Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan and Yao Ling reported the Hun Clan’s destruction of the Yao Clan to Gu Yuan, who promised Ancient Clan aid and ordered preparations against Hun Clan spies. After healing in the Warm Dragon Spring and refining his Ninth-Grade Pill, Xiao Yan reached Peak Six-Star Dou Sheng and planned to help unite the surviving ancient clans against the Hun Clan.

• Xiao Yan brought the grieving Yao Ling to the Myriad Dragon Hall and told Gu Yuan that the Hun Clan had destroyed the Yao Clan.
• Yao Ling described the Hun Clan’s trap at the Yao Clan Sacred Mountain, and Xiao Yan reported that the Hun Clan had stolen their alchemy inheritance and turned clan members into Soul Slaves.
• Gu Yuan ordered the Ancient Realm sealed and sent Gu Chen with Ancient Clan forces to the Yao Clan Sacred Mountain to recover remains, preserve its inheritance, and investigate the Hun Clan.
• Xiao Yan rested in the Warm Dragon Spring, refined the remaining power of his Ninth-Grade Pill, and broke through to Peak Six-Star Dou Sheng.
• Xun Er told Xiao Yan that Gu Chen was leading five thousand Ancient Clan soldiers to the Yao Clan, and Xiao Yan said they should shelter Yao Ling and unite the surviving ancient clans against the Hun Clan.

Xiao Yan secured an alliance between the Heavenly Mansion Alliance and the Ancient, Thunder, and Flame Clans by presenting resources and weapons against the Hun Clan. After the four leaders swore an oath and planned their campaigns, the allied forces prepared to go to war.

• Xiao Yan offered the three clans Ninth-Rank pills and explained how his Heavenly Flames, the alliance's formations, and its forces could counter the Hun Clan.
• Lei Wantian and Yan Jin agreed to commit troops and Dou Sheng Elders, and Gu Yuan pledged Ancient Clan cavalry, experts, and resources to the alliance.
• Xiao Yan, Gu Yuan, Lei Wantian, and Yan Jin swore an oath to unite against the Hun Clan, and the four leaders drank together.
• Gu Yuan assigned forces to defend Heavenly Thunder Gorge and reclaim the Flame Domain's pill treasury, while Xiao Yan proposed a joint assault on Soul Hall Headquarters.
• Venerable Feng reported that Central Plains reinforcements had gathered, and Xiao Yan vowed to make the Hun Clan pay as the allied armies prepared for war.

Hun Tiandi revealed that he had stolen the Ancient Clan’s Qiankun Ancient Jade and demanded Xiao Yan bring the Xiao Clan jade to Soul Severing Cliff within ten days in exchange for Xiao Zhan. Xiao Yan refused to surrender the jade but resolved to rescue his father, then prepared for the confrontation as Hun Tiandi waited with seven Ancient Emperor Jades.

• Hun Tiandi’s Soul Envoy delivered the Qiankun Ancient Jade to the Myriad Dragon Hall, and Hun Tiandi claimed he already possessed seven Ancient Emperor Jades.
• Hun Tiandi revealed that he had abducted Xiao Zhan and gave Xiao Yan ten days to bring the Xiao Clan Ancient Emperor Jade to Soul Severing Cliff alone.
• Lei Wantian, Yan Jin, and Gu Yuan warned Xiao Yan that the cliff was a trap and offered to send their forces to help rescue Xiao Zhan.
• Xiao Yan declared that he would go to Soul Severing Cliff to save his father without handing over the jade, and declined the clan chiefs’ proposed forces.
• Hun Tiandi kept Xiao Zhan bound over the Myriad Soul Abyss while displaying his seven jades, and Xiao Yan returned to Pill Cloud Valley to prepare for the coming battle.

Xiao Yan entered the Ancient Clan’s Sky Curtain to seek Xiao Xuan, hoping his ancestor could help stop Hun Tiandi. Xiao Xuan gave him the Sky Curtain Origin before fading away, and Xiao Yan refined it to reach the Emperor-level Soul, leaving the secret realm ready to face the trap at Soul Severing Cliff.

