Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan exposed Gu Yang as a Soul Clan spy whose soul had replaced the real Gu Yang, and Gu Yuan captured him after confirming the impurity in his Clan Mark. Xiao Yan then warned the Ancient Clan that the Soul Clan had secretly benefited from the Tunling Clan’s power and that a calamity could come within ten years.

• Xiao Yan accused Gu Yang of being a Soul Clan spy and said Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame had killed the real Gu Yang a hundred years earlier and replaced his soul.
• Xiao Yan challenged Gu Yang to reveal his Clan Mark, and Gu Yuan forced it to appear, exposing its impure bloodline.
• Gu Yuan subdued Gu Yang, but Xiao Yan stopped him from killing the spy and said he wanted him to suffer true despair.
• Xiao Yan warned Gu Yuan and the Ancient Clan elders to alert the other Ancient Eight Clans because a calamity could arrive within ten years.
• Xiao Yan explained that the Tunling Clan had not been completely exterminated and said Nihility Devouring Flame had absorbed its leader’s bloodline-devouring power, which could explain the Soul Clan’s lack of bloodline decline.

Xiao Yan exposed the Soul Clan’s hidden strength and urged Gu Yuan to unite the Ancient Clans rather than fight them head-on. He planned to enter the Heavenly Tomb and gather Heavenly Flames to advance his cultivation and forge his Sovereign Dharma Body.

• Xiao Yan revealed that the Soul Clan had inherited the Tunling Clan’s bloodline-devouring power and warned Gu Yang that the other clans would turn against the Soul Clan.
• Gu Yuan killed Gu Yang, ordered him buried with honors, and sent jade talismans to the leaders of the Thunder, Flame, Medicine, Stone, and Spirit Clans.
• Xiao Yan detailed the Soul Clan’s strength, and Gu Yuan’s elders agreed to form an alliance and prepare defenses rather than provoke an immediate war.
• Gu Yuan agreed to help Xiao Yan enter the Heavenly Tomb, where Xiao Yan planned to devour its energy forms and approach the Sovereign realm.
• Xiao Yan asked Gu Yuan to obtain two more Heavenly Flames and offered to refine Ninth Grade pills in exchange; Gu Yuan was astonished that Xiao Yan could refine Ninth Grade Treasure Pills and possibly Mysterious Pills.

Xiao Yan entered the Heavenly Tomb to gather enough energy for his Sovereign breakthrough and find a way to revive Xiao Xuan directly. After clearing the first two levels, he reached the entrance to the third level, where stronger energy bodies awaited.

• Gu Yuan and Xiao Yan agreed on a plan to deal with the Soul Clan, and Xiao Yan cultivated through the night in the Gu Realm.
• Gu Yuan forcibly opened the Heavenly Tomb, and Xiao Yan entered after asking him to manage relations with the other five clans while he was away.
• Xun'er watched the entrance close, and Gu Yuan reassured her that Xiao Yan would be safe.
• Xiao Yan drew energy bodies toward him and used the Chaos Furnace to refine their cores into Supreme Spiritual Liquid, clearing the first level and then the second.
• Xiao Yan accumulated fifty thousand drops of Supreme Spiritual Liquid but judged that he needed at least one hundred thousand to break through, then approached the third level and called out to Xiao Xuan.

After discovering Xiao Yan’s extraordinary strength, Xiao Xuan learned that his descendant had plans to revive him and restore the Xiao Clan. Xiao Yan then began undergoing the Soul Tribulation inside Xiao Xuan’s tomb residence.

• Hun Tiandi learned that Gu Yang had been exposed and killed, and he worried that obtaining the Ancient Clan’s Tou She Ancient God Jade had become nearly impossible.
• Gu Yuan welcomed a Flame Clan Dou Sheng envoy to the Gu Realm and waited to explain why he had invited the clans.
• Xiao Yan broke through the crystal wall on the Heavenly Tomb’s third level, obtained an Ancient Bug Emperor egg, and reached the monument where Xiao Xuan appeared.
• Xiao Yan refused to take Xiao Xuan’s remaining bloodline power and promised to bring the Xiao Clan back from darkness; Xiao Xuan laughed that the Xiao Clan would rise again.
• Xiao Yan explained his plans to revive Xiao Xuan and other Xiao Clan ancestors, then asked Xiao Xuan to guard him while he broke through a realm.
• Xiao Yan began the Soul Tribulation, igniting a flame within his soul and startling Xiao Xuan.

