Chapter Summaries

Hun Cang named his son Hun Yu Feng, appointed Medusa to lead the Cang Alliance, and watched Yao Tian Huo revive in a new body. He sent Yao Tian Huo to investigate the neighboring empires after Hai Bodong and the others failed to report back.

• Hun Cang and Medusa named their child Hun Yu Feng, and Medusa agreed to lead the Cang Alliance while Hun Cang focused on becoming stronger.
• Nihility Devouring Flame secretly observed Hun Cang, who seemed able to detect him even when he hid among the stars.
• Yao Tian Huo revived in a body refined from a magical beast’s essence blood and recovered to five-star Dou Venerable strength.
• Yao Tian Huo celebrated his revival by eating at a restaurant and joked with Hun Cang about the greatest pleasures in life.
• Hun Cang spent the night with Ya Fei, then asked Yao Tian Huo to investigate the neighboring empires because Hai Bodong and the others had not returned or reported in.
• Yao Tian Huo set off immediately, while Yao Chen suggested he was eager to seek out exotic charm.

Yao Tian Huo rescued Hai Bodong and forced the sects of three empires to submit to the Cang Alliance. Back in the Jia Ma Empire, Hun Cang learned that Xiao Yan had completed his test and was preparing to return, and considered sending him to the Central Continent if he needed to grow stronger.

• The Poison Sect imprisoned Hai Bodong after he urged the Chuyun Empire to submit to the Jia Ma Empire, and its middle-aged leader revealed plans to join forces against the empire.
• Yao Tian Huo arrived on Hun Cang's orders, killed the Poison Sect leader, and forced the sect's members to choose between joining the Cang Alliance and dying.
• Yao Tian Huo subdued the forces behind the other two empires as well, then returned to the Jia Ma Empire and reported to Hun Cang.
• Hun Cang gave Yao Tian Huo the ring containing Yao Chen so Yao Chen could refine pills to replenish him.
• At Ya Fei's residence, Hun Cang learned from Xiao Zhan's message that Xiao Yan had completed Hun Cang's test and was preparing to return to the Jia Ma Empire.
• Hun Cang heard that Han Feng was dead and considered sending Xiao Yan to the Central Continent if he needed more strength.

Xiao Yan prepared to leave Jia Nan Academy for the Jia Ma Empire, but Xiao Xun'er departed for her own home after asking him to grow stronger and find her. On the road to the Black Corner Region, Xiao Yan and Zi Yan were stopped by Ling Quan, the deputy commander of the Black Annihilation Army.

• Hun Cang left the Jia Ma Empire alliance's remaining affairs to Medusa, while Ya Fei told him the Mittel Auction House would expand beyond the empire.
• Xiao Yan invited Zi Yan to visit his home, and she agreed to travel with him after speaking to the elders.
• Xiao Yu said she could not return yet, while Xiao Xun'er revealed she was going home and asked Xiao Yan to become strong enough to find her.
• Xiao Xun'er left before Xiao Yan woke, and he said goodbye to his family and academy acquaintances before departing with Zi Yan.
• A group of purple-black-robed riders blocked Xiao Yan and Zi Yan after they left Heping Town, and Ling Quan identified himself as the Black Annihilation Army's deputy commander sent to escort the young lady back to her clan.

Xiao Yan refused Ling Quan’s demand to forget Xun Er and fought him, but the Ancient Clan deputy commander overwhelmed him. Hun Cang intervened through a Jade Slip, defeated Ling Quan, and ordered Xiao Yan to leave no traces before returning to the Jia Ma Empire.

• Ling Quan told Xiao Yan that Xun Er had returned home and demanded the Xiao Family’s portion of a key, which Xiao Yan denied knowing about.
• Ling Quan insulted Xiao Yan and warned him to forget Xun Er, so Xiao Yan challenged him and attacked with the Black Heavy Ruler.
• Xiao Yan struck Ling Quan with a Six-Colored Flame lotus, but Ling Quan survived and prepared to kill him.
• Xiao Yan crushed the Jade Slip Hun Cang had given him, and Hun Cang’s Soul Power pinned Ling Quan to the ground.
• Hun Cang identified himself as a member of the Hun Clan and stopped Xiao Yan from killing Ling Quan, then incapacitated Ling Quan, the Black Annihilation Army, and their magical beasts.
• Hun Cang told Xiao Yan to burn them without leaving traces and said he would wait for him in the Jia Ma Empire.