• Gu Yuan opened the Sky Curtain and sent Xiao Yan inside to find Xiao Xuan’s remnant soul.
• Xiao Yan crossed the star mist and reached Xiao Xuan in the Star River Secret Realm, where he pleaded for help against Hun Tiandi.
• Xiao Xuan explained that he could not be revived, but gave Xiao Yan the Sky Curtain Origin and urged him to break through to the Emperor-level Soul.
• Xiao Xuan’s remnant soul merged into the origin, and Xiao Yan endured its power as he refined it in seclusion.
• Xiao Yan broke through the Dou Sheng Soul Power limit and reached the Emperor-level Soul.
• Xiao Yan left the Sky Curtain with renewed resolve, preparing to face Hun Tiandi’s trap at Soul Severing Cliff in ten days.

After Xiao Xuan’s remnant soul vanished, Xiao Yan preserved his ancestor’s final Soul Imprint and joined Gu Yuan and the Thunder and Flame Clan patriarchs in marching to Soul Severing Cliff. They arrived before the Hun Clan army, where Xiao Yan declared his intent to rescue Xiao Zhan and kill Hun Tiandi, and the two forces prepared to clash.

• Xiao Yan condensed Xiao Xuan’s final remnant into a Soul Imprint and stored it safely before leaving the Star River Secret Realm.
• Gu Yuan, the Thunder Clan patriarch, and the Flame Clan patriarch pledged their support for the assault on Soul Severing Cliff.
• Gu Yuan opened a space passage, and Xiao Yan led hundreds of Dou Sheng experts through it toward the cliff.
• Xiao Yan and the allied forces emerged at Soul Severing Cliff, where they saw the Hun Clan army and Xiao Zhan imprisoned behind a blood-colored barrier.
• Xiao Yan challenged Hun Tiandi and vowed to rescue Xiao Zhan, avenge Xiao Xuan, and punish the Hun Clan as both sides raised their auras for battle.

Xiao Yan exchanged the Ancient Emperor Jade for his father, Xiao Zhan, then fought Hun Tiandi and the Hun Clan at Soul Severing Cliff. Hun Tiandi escaped with the jade, and Xiao Yan vowed to unite the clans and defeat him after tending to his father.

• Xiao Yan offered Hun Tiandi the Ancient Emperor Jade in exchange for Xiao Zhan, and rescued his father when the battle began.
• Gu Yuan, the Thunder Clan Leader, and the Flame Clan Leader attacked Hun Tiandi, but he shielded himself with a Soul Fiend Black Shield and summoned the Hun Clan forces.
• Xiao Yan killed Hun Sha Venerable while the Flame Clan Leader and Thunder Clan Leader combined their powers to severely injure the Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Xiao Yan and Hun Tiandi clashed as the allied clans and Hun Clan suffered heavy casualties across Soul Severing Cliff.
• Hun Tiandi escaped through a Soul Gate with the Ancient Emperor Jade, and Gu Yuan stopped Xiao Yan from pursuing him.
• Xiao Yan took his unconscious father into his care and vowed to unite the clans, attack the Soul Clan Sacred Realm, and bring peace to the Central Plains.

Xiao Yan and the surviving clan forces found the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion beneath Jia Nan Academy's Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower, but Hun Tiandi arrived with all eight Ancient Emperor Jades and opened its entrance. Hun Tiandi entered to seize the Dou Di Inheritance, while Xiao Yan and his allies launched an assault on the Hun Clan soldiers guarding the gate.

• Xiao Yan followed Xiao Xuan's lingering will to the cave entrance and learned that Hun Tiandi had stolen the eighth Ancient Emperor Jade.
• Hun Tiandi arrived with Nihility Devouring Flame, Hun Clan experts, and soldiers, then activated all eight Ancient Emperor Jades to open the cave mansion.
• Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame entered the cave mansion with the Hun Clan's top experts, leaving soldiers to block Xiao Yan's forces.
• Xiao Yan, Gu Yuan, the Thunder Clan Chief, and the Flame Clan Chief rallied their warriors and charged the Hun Clan's defensive line.
• Xiao Yan and the clan forces fought the Hun Clan soldiers at the cave entrance as the battle for the Dou Di Inheritance began.

