Chapter Summaries

Gu Yuan, Bai Ge, and the ancient clans agreed to unite against the Soul Clan, while Bai Ge revealed Xiao Yan’s destiny and the danger that would follow if anyone reached Dou Di. Xiao Yan then entered the Heavenly Tomb with Bai Ge to seek Xiao Xuan’s revival, and Blood Saber Saint recognized him and offered to guide him deeper.

• Gu Yuan proposed an alliance against the Soul Clan, but Xiao Yan refused to give up the final ancient jade because he needed it to save his father.
• Bai Ge explained that Tuoshe Ancient Emperor was the fused form of the twenty-two other Strange Fires, that Xiao Yan’s Flame Mantra marked him as the era’s destined Dou Di, and that advancing to Dou Di could reopen the seal against the Spirit Devouring Clan.
• Gu Yuan arranged for the clans to gather their forces in half a month and entrusted Xiao Xuan’s revival to Bai Ge and Xiao Yan.
• Bai Ge and Xiao Yan entered the Heavenly Tomb, where Xiao Yan swiftly crossed the depths that had once taken him months to traverse.
• Blood Saber Saint recognized Xiao Yan, drove away the energy bodies approaching him, and offered to guide him toward Xiao Xuan.

Xiao Yan met Xiao Xuan in the Heavenly Tomb, and Bai Ge used the Hall of Valor and prepared materials to begin reviving him. After Xiao Xuan reappeared, the allied forces gathered and moved toward the ancient battlefield to confront the Soul Clan.

• Xiao Yan reached Xiao Xuan's gravestone and greeted his ancestor, who praised his strength and asked him to recount the years since their last meeting.
• Bai Ge explained that he sought the Emperor Grade Young Pill and presented Xiao Xuan with the Hall of Valor, a Dou Sheng Bone, Ninth Order Magical Beast blood essence, and a Nine Revolutions Soul Returning Pill for his revival.
• Xiao Xuan emerged from the Heavenly Tomb, stunning Gu Yuan and the gathered experts, while Xiao Yan and Xun Er later joined him and the assembled allied forces.
• Gu Yuan led the Ancient, Flame, and Lightning Clan forces through a Space Channel toward the Burial Sky Mountain Range, while the Heavenly Mansion Alliance mobilized from the Central Plains.
• The allied forces arrived at the ancient battlefield where the Xiao and Soul Clans had once fought, and Xiao Yan sensed the approaching Heavenly Mansion Alliance as its army appeared on the northern horizon.

Xiao Yan confronted Soul Emperor at the Burial Sky Mountain Range and exchanged the final Ancient Jade for his imprisoned father, Xiao Zhan. Xiao Yan rescued Xiao Zhan and reunited with him, while Soul Emperor obtained the jade.

• Yao Lao, Little Doctor Fairy, Xiao Chen, Pill Tower Old Ancestor, and Shennong Old Man arrived with the Heavenly Mansion Alliance, and Xiao Yan told Xiao Chen how Xiao Xuan had been resurrected.
• Soul Emperor arrived with Void Swallowing Flame and the Soul Clan forces, then revealed Xiao Zhan in a chained prison and demanded the Ancient Jade in exchange for him.
• Xiao Yan discovered his soul had reached the Emperor Realm and vowed to destroy the Soul Clan as he recognized his father.
• Xiao Yan gave Soul Emperor the final Ancient Jade while pulling Xiao Zhan to safety and severing the black ropes binding him.
• Xiao Yan reunited with Xiao Zhan, apologized for his suffering, and knelt before his tearful father.

Xiao Yan reunited with Xiao Zhan and led the Heavenly Mansion Alliance and allied clans into battle against the Soul Clan to stop them from opening the Ancient Emperor Cave. After killing Soul Extinguisher, Xiao Yan surveyed the still-deadlocked battlefield and sensed dangerous auras within the Soul Clan’s black mist.

• Xiao Yan reunited with Xiao Zhan, placed him under the protection of the Heavenly Mansion Experts, and ordered the allied forces to attack the Soul Clan.
• Lei Ying, Yan Jin, and the Ancient Clan launched their formations against Soul Emperor, whose black chain net blocked their combined assault.
• Gu Yuan engaged Soul Emperor while the armies of both sides clashed, and Bai Ge intercepted Void Swallowing Flame.
• Xiao Yan killed dozens of Soul Clan experts before Soul Extinguisher attacked him with Black Flame.
• Xiao Yan shattered Soul Extinguisher’s attack with his Emperor Realm soul, killed him with a single strike, and destroyed his body.
• Xiao Yan surveyed the deadlocked battle and sensed several formidable auras inside the Soul Clan’s black mist.

