Chapter Summaries

Xiao Xuan explained that the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb had forced the tomb’s inhabitants to devour one another, and its appearance sparked a confrontation. He sent Hun Tiandi’s avatar to face it while he protected the others, leaving the two powerful beings poised to fight.

• Xiao Xuan told Xiao Yan that the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb controlled the tomb’s territories and forced its Energy Bodies to devour one another.
• The Soul of the Heavenly Tomb appeared after Xiao Xuan spoke its name, and Xiao Xuan offered to help Hun Tiandi defeat it.
• Hun Tiandi refused Xiao Xuan’s offer of help, then asked him to conceal the area while he went to confront the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb.
• Xiao Xuan confronted the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb and suggested it was an imitation shaped by a past Dou Emperor, possibly the Soul Emperor or Emperor Xiao.
• The Soul of the Heavenly Tomb attacked Xiao Xuan with a vast soul storm, and Xiao Xuan sent Hun Ruoruo and the others into the Heavenly Dao’s domain.
• Hun Tiandi appeared before the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb, and the two prepared to fight as Xiao Xuan withdrew from the battlefield.

As the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb battled Xiao Xuan, Huo Zhi withdrew the Yan Clan from Lei Tu’s alliance, while Lei Tu schemed to use the Stone Clan as a pretext against the Soul Clan. Inside the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb’s dwelling, Hun Ruoruo questioned Xiao Yan about inheriting Emperor Xiao’s path and left him asking whether he wanted to surpass her.

• Huo Zhi recognized that the mysterious fluctuation did not seem to come from the Xiao Clan and withdrew the Yan Clan from Lei Tu’s alliance.
• Lei Tu ordered the Stone Clan members to leave the Heavenly Tomb, intending to expose the Soul Clan’s injustice and give the Ancient Clan a pretext to act.
• Xiao Xuan guided Hun Ruoruo and Xiao Yan to the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb’s dwelling, where they found a vast collection of Saint corpses.
• Hun Ruoruo suggested that the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb was a remnant of malice and discussed Xiao Xuan’s wish for Xiao Yan to inherit Emperor Xiao’s path.
• Hun Ruoruo teased Xiao Yan that choosing Emperor Xiao’s path would keep him from catching up to her, then asked whether he wanted to surpass her.

Xiao Yan realized Hun Ruoruo’s question about surpassing her was tied to the Soul Clan’s plans and a possible conflict with Xun’er. After disappearing into a statue, Hun Ruoruo accepted that she had to follow her father’s shadow to protect Xiao Yan, even if it made her his enemy.

• Hun Ruoruo challenged Xiao Yan about whether he wanted her to surpass him, and Xiao Yan denied that his concern was about carrying on the Xiao Family line.
• Hun Ruoruo asked whether Xiao Yan could reverse the fortunes of the Xiao and Soul Clans, then warned him that she still belonged to the Soul Clan and that it had defeated both Xiao Xuan and Gu Yuan.
• A black radiance engulfed Hun Ruoruo as she vanished into the statue, leaving Xiao Yan to suspect that she was preparing to kill Xun’er and that Xun’er might intend to kill her too.
• Inside the statue, Hun Ruoruo reflected that accepting the Soul Clan bloodline left her no way back, and she chose to bear the same infamy as Hun Tiandi to protect Xiao Yan.

The Scholar in White deduced that the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb was formed from malicious will left by Emperor Xiao and Soul Emperor, then hinted that Xiao Xuan could become a new Soul of the Heavenly Tomb. Outside the tomb, Xun'er killed one Stone Clan youth and forced the other to repeat accusations against the Soul Clan before an Ancient Clan force gathered at the gate.

• The Scholar in White told Xiao Xuan and Hun Tiandi that the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb contained a remnant of malicious will from Emperor Xiao and Soul Emperor.
• The Soul of the Heavenly Tomb threatened to open the tomb and draw in the Ancient Clan, while Hun Tiandi showed eagerness to devour it.
• The Scholar in White suggested that Xiao Xuan could become a Soul of the Heavenly Tomb, alarming Xiao Xuan.
• Two Stone Clan youths emerged from the Heavenly Tomb and argued over whether to report what they had seen to the Ancient Clan.
• Xun'er killed one Stone Clan youth and ordered the survivor to repeat the Lightning Clan's accusations against the Soul Clan before his clan.
• The surviving youth emerged into the Ancient Realm and found the Ancient Clan assembled around the gate, realizing the balance among the Eight Clans had collapsed.

