Chapter Summaries

Yao Chen reunited with Wind Venerable and Iron Sword Venerable in the Black Corner Region after they came to help him confront Han Feng, only to learn that Xiao Yan had already killed the traitor. The two old friends were stunned by Xiao Yan’s strength, and Yao Chen invited them to Black Seal City before promising them an opportunity when they returned to the Xiao Family.

• Wind Venerable sensed that Han Feng was absent from Maple City, and Yun Shan learned that Xiao Yan had already killed him.
• Yao Chen appeared with Xiao Yan and reunited with Wind Venerable and Iron Sword Venerable, who explained why they had come to help.
• Yao Chen introduced Xiao Yan to his old friends and proudly revealed that Xiao Yan had defeated Mu Gu in a few moves.
• Wind Venerable and Iron Sword Venerable were shocked when Xiao Yan said he had just reached Nine-star Dou Zun.
• Yao Chen proposed that they settle in Black Seal City, handle matters in the Black Corner Region, and return to the Xiao Family for an opportunity.

Xiao Yan freed Heavenly Fire Venerable Yao Tianhuo and offered to restore his soul and revive him with a powerful body. Yao Tianhuo agreed to wait for a stronger corpse and gave Xiao Yan the Five-Wheel Raging Fire Method, while Xiao Yan prepared to target a Soul Hall branch hall.

• Xiao Yan released Yao Tianhuo’s soul from his skeleton and explained how he had escaped the magma with the remains of a Peak Dou Zun.
• Xiao Yan offered to have Old Yao restore Yao Tianhuo’s soul and presented options for a body, including waiting for an Eight-star Dou Zun corpse.
• Yao Tianhuo agreed to wait for a stronger body and gave Xiao Yan the Five-Wheel Raging Fire Method as thanks for saving him.
• Yao Tianhuo warned Xiao Yan that the Soul Hall had Dou Sheng Experts, and Xiao Yan said he had powerful allies of his own.

Xiao Yan told Su Qian that Zi Yan was the daughter of the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s former Old Dragon Emperor, a Late Ninth Rank powerhouse, and explained that the emperor had been trapped by a Dou Di tens of thousands of years ago. The revelation left Su Qian questioning how Zi Yan could still be so young, while Xiao Yan himself remained puzzled by the timeline.

• Heavenly Fire Venerable realized that Xiao Yan must have a Dou Sheng backing him, stored his skeleton in a Storage Ring, and left the ring with Xiao Yan.
• Su Qian celebrated three elders’ breakthroughs to Dou Zong, but they resisted taking over his duties because they wanted to keep cultivating in the Nirvana Myriad Transformation Tower.
• Su Qian threatened to withhold Nirvana Pills, so Hu Gan and the two elders agreed to take turns managing the academy after three months.
• Xiao Yan appeared in Su Qian’s office, and Su Qian asked him about Zi Yan’s origins.
• Xiao Yan revealed that Zi Yan belonged to the Imperial Clan of the Vast Ancient Dragon and was the daughter of the former Old Dragon Emperor, a Late Ninth Rank existence comparable to a late Nine-star Dou Sheng.
• Su Qian questioned how a supreme expert could have lost track of his daughter and why Zi Yan remained so young, and Xiao Yan said a Dou Di had likely trapped the emperor tens of thousands of years ago.

Xiao Yan told Su Qian that Zi Yan’s father, the Old Dragon Emperor Zhu Kun, was imprisoned beneath the academy, and asked to take her to meet him. Zi Yan eagerly followed Xiao Yan toward the Nirvana Myriad Transformation Tower, while Su Qian hinted that her father had been in the academy all along.

• Xiao Yan revealed that the Old Dragon Emperor had been trapped beneath the academy for tens of thousands of years and said he wanted to take Zi Yan to meet her father.
• Su Qian agreed to help Xiao Yan find Zi Yan and led him to the Medicinal Material Repository, where Elder Hao complained about Zi Yan stealing herbs.
• Zi Yan appeared with a bitten medicinal herb, and Su Qian told her that Xiao Yan could take her to find her father.
• Xiao Yan turned Zi Yan’s stolen herb into pills, which she eagerly ate before following him toward the Nirvana Myriad Transformation Tower.
• Su Qian told Elder Hao that Zi Yan’s father had been in the academy all along, leaving Elder Hao stunned and wondering which academy member was a shapeshifted monster beast.

Xiao Yan brought Zi Yan through the magma beneath the Eighth Layer and found the hidden space where her father was trapped. Zi Yan recognized the enormous purple-gold creature through their bloodline, and their reunion unleashed a terrifying pressure.