Xiao Yan and Zi Yan covered up Ling Quan’s death and continued toward the Black Corner Region, while Hun Cang viewed the confrontation as a way to motivate Xiao Yan to find Xun Er. The Ancient Clan discovered Ling Quan’s death and quietly began investigating whether Hun Cang was responsible.

• Xiao Yan burned Ling Quan and his subordinates to ashes, and Zi Yan collected their belongings before demanding one thousand pills to keep his secret.
• Elder Su arrived with other elders, accepted Xiao Yan’s account of a Black Alliance ambush after Zi Yan backed him up, and ordered elders to investigate the Black Corner Region.
• Xiao Yan and Zi Yan boarded a flying magical beast, and Zi Yan asked whether Hun Cang could discover her origins while Xiao Yan reflected on how powerful Xun Er’s family must be.
• Hun Cang learned through Soul Power that Ling Quan had threatened Xiao Yan and decided the incident would spur Xiao Yan to grow stronger.
• An Ancient Clan elder discovered that Ling Quan’s Soul Jade Slip had shattered, and the Clan Elder sent someone to investigate whether Hun Cang had caused his death without alarming Xun Er.

Xiao Yan returned to the Jia Ma Empire with Zi Yan and reunited with Hun Cang, who gave him a powerful flame-based technique and revealed what he knew about Zi Yan’s origins. Xiao Yan resolved to grow stronger after learning he would need to become a Dou Saint to earn Xun Er’s family’s approval.

• Xiao Yan arrived in Jia Ma Holy City with Zi Yan and went straight to Hun Cang’s residence, where he introduced her as his senior sister.
• Zi Yan asked Hun Cang about her origins, and he said he knew where her father was but would not reveal it until she was stronger.
• Hun Cang gave Xiao Yan the Heavenly Fire Three Profound Transformations, and Xiao Yan used its first two transformations to surpass peak Dou Huang strength and approach three-star Dou Zong.
• Xiao Yan showed Hun Cang Han Feng’s head, and Hun Cang revealed that Han Feng had betrayed Yao Chen; Xiao Yan burned the head after Yao Chen let the past go.
• Xiao Yan told Hun Cang he wanted to become stronger and learned that he would need to reach Dou Saint to earn Xun Er’s family’s approval.

Hun Cang protected Xiao Yan when Gu Fang of the Ancient Clan arrived to investigate Ling Quan’s death, hoping to claim Gu Fang’s Dou Saint body. Nihility Devouring Flame intervened, but Gu Fang escaped, and Hun Cang sent Xiao Yan home after the danger passed.

• Hun Cang promised to help Xiao Yan and reminded him that their fates were connected.
• Gu Fang appeared and demanded answers from Xiao Yan about Ling Quan’s death, but Hun Cang refused to let him take Xiao Yan.
• Gu Fang unleashed his Dou Saint aura, knocking Xiao Yan unconscious and unsettling the Imperial Capital, while Hun Cang provoked him to attack.
• Nihility Devouring Flame appeared, and Gu Fang fled using a life-saving measure after Hun Cang asked for his body to be preserved.
• Nihility Devouring Flame questioned Hun Cang about detecting him, and Hun Cang claimed he had trusted Nihility Devouring Flame and Hun Tiandi to protect him.
• Hun Cang helped Xiao Yan wake up, told him the matter was resolved, and sent him home.

After realizing how vulnerable he was, Xiao Yan asked Hun Cang for help getting stronger. Hun Cang directed him to the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool in the Tian Mu Mountain Range as a path to Dou Zong, and Xiao Yan set off with Yao Chen’s ring.

• The Clan Elder questioned Gu Fang about Xiao Yan’s connection to the Hun Clan, then dismissed the matter after Gu Fang reported finding no Hun Clan aura near Ling Quan’s last known location.
• Back at the Xiao Family, Xiao Yan reflected on how Xun Er’s departure, Ling Quan, and Gu Fang had shown him the limits of his strength and resolved to improve.
• Xiao Yan asked Hun Cang to make a cultivation plan, and Hun Cang warned him that absorbing more Heavenly Flames before reaching Dou Zong could make him lose control.
• Hun Cang told Xiao Yan about the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool in the Tian Mu Mountain Range, whose energy could help him break through to Dou Zong.
• Hun Cang gave Xiao Yan Yao Chen’s ring and advised him to ask his teacher for directions in unfamiliar places, and Xiao Yan prepared to leave for the Blood Pool.