Xun'er left the Heavenly Tomb early and helped Gu Sheng rally the Ancient Clan against the Xiao-Soul Alliance, saying she needed to meet her father. Inside the Heavenly Tomb, Hun Ruoruo broke through seclusion and agreed to help Hun Tiandi destroy the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb.

• Tong Xuan and Gu Shan condemned Xun'er for leaving the Heavenly Tomb, while Xun'er mocked their accusations and challenged the Black Mist Army's authority.
• Gu Sheng stopped the Black Mist Army and recognized Xun'er's role in setting events in motion, then ordered the Ancient Clan to surround the Heavenly Tomb with the Ancient Saint Array.
• Xun'er handed Gu Sheng the Stone Clan man, who accused the Xiao-Soul Alliance of attacking the Eight Clans, and said she needed to meet her father.
• Hun Ruoruo reached Dou Zun Five Turns and reflected on the Emperor Soul Art, her rapid cultivation, and the danger of remaining under Hun Tiandi's control.
• Hun Ruoruo broke out of seclusion, and Xiao Xuan and the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb reacted to the Emperor Soul Art's appearance and the Soul Emperor's aura.
• Hun Ruoruo bowed to Hun Tiandi and agreed to help him destroy the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb, deciding to take control of the lives of those she cared about.

Hun Ruoruo presented Xiao Xuan with the Emperor Soul Art so he could replace the rampaging Soul of the Heavenly Tomb, while the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb devoured souls across the tomb. Hun Yu led the Soul Clan group toward a fight with the Ancient Clan, and outside the Heavenly Tomb, Hun Miesheng demanded that Gu Sheng bring Gu Yang out to negotiate.

• Hun Ruoruo gave Xiao Xuan the Emperor Soul Art and warned him not to interfere with Xiao Yan's path, while Xiao Xuan accepted that the Soul Clan's plan might succeed.
• The Soul of the Heavenly Tomb attacked Energy Bodies and devoured the Lightning Clan Ancestor, who used his remaining strength to send Lei Tu and another youth toward the tomb's exit.
• Lei Tu decided to seek the Ancient Clan's help against the Xiao-Soul Alliance, while Hun Yu rejected Hun Ya's doubts and ordered the Soul Clan group to move out and strike first.
• Heavenly Venerable Mo Yu agreed to join Hun Yu's advance, eager to earn military merit and pursue the vacant Great Heavenly Venerable position.
• Gu Sheng confronted Hun Miesheng outside the Heavenly Tomb, but Hun Miesheng dismissed him and demanded that he bring Gu Yang out to negotiate.

Gu Sheng used the Ancient Realm Grand Formation to confront Hun Miesheng while the Ancient Clan forces moved to capture the Xiao-Soul Alliance. As Hun Yu and the others faced two Half-Saints, Xiao Yan emerged from the Heavenly Tomb Gate and challenged Gu Shan and Tong Xuan to fight together.

• Gu Sheng revealed that Gu Yang had given him a token to control part of the Ancient Realm Grand Formation, then clashed with Hun Miesheng.
• Gu Sheng ordered the elders to seal the Heavenly Tomb Gate and capture members of the Xiao-Soul Alliance, while Tong Xuan vowed to make the two young men repent.
• Hun Yu and his companions faced Gu Shan and Tong Xuan, and Hun Yu's cultivation surged to Five Turns as he charged at them.
• The Heavenly Tomb Gate glimmered, and Xiao Yan emerged with a dim clan emblem that still made Hun Yu feel intense pressure.
• Xiao Yan drew his Giant Ruler and challenged Gu Shan and Tong Xuan to attack him together.

Xiao Yan summoned his ancestor Xiao Xuan to confront the Ancient Clan elders who had challenged his decision to cooperate with the Soul Clan. Xiao Xuan endorsed Xiao Yan as the Xiao Clan’s sole decision-maker and warned the Ancient Clan against suppressing him.

