Chapter Summaries

Chu Xiao explained the Spirit Body Seal and its connection to the Flame Clan, then used a spatial array to send Yan Xiao a powerful attack. He destroyed Ming Ye with the Wind Thunder Strangling Seal, leaving the witnesses stunned by his strength.

• Chu Xiao explained that Yan Xiao could use the Spirit Body Seal to summon an ancestral Dharma Body, while the Flame Clan traced its lineage to the Flame Spirit Clan.
• Huo Zhi considered the Flame Clan's potential ties to the Flame Spirit Clan but decided that joining Chu Xiao's Heavenly Palace was the better path.
• Ming Ye attacked Yan Xiao again, determined to kill him before he could grow stronger.
• Chu Xiao sent a wisp of Thunder Flame Emperor Flame through a spatial node and formed the Wind Thunder Strangling Seal around Ming Ye.
• The seal crushed Ming Ye and erased his soul, prompting Huo Ling to wonder who the real Dou Saint was.

Huo Ling and Huo Zhi discussed Chu Xiao’s power after he rescued Yan Xiao, who recovered at Ling Xiao Pavilion and reunited with them. Yan Xiao revealed that Emperor Yan had explained why the plane could no longer produce Dou Emperors, and Chu Xiao clarified how it fit into the wider Great Thousand World.

• Huo Ling questioned Huo Zhi about the Spirit Body phantom and praised Chu Xiao’s soul techniques and ability to hide his attacks.
• Chu Xiao appeared beside Yan Xiao, rescued him, and took him to Ling Xiao Pavilion, where he healed Yan Xiao and sealed the Spirit Body bead’s technique.
• Yan Xiao woke among Chu Xiao’s companions, thanked him for the rescue, and began describing the inheritance he gained in the underwater ruins.
• Huo Ling arrived with two women and pressed Yan Xiao for what he had learned from Emperor Yan about Dou Emperors.
• Yan Xiao said the plane’s damaged origin had lost its Origin Qi, making it impossible to produce a Dou Emperor, and Chu Xiao explained the relationship between Lower Planes and the Great Thousand World.
• Yan Xiao was stunned by Chu Xiao’s explanation and compared the world structure to Primordial Cultivation.

Yan Xiao revealed the Flame Emperor's message about the Flame Clan's paths to becoming Dou Emperors, while Chu Xiao warned Huo Ling that the Soul Clan had been pursuing the same goal for over a thousand years. Huo Ling left with grave concerns and a warning to pass on to Yan Jin.

• Yan Xiao asked Chu Xiao about Primordial Cultivation, and Chu Xiao explained that unusual births and inheritances were common across the Great Thousand World, reassuring Yan Xiao that his knowledge did not make him uniquely dangerous.
• Yan Xiao revealed that the Flame Emperor's soul remained on the Clan Spirit Tablet and could be revived if someone reached beyond Dou Emperor.
• Yan Xiao said the Flame Clan could either exile itself into the Void Sea or search for Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion, which held an Emperor Pill Embryo and a Dou Di Inheritance containing Origin Qi.
• Huo Ling decided to report the revelation to Yan Jin, while Chu Xiao urged her to stay and disclosed that the Soul Clan had known about the cave mansion and planned around it for over a thousand years.
• Chu Xiao explained that the Soul Clan used Soul Hall locations as nodes in a grand formation, gathered souls to help Nihility Devouring Flame regain his strength and memories, and searched for the cave mansion and Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Huo Ling recognized Hun Tiandi's scheme and grew wary of the Soul Clan, regretting that she had not persuaded Yan Jin to help kill him earlier.

Chu Xiao taught Huo Ling the Spirit Body Seal in exchange for her promise to retrieve Black Demon Lightning from the Void Thunder Pool. After Huo Ling left, Huo Zhi gave Chu Xiao a young flame of the newly formed Nine Nether Stone Flame, and he returned to the Small World with Xiao Yi Xian, promising her a gift.

• Huo Ling agreed to return to the Flame Clan to investigate the Soul Hall and discuss the Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion and the Emperor Ascension Opportunity.
• Chu Xiao demonstrated the Heavenly Emperor Dharma Body and said he could teach Huo Ling the Spirit Body Seal, which he had learned after watching Yan Xiao perform it once.
• Chu Xiao taught Huo Ling the method in exchange for her promise to retrieve Black Demon Lightning from the Void Thunder Pool, and Huo Ling departed.
• Huo Zhi gave Chu Xiao a Fire Containing Bead holding a young flame of the Nine Nether Stone Flame, and Chu Xiao promised to refine Yan Xiao a pill to improve his strength and bloodline.
• After the gathering, Chu Xiao returned to the Small World with Xiao Yi Xian and told her he had a gift for her.

