Chapter Summaries

Jiang Xing and Zi Yan defeated the Yan Clan Progenitor, shifting the battlefield in the Soul Clan’s favor. Jiang Xing then chose to join the low-level Dou Saint fight, where he and Zi Yan could overwhelm the Three-Clan Alliance’s weaker forces.

• Jiang Xing and Zi Yan coordinated their attacks and pressed the late Eight-Star Dou Saint Yan Clan Progenitor back while the wider battle remained deadlocked.
• Jiang Xing observed Gu Xun'er and the younger experts fighting as casualties mounted on both sides, with the Three-Clan Alliance suffering heavier losses.
• After a Gu Clan Six-Star Dou Saint was badly injured, Jiang Xing and Zi Yan stopped holding back and destroyed the Yan Clan Progenitor.
• The Yan Clan Progenitor's fall raised the Soul Clan's morale and left Gu Yuan unable to prevent Jiang Xing and Zi Yan from changing the battle's balance.
• Jiang Xing and Zi Yan flew toward the low-level Dou Saint battlefield, where their strength threatened to overwhelm the Three-Clan Alliance's weaker fighters.

Jiang Xing and Zi Yan seized Gu Xun'er, Huo Xuan, and Huo Zhi to obtain their Heavenly Flames, then escaped the battle between the Soul Clan and the three clans. They returned safely to Dragon Island with their allies.

• Jiang Xing and Zi Yan defeated the Dou Saints who tried to stop them and raced toward Gu Xun'er, Huo Xuan, and Huo Zhi.
• Jiang Xing overpowered Gu Xun'er, sealed her Dou Qi, and killed a Gu Clan expert who attempted to rescue her.
• Hun Tiandi kept Gu Yuan occupied while Jiang Xing and Zi Yan fled the battlefield with Gu Xun'er, Huo Xuan, and Huo Zhi.
• Jiang Xing and Zi Yan met their hidden allies, including Cai Lin, and hurried toward Dragon Island.
• Jiang Xing and the group reached Dragon Island safely.

Jiang Xing stripped the Heavenly Flames from Gu Xun'er, Huo Xuan, and Huo Zhi, then entered seclusion to refine them while Zi Yan concealed and sealed Dragon Island. Elsewhere, the battle between the Soul Clan and the Three-Clan Alliance continued, with alliance warriors choosing self-destruction to take Soul Clan experts down with them.

• Jiang Xing stripped the Golden Emperor Burning Flame, Eight Desolations Destruction Flame, and Red Lotus Karma Flame from Gu Xun'er, Huo Xuan, and Huo Zhi, weakening their cultivation and leaving Gu Xun'er devastated.
• Jiang Xing decided to refine the three Heavenly Flames in seclusion and asked Zi Yan to conceal Dragon Island while he strengthened himself.
• Zi Yan recalled the Ancient Void Dragon Clan members and used a powerful spatial seal to hide Dragon Island and block outside detection.
• The Soul Clan continued attacking the Three-Clan Alliance, whose members suffered mounting losses after Jiang Xing and Zi Yan had killed several of their Dou Sheng experts.
• Alliance warriors began self-destructing to protect their clans and kill Soul Clan experts, and their explosions spread across the battlefield.

The Gu, Yan, and Lei Clans used desperate self-destruction attacks to inflict heavy losses on the Soul Clan, forcing Hun Tiandi to order a retreat. The battle left all three allied realms devastated, but Jiang Xing emerged as the only victor.

• The Gu, Yan, and Lei Clan warriors increasingly sacrificed themselves, killing Soul Clan experts and turning the tide of the battle.
• Gu Dao self-destructed, killing Hun Tu and enabling Gu Ling and Gu Yun to finish off the gravely wounded Hun Jing.
• Fire Spirit Fairy self-destructed against Hun Yan, and the Lei Clan's Great Elder landed the finishing blow; Hun Xuzi was also injured in the blast.
• Nihility Devouring Flame warned Hun Tiandi that the battle was going badly and urged a retreat as Yan Jin and Lei Ying threatened him with their desperate attacks.
• Hun Tiandi ordered the Soul Clan to withdraw, and Gu Yuan stopped Lei Ying from pursuing them.
• The battle ended with both sides suffering catastrophic losses, the three allied realms in ruins, and Jiang Xing as the only victor.