A mysterious Old Dragon King arrived during the battle and nearly killed Xiao Yan, but Zi Yan stopped him by revealing herself as his daughter. The Great Elder recognized the Old Dragon King and welcomed his return after tens of thousands of years.

• The Old Dragon King appeared and overwhelmed everyone with his Dragon Emperor's Pressure before attacking Xiao Yan.
• Gu Yuan tried to shield Xiao Yan, but the Old Dragon King shattered his defense and sent him crashing into a wall.
• As the Old Dragon King moved to kill him, Xiao Yan began gathering his power to self-destruct rather than be captured.
• Zi Yan rushed between Xiao Yan and the Old Dragon King, and he halted his attack when he recognized her as his daughter.
• The Great Elder arrived with Ancient Void Dragon Clan elites, recognized the Old Dragon King, and knelt to welcome his return.

Zi Yan demanded that the old Dragon Emperor kill Hun Tiandi, prompting him to pursue Hun Tiandi into the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion. Xiao Yan and the allied clans followed and discovered an Emperor Grade Pill in the central hall, leaving them determined to keep it from Hun Tiandi.

• Zi Yan told the old Dragon Emperor she would forgive him if he killed Hun Tiandi.
• The old Dragon Emperor erupted with killing intent and charged into the cave mansion after Hun Tiandi, who fled deeper inside.
• Xiao Yan, Gu Yuan, and the allied clan leaders entered the cave mansion, wary that Hun Tiandi might claim the Dou Di inheritance.
• The group crossed a passage covered in Dou Di murals and arrived at a vast hall.
• The group discovered an Emperor Grade Pill floating above a jade platform and resolved to prevent Hun Tiandi from obtaining it.

The clans formed a Pill-Protecting Formation around the Emperor Grade Pill, but Hun Tiandi broke through their defenses and swallowed it. After escaping through a space crack with the pill’s power surging within him, he left Xiao Yan, Zhu Kun, Gu Yuan, and the others resolved to pursue him before he became a Dou Di.

• Gu Yuan and the leaders of the Thunder, Flame, and Yao Clans formed a Pill-Protecting Formation around the Emperor Grade Pill as Hun Tiandi emerged with Ancestor Remnant Souls and attacked it.
• Zhu Kun and Zi Yan struck at Hun Tiandi, but he crushed the Hun Clan’s Origin Soul Jade and sent Soul Puppets to batter the formation with suicidal explosions.
• Hun Tiandi shattered the weakened formation, seized the Emperor Grade Pill despite the experts’ attacks, and swallowed it.
• Hun Tiandi’s power surged toward the Dou Di realm, and he escaped through a prepared space crack while Zhu Kun and the others failed to stop him.
• Zi Yan blamed herself, but Xiao Yan reassured her and said Hun Tiandi had not fully refined the pill; Gu Yuan urged everyone to pursue him immediately.

After Hun Tiandi vanished with the Emperor Grade Pill, Zhu Kun moved twenty-two Heavenly Flame pillars from the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion to the Heavenly Mansion Alliance and revealed that they held Tou She Ancient God's true inheritance. Xiao Yan learned that the pillars could guide him toward Dou Di and resolved to master their secrets so he could face Hun Tiandi.

• Hun Tiandi disappeared through a spatial crack, leaving Zhu Kun and the others unable to track him.
• Zhu Kun carried the twenty-two Exotic Flame Stone Pillars from the cave mansion to the Heavenly Mansion Alliance headquarters.
• Zhu Kun explained that the Emperor Grade Pill was only a lesser treasure and that the pillars preserved Tou She Ancient God's path to becoming Dou Di.
• Zhu Kun revealed that Tou She Ancient God had fused twenty-two Heavenly Flames into the Chaos Emperor Flame and that Xiao Yan's Flame Mantra suited the inheritance.
• Xiao Yan touched a pillar, felt its insights resonate with the Flame Mantra, and resolved to follow the Heavenly Flame path and oppose Hun Tiandi.