Chu Xiao gave Xiao Yi Xian the Netherworld Poison Fire for her eighteenth birthday and used it to help her overcome the danger of her Innate Poison Body. He then began refining pills publicly in Ling Xiao Pavilion, drawing the attention of powerful experts and leaving their intentions uncertain.

• Chu Xiao celebrated Xiao Yi Xian’s eighteenth birthday and presented her with the Netherworld Poison Fire, which he had obtained after Old Yao defeated Soul Hall forces.
• Chu Xiao enveloped himself and Xiao Yi Xian in a fire lotus so she could refine the Netherworld Poison Fire and resolve the danger of her Innate Poison Body.
• After the night passed, Chu Xiao left the fire lotus to let the Thunder Flame Emperor Flame devour Heavenly Flames and went to refine pills for Ling Xiao Pavilion.
• Chu Xiao summoned a Seven Star Cauldron above Lingxiao City’s plaza, split it into three, and began refining top-grade Grade 7 Pills before countless onlookers.
• After seven days of pill refinement, the energy of heaven and earth suddenly turned violent.

Chu Xiao repeatedly refined increasingly powerful pills in Lingxiao City, attracting alchemists and drawing pill lightning that strengthened him and Feng Qing Er. After he successfully refined a Grade 8 Pill that summoned Nine-Colored Pill Lightning, he suddenly began forming seals, alarming Xuan Kongzi.

• Chu Xiao refined three top-grade Grade 7 Pills, endured their pill lightning, and channeled some of its power into Feng Qing Er.
• Over the next half month, Chu Xiao continued refining Grade 7 Pills in public as alchemists flocked to Lingxiao City to observe him.
• Chu Xiao began refining Grade 8 Pills, endured Two-Colored Pill Lightning, and continued producing pills that summoned increasingly colorful lightning.
• Yao Chen and Xuan Kongzi discussed the growing threats around Lingxiao City, and Yao Chen said the Ling Xiao Pavilion had its own foundations.
• Chu Xiao succeeded in refining a Grade 8 Pill that summoned Nine-Colored Pill Lightning, then suddenly formed seals, causing Xuan Kongzi to fear he had gone mad.

Chu Xiao refined a first-of-its-kind ten-colored Grade 8 Pill and broke through to the Heavenly Realm, drawing attacks from Half-Saints who sought to steal it. As Chu Xiao faced the attackers, his clan mark appeared and astonished the gathered Dou God Clans, while Xun Er chose to wait rather than intervene.

• Chu Xiao used five Heavenly Flames and the Spirit Ascension Method to refine a ten-colored Grade 8 Pill, then advanced his soul realm to the Heavenly Realm.
• The pill survived three bolts of Ten-Colored Pill Lightning and transformed into an azure dragon, but several Half-Saints tried to seize it.
• Chu Xiao stored the pill in his Small World, absorbed the lightning, and used Ancient Void Dragon and Ancient Heavenly Phoenix essence blood to strengthen his body.
• Xiao Yi Xian awoke after three months of cultivation, reached the Dou Zong level and Spirit Realm, and set off to devour seventh-tier poison.
• The Mirage Sea Dragon Flood Dragon attacked Chu Xiao, who revealed an Imperial Clan Bloodline clan mark as Xun Er told Elder Tong Xuan to wait.

Chu Xiao broke through to peak Dou Zun with three transformations and used his Dharma Body to capture the Mirage Sea Dragon Flood Dragon Half-Saint. After Xuan Kongzi and Huo Yun stopped two more Half-Saints from fleeing, Chu Xiao revealed a spirit array as the confrontation at Ling Xiao Pavilion continued.

• Xun Er asked Elder Tong Xuan to watch the Half-Saints, while Chu Xiao's aura surged and his cultivation rose to peak Dou Zun with three transformations.
• Chu Xiao summoned his Dharma Body and defeated the Mirage Sea Dragon Flood Dragon, capturing it and tossing it into his Small World.
• The Purple Subtlety Heavenly Dipper Tower suppressed the captured flood dragon, while Xuan Kongzi and Huo Yun stopped two fleeing Half-Saints, including Hun Chi.
• Chu Xiao revealed 256 Spirit Seals arranged into a massive spirit array, leaving Xun Er, Han Xue, Han Yue, and Cao Ying wondering what level it was.

