihility Devouring Flame could seize bloodline power and had swallowed the Medicine Realm into its body.
• Gu Yuan and the clan leaders concluded that the Soul Clan had attacked the Ling, Shi, and Yao Clans to harvest bloodline power and obtain the Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Lei Ying warned that the Soul Clan already held three pieces of Ancient Jade and might seek the remaining five to open Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion.
• Gu Yuan agreed to form an alliance with the Lei, Yan, and Yao Clans to resist the Soul Clan.
• Gu Yuan opened a Space Gate to the Ancient Realm, where the allied armies gathered and the Yao Clan received a protected area to settle in.

The Lei Clan youths challenged the Ancient Clan’s Black Mist Army, but the confrontation was interrupted when Gu Yuan sensed Soul Heavenly Emperor’s arrival. Soul Heavenly Emperor appeared with Nihility Devouring Flame and the Four Demon Saints, leaving the gathered clans on high alert.

• Lei Dong and the Lei Clan youths taunted the Black Mist Army and challenged the Ancient Clan’s younger generation.
• Gu Yuan sensed someone in the empty space and warned that Soul Heavenly Emperor was hiding nearby.
• The Three Immortals of the Ancient Clan and the other Ancient Clan experts took to the sky and prepared for an attack.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor emerged from a spatial vortex, accompanied by Nihility Devouring Flame and the Four Demon Saints.
• The Ancient Clan raised defensive barriers as Soul Heavenly Emperor greeted Gu Yuan, Lei Ying, Yan Jin, and Yao Dan.

Soul Heavenly Emperor and Nihility Devouring Flame confronted Gu Yuan and the allied clans in the Ancient Realm while keeping Gu Yuan occupied. The Ancient Clan’s ancestral alarm revealed that Elder Gu Yang had stolen the Ancient Jade, and Gu Yuan ordered the realm sealed and a search begun.

• Gu Yuan and Lei Ying questioned Soul Heavenly Emperor about the Ling and Shi Clans, and he implied that the Soul Clan was responsible for their disappearance.
• Gu Yuan identified Nihility Devouring Flame as the last Spirit Devourer King and learned that he had reached the initial stage of Nine-Star Dou Saint.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor and the Soul Clan remained in a standoff with Gu Yuan and the other clans, prompting Yan Jin to warn Gu Yuan of a possible trick.
• Gu Yuan realized the Soul Clan was after the Tou She Ancient God Jade just as the Ancient Clan’s ancestral hall alarm sounded.
• A messenger reported that Elder Gu Yang had wounded ancestral hall elders and stolen the Ancient Jade.
• Gu Yuan ordered the Ancient Realm sealed and sent Gu Dao and two others with the Black Mist Army to search for Gu Yang.

The Soul Clan confronted the Ancient Clan while Gu Yuan and the other leaders fought to hold them off. As both sides stalled over the stolen Ancient Jade, Xun’er and the Ancient Clan searched for Gu Yang, with Yao Dan using his Spiritual Power to find him.

• Gu Yuan attacked the Soul Heavenly Emperor, who blocked him with a massive Black Hole, while the Four Demon Saints moved to stop the Ancient Clan’s Three Immortals.
• Yan Jin and Lei Ying moved to fight Nihility Devouring Flame, leaving the Ancient Clan leaders unable to assist with the search.
• Gu Dao ordered Xun’er and Gu Qingyang to search the mountains for Gu Yang and directed the Ancient Clan elders to seal the Ancient Realm and protect the Sacred Mountain Range.
• Yao Dan ordered the Yao Clan experts to reinforce the Ancient Clan’s defenses, then began scanning the mountain range with his Spiritual Power.
• Xun’er told the searchers to surround the mountain range and prepare to intercept Gu Yang if Yao Dan found him.

Lu Chuan anticipated the Soul Clan’s campaign against the Ancient Clan while remaining uninvolved in the coming decisive battle. In the Ancient Realm, the clans uncovered Gu Yang’s escape, but the infiltrator revealed his true identity and fought to flee as Yao Dan arrived to stop him.

