Chapter Summaries

Xiao Xuan explained that the Soul Clan needed all eight pieces of Ancient Jade to locate and open Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion, where Soul Heavenly Emperor could find the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill. He then offered to transform the Heavenly Tomb Soul to help Lu Chuan break through to the Emperor Realm Soul, though success would depend on Lu Chuan's fortune.

• Xiao Xuan told Xiao Yu that he did not know the Cave Mansion's location because the Ancient Jade had been divided before he could decipher it.
• Xiao Yu realized the Soul Clan could gain a major advantage if it gathered all eight pieces of Ancient Jade.
• Xiao Xuan praised Lu Chuan and offered to help him advance his soul realm to the Emperor Realm Soul.
• Xiao Xuan revealed that the Heavenly Tomb Soul was a living entity formed from countless remnant souls and acted as the tomb's guardian and jailer.
• Lu Chuan agreed that the Heavenly Tomb Soul existed, though he had never been able to sense it.

Xiao Xuan confronted the Heavenly Tomb Soul to free the energy bodies from its influence. He burned his soul to seize its Soul Origin, and the Heavenly Tomb Soul screamed as soul flames spread across its giant face.

• Xiao Xuan announced that he would fulfill the energy bodies’ long-ago petition and act against the Heavenly Tomb Soul.
• Xiao Xuan explained that the Heavenly Tomb Soul had arisen from the energy bodies’ gathered remnant souls, provoking it to attack him with a soul storm.
• Xiao Xuan began Soul Combustion, shocking Xiao Yu, and used his burning soul to forcibly draw out the Heavenly Tomb Soul’s Soul Origin.
• Xiao Xuan turned the Heavenly Tomb Soul’s soul spear back against it, piercing its giant face and spreading soul flames across it.

Lu Chuan and Xiao Xuan joined forces to subdue the Heavenly Tomb Soul and extract its Soul Origin. The weakened Heavenly Tomb Soul fell to the ground, where the energy bodies attacked it.

• Lu Chuan offered to help Xiao Xuan and used his Natal Divine Fire to reinforce Xiao Xuan’s formation around the Heavenly Tomb Soul.
• Xiao Xuan and Lu Chuan’s formation trapped the Heavenly Tomb Soul, and Xiao Xuan began pulling out its crystalline Soul Origin.
• The Heavenly Tomb Soul begged for release and then tried to ignite its soul, but Lu Chuan extinguished the flames while Xiao Xuan extracted the Soul Origin completely.
• Xiao Xuan knocked the weakened Heavenly Tomb Soul to the ground, where the energy bodies surged forward and attacked it.

Lu Chuan entered the Heavenly Tomb Soul’s Soul Origin to refine its vast Spiritual Power and attempt to reach the Emperor Realm Soul. A month passed in the Heavenly Tomb without any sign of his return.

• Xiao Xuan and Lu Chuan destroyed the weakened Heavenly Tomb Soul, freeing the energy forms from its influence.
• Xiao Xuan gave Lu Chuan the Soul Origin, and Lu Chuan entered its crystalline halo to refine it.
• Inside the halo, Lu Chuan discovered a vast Soul Ocean where time flowed more slowly than in the Heavenly Tomb.
• Lu Chuan used Natal Divine Fire to refine the Soul Ocean’s impure Spiritual Power and strengthen his soul.
• After a month passed in the Heavenly Tomb, Lu Chuan still had not emerged, and the halo showed no change.

Lu Chuan absorbed the Heavenly Tomb Soul, advanced to an Emperor Realm Soul, and gained control over the Heavenly Tomb. He returned to the Demon Realm with Xiao Yu as the Ancient, Lei, Yan, and Yao clans assembled in the Ancient Realm for a decisive battle against the Soul Clan.

• Lu Chuan's soul phantom became solid, and he broke through to the Emperor Realm Soul, gaining control over the Heavenly Tomb and demonstrating his power by destroying a distant mountain.
• Lu Chuan thanked Xiao Xuan and promised to help him return to the world if he ever became a Dou Emperor, then he and Xiao Yu returned to the Demon Realm.
• The elites of the Ancient, Lei, Yan, and Yao clans gathered in the Ancient Realm to prepare for war against the Soul Clan.
• Xun'er asked Gu Yuan whether they were mobilizing everyone, and Gu Yuan said they would deploy their true strength while leaving some people to guard their strongholds.

Lu Chuan watched the four clans march to the Burial Sky Mountain Range to confront the Soul Clan, intending to wait until both sides were weakened before acting. Gu Yuan and Soul Heavenly Emperor met with their armies, and the battle began to take shape.