Xiao Yan completed the Soul Tribulation by burning his Soul Body and fusing it with Emperor Flame Source, then began hunting powerful energy beings in the Heavenly Tomb to restore his soul and prepare for another breakthrough. Meanwhile, Gu Yuan warned the other Ancient Clan leaders about the Soul Clan’s strength, and Xiao Xuan backed Xiao Yan’s offer to arrange good reincarnations for the Heavenly Tomb’s energy beings.

• Xiao Yan endured the Soul Tribulation, fused Strange Flame Source into his Soul Power, and transformed his Soul Body into a far tougher crystalline figure.
• Xiao Yan restored part of his soul source with Soul Nourishing Liquid and the three soul sources taken from the Soul Hall Dou Sheng he had killed, reaching the Heavenly Sovereign Great Perfection level.
• Xiao Yan asked Xiao Xuan to help deal with the strongest Dou Sheng-level energy beings on the Heavenly Tomb’s third level, and Xiao Xuan agreed.
• Gu Yuan told the leaders of the Lei, Flame, Medicine, Spirit, and Stone Clans about the Soul Clan’s hidden strength and proposed secret preparations against it, saying they would act after Xiao Yan grew stronger.
• Xiao Yan hunted energy beings on the third level, offering to preserve their remnant souls and arrange good reincarnations if they surrendered their energy cores and Soul Power.
• Xiao Xuan publicly confirmed that Xiao Yan’s offer was genuine and warned the energy beings that he would send them into reincarnation by force if they refused.

Xiao Yan used Xiao Xuan’s overwhelming strength to persuade the third level’s energy bodies to surrender their True Spirits, energy cores, and Soul Power, while secretly offering Blood Blade Saint a chance at direct revival. After clearing the level and gathering vast resources, Xiao Yan began his breakthrough and successfully opened his Sovereign Sea.

• Xiao Xuan killed a Soul Clan Six Star Dou Sheng, prompting many energy bodies to accept Xiao Yan’s offer of reincarnation in exchange for their energy cores and True Spirits.
• Xiao Yan extracted the energy bodies’ True Spirits and refined their cores and Soul Power in the Chaos Furnace, while Blood Blade Saint agreed to serve him after Xiao Yan promised to revive him directly.
• Over seven days, Xiao Yan refined more than half of the third level’s energy bodies and accumulated over three hundred thousand drops of Supreme Spiritual Liquid, then began slaughtering those who refused to cooperate.
• After three more days, the third level was silent except for Xiao Yan, Xiao Xuan, Blood Blade Saint, and an elderly Ancient Clan Dou Sheng whom Xiao Yan agreed to revive.
• Xiao Yan used the accumulated Supreme Spiritual Liquid to expand his qi sea until a black dot formed and opened into a Sovereign Sea, completing his breakthrough into the Sovereign realm.

Xiao Yan broke through to the Sovereign realm in the Heavenly Tomb, then cultivated until his Soul Power neared the Di Realm and advanced to Second Grade Sovereign. As the Heavenly Tomb Soul grew increasingly anxious, Xiao Yan's awakening shook the Heavenly Tomb and left him ready to confront it.

• Xiao Yan shattered his qi sea, formed a Sovereign Sea, and filled it with Supreme Spiritual Liquid until he reached First Grade Sovereign.
• Xiao Yan resumed cultivating, pushing his Sovereign cultivation to late First Grade and raising his Soul Power toward the Di Realm while the Heavenly Tomb Soul sensed the threat.
• Xiao Yan summoned the Chaos Furnace and drew energy from the Heavenly Tomb into his Sovereign Sea as he continued cultivating.
• Gu Yuan traded a Ninth Grade Treasure Pill with Yan Jin for Volcanic Rock Flame, and Yan Jin urged Huo Zhi to win Xiao Yan over when he visited the Flame Clan.
• After nearly a year in the Heavenly Tomb, Xiao Yan's Soul Power neared the Emperor Realm, and he reached Second Grade Sovereign as his aura shook the space and forced Blood Blade Saint to his knees.

Xiao Yan destroyed the Heavenly Tomb Soul and refined the Heavenly Tomb, preserving the soul origin for his plan to revive Xiao Xuan. He then began freeing Blood Blade Saint from the Heavenly Tomb, leaving him gravely weakened as his life imprint was removed.