• Xiao Yan protected Zi Yan with a barrier and reassured her that her father was trapped rather than dead.
• Xiao Yan and Zi Yan entered the magma and descended toward its depths while avoiding the lizardmen.
• Xiao Yan discovered a spatial fault beneath the black magma and explained that the space trapped only the first Nine-star Dou Sheng to enter.
• Xiao Yan carried Zi Yan into the ancient space, where they found an enormous, coiled purple-gold creature.
• Zi Yan touched the creature's dragon whisker, and golden light from both of them merged as a powerful pressure spread through the space.

Xiao Yan reunited Zi Yan with her father, Zhu Kun, who had been trapped for tens of thousands of years, and explained the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s division and his plan to free him. After learning about the dragon clan on the Profound Sky Continent, Zhu Kun asked Xiao Yan what he needed, and Xiao Yan began requesting powerful Monster Beast Essence Blood to revive his teacher.

• Zhu Kun transformed from a giant creature into a purple-gold-haired man and recognized Zi Yan as his daughter.
• Zi Yan confronted Zhu Kun over his absence, and he apologized before learning her name from Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan told Zhu Kun that the Ancient Void Dragon Clan had split into four factions after Zhu Kun disappeared, and Zhu Kun warned Zi Yan not to leave the Northwest Continent.
• Xiao Yan proposed bringing an expert from the Profound Sky Continent’s dragon clan to help break Zhu Kun’s seal, and he explained that Emperor Xiao’s true body could not intervene.
• Zhu Kun offered to help Xiao Yan in return for bringing Zi Yan to him, and Xiao Yan began asking for powerful Monster Beast Essence Blood to revive his teacher.

Zhu Kun gave Xiao Yan Ancient Dragon Essence Blood to help revive his teacher and encouraged him to refine some of it. Xiao Yan’s body and Dou Qi both advanced to Peak Nine-revolutions Dou Zun, while Zhu Kun promised to strengthen Zi Yan’s bloodline.

• Zhu Kun condensed several hundred drops of Ancient Dragon Essence Blood and gave Xiao Yan enough to revive his teacher.
• Zhu Kun urged Xiao Yan to refine some of the essence blood under his protection, and Xiao Yan swallowed a portion.
• The essence blood tempered Xiao Yan’s body as violent energy swept through him.
• Zhu Kun told Zi Yan he would cleanse and refine her bloodline after Xiao Yan left, bringing her to the Seventh Tier.
• Xiao Yan completed his physical transformation and compressed his Dou Qi nine times, reaching Peak Nine-revolutions Dou Zun in both body and cultivation.

Xiao Yan returned from Zhu Kun's magma space with his strength elevated to Peak Nine-revolutions Dou Zun and told Old Yao that he had obtained Zhu Kun's Essence Blood. Old Yao eagerly considered resurrection, while Xiao Yan planned to prepare for reviving his teacher.

• Zhu Kun praised Xiao Yan's strength, warned him not to slaughter the Lizardmen because they might have been created by Tou She Ancient God, and stayed behind to cleanse Zi Yan's bloodline.
• Xiao Yan left Zhu Kun's space without investigating Tou She Ancient God's cave mansion and returned to Black Seal City.
• Old Yao sensed Xiao Yan's increased strength, and Wind Venerable and Iron Sword Venerable reacted with astonishment when they learned Xiao Yan had surpassed Old Yao's former strength.
• Xiao Yan told Old Yao about meeting Zi Yan's father and receiving his Essence Blood, then asked if Old Yao wanted to be resurrected.
• Old Yao realized the Essence Blood came from the Old Dragon Emperor of the Ancient Void Dragon clan and became overwhelmed with excitement.

Xiao Yan and Old Yao returned to the Jia Ma Empire after preparing for Old Yao’s resurrection, and Old Yao revealed the powerful allies behind them to his friends. Xiao Yan reunited with Xun’er at the Xiao Family.

• Old Yao agreed to postpone his resurrection until after the trip to the Profound Sky Continent, and Xiao Yan suggested that Wind Venerable and Iron Sword Venerable cultivate in the Nirvana Emperor Blood Tower.
• Xiao Yan and several Dou Zun Experts built a Space Wormhole between Black Seal City and Wutan City, then traveled back to the Xiao Family while Hai Bodong and the Lizardman stayed behind.
• Old Yao brought Wind Venerable and Iron Sword Venerable to the Nirvana Emperor Blood Tower and told them that Yun Potian was alive and nearing a breakthrough to Dou Sheng.
• Old Yao revealed that Xiao Lan, his disciple’s ancestor, was stronger than all but Hun Miesheng among the Hall of Souls’ experts.
• Xiao Yan saw Xun’er waiting among the flowers and greeted her after returning to the Xiao Family.