• Lu Chuan predicted that the Soul Clan would gather the Ancient Jade pieces except the Xiao Clan’s, and expected the Ancient, Lei, Yan, and Yao Clans to fight them.
• Yao Dan located Gu Yang, and Xun’er and the Black Mist Army warriors found him emerging from a mountain amid lava.
• Gu Yang broke through the Black Mist Army’s Spirit Binding Net by striking its weak points and fled toward the Soul Clan’s forces.
• The Four Demon Saints obstructed Gu Dao and others, while Xun’er, Gu Qingyang, Lei Dong, Yao Tian, Huo Xuan, and other young experts pursued Gu Yang.
• Gu Yang revealed that Lord Void had fused his soul with the real Gu Yang’s a hundred years earlier, then blocked the young experts’ attacks and continued trying to escape.
• Yao Dan arrived and used his Seven-Star Dou Sheng strength to pressure Gu Yang.

Gu Yang self-destructed to send the Tou She Ancient God Jade toward the battlefields, but Soul Heavenly Emperor tried to seize it before Gu Yuan intervened. Soul Heavenly Emperor then launched the Seal of Destruction against the Ancient Clan, whose Mirror of the Ancient Emperor met it in a devastating clash.

• Yao Dan pursued Gu Yang while Hun Yan attacked Yao Dan, and Gu Lie appeared to block Gu Yang's escape route.
• Gu Yang self-destructed, sending the Tou She Ancient God Jade flying toward the battlefields.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor reached for the Ancient Jade, but Gu Yuan's palm struck his hand and saved Yao Dan.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor summoned the Seal of Destruction and sent it crashing toward the Ancient Realm.
• The Ancient Clan activated the Mirror of the Ancient Emperor, and the two colossal attacks collided and crumbled amid a destructive storm.

Nihility Devouring Flame seized the Ancient Clan’s Ancient Jade while a Soul Clan infiltrator stole Yao Tian’s Storage Ring, and Soul Heavenly Emperor revealed that the Lei and Yan clans had also lost their Ancient Jades. The Soul Clan withdrew through the space crack, leaving Gu Yuan and the surviving clans to realize that only the Xiao Clan’s Ancient Jade remained unaccounted for.

• Nihility Devouring Flame endured attacks from Lei Ying and Yan Jin, swallowed the Ancient Jade, and escaped under the protection of the Four Demon Saints.
• A Yao Clan elder severely injured Yao Tian, stole his Storage Ring, and fled toward the Soul Clan’s space crack.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor blocked Gu Yuan and warned that the Soul Clan would claim Tou She Ancient God’s Cave Mansion, then retreated with Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor revealed that the Soul Clan had also attacked the Lei and Yan clans, and Lei Ying and Yan Jin discovered their clans’ Ancient Jades were gone.
• Gu Yuan concluded that only the Xiao Clan’s Ancient Jade remained, and its whereabouts were unknown.

Gu Yuan united the Yan and Lei Clans against the Soul Clan after learning it held seven Ancient Jades, while Lu Chuan intercepted Hun Xuzi in the Northwest Continent. The chapter ended with Hun Xuzi trapped in Lu Chuan’s sealed fire prison.

• Gu Yuan warned the clan leaders that the Soul Clan could use the Ancient Jades to reach Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion and pursue the Dou Emperor realm, then called for their armies to unite in half a month.
• Gu Yuan’s side issued the Soul Clan a War Declaration, and Yan Jin and Lei Ying returned to their clans to gather forces.
• Lu Chuan detected Hun Xuzi approaching the Northwest Continent with the Yan Clan Ancient Jade and used the Space Conversion Banner to move closer.
• Hun Xuzi flew over the Black Alliance Cities seeking clues to the Xiao Clan Ancient Jade, but Lu Chuan confronted him and raised his cultivation with a Cross-border Pill.
• Lu Chuan sealed Hun Xuzi inside a fiery prison and declared that no one could hide from him within his territory.

Lu Chuan defeated Hun Xuzi, bound him with a Soul Contract, and took the Yan Clan’s Ancient Jade before letting him return to the Soul Clan. In the Ancient Realm, Gu Yuan learned that Lu Chuan had recovered the jade, while the clans remained on high alert against the Soul Clan.

• Lu Chuan sealed the space around Hun Xuzi, defeated him, and offered to spare his life if he became a servant and refined pills for him.
• Hun Xuzi accepted the Soul Contract, handed over the Yan Clan’s Ancient Jade, and became Lu Chuan’s servant.
• Lu Chuan severed Hun Xuzi’s arm to take his Storage Ring, then released him to return to the Soul Clan.
• Gu Yuan told Xun’er that he had linked the Yan, Lei, and Ancient Clan spaces and placed the clans on high alert.
• Gu Yuan learned from Yan Jin that Lu Chuan had taken back the Yan Clan’s Ancient Jade from Hun Xuzi.