Xiao Yan captured Soul Wind and defeated the four Soul Clan elders guarding him, but Soul Yuan Tian appeared to rescue him. Meanwhile, Bai Ge suppressed nearly all of Void Swallowing Flame into the Eight Desolations Qiankun Cauldron, leaving Xiao Yan facing Soul Yuan Tian.

• Xiao Yan attacked Soul Wind, defeated his four Four-Star Dou Sheng guards with flame lotuses, and caught him as he tried to flee.
• Soul Yuan Tian appeared with the strength of an Eight-Star Dou Sheng and demanded that Xiao Yan release Soul Wind.
• Bai Ge unleashed Twelve Zodiac—Absolute Howl against Void Swallowing Flame's black hole attack, then trapped him with the Eight Desolations Qiankun Cauldron.
• Void Swallowing Flame exploded his body to escape, but Bai Ge suppressed ninety-nine percent of his Source Fire in the cauldron and began refining its consciousness.
• Soul Yuan Tian attacked Xiao Yan, while Soul Wind self-destructed; Xiao Yan survived behind his soul-power barrier, and Soul Yuan Tian drew a soul from the bloody mist into his sleeve.

Xiao Yan was captured by Soul Yuan Tian and drawn into the Gate of Silent Demise, but he erased the soul imprint controlling it and emerged with the treasure. He badly wounded Soul Yuan Tian with Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath as Gu Yuan urgently called for Lei Ying and Yan Jin to retreat.

• Soul Yuan Tian attacked Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan broke his soul net and unleashed a six-colored Destruction Fire Lotus.
• Soul Yuan Tian absorbed the fire lotus with the Gate of Silent Demise, then drew Xiao Yan into its death-filled space.
• Xiao Yan used the Purifying Lotus Demon Fire to withstand the deathly aura and erased Soul Yuan Tian's soul imprint from the hidden stone.
• Soul Yuan Tian lost control of the Gate of Silent Demise, and Xiao Yan emerged atop it before striking him with Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath.
• Xiao Yan's soul attack severely wounded Soul Yuan Tian and sent Soul Clan fighters tumbling as the battlefield briefly fell quiet.
• Gu Yuan urgently told Lei Ying and Yan Jin to retreat while they fought the Soul Clan.

The Soul Clan revealed three powerful living-dead elders and trapped the Allied Forces in the Death Realm formation, but Xiao Yan used the Gate of Silent Demise he had seized to lead the forces toward an escape route. He left Soul Yuan Tian visible beyond the weakened barrier as the Allied Forces advanced.

• Three Soul Clan elders emerged from black coffins and summoned three Gates of Silent Demise to complete the Death Realm formation.
• Soul Yuan Tian revealed that Xiao Yan had taken one of the four gates, but the elders ordered him to join the formation anyway.
• The Death Realm surrounded the Allied Forces, draining their vitality and killing some experts with spears of death aura.
• Xiao Yan arrived atop the stolen gate and used it to absorb nearby death aura, then led the Allied Forces toward the formation’s weakest direction.
• Xiao Yi’s Purifying Lotus Demon Fire blocked a giant deathly hand while Xiao Yan’s soul soundwaves scattered the death aura and exposed Soul Yuan Tian beyond an invisible barrier.

Bai Ge broke the Soul Clan’s Death Realm, but Soul Emperor escaped with the Ancient Jade after a fierce battle. The Allied Forces regrouped at the Heavenly Mansion Alliance and prepared to monitor the Soul Clan and destroy its Soul Hall strongholds before the final confrontation at the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Cave Dwelling.

• Bai Ge shattered the Death Realm, and Void Swallowing Flame learned that Xiao Yan had taken Soul Yuan Tian’s Gate of Silent Demise.
• Soul Emperor ordered the Soul Clan to retreat, and Xiao Yan’s Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath killed at least a hundred Soul Clan experts as they fled.
• Soul Emperor escaped through a black hole with all the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade, leaving Xiao Xuan and Gu Yuan badly injured.
• Gu Yuan decided to personally monitor the Soul Clan and follow its experts to the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Cave Dwelling.
• Xiao Yan arranged for the Allied Forces to stay at the Heavenly Mansion Alliance and proposed uprooting Soul Hall strongholds across the Central Plains.
• News of the battle and the Allied Forces’ withdrawal spread throughout the Central Plains.