• Gu Yuan led the four clans through a space passage toward the Burial Sky Mountain Range as the Central Plains anticipated war with the Soul Clan.
• Lu Chuan declined Zi Yan’s offer to send scouts and prepared to gather their people, planning to use the Space Conversion Banner to arrive when the clans were weakened.
• Gu Yuan’s forces searched the mountain range and took up positions while Central Plains observers stayed outside.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor arrived with Nihility Devouring Flame, the Four Demon Saints, and a large Soul Clan force.
• Lei Ying demanded the return of the Ancient Jade, but Soul Heavenly Emperor dismissed his threat, and Gu Yuan ordered the clans to form up for battle.

The Alliance of Four Clans launched a coordinated assault on the Soul Clan, while Gu Yuan challenged Soul Heavenly Emperor and other leaders engaged their strongest opponents. With the Soul Clan’s ranks stretched thin and some fighters secretly holding back, Yao Dan slaughtered its experts in a furious rampage.

• Gu Yuan rallied the clans to demand the Ancient Jade, but Soul Heavenly Emperor refused and claimed no one could stop the Soul Clan.
• Lei Ying, Yan Jin, Yao Dan, and Gu Yuan unleashed their clans’ formations and attacks, which the Soul Clan’s black chain net barely blocked.
• Gu Yuan moved to fight Soul Heavenly Emperor, while Lei Ying and Yan Jin attacked Nihility Devouring Flame.
• The Ancient Clan’s experts fought the Soul Clan’s Four Demon Saints, while Hun Jing and Hun Xuzi secretly held back because they served Lu Chuan.
• Fairy Fire Spirit and Yao Dan killed Soul Clan fighters without facing equivalent opponents, and Yao Dan destroyed a Three-Star Dou Sheng’s body and soul.

Yao Dan fought the Soul Clan at the Burial Sky Mountain Range and killed Hun Feng, but Hun Yuan Tian appeared and struck him with deadly death qi. The chapter left Hun Yuan Tian preparing to unleash the Gate of Silent Death against Yao Dan.

• Yao Dan killed a Soul Clan Six-Star Dou Sheng with a palm strike as Lei Dong and the allied forces battled across the field.
• Yao Dan attacked Hun Feng, who was killing Yan Clan experts, and trapped him beneath the Medicine Cauldron.
• Hun Yuan Tian appeared with the strength of an Eight-Star Dou Sheng and demanded that Yao Dan release Hun Feng.
• Yao Dan refused and crushed Hun Feng with the Medicine Cauldron, erasing his soul before Hun Yuan Tian's strike sent him flying.
• Hun Yuan Tian formed the Gate of Silent Death, opening a dark, ominous space before Yao Dan.

Hun Yuan Tian used the Gate of Silent Death to capture Yao Dan and continued slaughtering the Alliance of Four Clans as the battle raged. Lei Ying and Yan Jin struggled to hold Nihility Devouring Flame back, but Gu Yuan suddenly ordered them to retreat, leaving the cause of the change unknown.

• Hun Yuan Tian swallowed Yao Dan’s attack with the Gate of Silent Death, then captured him inside it as Yao Dan lamented that he could not kill more Soul Clan members.
• Hun Yuan Tian killed an Ancient Clan Dou Sheng elder and drew the victim’s blood qi into a miniature gate, enraging the Alliance of Four Clans.
• Hun Yuan Tian noted the Soul Clan’s losses and the injuries among its Four Demon Saints, then continued attacking amid the chaotic battle.
• Nihility Devouring Flame repelled Lei Ying and Yan Jin despite their combined assault, while they resolved to keep fighting for the Ancient Jade.
• Gu Yuan urgently told Lei Ying and Yan Jin to retreat, startling them and signaling that the situation had changed.

The Soul Clan revealed four revived Eight-Star Dou Sheng, including Hun Yuan Tian, and used them to unleash the Four-Directional Annihilation, Realm of Death. The Alliance of Four Clans was trapped inside the formation as Death Aura began draining their vitality.

• Three black coffins opened, revealing three ancient Soul Clan experts whose auras surpassed Hun Yuan Tian's earlier strength.
• Fairy Fire Spirit told Lei Ying and Yan Jin that Hun Yuan Tian had survived and Yao Dan had died, shocking the alliance and enraging Yao Wan Gui.
• Lei Ying and Yan Jin realized that the four Soul Clan experts were living dead revived to fight again.
• Hun Yuan Tian and the three elders formed a formation that summoned four immense black gates and enclosed the Alliance of Four Clans in a Realm of Death.
• The formation's Death Aura began seeping into the alliance forces and draining their vitality as the Soul Clan elders sought to cripple them.

Trapped inside the Soul Clan’s Great Array of the Death Realm, the Four Clans Alliance suffered heavy losses as its attacks failed to break the barrier. With Yao Dan dead and no help from Gu Yuan, Yao Wanhuo called on the Yao Clan to sacrifice themselves so the others could destroy the array and preserve their young people.