Chu Xiao used the Yin Yang Heavenly Thunder Array to suppress Hun Chi and the mysterious old man, but a Three-Star Dou Sheng emerged from a spatial passage and shattered the array. Xun Er stepped forward to protect Chu Xiao and warned the Soul Clan Dou Saint not to provoke the Ancient Clan, just as an unseen voice affirmed that she could speak for it.

• Chu Xiao activated the Mysterious Yin Heavenly Thunder Array, weakening Hun Chi and the mysterious old man and destroying their Heavenly Rank Dou Techniques.
• Chu Xiao promised to spare the old man if he helped defeat Hun Chi, and the old man attacked Hun Chi alongside the array’s giant pythons.
• Hun Chi opened a spatial passage with a jade slip, and Chu Xiao strengthened the array with a bead, Star Spirit Liquid, and the Life-Death Ancestor Symbol to repel a Dou Saint’s attack.
• Hun Chi was destroyed in the array, and the mysterious old man was killed by lightning, while a black-robed Three-Star Dou Sheng emerged from the passage and shattered the array.
• Xun Er appeared beside Chu Xiao, declared that she would protect him, and warned the Soul Clan Dou Saint that attacking her risked war with the Ancient Clan.
• An unseen voice laughed and affirmed that Xun Er could represent the Ancient Clan.

Gu Xiyang and Xuan Yi protected Chu Xiao and Xun Er from Soul Clan attackers, while Chu Xiao announced an auction and ordered war against the Heavenly Serpent Mansion. He welcomed Xun Er home at Ling Xiao Pavilion.

• Gu Xiyang challenged Hun Yun and fought him in the void while Chu Xiao repaired the shattered space.
• A Soul Clan Dou Sheng tried to attack Chu Xiao, but Xuan Yi intervened and dragged him into the void to fight.
• Chu Xiao addressed the experts in hiding, invited them to Ling Xiao Pavilion's auction in one month, and received their expressions of support.
• Chu Xiao ordered Yun Yun to launch a full-scale war against the Heavenly Serpent Mansion, and Ya Fei agreed to coordinate the offensive.
• Chu Xiao gave Ya Fei a Top Grade Seventh-Rank Pill, then welcomed Xun Er home and heard her tease him about his other women.

Chu Xiao placated Xun Er in his spiritual world, then accepted gifts from Gu Xiyang and Elder Tong Xuan after Gu Xiyang helped them. The chapter left Chu Xiao planning to use Gu Xiyang’s jade slip to take Cai Lin to the Ancient Clan after the three-year agreement.

• Xun Er tried to bite Chu Xiao, but he stopped her and explained that his powerful physique would hurt her teeth.
• Chu Xiao brought Xun Er into his spiritual world, where she bit his soul before he took his revenge; afterward, she admitted he had tricked her.
• Gu Xiyang emerged from the void realm, praised Xun Er, and agreed with Chu Xiao that he could discipline any Ancient Clan juniors who challenged him.
• Chu Xiao offered Gu Xiyang a gourd of Yin Yang Star Spirit Wine, and Gu Xiyang accepted it before giving Chu Xiao a jade slip to summon his aid.
• Xun Er asked Elder Tong Xuan for a meeting gift, and he gave Chu Xiao a Grade 8 Spirit Medicine; Chu Xiao then gave him a box and asked him to keep it from Gu Nanhai.

Chu Xiao rewarded Elder Tong Xuan and the Pill Tower experts, welcomed Xun Er back, and used his accumulated lottery draws to obtain powerful rewards. The chapter ended with him realizing the prizes could help him become a Sovereign in the Lower Plane.

• Chu Xiao gave Elder Tong Xuan Seven-Colored Cloud Mist Tea, and Gu Xiyang took half before leaving with his wine.
• Chu Xiao gave Elder Tong Xuan two more tea leaves, then agreed to Xun Er's request to brew her some tea.
• Xuan Yi asked for rewards after driving off a Soul Clan Dou Saint, and Chu Xiao converted her breakthrough costs into Merit Points she could repay over time.
• Chu Xiao gave Xuan Kongzi a pill formula and Yao Chen a Grade 8 Pill and Half-Saint Remnant Soul Bead, then hosted a feast for Xun Er and the others.
• Chu Xiao taught the women to play mahjong, then used his saved lottery draws and obtained several powerful treasures and techniques.