Hun Cang prepared to leave the Jia Ma Empire as Xiao Yan set out for the Central Continent, entrusting the Cang Alliance’s stability to Medusa and its powerful elders. He then took Zi Yan through a spatial passage to go treasure hunting.

• Xiao Yan left Jia Nan Academy for the Central Continent with Liu Qing, Lin Xiuya, and the others after saying farewell to Xiao Yu, Xiao Mei, and Xiao Ning.
• Medusa told Hun Cang that the Cang Alliance was established, and he revealed that he planned to leave the Jia Ma Empire soon.
• Hun Cang gave pills to the Jia Ma Empire’s leaders and asked them to help Medusa maintain the Cang Alliance’s stability.
• Hun Cang asked Yao Tian Huo to protect Ya Fei, who seemed to be pregnant, and reassured Xiao Zhan about Xiao Yan’s safety.
• Hun Cang opened a spatial passage and left with Zi Yan to go treasure hunting.

Hun Cang brought Zi Yan to the Central Continent, where Hei Qing found her and revealed that she was an Ancient Void Dragon. After Zi Yan agreed to return with him, Hun Cang waited for Xiao Yan to break through to Dou Zong, then prepared to take him to a secret place to devour a Heavenly Flame.

• While treasure hunting with Hun Cang, Zi Yan advanced to Dou Huang, and they settled near the Tian Mu Mountain Range to wait for Xiao Yan.
• Hei Qing appeared and told Zi Yan that she was an Ancient Void Dragon and that he had come to take her home.
• Hun Cang confirmed Zi Yan's origins, and Zi Yan accepted his advice to return with Hei Qing.
• The Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool opened, and Xiao Yan later broke through to Dou Zong.
• Hun Cang told Xiao Yan to rest for a day before they went to a secret place so Xiao Yan could prepare to devour a Heavenly Flame.

Hun Cang arranged for Xiao Yan to devour three Heavenly Flames at Fen Yan Valley while he prepared to use three Fire Spirits to break through. His breakthrough brought him to the peak of Nine-Star Dou Venerable, leaving his advance to Dou Saint still ahead.

• Hun Cang brought Xiao Yan to Fen Yan Valley and asked Tang Zhen to let him stay while Hun Cang pursued a breakthrough.
• Hun Cang transferred three Heavenly Flames to Xiao Yan, and Xiao Yan began devouring them with Yao Chen’s help.
• After receiving three Fire Spirits from the system, Hun Cang asked Tang Zhen to keep Xiao Yan undisturbed and returned to the Hun Clan.
• Hun Cang devoured the Fire Spirits using the Zhen Fen Jue, drawing the Hun Clan’s attention as a Dou Qi vortex formed above his residence.
• Hun Cang’s aura surged, raising his strength to the peak of Nine-Star Dou Venerable.

Hun Cang suppressed his breakthrough to Dou Saint after Hun Tiandi warned him it would leave hidden dangers, then earned an assignment to lead a team into the Ancient Realm's Heaven Tomb to gather marks from other clans. He also invited Hun Linhua to leave the Hun Clan with him so she could care for his son.

• Hun Tiandi appeared as Hun Cang's Dou Qi vortex dissipated and warned him not to break through to Dou Saint yet.
• Hun Cang followed Hun Tiandi to the grand hall, where Hun Tiandi praised his restraint and assigned him to lead a team into the Heaven Tomb to gather marks, especially from the Yan Clan and the Lei Clan.
• Nihility Devouring Flame gave Hun Cang a Black Flame Devouring Mark and warned him to leave no survivors if anyone from another ancient clan saw it.
• Hun Linhua prepared a celebratory meal for Hun Cang, and he praised her cooking.
• Hun Cang invited Hun Linhua to leave the Hun Clan with him to help care for her grandson, delighting her.

Soul Cang reunited with Xiao Yan and invited him to join a future alliance, then revealed the history linking the Hun Clan to Xiao Yan’s ancestor Xiao Xuan. Xiao Yan accepted that Soul Cang was still his big brother, and the two continued toward the Ancient Realm’s Heaven Tomb.