Lu Chuan brought the Yan Clan’s Ancient Jade to the Yan Realm and demanded three Heavenly Flames in exchange for returning it. As the Yan Clan weighed the cost, Gu Yuan and Lei Ying arrived, leaving the hall tense over whether anyone would try to seize the jade.

• Gu Xun’er agreed with Gu Yuan that the Yan Clan’s Ancient Jade must be kept safe, and Gu Yuan traveled to the Yan Realm.
• Lu Chuan met Yan Jin and Fairy Fire Spirit, whose Soul Seduction Technique failed against Lu Chuan’s protected soul.
• Lu Chuan demanded three Heavenly Flames in exchange for returning the Yan Clan’s Ancient Jade, troubling Yan Jin and the elders.
• Gu Yuan and Lei Ying arrived after Gu Yuan connected the Space Tunnels between the three clans.
• Yan Clan members quietly debated whether to attack Lu Chuan and seize the Ancient Jade, while recognizing that doing so could bring condemnation.

Lu Chuan traded the Ancient Jade to the Yan Clan for three Heavenly Flames, which Yan Jin handed to Gu Yuan for safekeeping. Back in the Demon Realm, Lu Chuan had the Natal Divine Fire devour the flames, and he broke through to Eight-Star Dou Saint.

• Gu Yuan and Lei Ying urged Yan Jin to honor Lu Chuan's trade request, and Yan Jin agreed to exchange three Heavenly Flames for the Ancient Jade.
• Yan Jin gave Lu Chuan the Red Lotus Karmic Fire, the Eight Desolations Destruction Flame, and the Fire Cloud Water Flame, then passed the Ancient Jade to Gu Yuan.
• Gu Yuan invited Lu Chuan to join forces against the Soul Clan, but Lu Chuan refused and vanished using a Space Conversion Banner.
• Lu Chuan returned to the Demon Realm, where the Natal Divine Fire devoured the Fire Cloud Water Flame and the Red Lotus Karmic Fire without reaching Nine-Star Dou Saint.
• The Natal Divine Fire swallowed the Eight Desolations Destruction Flame, and Lu Chuan broke through to Eight-Star Dou Saint.

Lu Chuan took Xiao Yu back to the Heavenly Tomb, hoping to revive her ancestor Xiao Xuan and strengthen his own soul realm. They reached Xiao Xuan’s tombstone, where Xiao Yu prepared to meet her ancestor again.

• Lu Chuan decided to raise his soul realm to the Emperor Realm and summoned Xiao Yu for another trip to the Heavenly Tomb.
• Lu Chuan and Xiao Yu arrived in the Heavenly Tomb, where Xiao Yu reflected on how much her strength had grown since her previous visit.
• The Blood Saber Saint attacked the newcomers’ approach but recognized Xiao Yu and offered to guide her toward Xiao Xuan.
• The Blood Saber Saint led Lu Chuan and Xiao Yu through the Heavenly Tomb as powerful energy bodies yielded to Xiao Yu’s identity.
• The Blood Saber Saint stopped a thousand zhang from Xiao Xuan’s tombstone, and Xiao Yu addressed her ancestor.

Xiao Yu and Lu Chuan met Xiao Xuan in the Heavenly Tomb and asked whether he could be revived, but he said he knew of no way. Xiao Xuan explained the Soul Clan’s threat and revealed that Tou She Ancient God’s Cave Mansion held an Emperor Grade Nascent Pill sought by Soul Heavenly Emperor.

• Xiao Yu paid respects to Xiao Xuan, who praised her and Lu Chuan for their progress.
• Xiao Yu recounted their adventures, and Xiao Xuan approved of Lu Chuan obtaining Heavenly Flames from the Yao and Yan Clans.
• Xiao Yu asked Xiao Xuan to help revive their ancestor, but he said he was only a remnant soul and knew of no way to return to life.
• Xiao Xuan warned that the Soul Clan’s strength and possession of Nihility Devouring Flame made them a threat, and said gathering the Tou She Ancient God Jade would lead them to the cave mansion.
• Xiao Xuan said his attempts to reach the Dou Di realm had revealed that the world lacked something, and Lu Chuan identified it as Origin Emperor Qi.
• Xiao Xuan revealed that the cave mansion contained an Emperor Grade Nascent Pill sought by Soul Heavenly Emperor, and that refining Emperor Grade Pills required Origin Emperor Qi.