• Tong Xuan and Gu Shan mocked Xiao Yan for challenging them, and Tong Xuan accused him of betraying Xiao Xuan by siding with the Soul Clan.
• Hun Miesheng warned Xiao Yan about the power of Gu Shan and Tong Xuan, but Xiao Yan said Tong Xuan had spoken enough.
• Xiao Yan split open the Gate of the Heavenly Tomb with his heavy ruler, and Xiao Xuan appeared before the stunned crowd.
• Xiao Xuan rebuked the Ancient Clan elders for trying to tarnish Xiao Yan’s reputation and invoke his authority against him.
• Xiao Xuan declared that Xiao Yan had earned a hundred merits and no faults, appointed him sole ruler of all Xiao Clan affairs, and said even Gu Yuan could not suppress him.

Xiao Xuan appeared from the Heavenly Tomb to silence the Elder Council, but left Xiao Yan to face its Half-Saints himself. Xiao Yan charged into battle, revealing strength and dragon-bone wings as he challenged both enemies to fight him together.

• Xiao Xuan silenced the Elder Council, declared Xiao Yan the Xiao Clan's new Clan Leader, and warned him not to repeat his recklessness before returning to the Heavenly Tomb.
• After Xiao Xuan left, Gu Shan and Tong Xuan mocked Xiao Yan, who attacked them first.
• Gu Shan summoned towering mountains and a sea of magma, but Xiao Yan struck the mountain and astonished Gu Sheng with his rapidly increased power.
• Tong Xuan attacked Xiao Yan from behind, but Xiao Yan's enormous bone wings blocked the strike and blasted Tong Xuan into the ground.
• Wounded but still standing atop the mountain, Xiao Yan challenged Gu Shan and Tong Xuan to fight him together.

Xiao Yan fought Tong Xuan and Gu Shan alone, overpowering Tong Xuan and revealing that he had awakened the Xiao Clan Divine Ability. He explained that the ability nullified opponents’ Divine Abilities, while his clan mark continued to flicker as Tong Xuan and Gu Shan threatened to outlast its power.

• Xiao Yan mocked Tong Xuan and Gu Shan for remaining Half-Saints, provoking Tong Xuan to attack with his Light Dou Qi.
• Tong Xuan’s purifying power failed to harm Xiao Yan, who tore apart the whisk and destroyed its handle with his bare hands.
• Hun Miesheng, Mang Tianchi, Tong Xuan, and Gu Shan recognized the pattern on Xiao Yan’s brow as the Xiao Clan Divine Ability.
• Xiao Yan explained that the Divine Ability nullified other Divine Abilities and left opponents to compete with him in raw power.
• Gu Shan warned that he and Tong Xuan could still suppress Xiao Yan, while Tong Xuan threatened to wait until Xiao Yan’s clan-mark power ran out.

Xiao Yan used two Buddha’s Fury Fire Lotuses to devastate the Elder Council’s gathering and leave Tong Xuan and Gu Shan gravely wounded. He returned to the Heavenly Tomb, where he challenged them to fight again tomorrow, and Mang Tianchi’s taunt drove the injured men into another furious breakdown.

• Xiao Yan revealed the purple-gold aura of the Taixu Ancient Dragon Royal Family and unleashed two Fire Lotuses on the square.
• The attack erased the mountains, square, Elder Council members, and barrier, while Tong Xuan and Gu Shan barely survived with severe injuries.
• Mo Yu mocked the wounded elders, and Hun Yu provoked Tong Xuan by mentioning Xiao Xuan’s presence in the Heavenly Tomb.
• Xiao Yan told Tong Xuan and Gu Shan to fight him again tomorrow, then returned through the Gate of the Heavenly Tomb with Hun Yu.
• Mang Tianchi warned the injured men that one day outside equaled six days inside the Heavenly Tomb, and they erupted in rage.

After mastering the Heavenly Flames Three Profound Transformations, Xiao Yan faced Xiao Xuan, who tried to claim his future first child as an heir. Xiao Xuan then appealed to Hun Tiandi, arguing that the Soul Clan leader’s influence over Hun Ruoruo justified his own desire to continue the Xiao lineage.