• Soul Cang returned to the Jia Ma Empire with Hun Linhua, who happily met Ya Fei’s and Medusa’s children before he left for the Ancient Realm.
• Soul Cang visited Fen Yan Valley, gave Tang Zhen a pill to help him break through to Dou Venerable, and asked him to join a future alliance intended to rule the continent.
• Xiao Yan reunited with Soul Cang, and the brothers set out together for the Ancient Clan’s Heaven Tomb.
• Soul Cang told Xiao Yan that their destination held the ancestors of the ancient clans, including Xiao Xuan, and explained how Xiao Xuan’s death was tied to the Hun Clan.
• Xiao Yan chose to stand by Soul Cang, reasoning that their elders’ feud did not have to define their relationship.

Hun Cang and Xiao Yan arrived in the Ancient Realm, where Xiao Yan clashed with Gu Zhen over Ling Quan before Hun Cang intervened. As the Heaven Tomb’s opening approached, Xiao Yan saw Xun Er surrounded by hostile Ancient Clan members and felt the same rejection he had faced during his earlier Dou Qi examination.

• Hun Cang told Xiao Yan that Hun Li held a grudge against him and added dealing with Hun Li as a test.
• Hun Cang noticed the Yan and Yao Clans’ Red Lotus Karma Fire and Nine Nether Wind Flame as the clans gathered in the Ancient Realm.
• Aboard the Ancient Clan’s Void Shuttle Boat, Gu Zhen questioned Xiao Yan about Ling Quan, and they exchanged pressure until Hun Cang stepped in.
• Gu Zhen warned Xiao Yan not to bring disaster on his family, then learned that Hun Cang belonged to the Hun Clan.
• Hun Cang waited through the Ancient Clan’s bloodline ceremony while Xiao Yan told him that Xun Er had awakened a Divine Bloodline.
• At the Heaven Tomb entrance, Xiao Yan saw Xun Er surrounded by hostile Ancient Clan members and clenched his fists.

Hun Cang forced his way into the Heaven Tomb despite the Ancient Clan’s quota dispute and reached its third level ahead of the others. He ambushed Yao Xing Ji to take his flames, but Yao Xing Ji self-destructed to alert the others.

• Xun Er offered Xiao Yan a Heaven Tomb quota, and Hun Cang demanded entry for himself as Xiao Yan’s brother.
• When the quota dispute stalled, Hun Cang knocked Gu Luo unconscious, then entered the Heaven Tomb as its gate opened.
• Hun Cang used the Fire Spirits to cross the barrier to the third level and waited for the others to arrive.
• After Xiao Yan, Xun Er, and the other clans emerged, Hun Cang followed the Yao Clan members and confronted Yao Xing Ji for his flames.
• Hun Cang turned Yao Xing Ji’s flames back on him, and Yao Xing Ji self-destructed to warn the others.

Hun Cang ambushed the Yan Clan members to take their Heavenly Flames while Xiao Yan and Xun Er approached Xiao Xuan’s tomb. After the Blood Saber Saint recognized Xiao Yan’s clan mark and helped them, Hun Clan forces attacked, prompting Xiao Xuan to appear.

• Hun Ya and Hun Li watched Xiao Yan and Xun Er leave, while Hun Cang followed Huo Zhi and Huo Xuan in secret.
• Hun Cang sealed Huo Zhi’s Red Lotus Karma Fire, defeated Huo Xuan, and took the flame.
• Xiao Yan and the Ancient Clan members encountered the Blood Saber Saint, who recognized Xiao Yan as a member of the Xiao Clan and directed them toward Xiao Xuan’s tomb.
• Hun Ya and Hun Li arrived with two powerful energy bodies, who attacked Xiao Yan and Xun Er.
• Xiao Xuan stopped the attack, drove off the Hun Clan energy bodies, and appeared before Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan met Xiao Xuan in the Heaven Tomb and learned how the Hun Clan had hastened the Xiao Clan’s decline. Meanwhile, Hun Cang killed Hun Ya and Hun Li after they discovered he held the Xiao Family’s Tou She Ancient God Jade, then began recovering and preparing to prove his worth to Hun Tiandi; Xiao Xuan ended by offering Xiao Yan the Xiao Clan’s remaining Dou Di Bloodline.