Chu Xiao claimed several powerful lottery rewards, including artifacts, a soul-restoring stele, and a divine spiritual art he later intended for Yun Yun. He then claimed the ruined body of a Third Grade Supreme and entered its intact Supreme Sea, hoping to use its energy to begin cultivating a Great Thousand Method.

• Chu Xiao stored the Demon Sealing Diagram and Thousand-Mile Great Wall, planning to use the wall to fortify Lingxiao City against the Soul Clan and other enemies.
• Chu Xiao claimed the Holy Spirit Stele, which could nurture remnant souls and, with the Living Spirit Pearl, restore them to life.
• Chu Xiao claimed and mastered the Wind Spirit Sacred Heart Art, recorded it in the Diary, and revealed that it would later become Yun Yun's primary cultivation method.
• Ya Fei and Xun Er teased Yun Yun about Chu Xiao preparing a divine spiritual art for her, and Cai Lin told them to stop undermining unity.
• Chu Xiao claimed the ruined body of a Third Grade Supreme, entered its intact Supreme Sea, and found it filled with vast supreme spiritual qi and Supreme Spirit Liquid.

Chu Xiao cultivated in the Supreme Sea and planned to strengthen his foundation by undergoing the Three Tribulations. Meanwhile, Hun Yun returned to the Soul Clan wounded and reported Chu Xiao’s role in the deaths of their people, prompting Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame to take notice of him.

• Chu Xiao used the Heavenly Derivation Art to determine that the Great Thousand World method would let him reach peak Physical Body Tribulation, then began refining the Supreme Sea’s Spiritual Qi and studying the Wind Spirit Sacred Heart Art.
• After fleeing through a spatial passage, Hun Yun was struck by Chu Xiao’s lightning dragon, lost an arm, and escaped using a blood escape technique.
• Nihility Devouring Flame summoned the Soul Clan’s experts after two of his core child flames went out, and Hun Tiandi arrived to investigate.
• Hun Yun blamed the Ancient Clan for the deaths of Hun Chi and Hun Qing and described Gu Xiyang’s ambush, revealing Chu Xiao’s abilities to the Soul Clan’s leaders.
• Hun Tiandi grew wary of Chu Xiao’s resemblance to Xiao Xuan, while Nihility Devouring Flame proposed capturing him and making him a Fire Slave.

Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame agreed to delay action against Chu Xiao while the Soul Clan pursued its plan to reach the Emperor Realm. After leaving seclusion, Chu Xiao synchronized with his companions and discovered that Xun Er’s Dou Di Bloodline had reached Seven Divine Veins Level because of the Golden Emperor Sky-Burning Flame.

• Hun Tiandi gave Nihility Devouring Flame a Half-Step Emperor Realm Remnant Soul Bead and demanded it break through within five years.
• Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame forbade the Soul Clan’s Dou Saints from acting against Chu Xiao, insisting the clan needed to remain steady.
• After three days in seclusion, Chu Xiao completed his cultivation breakthrough, refined the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix and Ancient Void Dragon Essence Blood, and prepared to leave.
• Chu Xiao synchronized with his companions and gained their bloodlines, abilities, cultivation, and Soul Power.
• Chu Xiao used the Heavenly Derivation Art to learn that the Golden Emperor Sky-Burning Flame had raised Xun Er’s Dou Di Bloodline to Seven Divine Veins Level.

Chu Xiao assessed his cultivation, Spirit Veins, and plans to strengthen his foundation before reaching the Great Thousand World, while his revelations drew the women’s attention to the potential of Dou Emperor Bloodlines. Xun Er decided to enter the Ancient Emperor’s Cave Mansion to obtain the Dou Di Inheritance, and Cai Lin tried to stop her from leaving without telling Chu Xiao.

• Chu Xiao wrote that he had reached the peak of the Physical Body Tribulation and considered three ways to temper his soul and reach the Sovereign Realm.
• Chu Xiao explained Spirit Veins and revealed that Xun Er’s bloodline had reached the level of ancestral reversion, rivaling Seven Spirit Veins, while Huo Zhi and Yao Ling considered the implications for their own bloodlines.
• Xun Er decided to enter the Ancient Emperor’s Cave Mansion so she could keep up with Chu Xiao and help him.
• Cai Lin urged Xun Er to tell Chu Xiao before leaving, but Xun Er refused because he would try to stop her.
• When Cai Lin said she could not let Xun Er leave, Xun Er declared that she was the principal wife.