Xiao Yan promised Xun'er he would return in a year to marry her, then joined Old Yao to begin refining hundreds of puppets and a Heaven Demon Phoenix corpse. The chapter ended as Xiao Yan used his Exotic Flame to heat the corpses and talisman puppets for modification.

• Xiao Yan told Xun'er that he had reached Peak Nine-revolutions Dou Zun, and Ling Ying overheard his strength.
• Xiao Yan embraced Xun'er and promised to go openly to the Ancient Clan in one year to marry her.
• Xun'er resolved to grow stronger and entered the Nirvana Emperor Blood Tower to seclude herself.
• Old Yao called Xiao Yan to help modify their puppets, and they went to the valley between the Xiao Family Back Mountain and the Monster Beast Mountain Range.
• Xiao Yan released the three hundred and sixty-five talisman puppets and brought out a Heaven Demon Phoenix corpse for Old Yao to refine.
• Old Yao arranged protections and urged Xiao Yan to light the fire, and Xiao Yan's Exotic Flame enveloped the corpse and puppets.

Xiao Yan welcomed the Snake People Tribe elders and exchanged pills for their accumulated medicinal ingredients. The elders also relayed Queen Medusa’s warning about a mysterious black-mist faction near the Tianxin Empire, leaving Xiao Yan with a new threat to consider.

• Old Yao refined the puppets into a formation with high-rank Half-Saint combat strength and reported that the Sky Demon Phoenix Beast Puppet had reached the Eighth-Rank Initial Stage.
• The Third Elder told Xiao Yan that experts from the Snake People Tribe had come to discuss Queen Medusa’s agreement.
• Xiao Yan gave the Four Great Elders ten Sect Breaking Pills and one Imperial Pill in exchange for the tribe’s medicinal ingredients.
• The First Elder told Xiao Yan that Queen Medusa had discovered a mysterious faction of black-mist-covered figures near the Tianxin Empire and urged him to be careful.

Xiao Yan gathered the Snake People Tribe to help destroy the Chu Yun Empire and planned to wipe out Soul Hall’s Northwest Branch Hall before traveling to the Profound Sky Continent. At Sky Burial Ravine, the branch hall’s powerful leaders assembled to investigate Mu Gu’s death.

• Xiao Yan asked the Snake People Tribe to join his Xiao Family in destroying the Chu Yun Empire, and the elders pledged the tribe’s forces and Medusa’s personal guard.
• Xiao Yan told Old Yao they should destroy Soul Hall’s Northwest Branch Hall and collect its Soul Origin, but Old Yao urged him to keep the resource for himself.
• Xiao Yan and Old Yao decided to head to the branch hall without Wind Venerable, Iron Sword Venerable, or the Great Zhou Heavenly Star Array.
• At Sky Burial Ravine, three Heavenly Venerates and four ordinary Venerable Elders gathered outside Soul Hall’s Northwest Branch Hall.
• Black-White Heavenly Venerates questioned Old Ghost Star-Picking about Mu Gu’s death and speculated which Northwest Continent expert could have killed him.

The Soul Hall sent several Heavenly Venerates to investigate Mu Gu’s death, fearing that Jia Nan Academy’s founder had killed him. Their hunt was interrupted when Old Yao appeared with Mu Gu’s soul and claimed he was his junior brother, leaving the Soul Hall experts wondering whether Old Yao was one of their own.

• Old Ghost Star-Picking told the Black-White Heavenly Venerates that Mu Gu had been killed so swiftly that even he could not have done it.
• Ninth Heavenly Venerate Mo Yu and Eighth Heavenly Venerate Qiu Di arrived to investigate, while Fourth Heavenly Venerate Xue He was summoned from the Northwest Continent.
• The Soul Hall experts suspected Jia Nan Academy’s founder, but learned from Xue He that Mang Tianchi had not returned to the Northwest Continent.
• Xue He summoned a sea of blood and vowed to make Mu Gu’s killer suffer a fate worse than death.
• Old Yao appeared with the Human Emperor Banner and Mu Gu’s soul, calling Mu Gu his junior brother and startling the Soul Hall experts.

Yao Chen and the Soul Hall Heavenly Venerates fought in the Northwest Branch Hall while Xiao Yan faced Old Ghost Star-Picking. As Star-Picking unleashed his Senluo Great Star Hand, Xiao Yan countered with his Great Desolate Five-wheel Buddha Wrath Prison Heaven Hand.