The Allied Forces destroyed the Soul Hall, while Bai Ge absorbed Void Swallowing Flame’s Source Fire and the Soul Clan reunited the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade to uncover the location of the Ancient Emperor Cave. As the Soul Clan began searching for the cave, Xiao Yan and his allies waited for news while Gu Yuan recovered.

• The Allied Forces found the Soul Hall’s branch halls abandoned and destroyed them across the Central Plains, including the Heaven and Earth Two Halls, but Xiao Yan and the others realized the Soul Clan had already evacuated its people and Soul Origin.
• Bai Ge brought Zi Yan from East Dragon Island and told her about Zhu Kun, then entered seclusion to absorb Void Swallowing Flame’s Source Fire and approach the peak of the Nine-Star Dou Sheng realm.
• Soul Emperor reunited the eight pieces of Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade, and its phantom revealed the Ancient Emperor Cave’s location hidden within its eyes.
• Void Swallowing Flame projected an image of the cave’s underground Magma Sea, and Soul Emperor ordered the Four Demon Saints to help the Soul Clan identify the region.
• At Starfall Pavilion, Xun Er reported that the Soul Clan had shown little activity, and Bai Ge advised Xiao Yan to wait while Gu Yuan recovered.

Xiao Yan learned that Soul Clan-like experts had appeared in the Black-Corner Region and set out with Bai Ge for Canaan Academy, where the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's tomb was hidden. Meanwhile, Soul Emperor ordered Soul Nether Elder to seize the region, and as Canaan Academy began its ceremony, Su Qian sensed an approaching threat.

• Xiao Ding and Xiao Li reunited with Xiao Yan, and Xiao Li warned him that unidentified experts resembling Soul Hall members had appeared in the Black-Corner Region.
• Bai Ge revealed that the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's tomb lay beneath Canaan Academy's Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower and said it was time to depart.
• Soul Emperor identified the Black-Corner Region as the likely location of the Ancient Emperor Cave and ordered Soul Nether Elder to clear it of its inhabitants.
• Soul Nether Elder's forces destroyed the Magic Saber Gate and began slaughtering factions across the Black-Corner Region.
• At Canaan Academy's ceremony, Su Qian, Xiao Yu, Hu Jia, and Wu Hao discussed Xiao Yan before Su Qian sensed a violent force approaching and called Wu Hao.

Soul Nether and the Soul Hall forces attacked Canaan Academy, overwhelming its defenders and threatening to destroy Xiao Yan’s statue. Xiao Yan appeared atop the unharmed statue and killed the Soul Clan Half Saint with a gesture, leaving the attackers and academy stunned.

• Soul Nether arrived with black-robed Soul Hall forces, ordered Canaan Academy slaughtered, and targeted the academy after recognizing Xiao Yan’s statue.
• Su Qian summoned Xiao Gate guards, but two black-robed Dou Zun Experts killed them almost instantly.
• Wu Hao and the academy elders fought back, but the attackers’ Five Star Dou Zuns defeated Wu Hao and a Dou Sheng gravely wounded the Thousand-Hundred Elders.
• The Dou Sheng tried to smash Xiao Yan’s statue, but it remained unharmed, and Xiao Yan appeared atop it.
• Xiao Yan killed the Soul Clan Half Saint with a light clench of his hand, and Soul Nether recognized him in terror.

Xiao Yan returned to Canaan Academy and effortlessly destroyed the Soul Hall force attacking it, then reunited with old friends and allies. He and Mang Tianchi warned that the Soul Clan’s advance on the Magma World could bring a major battle to the Black-Corner Region, and Xiao Yan offered to shelter the students in the Heavenly Tomb.

• Xiao Yan appeared at Canaan Academy, killed the fleeing Soul Hall experts, and struck Soul Nether down as reinforcements arrived.
• Mang Tianchi arrived, and Xiao Yan descended with Xun Er and the Allied Forces’ Dou Sheng Experts to greet Su Qian and reunite with Hu Jia, Wu Hao, and Xiao Yu.
• Cai Lin reported that the remaining Soul Clan remnants had been eliminated, while Mang Tianchi warned that something major was about to happen in the Black-Corner Region.
• Xiao Yan offered to evacuate Canaan Academy’s students into the Heavenly Tomb, and the group gathered in the Council Hall to discuss the danger.
• Mang Tianchi explained that the Soul Clan sought something beneath the academy in the Magma World, and Xiao Yan warned that the Soul Clan army might soon arrive.