Cai Lin persuaded Xun Er to wait for Chu Xiao’s advice before entering the Ancient Emperor’s Cave Mansion, while Chu Xiao absorbed his companions’ powers and discovered new ways to strengthen himself. After binding the Mirage Sea Dragon Flood Dragon and drawing a method to trigger the Samsara Tribulation, Chu Xiao planned to use the Bodhi Tree to obtain the intent of samsara.

• Cai Lin convinced Xun Er that leaving for the Ancient Emperor’s Cave Mansion without consulting Chu Xiao would disrespect him, and Xun Er agreed to ask his advice first.
• Chu Xiao absorbed the powers of Xun Er, Cai Lin, Huo Zhi, Ya Fei, Yun Yun, and Cao Ying, reaching the early stage of the Spiritual Energy Tribulation and gaining new sources of growth.
• Chu Xiao swallowed an eighth-tier poison herb and used the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to bind the Mirage Sea Dragon Flood Dragon, then absorbed its cultivation through the space within his eyes.
• Chu Xiao used a Yellow-Grade Lottery draw and obtained the Method to Trigger the Samsara Tribulation.
• Chu Xiao concluded that his soul could trigger the Samsara Tribulation, and that he could obtain the missing intent of samsara through the Bodhi Tree.

Chu Xiao reunited with Xun Er and his wives, learned that Xun Er had been summoned to receive the Ancient Emperor’s inheritance, and gave her a way to survive the danger. After discussing the three-year agreement and plans for traveling to the Central Plains, he went to check on Xiao Yan and found him with two beauties.

• Chu Xiao joined Xun Er, Ya Fei, Yun Yun, Cai Lin, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin for milk tea and learned that Xun Er had considered returning to the Ancient Clan without telling him.
• Xun Er explained that the Ancient Clan had summoned her to receive the Ancient Emperor’s inheritance, and Chu Xiao encouraged her to go while giving the women soul imprints on the Holy Spirit Stele so he could revive them if necessary.
• Chu Xiao learned that Xiao Yan had defeated Nalan Yanran in their three-year agreement and assigned Ya Fei to oversee the headquarters while he and the others prepared to travel to the Central Plains.
• Chu Xiao used the Heavenly Derivation Art to find Xiao Yan and arrived to remind him to cultivate, but found him enjoying the company of two beauties.

Chu Xiao visited Xiao Yan and his two companions before preparing to leave for the Central Plains, then shared a meal and drinks with Yan Xiao. Yan Xiao’s memories of his past life revealed his heart demon, which Chu Xiao unknowingly cured, and Huo Zhi asked what he wanted in return.

• Chu Xiao acknowledged Yue Ling and Xue Fu as Xiao Yan’s companions and gave them Grade 7 Pills as gifts.
• Xiao Yan chose to remain in Lingxiao City until he reached Dou Zong, and Chu Xiao gave him a jade slip and cultivation resources before leaving.
• Chu Xiao bid farewell to the Xiao Family and then met Yan Xiao at the Ling Xiao Pavilion guest residence.
• Yan Xiao told Chu Xiao about his past life on Blue Star and its history, then drunkenly urged him to destroy the Little Days.
• Huo Zhi sent the drunken Yan Xiao to rest and told Chu Xiao that his wine had cured Yan Xiao’s heart demon, then asked what he wanted in return.

Chu Xiao summoned Gu Yuan and Yan Jin to propose an alliance against the Soul Clan after Huo Ling confirmed its hidden plan to establish formation nodes across the continent. Gu Yuan and Yan Jin learned that the plot involved Origin Qi, and Chu Xiao argued that the Ling Clan would join them because Nihility Devouring Flame had mastered the Tunling Clan’s abilities.

• Huo Zhi summoned Huo Ling, and Chu Xiao asked her about the Flame Clan’s investigation into the Soul Clan.
• Huo Ling reported that the Soul Hall was establishing unusual formation nodes, and Chu Xiao used a jade pendant to summon Gu Yuan.
• Huo Ling contacted Yan Jin, and Chu Xiao asked the two clan chiefs to gather the other Dou God Clan leaders and form an alliance against the Soul Clan.
• Huo Ling explained the Soul Clan’s thousand-year conspiracy, including its search for Origin Qi and the Tou She Ancient God’s Cave Mansion.
• Yan Jin warned that the Ling Clan’s ties to the Soul Clan could prevent it from joining the alliance, but Chu Xiao said Nihility Devouring Flame had mastered the Tunling Clan’s abilities.