After the battle, Hun Tiandi rejected his elders’ calls to attack the Ancient Void Dragons and chose to wait for the Gu and Yan Clans to act against Jiang Xing. Meanwhile, Gu Yuan and the other clan leaders struggled to decide how to find Gu Xun'er, Huo Xuan, and Huo Zhi after the Ancient Void Dragons vanished from the Beast Domain.

• Soul Clan elders blamed Jiang Xing and Zi Yan for their defeat and urged Hun Tiandi to attack the Ancient Void Dragons.
• Hun Tiandi rebuked the elders, pointed out that the Ancient Void Dragons had no Ancient Jade, and ordered the Soul Clan to wait for the Gu and Yan Clans’ response.
• Hun Tiandi and an elder reasoned that Jiang Xing’s capture of Gu Xun'er, Huo Xuan, and Huo Zhi could provoke conflict among the other clans and create an opening for the Soul Clan.
• The Gu, Yan, and Lei Clans sent an elder into the Beast Domain to find the Ancient Void Dragons and demand the captives’ release, but the search found no trace of them.
• Gu Yuan weighed his desire to rescue his daughter against his duty to put the Gu Clan’s interests first.

Gu Yuan and the other clan leaders avoided a major search for the Ancient Void Dragon Clan while Hun Tiandi prepared the Soul Clan’s Gates of Oblivion. Two years later, Jiang Xing broke through to the Initial Stage Nine-Star Dou Saint but failed to reach the middle stage, then remembered he still had the Nine Dragon Lightning Flame to refine.

• Gu Yuan and the other clan leaders sent only two Advanced Half-Saints to investigate the Beast Domain, while Gu Yuan warned Jiang Xing to return the hostages.
• Hun Tiandi urged Gu Yuan to search freely, but Gu Yuan distrusted him; Hun Tiandi then ordered the Soul Clan Elders to accelerate construction of the Gates of Oblivion.
• Two years passed in uneasy peace, during which Jiang Xing refined the Golden Emperor Burning Flame after reaching the Late Stage Eight-Star Dou Saint.
• Jiang Xing broke through to the Initial Stage Nine-Star Dou Saint, but could not advance to the Mid Stage Nine-Star Dou Saint before exhausting the flame’s energy.
• Jiang Xing remembered the Nine Dragon Lightning Flame he had obtained from Burning Flame Valley and realized he could refine it next.

Jiang Xing erased the Burning Flame Forefather’s imprint from the Nine Dragon Lightning Flame, refined it, and broke through to the Nine-Star Dou Saint Mid Stage and Emperor Realm. He emerged from seclusion to his family’s celebration, while Jiang Cheng proudly declared that his grandson had surpassed the Dou God Clans.

• Jiang Xing used his Dou Qi to gradually break the imprint on the Nine Dragon Lightning Flame and erased it after a day.
• Jiang Xing refined the Nine Dragon Lightning Flame, broke through to the Nine-Star Dou Saint Mid Stage, and reached the Emperor Realm in soul cultivation.
• Jiang Xing sensed the depths of Dragon Island with his Soul Strength and felt confident he could contend with Gu Yuan and Hun Tiandi and escape them safely.
• Zi Yan, Cai Lin, Jiang Cheng, and the others gathered outside Jiang Xing’s cultivation chamber, anticipating his emergence.
• Jiang Xing confirmed to Jiang Cheng that he had reached the Nine-Star Dou Saint Mid Stage, and Jiang Cheng celebrated his grandson’s strength with pride.