Bai Ge took Zi Yan into the Magma World to find her father, Zhu Kun, and reached the Ancient Emperor Cave. He revealed that Zhu Kun had been trapped there by a Dou Di expert and urged Zi Yan to approach him.

• Bai Ge left Xiao Yan with Su Qian and the others, then entered the Magma World with Zi Yan.
• Bai Ge defeated the Flame Lizardmen who tried to stop them and pressed deeper through the magma.
• Bai Ge found a hidden independent space beneath the magma and followed Zi Yan through it.
• Bai Ge and Zi Yan reached the enormous Stone Gate marked “Ancient Emperor Cave.”
• Bai Ge discovered Zhu Kun’s massive purple-gold form and told Zi Yan that he had been trapped by a Dou Di expert, not willingly abandoned her.

Zi Yan discovered that the mysterious creature was her father, who had been trapped for countless years, while Soul Emperor prepared to seize the Ancient Emperor Cave and Gu Yuan learned its location. Gu Yuan ordered the Allied Forces to march on the Black-Corner Region, as Xiao Yan reflected on his days at Canaan Academy.

• The mysterious creature recognized Zi Yan as his daughter, but she rejected him bitterly over the lonely life she had endured without parents.
• Soul Emperor learned that Xiao Yan had defeated Soul Nether and the others in the Black-Corner Region, then ordered Void Swallowing Flame to lead forces there while he kept Gu Yuan occupied.
• Soul Emperor tried to recruit Gu Yuan, but Gu Yuan refused and revealed that he knew the Ancient Emperor Cave was in the Black-Corner Region.
• Soul Emperor departed after learning Xiao Yan had likely uncovered the cave's location, and Gu Yuan ordered the Allied Forces to march there and stop the Soul Clan.
• At Canaan Academy, Xiao Yan rested in a tree and remembered his younger days at the academy.

Xiao Yan rested with Xiao Yu before sensing the Soul Clan’s arrival and preparing Canaan Academy for battle. The Soul Clan and Allied Forces gathered above the Black-Corner Region, where Soul Emperor again demanded the Ancient Clan’s surrender and the armies prepared to fight.

• Xiao Yu told Xiao Yan how the Xiao Clan revered him and recounted news of his relatives while he slept with his head on her lap.
• Xiao Yan sensed the Soul Clan approaching, ordered Xiao Yu to gather the students, and thanked her as he called her Jie.
• Xiao Yan reunited with Xun Er and promised to hold a grand wedding if they survived the battle, then crushed Bai Ge’s Space Jade Slip.
• The Soul Clan’s full force arrived above the Black-Corner Region, led by Soul Emperor and Void Swallowing Flame, while the Allied Forces assembled to face them.
• Gu Yuan, Lei Ying, and Yan Jin explained that their clans had committed all their strength, and Xiao Yan said Bai Ge and his companions were waiting below to strike when Soul Emperor summoned the Dou Di Tomb Mansion.
• Soul Emperor urged Gu Yuan to surrender, but Gu Yuan signaled the Allied Forces to ready themselves for battle.

Soul Emperor used the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade and destroyed Canaan Academy to expose the magma beneath the Black-Corner Region, while the Allied Forces fought to stop him. Xiao Yan trapped Soul Yuan Tian inside the Gate of Silent Demise and destroyed it in an attempt to kill him; meanwhile, the Ancient Emperor Cave began to emerge from the magma.

• Soul Emperor summoned an image of Tuoshe Ancient Emperor and struck Canaan Academy, exposing underground magma that flooded the Black-Corner Region.
• Gu Yuan led the Allied Forces against the Soul Clan army, while he fought three Soul Clan elders and Void Swallowing Flame blocked Yan Jin, Lei Ying, and the other experts.
• Soul Yuan Tian confronted Xiao Yan, who used the Gate of Silent Demise to draw him inside and unleash Purifying Lotus Demon Fire and Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath.
• Xiao Yan detonated multiple Destruction Fire Lotuses and destroyed the Soul Stone, causing the Gate of Silent Demise to collapse around Soul Yuan Tian.
• A vast vortex formed in the magma, and Xiao Yan realized that the Ancient Emperor Cave was about to emerge.