Xiao Yan entered Tou She Ancient God's inheritance space and received the Fire Lotus Seed containing the origins of all twenty-two Heavenly Flames and the Ancient God's Flame Dao insights. He destroyed his old body and began reforging it around the Fire Lotus Seed, with the chapter ending as his new body took shape.

• Xiao Yan entered the inheritance space and saw the twenty-two Heavenly Flames gathered above the magma.
• Tou She Ancient God's phantom appeared, explained the Flame Dao, and gave Xiao Yan the Fire Lotus Seed.
• Xiao Yan accepted the inheritance and received Tou She Ancient God's memories and insights into the Heavenly Flames.
• The Fire Lotus Seed and Xiao Yan's thirteen Heavenly Flames overwhelmed his body, destroying it until only his soul remained.
• Xiao Yan pressed the Fire Lotus Seed into his soul and used its power and the twenty-two Heavenly Flames to reforge his body.
• Tou She Ancient God's phantom faded as Xiao Yan's new body formed, infused with the Chaos Emperor Flame and marked with Emperor Patterns.

Xiao Yan’s body was repeatedly destroyed and reforged in the Inheritance Space, growing closer to the Dou Di realm as the Fire Lotus Seed’s motes restored him. Across the Central Plains, Hun Tiandi turned the land into a furnace to refine the Emperor Grade Pill, while the Heavenly Mansion Alliance and the four great clans struggled to protect the last refuge and hold out for Xiao Yan’s return.

• Xiao Yan endured repeated destruction from the twenty-two Exotic Flame Origins, and the Fire Lotus Seed’s motes rebuilt his body with deeper Emperor Patterns and purer Strange Fire Power.
• Hun Tiandi used the Hun Clan forbidden art Ten Thousand Souls Refining Heaven to seal the Central Plains, consume its people and spirit veins, and fuel the refinement of the Emperor Grade Pill.
• Gu Yuan, the Thunder Clan leader, the Flame Clan leader, Zi Yan, and the other defenders joined their powers to protect the Heavenly Mansion Alliance as refugees gathered inside.
• Medicine Emperor made healing pills while Medusa steadied the city’s Dou Qi, and the exhausted defenders continued to resist Hun Tiandi’s contracting Soul Flame barrier.
• Hun Tiandi claimed Xiao Yan had perished, but when his assault cracked the city barrier, the four great clans restored it and the people inside sent their Dou Qi toward its defenses.

Hun Tiandi completed his transformation into a Dou Di and attacked the Heavenly Mansion Alliance, overwhelming the defenders and shattering their protective barrier. He prepared a second slash to destroy the Alliance’s core region while Gu Yuan and the other defenders lay gravely wounded.

• Hun Tiandi refined the Emperor Grade Pill’s remaining origin, became a Dou Di, and formed the Emperor Slaying Saber from the Soul Flame barrier.
• Hun Tiandi attacked the Heavenly Mansion Alliance’s protective barrier as Gu Yuan, the Thunder Clan Chief, the Flame Clan Chief, Zi Yan, and the others burned their strength to defend it.
• Hun Tiandi’s slash shattered the barrier, wounded the Old Dragon King, and destroyed the Ancient Emperor Mirror as it sent Gu Yuan crashing into the ruins.
• Hun Tiandi dismissed Gu Yuan and the Old Dragon King as ants and raised the Emperor Slaying Saber to strike at the Heavenly Mansion Alliance’s core region.

As Hun Tiandi overwhelmed the Heavenly Mansion Alliance, Xiao Xiao and the Xiao Clan’s Dou Di Bloodline awakened, revealing that Xiao Yan had become a Dou Di. Xiao Yan appeared before Hun Tiandi and halted his attack, leaving the two emperors facing each other.