• Xiao Yan perfected the Heavenly Flames Three Profound Transformations, and Xiao Xuan recognized that he had surpassed the Central Continent’s other young prodigies.
• Xiao Xuan worried that Hun Ruoruo’s Soul Emperor legacy could leave her without desire or emotion, then swept the Soul Clan members away and confronted Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Xuan asked Xiao Yan to send his first child to the Heavenly Tomb, but Xiao Yan refused and called the plan child trafficking.
• Xiao Xuan insisted that he deserved a child to keep him company and inherit his legacy, then enlarged himself before the fleeing Energy Bodies.
• Xiao Xuan called out to Hun Tiandi and argued that, since Hun Tiandi had left behind his legacy and still influenced Hun Ruoruo, Xiao Xuan should be allowed to take a child to carry on his lineage.

Xiao Xuan sacrificed his physical form to seize control of the Heavenly Tomb, displacing its Soul. His Soul Imprint then demanded that Hun Tiandi call him Ancestor because Hun Ruoruo had agreed to serve as Xiao Yan’s father’s wife.

• Xiao Xuan demanded a child with Hun Ruoruo in exchange for helping replace the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb, and Hun Ruoruo agreed to serve as Hun Tiandi’s daughter for the moment.
• Xiao Xuan struck his own chest, destroying his giant phantom and leaving behind a Soul Mark that branded itself onto the core of the Heavenly Tomb.
• Xiao Xuan’s power displaced the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb, and Hun Ruoruo recognized that he was better suited to govern the world.
• Xiao Xuan’s Soul Imprint called Hun Tiandi an in-law and demanded that he address him as Ancestor, leaving Hun Ruoruo to retreat from her father’s sudden anger.

Xiao Xuan learned that absorbing the Heavenly Tomb into Hun Ruoruo’s Emperor Soul Art would make him her servant, while Xiao Yan defeated Tong Xuan and the Ancient Clan forces. At the Ancient Clan cemetery, Xun'er urged Gu Yuan to eliminate the Elder Council’s Half-Saints and take charge of opposing the Soul Clan.

• Hun Tiandi and Hun Ruoruo explained that they would absorb the Heavenly Tomb into the Emperor Soul Art, and Xiao Xuan realized he would become Ruoruo’s servant.
• Tong Xuan’s forces admitted that Xiao Yan had defeated a hundred Dou Zun elders and badly wounded Gu Shan, while the other Elder Council factions refused to send support.
• Tong Xuan used Ancient Sunset against Xiao Yan, but the attack dissipated harmlessly, and Xiao Yan killed him.
• The Elder Council posthumously honored Tong Xuan as an honorary clan elder, while its members denounced Xiao Yan after his death.
• Xun'er confronted Gu Yuan at a cemetery and urged him to kill the Elder Council’s Half-Saints so he could lead the Ancient Clan against the Soul Clan.

Gu Xiuyi’s memories revealed the choices and hopes behind Xun’er’s birth, while Xun’er confronted Gu Yuan over his fear of her repeating her mother’s fate. Meanwhile, Gu Yang learned that Hun Miesheng had killed Tong Xuan and set out to confront him.

• Gu Xiuyi told Gu Yuan she was pregnant, named their daughter Xun’er, and vowed to guide her so she would not be forced into a political marriage.
• At her mother’s tomb, Xun’er accused Gu Yuan of letting her go to the Xiao Family to protect her from the Elder Council’s plans, then declared she would win and left in the rain.
• An elder reported to Gu Yang that Hun Miesheng had killed Tong Xuan, a White Robe decision-maker, and suggested the Golden Sleeve use the rival faction’s loss to gain status.
• Gu Yang rebuked the elder for speaking of taking advantage of the death, then set out to meet Hun Miesheng and uphold the Eight Clans Pact.

Xiao Yan received Hun Miesheng’s Hall Master Token as they prepared for the Ancient Clan’s likely attack, while Hun Ruoruo took command of Xiao Xuan and Hun Tiandi in the Heavenly Tomb. When the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb tried to self-destruct, Hun Tiandi defeated and absorbed it at the cost of one arm of his incarnation.

• Hun Miesheng warned Xiao Yan that a Five-star Dou Saint might soon arrive and gave him the Soul Hall’s Hall Master Token to replenish his Dou Qi.
• Hun Ruoruo explained that the Emperor Soul Art made her the true master of the Heavenly Tomb, and Xiao Xuan agreed to follow her commands.
• The Soul of the Heavenly Tomb revealed its true form and began swelling to self-destruct, so Hun Ruoruo sealed the space and called on Hun Tiandi.
• Hun Tiandi severed half his own arm and used it to envelop and compress the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb until it was absorbed.