The Ancient Emperor Cave emerged from the magma, and Bai Ge, Gu Yuan, and Xiao Xuan ambushed Soul Emperor while a powerful dragon rose from the sea. Soul Emperor survived their combined attack, then used the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade to open the cave’s Stone Gate.

• Gu Yuan failed to stop Soul Emperor from summoning the Ancient Emperor Cave, and the ancient Stone Gate rose from the magma.
• As Gu Yuan pursued Soul Emperor to prevent him from opening the gate, Xiao Yan sensed danger and warned everyone away from the magma.
• Zhu Kun emerged from the magma, distracting Soul Emperor and Gu Yuan long enough for Bai Ge, Gu Yuan, and Xiao Xuan to attack Soul Emperor together.
• Soul Emperor sacrificed six Soul Clan experts to form the Ten Thousand Souls - Blood Emperor Armor and survived the combined assault.
• Soul Emperor used the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade to open the Stone Gate, whose ancient surge scattered the armies.

Xiao Yan and the other experts entered the Ancient Emperor Cave in pursuit of the Emperor Grade Young Pill, then crossed a vast plaza lined with weakened Strange Fires. The Strange Fires seemed familiar to Xiao Yi and Void Swallowing Flame, and the chapter ended with Xiao Yan suspecting a connection as they reached two empty pillars at the plaza’s end.

• Zhu Kun told Gu Yuan that the Ancient Emperor Cave held an Emperor Grade Young Pill, which Soul Emperor sought to use to advance to Dou Emperor.
• Bai Ge, Gu Yuan, Zhu Kun, Soul Emperor, and the others entered the opened cave through a space passage.
• Void Swallowing Flame led the Soul Clan toward an ancient Stone Hall, and the two groups followed him across the land.
• Xiao Yan noticed that Xiao Yi found the cave familiar and saw weakened Strange Fires displayed atop pillars throughout the plaza.
• The groups reached the plaza’s final two empty pillars, while Xiao Yan noticed Void Swallowing Flame staring at one with a strange expression.

Xiao Yan and the others discovered that the Emperor Grade Young Pill had taken the form of Tuoshe Ancient Emperor and once helped Void Swallowing Flame and the Purifying Lotus Demon Fire escape. The Young Pill revealed Half-Step Dou Di strength and unleashed a devastating attack against the experts fighting him.

• Void Swallowing Flame swallowed the mist, revealing a colossal statue of Tuoshe Ancient Emperor surrounded by hundreds of Heaven Rank cultivation methods and Dou skills, which Bai Ge collected.
• An old man appeared atop the statue and identified himself as the Emperor Grade Young Pill, accusing Void Swallowing Flame and the Purifying Lotus Demon Fire of breaking their restraints and promising to return for him.
• Void Swallowing Flame ordered an attack, and Soul Emperor, Gu Yuan, Zhu Kun, Xiao Xuan, and Bai Ge fought the Emperor Grade Young Pill while Xiao Yan's group confronted the Soul Clan forces.
• Xiao Xuan warned that the Emperor Grade Young Pill possessed Source Qi and Half-Step Dou Di strength, and the Young Pill unleashed his Emperor Pill Palm, gathering the world's flames into a destructive ball of light.
• The Emperor Grade Young Pill sent the blazing ball crashing toward Gu Yuan and the other four, who summoned their strongest defenses.

Bai Ge trapped the Emperor Grade Young Pill and the allied forces drove Soul Emperor's army into retreat, though the Soul Clan escaped. At the Strange Fire Plaza, Xiao Yi revealed that he could open the Ancient Emperor Stone Statue containing Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's Origin.

• Bai Ge sealed the Emperor Grade Young Pill in the Eight Desolations Qiankun Cauldron and began refining away its intelligence.
• Xiao Xuan, Zhu Kun, and Gu Yuan attacked Soul Emperor while Bai Ge suppressed the pill, and Soul Emperor fled with the Soul Clan army after Zhu Kun wounded him.
• Xun Er and Xiao Yan subdued Void Swallowing Flame, and the allied forces gathered in the Star Realm after the battle.
• Zhu Kun explained that Tuoshe Ancient Emperor had been a Strange Fire who devoured the others, and Bai Ge revealed that Tuoshe had once cultivated the Flame Mantra.
• The group learned that the Emperor's Origin lay within the indestructible Ancient Emperor Stone Statue, and Xiao Yi said he could open it.