• Gu Lie, Yan Jin, and the other leaders realized the Death Space blocked their escape and isolated their soul perception.
• Black spears attacked the alliance, killing many experts and turning their bodies into dry bones.
• Lei Ying, Yan Jin, and Gu Lie attacked the invisible barrier, but it withstood their combined strength.
• The alliance destroyed a giant hand of death and saw Hun Yuan Tian behind the barrier, prompting the Yao Clan to demand revenge for Yao Dan.
• Yao Wanhuo declared that the Yao Clan would self-destruct, leaving some young people alive to preserve their bloodline and help shatter the array.

The Yao Clan and their allies sacrificed Dou Saint experts to break the Soul Clan’s Dead Silence Formation. With the barrier shattered and the Alliance of Four Clans still holding an advantage, Lei Ying prepared to lead a counterattack.

• Yao Clan experts began self-destructing to weaken the formation, while Yao Tian, Yao Ling, and the other youths watched their elders’ sacrifice.
• Yao Wanhuo self-destructed, and Gu Dao followed; Lei Clan and Yan Clan elders then joined the assault.
• After the clans sacrificed around a dozen Dou Saint experts, the formation barrier shattered and the Death Aura faded.
• Lei Ying and the others found the Soul Clan army waiting beyond the formation, while Hun Yuan Tian and three other elders were weakened by the backlash.
• Lei Ying declared that the Alliance of Four Clans would counterattack, judging that its forces still had the advantage.

As the alliance and Soul Clan continued fighting, Hun Jing and Hun Xuzi revealed their allegiance to Lu Chuan by destroying key Soul Clan fighters and elders in a pair of explosions. Soul Heavenly Emperor then ordered a retreat and sent Nihility Devouring Flame into a massive self-destruction, leaving the alliance facing a new catastrophe.

• Nihility Devouring Flame confronted the alliance as Lei Ying and Yan Jin resumed their fight, while the other forces battled across Burial Sky Mountain Range.
• Gu Lie gravely wounded Hun Sha, and Hun Sha and Hun Yan accused Hun Jing and Hun Xuzi of avoiding harm.
• Hun Jing crushed the remnant souls of Hun Sha and Hun Yan, then approached the Soul Clan elders with Hun Xuzi.
• Hun Jing and Hun Xuzi self-destructed, killing Hun Yuan Tian and another elder while Hun Yao and Hun Shengtian barely survived.
• Yao Ling connected Hun Jing and Hun Xuzi's actions to their earlier dealings with Demon Saint Lu Chuan.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor ordered the Soul Clan to retreat and told Nihility Devouring Flame to act; Nihility Devouring Flame expanded and exploded across the battlefield.

The Alliance of Four Clans attacked Nihility Devouring Flame’s Black Hole as the Soul Clan attempted to escape with the Ancient Jade, but Soul Heavenly Emperor intervened and opened a spatial rift to swallow their attacks. After the Soul Clan withdrew from Burial Sky Mountain Range, Gu Yuan reflected on Soul Heavenly Emperor’s warning about Lu Chuan.

• Nihility Devouring Flame formed a Black Hole from his Black Flame, and the Soul Clan began escaping through it.
• Lei Ying, Gu Lie, Yan Jin, and the Alliance of Four Clans’ experts unleashed a barrage at the Black Hole to stop the Soul Clan from taking the Ancient Jade.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor appeared and swallowed the Alliance’s attacks in a massive spatial rift.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor revealed that Hun Jing and Hun Xuzi had betrayed the Soul Clan and recognized Lu Chuan’s role in controlling them.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor retreated into the Black Hole, and the Soul Clan vanished from Burial Sky Mountain Range.
• The Alliance of Four Clans celebrated its victory, while Gu Yuan wondered whether Lu Chuan was hiding his true strength.

After defeating the Soul Clan in the Burial Sky Mountain Range, the Alliance of Four Clans ordered Soul Hall’s destruction and prepared for a future assault on the Soul Realm. The alliance wiped out Soul Hall’s branches across the Central Plains, but discovered the Soul Clan had evacuated them and removed their stored Soul Origin.

• Lei Ying proposed uprooting every Soul Hall stronghold, and Gu Yuan ordered the alliance to destroy Soul Hall’s forces across the Central Plains.
• Lu Chuan secretly watched the aftermath of the battle and anticipated that the alliance and Soul Clan would weaken each other further.
• News of the battle spread, and factions across the Central Plains feared a devastating conflict between the two great powers.
• After several days of recovery, the Alliance of Four Clans sent organized forces from the Ancient Realm to hunt down Soul Hall’s branches.
• The alliance destroyed every discovered Soul Hall branch within three days, including the Heaven and Earth Halls, but found most of them empty.
• The alliance learned that the Soul Clan had evacuated Soul Hall and removed its Soul Origin, then stationed scouts outside the Soul Realm.