• Xiao Yan challenged the Heavenly Tomb Soul and defeated it with his soul power and flames, extracting its soul origin before destroying its body.
• Xiao Yan entrusted the Heavenly Tomb Soul's origin to Xiao Xuan and spent a month refining the entire Heavenly Tomb.
• Xiao Yan returned to his physical body and asked Gu Lu to remain with Xiao Xuan while he prepared to leave with Blood Blade Saint.
• Xiao Yan used the Heavenly Tomb's origin to strip away Blood Blade Saint's life imprint, causing Blood Blade Saint's energy body to collapse and his soul to weaken severely.

Xiao Yan left the Heavenly Tomb after reviving Blood Blade Saint’s soul and returned with Dou Sheng strength and Di Realm Soul Power. He and Gu Yuan discussed striking the Soul Clan, while Xiao Yan accepted an invitation to visit the Flame Clan and reassured Xun’er before departing with her affectionately.

• Xiao Yan gave Blood Blade Saint soul origin, bid farewell to Xiao Xuan and Gu Lu, and left the Heavenly Tomb he had refined.
• Gu Yuan and Xun’er saw Xiao Yan emerge safely, and Gu Yuan sensed that Xiao Yan’s strength could threaten him.
• Xiao Yan told Gu Yuan that he had reached Dou Sheng and the Di Realm, and he agreed to discuss attacking the Soul Clan while keeping his soul realm secret.
• Gu Yuan gave Xiao Yan the Flame Clan’s invitation, and Xiao Yan decided to visit the clan to seek a more useful Heavenly Flame.
• Xiao Yan comforted Xun’er about their difference in strength, promised to marry her, and kissed her when she teased him about Cai Lin and Xiao Yi Xian.

Xiao Yan visited the Flame Clan to refine the Volcanic Rock Flame, while Yan Jin arranged for Huo Zhi to guide him in hopes she would become one of his confidantes. After Xiao Yan’s advice impressed Huo Zhi, she tried to stumble into him at Sky Flame Canyon, but he called her out.

• Xiao Yan refused Xun'er’s offer of the Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame and left the Ancient Clan for the Flame Clan.
• Yan Jin welcomed Xiao Yan, learned he had reached the Dou Sheng level, and introduced him to the Flame Clan’s elders and younger generation.
• Yan Jin asked Huo Zhi to guide Xiao Yan through the Flame World and take him to Sky Flame Canyon to refine the Volcanic Rock Flame.
• Huo Zhi questioned Xiao Yan about his cultivation, and his guidance on Heavenly Flames and Flame Clan methods impressed her.
• At Sky Flame Canyon, Huo Zhi pretended to stumble toward Xiao Yan, but she fell to the ground and Xiao Yan told her to have some self-respect.

Xiao Yan refined a Volcanic Rock Flame in Sky Flame Canyon, then rejected Yan Jin’s attempt to secure him as the Flame Clan’s son-in-law. He left after announcing that the plan against the Soul Clan would begin soon, and Yan Jin realized Xiao Yan could become a leading figure in the coming war.

• Huo Zhi felt humiliated after Xiao Yan rejected her advances, but she led him to choose a Volcanic Rock Flame.
• Xiao Yan drew a Volcano Divine Stone from a crater and instantly refined the Volcanic Rock Flame it contained.
• Yan Jin dismissed Huo Zhi and offered Xiao Yan Flame Clan resources and inherited flames if he partnered with her.
• Xiao Yan rebuked Yan Jin for treating Huo Zhi as a bargaining chip and left the Clan Leader’s hall.
• Xiao Yan told Yan Jin that news about the plan against the Soul Clan could arrive as soon as the next day, and Yan Jin considered Xiao Yan’s role in the coming battle.

Xiao Yan returned from the Flame Clan and joined Gu Yuan in preparing the six-clan alliance to strike the Soul Clan, whose strength and infiltrators posed a threat to every ancient clan. At the alliance meeting, Xiao Yan volunteered to handle the Soul Clan Four Demon Saints and claimed Hun Mie Sheng, Hun Xuzi, and the Hall of Souls Master as his opponents.

• Yan Jin told Huo Zhi what had happened, while Xiao Yan returned to the Gu Realm after refining the Volcanic Rock Flame.
• Xiao Yan and Gu Yuan confirmed that the six clans had found Soul Clan infiltrators among their Dou Sheng elders and agreed to organize a preemptive attack.
• Xiao Yan reassured Xun'er, then promised to publicly declare her as his girl at a gathering after the war.
• Xiao Yan joined the leaders of the five other clans and helped assess the Soul Clan's forces against those of the six-clan alliance.
• Xiao Yan said he would handle the Soul Clan Four Demon Saints if they entered the battle.
• Xiao Yan told the clan leaders to leave Hun Mie Sheng, Hun Xuzi, and the Hall of Souls Master to him.