• Gu Yuan and the allied clans despaired as Hun Tiandi’s assault devastated the Heavenly Mansion Alliance and defeated the Old Dragon King.
• Xiao Xiao awakened imperial power in Cai Lin’s arms, rose to Eight-Star Dou Sheng, and destroyed an incoming wave of Soul Flame.
• The Xiao Clan’s bloodline awakened across the alliance, raising dozens of its members into the Dou Sheng realm.
• Gu Yuan recognized the awakening as proof that Xiao Yan had become a Dou Di, restoring hope among the battered defenders.
• Xiao Yan appeared before Hun Tiandi and stopped the Emperor Slaying Saber strike with his imperial might.
• Xiao Yan told Hun Tiandi that the continent had more than one Dou Di.

Xiao Yan fought Hun Tiandi above the Central Plains, wielding the Black Heavy Ruler with pure Emperor Source while refusing to use Strange Fire Power. Their strongest attacks collided and left the Dou Qi Continent trembling, with neither Emperor defeated as the battle continued.

• Hun Tiandi attacked Xiao Yan with the Emperor Slaying Saber and Nihility Devouring Flame, but Xiao Yan blocked with the Black Heavy Ruler.
• Xiao Yan countered Hun Tiandi's Soul Flame barrier and Hun Sha with ruler shadows and a golden Source Qi Domain, then struck a mark into his opponent's armor.
• Hun Tiandi unleashed a region of nothingness and a black dragon, but Xiao Yan broke through the void and dispersed the dragon with the Black Heavy Ruler.
• Gu Yuan, the Thunder Clan's patriarch, and Xiao Xiao watched the duel while Xiao Xiao protected the Heavenly Mansion Alliance from its shockwaves.
• Hun Tiandi launched his strongest slash, and Xiao Yan met it with a fully charged strike; their collision shattered the sky and shook the continent, leaving both Emperors standing.

Xiao Yan summoned all twenty-three Heavenly Flames and fused them into Chaos Emperor Flame to defeat Hun Tiandi and destroy his emperor body. He sealed Hun Tiandi’s divine soul in Exotic Flame Plaza, restored the Central Plains, and stood as Emperor Yan over a recovering continent.

• Hun Tiandi unleashed Myriad Souls Devour Emperor, forging a soul spear from millions of remnant souls and launching it at Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan commanded all twenty-three Heavenly Flames to return, and they broke free from their hiding places across the Dou Qi Continent to gather around him.
• Xiao Yan fused the Heavenly Flames with his Dou Di origin into Chaos Emperor Flame, which destroyed Hun Tiandi’s soul spear and shattered his emperor aura armor.
• Xiao Yan struck Hun Tiandi until his emperor core broke and his body disintegrated, then captured his divine soul and sealed it in Exotic Flame Plaza.
• Gu Yuan and the gathered clans celebrated Xiao Yan’s victory as he used Dou Di Source Qi and Heavenly Flame power to restore the devastated Central Plains.

After the Central Plains recovered from war, Xiao Yan lived peacefully with the nine women in his courtyard. He then opened a path to the Dou Di Continent and set out for a new journey, leaving the Central Plains in their care.

• The Central Plains healed and prospered after the Hun Clan's defeat while Xiao Yan returned to a quiet life.
• Xiao Yan gathered Xiao Yi Xian, Yun Yun, Nalan Yanran, Zi Yan, Han Xue, Cai Lin, Xun'er, Qing Lin, and Feng Qing'er in his courtyard, sharing their peaceful daily life.
• Xiao Yan stood with his companions at the Flame Emperor Hall and looked toward the worlds beyond the Central Plains.
• Cai Lin accepted Xiao Yan's decision to go, while the others offered to wait for him or accompany him.
• Xiao Yan opened the void with the Chaos Emperor Flame and set out for the Dou Di Continent.