Jiang Cheng recalled how he overcame years of scorn over lacking Dou God bloodline and took pride in his grandson Jiang Xing reaching Nine-Star Dou Saint. After celebrating with his family and the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, Jiang Xing learned that Zi Yan had sealed Dragon Island during his two-year seclusion and planned to check the outside world before letting everyone leave.

• Jiang Cheng remembered proving his former critics wrong by reaching Seven-Star Dou Saint, then took pride in Jiang Xing surpassing him and reaching Nine-Star Dou Saint.
• Jiang Yue praised Jiang Xing, who embraced Cai Lin and Su Qian while Jiang Heng congratulated him.
• Zi Yan and the Ancient Void Dragon elders congratulated Jiang Xing, who thanked them for the Ancient Void Dragon Clan's help.
• Jiang Xing asked Zi Yan what had happened on the Dou Qi Continent during his two years of seclusion, but she said she did not know because she had sealed Dragon Island and forbidden anyone from leaving.
• Zi Yan asked whether they could finally go out, and Jiang Xing said he would first check what was happening outside.

After two years in seclusion, Jiang Xing left Dragon Island to learn about the Dou God Clans, but quickly captured two Gu Clan spies investigating the island. He returned with them and asked Zi Yan to take him to the prison, where Gu Xun’er and two others were being held, intending to extract information from the spies.

• After spending two days with Cai Lin and his family, Jiang Xing left Dragon Island and reached the Beast Domain.
• Jiang Xing sensed two furtive Half-Saints and attacked them, recognizing their Gu Clan Emperor Imprint Dou Skill after two exchanges.
• Jiang Xing subdued the Gu Clan spies, sealed their Dou Qi, and returned with them to Dragon Island.
• Jiang Xing told Zi Yan he planned to force information about the ancient Dou God Clans from the spies, and she led him to the prison holding Gu Xun’er and two others.

Jiang Xing visited Gu Xun'er in prison and found her mentally shattered, but seeing two Gu Clan Half-Saints briefly restored her awareness. He then used the threat of pursuing Gu Xun'er to provoke the Half-Saints into revealing the outcome of the battle two years earlier, and Zi Yan prepared to take them nearby.

• Jiang Xing followed Zi Yan through the heavily guarded prison and found Gu Xun'er in a vacant, deteriorated state.
• Zi Yan explained that Gu Xun'er had arrived that way and often repeated Xiao Yan's name.
• Jiang Xing brought Gu Pai and Gu Guai into Gu Xun'er's cell, and their voices briefly brought her back to her senses.
• Gu Xun'er learned that the two Half-Saints had been captured while investigating the Ancient Void Dragon's location.
• Jiang Xing asked Gu Pai and Gu Guai about the battle two years earlier, but they refused to answer.
• Jiang Xing threatened to pursue Gu Xun'er to provoke them, then told Zi Yan to take them somewhere nearby where they could hear but not see.

Jiang Xing learned that the Dou God Clans were recovering while the Soul Clan waited, and he decided to use the Ancient Void Dragon clan’s strength to keep the Soul Clan in check. He spread news that he had reached the Nine-Star Dou Saint level, prompting Hun Tiandi to reconsider the Ancient Void Dragon clan’s power.

• Jiang Xing and Zi Yan persuaded two Gu Clan Half-Saints to reveal what they knew by threatening Gu Xun'er, then questioned them in a secret chamber.
• Jiang Xing learned that the Dou God Clans had been holding back since the battle two years earlier and assessed the Ancient Void Dragon clan’s growing strength.
• Jiang Xing decided to make the Ancient Void Dragon clan a third power that would deter the Soul Clan from attacking the Gu, Yan, and Lei Clans.
• Jiang Xing deliberately announced that he had broken through to the Nine-Star Dou Saint level, causing an uproar across the Central Continent.
• Hun Tiandi asked Nihility Devouring Flame whether Jiang Xing’s reported breakthrough was true, and Nihility judged that refining three Heavenly Flames could have made it possible.