• Xiao Yan and Xun Er entered Xiao Xuan’s tomb residence, where Xiao Xuan asked Xiao Yan about the Xiao Clan’s current situation.
• Hun Ya and Hun Li realized Hun Cang possessed the Xiao Family’s Tou She Ancient God Jade and confronted him, but Hun Cang used the Five-Wheel Lihuo Array and his Fire Spirits to kill them.
• Hun Cang wondered whether Xiao Xuan had been watching him, then healed his injuries and swept through the Heaven Tomb’s third level to prove his value to Hun Tiandi.
• Xiao Xuan told Xiao Yan that the Xiao Clan’s Dou Di Bloodline had been fading and that he had gathered it into himself in a failed attempt to reach Dou Emperor, after which the Hun Clan attacked the weakened clan.
• Xiao Xuan poured the Xiao Clan’s remaining Dou Di Bloodline into the pool and told Xiao Yan he would replace Xiao Yan’s blood with it.

Hun Cang cleared the Heaven Tomb of the Yan, Yao, and Lei Clan members, then met Xiao Yan, who asked him to restore Xiao Xuan's soul. Hun Cang negotiated an agreement with Xiao Xuan to revive him in exchange for an imprint and future help fighting Hun Tiandi, and began preparing medicinal ingredients.

• Hun Cang killed the Lei Clan member in the Heaven Tomb and gathered the auras of Yan, Lei, and Yao Clan members while sparing the Ancient Clan.
• Xiao Yan emerged from a crack at the peak of Nine-Star Dou Zun and asked Hun Cang to help restore Xiao Xuan's incomplete soul.
• Hun Cang told Xiao Yan he might be able to help, then warned him to keep the matter secret before meeting Xiao Xuan in his tomb residence.
• Hun Cang offered to restore Xiao Xuan and promised a chance to become a Dou Emperor if Xiao Xuan accepted a soul imprint and later helped him.
• Xiao Xuan agreed to help Hun Cang fight Hun Tiandi, and Hun Cang planted the imprint before beginning to prepare medicinal ingredients.

The Yan, Lei, and Yao Clan chiefs confronted Gu Yuan after their members’ soul jade slips shattered in the Heaven Tomb, while Hun Tiandi agreed to investigate accusations against Hun Cang. Xiao Yan emerged with the Xiao Clan’s clan mark and saw Hun Cang again, but the reason so many entrants had died remained unresolved.

• The Yan, Lei, and Yao Clan chiefs arrived at the Ancient Clan and reported that members who entered the Heaven Tomb had died, while the Ancient Clan’s members were safe.
• Gu Yuan and the other clan chiefs suspected the Hun Clan but agreed to wait for the Heaven Tomb’s survivors before deciding whether to wage war.
• Hun Yuansheng and another elder accused Hun Cang of killing Hun Li and asked Hun Tiandi to pursue him, so Hun Tiandi agreed to go.
• Xiao Yan inscribed the Xiao Clan’s clan mark, and Xun Er warned him that Hun Cang still felt far stronger than he did.
• The Heaven Tomb expelled Xiao Yan, Xun Er, and the few other survivors; Gu Yuan then asked Gu Qingyang why the Yan, Lei, and Yao Clan members had died.

Hun Tiandi arrived at the Ancient Realm and took Hun Cang back to the Hun Clan, where Hun Cang concealed his role in the Heaven Tomb deaths. After Hun Tiandi ordered a search for the Tou She Ancient God Jade, Hun Cang left the Soul Realm and met Xiao Yan near the spatial wormhole to the Jia Ma Empire.

• The clan chiefs questioned Gu Qingyang about Yao Xing Ji's death, while the Yan and Lei Clan Chiefs blamed the Hun Clan and Hun Cang feared they would attack.
• Hun Tiandi appeared, demanded that Hun Cang return with him, and drove back the Yan and Lei Clan Chiefs before leaving the Ancient Realm.
• Xun Er recounted the events in the Heaven Tomb to Gu Yuan, who welcomed Xiao Yan as an inheritor of the Xiao Clan bloodline.
• Hun Cang revealed the Black Flame mark and Nihility Devouring Flame, then claimed Hun Ya and Hun Li had died because Xiao Xuan intervened in their ambush against Xun Er and Xiao Yan.
• Hun Tiandi told Nihility Devouring Flame to locate the Yan, Lei, and Yao Clans and seek the Tou She Ancient God Jade, then confined Hun Yuansheng for accusing Hun Cang.
• Hun Cang left the Soul Realm and met Xiao Yan near the spatial wormhole leading to the Jia Ma Empire.