Xiao Yan and the leaders of the six clans prepared a coordinated war against the Soul Clan after discovering its infiltration and plans to consume their bloodlines. With their armies assembled and Hun Tiandi alerted to the loss of his agents, the allied forces began their march, leaving the great war underway.

• Xiao Yan told the clan leaders he could hold off Hun Mie Sheng and Hun Xuzi, and they agreed on assignments for the coming battle.
• Gu Yuan and the other leaders secretly mobilized their clans, warning their Dou Shengs that the Soul Clan possessed the Tunling Clan’s methods and threatened their survival.
• Yan Jin and the Flame Clan’s experts cornered the possessed Elder Huo Jiu and killed him before he could self-destruct.
• Hun Tiandi discovered that all his planted agents in the six clans had been exposed and summoned the Soul Clan’s forces.
• Gu Yuan, Xiao Yan, and the other clan leaders ordered their armies to move out as ancient warships filled the skies.

The Six Clan Alliance marched against the Soul Clan, and both armies clashed outside the Soul Realm. Xiao Yan revealed his overwhelming strength and prepared to strike Hun Mie Sheng with the Great Desolate Sky Burning Finger.

• Gu Yuan and Xiao Yan led the Gu Clan army to the Stone Realm, where the six clans gathered a million-strong force and followed Xiao Yan's command toward the Soul Clan.
• Hun Tiandi learned that the alliance was advancing, ordered the four elders to prepare the World of Death, and offered a Ninth Grade Mysterious Pill to anyone who killed Xiao Yan.
• The Six Clan Alliance and the Soul Clan faced off; Gu Yuan demanded that Hun Tiandi surrender Nihility Devouring Flame, but Hun Tiandi refused and ordered his army to attack.
• Gu Yuan fought Hun Tiandi while Lei Ying and Yan Jin held off Nihility Devouring Flame, and six Soul Clan Dou Saints attacked Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan repelled the six attackers, badly injured one Three Star Dou Sheng, and summoned the Great Desolate Sky Burning Finger to target Hun Mie Sheng.

Xiao Yan overwhelmed the Soul Clan forces, killed Hun Mie Sheng, and turned to face Hun Xuzi with his Flame God manifestation. As their flame-controlled beasts collided, Nihility Devouring Flame offered Hun Xuzi the remaining soul essence needed to advance to the Emperor Realm in exchange for killing Xiao Yan.

• Xiao Yan used the Great Desolate Sky Burning Finger to crush Hun Mie Sheng's defenses and smash him into the ground, while the other Soul Clan Dou Sheng fled.
• Xiao Yan fired his Reincarnation Death Ray at the fleeing Soul Clan experts, killing a wounded Three-Star Dou Sheng and forcing Hun Tiandi to order the Soul Clan to focus on killing him.
• Xiao Yan struck at Hun Xuzi, killed the near-death Hun Mie Sheng with another flame pillar, and then took Ling Hai's place against Hun Xuzi.
• Xiao Yan and Hun Xuzi revealed their flames, with Xiao Yan summoning his Flame God while Hun Xuzi formed a massive dragon from the Sub-Flame of Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Nihility Devouring Flame offered Hun Xuzi the remaining soul essence needed to advance to the Emperor Realm, and Hun Xuzi empowered his fire dragon before it clashed with the Flame God's fist.

Xiao Yan overwhelmed Hun Xuzi by devouring the Nihility Devouring Flame Sub-Flame and battering him inside Flame God World. As Hun Xuzi cried for Hun Tiandi to save him, Hun Tiandi revealed four powerful aged figures and ordered his forces to focus on killing Xiao Yan.

• Xiao Yan fought Hun Xuzi’s black fire dragon and used his Emperor Flame to devour its Nihility Devouring Flame Sub-Flame.
• Xiao Yan tore the black fire dragon apart, injuring Hun Xuzi and absorbing much of the flame and power it contained.
• Hun Xuzi tried to flee, but Xiao Yan trapped him in Flame God World and battered him with hundreds of punches.
• Hun Xuzi, badly injured and nearly out of Dou Qi, called for Hun Tiandi to save him.
• Hun Tiandi ordered his forces to eliminate Xiao Yan as four aged figures emerged around the battlefield.