Hun Tiandi weighed the danger Jiang Xing posed as he prepared to attack the Gu, Yan, and Lei Clans, while the Ancient Void Dragon Clan reopened Dragon Island after Jiang Xing’s breakthrough. Jiang Xing refused the Gu and Yan Clans’ request to free their captives, and their representatives returned convinced he had no intention of releasing them.

• Hun Tiandi reviewed Jiang Xing’s past schemes and considered how the Ancient Void Dragon Clan and Jiang Xing might exploit the Soul Clan if it suffered heavy losses.
• After Jiang Xing emerged from two years of seclusion, the Ancient Void Dragon Clan ended its isolation so its members could seek cultivation resources.
• Gu Ba and Yan Jiang offered resources in exchange for Gu Xun’er and the two Yan Clan captives, but Jiang Xing refused and denied possessing the Inherited Heavenly Flame.
• When Yan Jiang questioned why Jiang Xing had captured the Yan Clan members, Jiang Cheng claimed Yan Ge had traumatized him by mocking his lack of Dou God bloodline.
• Jiang Xing used Jiang Cheng’s claim to justify keeping the captives, and Gu Ba and Yan Jiang left empty-handed.
• The Gu and Yan Clans called Jiang Xing and Jiang Cheng shameless and discussed what to do about their imprisoned members.

Jiang Xing traded Huo Zhi's release for resources while keeping two hostages, secretly using the deal to delay the Soul Clan's attack. On his way back to Dragon Island, he discovered the Soul Clan's four elders assembling a formation in the Burial Sky Mountain Range and suspected it was the Gates of Oblivion.

• Jiang Xing offered to release one captive for a third of the resources and refused to free all three at once.
• The Gu and Yan Clans agreed to the deal, and Jiang Xing released Huo Zhi before receiving the Yan Clan's resources.
• Jiang Xing warned the clans to prepare the remaining resources for an exchange in fifty years and threatened the hostages if they acted against the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.
• Hun Tiandi learned about the hostage deal, while Jiang Xing's true aim was to stall the Soul Clan after discovering its secret.
• Jiang Xing took Jiang Yue to the Jiang Clan's Secret Realm, protected her with Dou Sheng-level puppets, and reinforced its concealment.
• Jiang Xing sensed the Soul Clan's four elders setting up a formation in the Burial Sky Mountain Range and suspected it was the Gates of Oblivion.

Jiang Xing arranged for the hostages to be exchanged at the Du Jian Mountain Range in fifty years, hoping Hun Tiandi would move the Gates of Oblivion there and delay the Soul Clan's attack while Jiang Xing advanced his cultivation. Hun Tiandi took the bait, ordering the Hun Clan Four Elders to relocate the Gates and setting Hun Feng and Hun Yu a contest to reach Seven-Star Dou Saint within fifty years, unaware of Jiang Xing's scheme.

• Jiang Xing chose to announce a hostage exchange at the Du Jian Mountain Range in fifty years, expecting Hun Tiandi to move the Gates of Oblivion there and postpone the Soul Clan's plan.
• Hun Tiandi summoned the Hun Clan Four Elders, learned they had completed one-third of the Gates of Oblivion, and ordered them to move it to the Du Jian Mountain Range within twenty years without being discovered.
• Hun Tiandi challenged Hun Feng and Hun Yu to reach Seven-Star Dou Saint first within fifty years, promising the winner the position of the Soul Clan's next Clan Leader.
• Hun Feng concealed his displeasure, while Hun Yu welcomed the chance to compete for leadership.
• Hun Tiandi prepared for the battle at the Du Jian Mountain Range, unaware that Jiang Xing had planned the exchange to buy time.