Hun Tiandi suppressed the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb but admitted his incarnation had been depleted, as Gu Yuan arrived to confront him over the Soul Clan’s attack on the Ancient Clan. Elder Gu Yang rushed to the battlefield and froze when he found himself facing two Clan Leaders.

• Hun Tiandi explained that he had used his incarnation’s severed arm to contain the Heavenly Tomb’s undead spirits and claim their accumulated power.
• Hun Tiandi and Hun Ruoruo realized that Gu Yuan and Xun'er were approaching to reclaim the Heavenly Tomb.
• Gu Yuan smashed a breach through the Heavenly Tomb’s sky and confronted Hun Tiandi over the deaths of Ancient Clan members.
• Gu Yang arrived under the Clan Leader’s orders, then dropped his staff when he recognized Gu Yuan and Hun Tiandi as two Clan Leaders.

Gu Yuan killed Hun Miesheng with one finger after Xiao Yan helped suppress his power, while Hun Tiandi revealed that Hun Ruoruo would decide the Soul Clan’s next move. Hun Ruoruo challenged the Ancient Clan and summoned the Heavenly Tomb to rise, leaving the conflict unresolved.

• Xun'er dismissed Gu Yang and ordered the Elder Council members to withdraw, warning them that they could face enemies like Hun Tiandi or Xiao Xuan at their own risk.
• Hun Miesheng used his accumulated power to unleash a vast Blood Sea after Xiao Yan activated the Xiao Clan Mark to suppress the battlefield’s ancient aura.
• Gu Yuan froze Hun Miesheng and the Blood Sea with a single word, then pierced the Blood Sea with one finger and killed him.
• Hun Miesheng hurled the Void Child Flame toward Xiao Yan to carry him to safety before Gu Yuan’s strike landed.
• Hun Tiandi said he could not interfere with the Heavenly Tomb and left the decision to Hun Ruoruo, who challenged Gu Yuan to declare war.
• Hun Ruoruo activated the dark light between her brows, and the Heavenly Tomb rose from beyond the void outside the Ancient Realm.

Hun Ruoruo challenged Gu Yuan and revealed that his attacks could not harm her, then unleashed the Emperor Soul Art with the Heavenly Tomb. The chapter ended as she and the Heavenly Tomb charged at Gu Yuan, leaving his survival uncertain.

• Gu Sheng disabled the Ancient Realm Grand Formation and declared that the Xiao-Soul Alliance could win by escaping Gu Yuan, but Hun Ruoruo insisted that the Ancient Clan should worry about its losses.
• Hun Ruoruo offered to let the matter pass if Gu Yuan took one strike from her, and Xun'er warned her father not to provoke unnecessary complications.
• Gu Yuan attacked the Heavenly Tomb gate as Xiao Yan retreated inside, severely injuring him despite the gate and Hall Master Token absorbing part of the blow.
• The Heavenly Tomb gate twisted as space broke apart, and Gu Yuan shattered it with the Imperial Seal Art, Five Seals United as One, but his strike left Hun Ruoruo unharmed.
• Hun Ruoruo activated the Emperor Soul Art and charged at Gu Yuan together with the entire Heavenly Tomb.

The Heavenly Tomb hurtled toward the Ancient Realm, and Gu Yuan helped redirect it so Hun Ruoruo and the others could escape. After Xun'er called him Daddy and stopped him from pursuing them, Hun Ruoruo reunited with the recovering Xiao Yan and kissed him as they set off for home.

• Gu Sheng charged at the approaching Heavenly Tomb and was crushed, along with most of the Ancient Clan elders in its path.
• Gu Yuan used the power of the Dou Emperor imprint to change the Heavenly Tomb's course, while Hun Ruoruo revealed that she had used his strength to help them escape the Ancient Realm.
• Hun Ruoruo accused Gu Yuan of neglecting Xun'er, and Xun'er embraced him and called him Daddy, persuading him not to chase the fleeing group.
• Xiao Yan woke in Hun Ruoruo's care, explained that he had used Hun Miesheng's Life Token, and tried to defend his actions.
• Hun Ruoruo kissed Xiao Yan, while the others watched and recorded them, then said they were going home.