Nihility Devouring Flame consumed most of the Soul Hall’s accumulated Soul Origin and advanced to the Emperor Realm Soul, giving Soul Heavenly Emperor a powerful ally against Gu Yuan. Soul Heavenly Emperor remained worried about Lu Chuan’s schemes and the allied clans gathering against the Soul Clan.

• Nihility Devouring Flame absorbed the Soul Hall’s collected Soul Origin and broke through to the Emperor Realm Soul.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor congratulated Nihility Devouring Flame, who said their combined strength could defeat Gu Yuan.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor said Gu Yuan had sent many experts to monitor the Soul Realm.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor blamed Lu Chuan for Hun Jing and Hun Xuzi’s betrayal and the Soul Clan’s heavy losses.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor said Lu Chuan had returned the Yan Clan’s Ancient Jade in exchange for three Heavenly Flames to turn the allied army against the Soul Clan.
• Nihility Devouring Flame doubted that Lu Chuan could benefit from the conflict.

Soul Heavenly Emperor and Nihility Devouring Flame chose to lie low while the three major forces remained locked in a standoff. At the Monster Beast Mountain Range, Lu Chuan revealed to Zi Yan that her father was alive and took her to meet him.

• Nihility Devouring Flame urged Soul Heavenly Emperor to attack Lu Chuan and devour his Heavenly Flame, but Soul Heavenly Emperor refused, fearing the Alliance of Four Clans and Lu Chuan's forces would strike back.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor predicted that the Alliance of Four Clans would eventually fall apart if the Soul Clan survived its next attack.
• Yun Yun told Lu Chuan that the Soul Hall's forces had vanished from the Central Plains, and Lu Chuan explained that the Soul Clan had already moved the Soul Hall's valuable resources elsewhere.
• Lu Chuan told Zi Yan that her father was still alive and trapped somewhere, and Zi Yan realized that the place was likely the Ancient Void Dragon's void space.
• Lu Chuan took Zi Yan by the hand and used the Space Conversion Banner to bring her to her father.

Lu Chuan returned to Jia Nan Academy with Zi Yan, then went alone into the magma beneath the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower to reach its depths. After the Flame Lizardmen tried to drive him away and warned him about the Guardian, Lu Chuan declared he would continue onward and unleashed his Spiritual Power.

• Lu Chuan and Zi Yan returned to their old attic in Jia Nan Academy, where they greeted Su Qian before opening a space crack to the magma beneath the tower.
• Lu Chuan left Zi Yan above the magma with a Space Conversion Banner and plunged alone into the depths.
• Lu Chuan used his Spiritual Power to strike the surrounding Flame Lizardmen, then noticed two Half-Saint Flame Lizardmen among the creatures that encircled him.
• One of the white Flame Lizardmen warned Lu Chuan that the magma was God's Graveyard and told him to leave or face the Guardian.
• Lu Chuan refused to turn back and spread a vast wave of Spiritual Power toward the Flame Lizardmen.

Lu Chuan forced his way past the Flame Lizardmen and found a hidden space beneath the magma sea. He reached a vast ancient stone gate inscribed “Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion.”

• Lu Chuan used his soul pressure to scatter the Flame Lizardmen without killing them, then continued toward the bottom of the magma sea.
• Lu Chuan endured the reddish-black magma and discovered a hidden space by pressing his hand into it.
• Lu Chuan entered the dark, ancient space and flew toward a distant glow.
• Lu Chuan reached a gigantic stone gate and read the words “Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion” inscribed above it.

Lu Chuan encountered Zhu Kun, the trapped Old Dragon Emperor, in the Ancient Emperor’s Cave Mansion and fought off his attacks before revealing his identity and sharing news of the Ancient Void Dragon Clan. Zhu Kun learned that the clan had been weakened by civil war, but a royal-blooded woman had recently become its new Dragon Emperor.

• Lu Chuan illuminated the cavern and discovered the immense purple-gold dragon Zhu Kun.
• Zhu Kun demanded the Ancient Jade and attacked Lu Chuan when he said he did not have it.
• Lu Chuan raised his cultivation to Nine-Star Dou Saint and used his Emperor Realm Soul to break Zhu Kun’s attacks.
• Lu Chuan stopped Zhu Kun’s next attack by identifying him as the Old Dragon Emperor and explaining he had not come to fight.
• Lu Chuan told Zhu Kun that the Ancient Void Dragon Clan had fractured into warring factions and declined in strength.
• Lu Chuan revealed that a woman of the royal bloodline had recently quelled the rebellion and become the new Dragon Emperor.