Hun Tiandi trapped much of the Allied Forces inside the Soul Clan’s World of Death, but Xiao Yan unleashed his Di Realm soul technique, Flame God’s Wrath, and killed Hun Yuantian with a single roar. The attack turned the battle against the Soul Clan, leaving Hun Tiandi injured and ordering his forces to retreat to the Soul Realm.

• Hun Tiandi summoned four Eight Star Dou Sheng elders, and they sealed many Allied Forces experts inside the World of Death.
• Yao Dan and two Lei Clan Dou Shengs rallied the trapped forces around Xiao Yan as he positioned them to attack Hun Yuantian.
• Xiao Yan unleashed Flame God’s Wrath, killing Hun Yuantian and annihilating Soul Clan forces across its path.
• Xiao Yan’s soul impact briefly stunned Hun Tiandi, allowing Gu Yuan to injure him while Nihility Devouring Flame intervened.
• Gu Yuan ordered the Allied Forces to attack, and Hun Tiandi commanded the Soul Clan army to retreat to the Soul Realm and activate its clan-protecting formation.

Xiao Yan’s Flame God’s Wrath devastated the Soul Clan army, allowing the alliance to kill three of its four elders and force the survivors back into the Soul Realm. After Xiao Yan killed Hun Xuzi and refined Nihility Devouring Flame’s Sub-Flame, the Soul Clan sealed itself behind its clan-protecting formation, and Gu Yuan declared Xiao Yan’s foremost merit in the battle.

• Xiao Yan’s soul attack shattered most of the Soul Clan experts in the World of Death, and Yan Jin and Lei Ying led the allied army’s assault.
• Yan Jin and the allied forces killed Hun Shengtian, while Hun Mietian escaped after sacrificing the Gate of Dead Silence; Yao Dan and Xiao Yan helped kill Hun Yao.
• Xiao Yan pursued and killed Hun Xuzi with the Flame God’s Spear, then crushed and refined Nihility Devouring Flame’s Sub-Flame.
• Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame retreated into the Soul Realm and activated its clan-protecting formation, which the allied army could not break.
• Xiao Yan’s strength rose to the peak of Second Grade Sovereign after refining the Sub-Flame, and Gu Yuan credited him with the foremost merit in the battle.

After the Six Clan Alliance’s victory, Xiao Yan arranged a watch on the Soul Clan and set out to gather what he needed to grow stronger. He destroyed Soul Hall’s three main halls and returned to Starfall Pavilion with a vast haul of soul origin, while Hun Tiandi learned of the destruction and raged.

• The six clan leaders offered Xiao Yan treasures for his role in the victory, and he instead asked them to gather rare materials for his Sovereign Dharma Body.
• Xiao Yan gave the alliance the Tiangang Star Dou Great Array and helped organize thirty-six Dou Shengs to guard the Soul Clan and contain Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Xiao Yan warned Yao Dan about his grievances with the Medicine Clan before leaving, and Gu Yuan silenced Yan Jin when he mocked Yao Dan.
• Hun Tiandi learned that all the Soul Clan experts stationed at Soul Hall had died and roared in fury.
• Xiao Yan destroyed Soul Hall’s Heaven, Earth, and Human Halls with single palm strikes, then returned to Starfall Pavilion with the accumulated soul origin.

After returning to Starfall Pavilion, Xiao Yan revealed his overwhelming strength to Yao Lao and Feng Xian, gave Yao Lao a portion of Soul Hall’s soul origin, and planned his next steps toward the continent’s peak. He then found Zi Yan, Mu Qingluan, and Feng Qing’er secretly eating medicinal ingredients, leaving Feng Qing’er fascinated after she learned his identity.

• Xiao Yan returned to Starfall Pavilion, where Yao Lao and Feng Xian discovered that no one below Nine Star Dou Sheng could threaten him.
• Xiao Yan gave Yao Lao a portion of the soul origin he had taken after destroying Soul Hall’s main forces.
• Xiao Yan outlined plans to revive Blood Blade Saint, bring the Yan Alliance women to Central State, help Zi Yan, and seek the Pure Lotus Demon Saint’s map and other opportunities.
• Xiao Yan found Zi Yan, Mu Qingluan, and Feng Qing’er secretly eating Yao Lao’s Millennial Black Crow Root in the back mountain.
• Xiao Yan appeared behind Feng Qing’er, then grabbed Zi Yan and vanished with her as Mu Qingluan feared punishment and Feng Qing’er learned he was the continent’s number one genius.