Jiang Xing returned to the Ancient God Mansion with Zi Yan and Cai Lin to apologize to Zhu Kun for failing to gather the Ancient Jade within fifteen years. Zhu Kun accepted his apology after Zi Yan defended him, and Jiang Xing left the father and daughter alone to talk while he and Cai Lin headed for the Snake-People Tribe.

• After confirming the Soul Clan would make no moves for fifty years, Jiang Xing decided to visit Zhu Kun and apologize for breaking his promise.
• Jiang Xing invited Cai Lin to travel with him and Zi Yan to the Northwest Continent, suggesting they move the Snake-People Tribe to Dragon Island.
• At Jia Nan Academy, Jiang Xing and the two women descended beneath the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower, where Zhu Kun recognized Zi Yan and was overjoyed to see her grown up.
• When Zhu Kun asked for the Ancient Jade, Jiang Xing admitted he had not gathered the other seven pieces and promised to obtain them within fifty years.
• Zi Yan told Zhu Kun she had asked Jiang Xing to wait, and Zhu Kun dropped his anger; Jiang Xing apologized again before leaving with Cai Lin.
• Jiang Xing and Cai Lin headed for the Snake-People Tribe while Zi Yan stayed behind to talk with Zhu Kun.

Jiang Xing and Cai Lin relocated the Snake-People Tribe to Dragon Island, then Jiang Xing welcomed Jiang Yue back from the Secret Realm and helped her prepare to break through to the Dou Sheng realm. The chapter ended with Jiang Yue reaching One-Star Dou Saint and proudly showing her achievement to Cai Lin.

• Jiang Xing and Cai Lin visited the Snake-People Tribe, where Cai Lin arranged for Yue Mei and the tribal leaders to prepare for relocation to Dragon Island.
• Jiang Xing examined the Gate of Life and Death, concealed it with a Dou Qi Barrier, and planned to return in forty years with Jiang Yue.
• Jiang Xing, Cai Lin, and Zi Yan moved the Snake-People Tribe to Dragon Island, where the tribe welcomed its abundant Dou Qi.
• After two and a half years, Jiang Xing met Jiang Yue as she emerged from the Jiang Family Secret Realm at the Advanced Half-Saint realm.
• Jiang Xing gave Jiang Yue a Bodhi Seed, and she refined it while Cai Lin cultivated in seclusion.
• Cai Lin emerged at the Seven-Star Dou Saint Late Stage, while Jiang Yue reached One-Star Dou Saint and showed off her breakthrough to her mother.

After decades of preparation, Jiang Xing exchanged Gu Xun'er and Huo Xuan with Gu Yuan, then used Gu Xun'er’s misdirected toss to help Hun Tiandi spring a trap. The Gates of Oblivion enclosed Gu Yuan, Hun Tiandi, and the others, leaving Gu Yuan trapped as Hun Tiandi prepared to kill him.

• Jiang Xing, Zi Yan, Cai Lin, Jiang Yue, Qing Lin, Jiang Heng, and their allies spent decades strengthening themselves for the coming battle with the Soul Clan.
• Jiang Xing brought a group of High-Level Dou Saints to the Du Jian Mountain Range, while Gu Yuan arrived alone to exchange Gu Xun'er and Huo Xuan for resources.
• Jiang Xing threw Huo Xuan toward Gu Yuan but sent Gu Xun'er toward the center of the Du Jian Mountain Range, then fled to give Hun Tiandi time to act.
• Hun Tiandi attacked Gu Xun'er as the four Gates of Oblivion appeared and formed a barrier around Gu Yuan, Hun Tiandi, Gu Xun'er, and Huo Xuan.
• Gu Yuan blocked Hun Tiandi’s attacks and tried to escape with Gu Xun'er and Huo Xuan, but Hun Tiandi held him back until the Gates of Oblivion trapped them.
• The death aura penetrated Gu Xun'er and Huo Xuan despite Gu Yuan’s protection, and Hun Tiandi declared that Gu Yuan would not escape.

Hun Tiandi and the Soul Clan killed Gu Yuan, then attacked the Gu, Yan, and Lei Clans while their allies were still recovering. The Three-Clan Alliance’s defenses collapsed, and its members began self-destructing as the battle turned into a massacre.

• Hun Tiandi, Nihility Devouring Flame, and the Soul Clan experts ambushed Gu Yuan inside the Gates of Oblivion and blocked his attempt to summon help.
• Hun Tiandi ordered Hun Feng to threaten Gu Xun'er, driving Gu Yuan into a desperate assault; Nihility Devouring Flame struck Gu Yuan down, and Gu Yuan self-destructed, shattering the Gates of Oblivion and killing two Seven-Star Dou Saints.
• Hun Tiandi recovered with the surviving Soul Clan experts, gathered the Soul Clan army, and ordered an assault on the Gu, Yan, and Lei Clans.
• Hun Tiandi told Yan Jin and the others that he had killed Gu Yuan, then shattered the alliance’s Defensive Grand Formation and joined the attack.
• Nihility Devouring Flame overwhelmed Gu Lie, Lei Dong, and the Yan Clan Progenitor while the Soul Clan elders slaughtered the alliance’s forces; Gu, Yan, and Lei Clan members began self-destructing in desperation.

The Soul Clan annihilated the Gu, Yan, and Lei Clans, gathered all Eight Ancient Jades, and located the Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion beneath Jia Nan Academy. Hun Tiandi destroyed the academy and uncovered the entrance, but Old Dragon Emperor Zhu Kun appeared and abruptly fled, leaving the Soul Clan uncertain about what awaited them.

• Jiang Xing used a Dou Zun puppet to deliver the Tou She Ancient God Jade, while the Soul Clan defeated and killed the Gu Clan Progenitor, Yan Jin, and Lei Ying.
• Hun Tiandi and the Soul Clan slaughtered the Gu, Yan, and Lei Clans, collected their blood, and returned to the Hun Realm with all Eight Ancient Jades.
• Hun Tiandi assembled the Ancient Jades and used their projection to identify Jia Nan Academy as the location of the Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion.
• Hun Tiandi led the Soul Clan to Jia Nan Academy, killed everyone there, and destroyed the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower to reveal an ancient stone gate beneath it.
• Old Dragon Emperor Zhu Kun emerged from the magma, sensed Hun Tiandi's strength, and suddenly fled instead of fighting him.

Jiang Xing and his allies seized the Emperor Pill Embryo from Hun Tiandi, defeated the Soul Clan forces, and later gained the power to reach Dou Di. After Jiang Xing killed the escaped Hun Tiandi, he and eight companions broke through to Dou Di twenty years later.

• Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame fought the Emperor Pill Embryo, and Nihility Devouring Flame used the Transformation Pill Circle to turn it into a pill.
• Jiang Xing, Zi Yan, and Zhu Kun entered the mansion, and Zhu Kun stole the pill while Jiang Xing and Zhu Kun attacked Hun Tiandi.
• Cai Lin led reinforcements against the Soul Clan; Hun Tiandi escaped, but Jiang Xing, Zhu Kun, and Zi Yan killed Nihility Devouring Flame and slaughtered the remaining Soul Clan experts.
• Jiang Xing gave the Emperor Pill Embryo to Zi Yan to refine after she reached the Nine-Star Dou Saint Late Stage, then received the Ancient God inheritance in the Heavenly Tomb.
• Jiang Yue, Jiang Cheng, Jiang Heng, and Su Qian surged to the Nine-Star Dou Saint Late Stage as Jiang Xing emerged from seclusion.
• Jiang Xing killed Hun Tiandi in his hidden space, and twenty years later Jiang Xing, Cai Lin, Jiang Yue, Jiang Heng, Jiang Cheng, Su Qian, Zi Yan, Zhu Kun, and Qing Lin broke through to Dou Di.