• Xiao Yan emerged from the void and teased Yao Chen for laughing like a Soul Hall member.
• Yao Chen used Old Man Mu Gu’s vengeful soul to form a Black Chain and broke Old Ghost Star-Picking’s attack.
• Yao Chen unfurled the Ten Thousand Souls Banner and invited the Soul Hall experts to attack.
• Eighth Heavenly Venerate Qiu Di and Ninth Heavenly Venerate Mo Yu attacked Yao Chen together, and their battle intensified.
• Old Ghost Star-Picking attacked Xiao Yan with the Senluo Great Star Hand, and Xiao Yan announced his counterattack.

Xiao Yan tested a newly fused Dou Skill and unexpectedly summoned the phantom of Ancient Emperor Tuoshe, then overwhelmed the Soul Hall experts at Sky Burial Ravine. He killed the Fourth Heavenly Venerate and Old Ghost Star-Picking, turned their remains to his advantage, and struck at the Black-White Heavenly Venerates.

• Xiao Yan fused three techniques with five Exotic Fires, creating a giant hand that summoned the phantom of Ancient Emperor Tuoshe and sealed the Northwest Continent's space.
• Old Ghost Star-Picking attacked Xiao Yan with the Senluo Great Star Hand, but the Tuoshe phantom dispelled it with a single palm.
• Fourth Heavenly Venerate tried to restrain Xiao Yan with the Blood Transformation Great Method, but Xiao Yan suppressed it and charged at him.
• Xiao Yan shattered Fourth Heavenly Venerate's defenses, killed him, and sent his soul to Old Yao's Human Emperor Banner.
• Xiao Yan killed Old Ghost Star-Picking and then attacked the Black-White Heavenly Venerates after they invoked the Yan Clan and Soul Clan conflict.

Xiao Yan crushed the Soul Hall’s defenders at its Northwest Branch Hall and found tens of thousands of souls being held for cultivation. After freeing them, he resolved to stop relying on the Ancient Families and deal with the Soul Clan on his own.

• Xiao Yan killed the Black-White Heavenly Venerates, extracted their Soul Bodies, and captured the fleeing Soul Hall Protectors for Old Yao’s Human Emperor Banner.
• Xiao Yan left Old Yao to test the banner against the Eighth and Ninth Heavenly Venerates and entered the branch hall’s core area.
• Xiao Yan found tens of thousands of Soul Bodies chained to an altar and condemned the Soul Hall for using them as nourishment.
• Xiao Yan considered how the Dual-Passage Gate and revived ancient experts could let him challenge the Soul Clan without depending on the Ancient Families.
• Xiao Yan shattered the chains binding the Soul Bodies.

Xiao Yan freed the souls imprisoned by the Northwest Branch Hall and uncovered its trove of Soul Origin. With Old Yao guarding him, he began refining it to strengthen his soul before their journey to the Hundred Dynasties Battlefield.

• Xiao Yan released the imprisoned souls, and they thanked him before fleeing the Soul Hall’s stronghold.
• Xiao Yan pulled the ancient altar from underground and discovered a pure cluster of Soul Origin beneath it.
• Old Yao arrived with the strengthened Human Emperor Banner, and Xiao Yan gave him a bottle of captured Soul Hall Dou Zuns and Protectors to feed it.
• Xiao Yan asked Old Yao to protect him while he refined the Soul Origin, then promised the victims he would destroy the Soul Hall within three years.
• Xiao Yan refined the Soul Origin with his Heavenly Flames as Old Yao assisted, and his soul rapidly advanced toward the Heavenly Realm.

Xiao Yan refined Soul Origin and advanced his soul to the early Heavenly Realm, meeting the requirement to refine Ninth-grade Pills. He and Old Yao then planned to return to their clan and attempt to resurrect Yao Tianhuo before their journey to Profound Sky.

• Old Yao considered revealing the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s inheritance but decided against it, fearing Soul Hall’s Soul Origin would only lead powerful clans to prey on weaker people.
• Xiao Yan refined the hidden black qi from the Soul Origin, and his soul realm surged as a storm gathered over Sky Burial Ravine.
• Heavenly Snake Venerable learned that Green Barbarian and White Fang had found someone with the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils and ordered them to bring her to him as a disciple.
• After two days, Xiao Yan awoke with an early Heavenly Realm Soul and told Old Yao he could now meet the soul requirement for refining a Ninth-grade Pill.
• Xiao Yan and Old Yao decided to return to their clan and use the Life and Death Gate’s Small World to attempt to restore Heavenly Fire Venerable’s body.

Xiao Yan began reviving Heavenly Fire Venerable by refining Fourth Heavenly Venerate’s corpse with five Heavenly Flames and powerful essence blood. Heavenly Fire Venerable’s soul entered the body and began fusing, leaving the revival underway.

• Xiao Yan used five Heavenly Flames to temper Fourth Heavenly Venerate’s corpse as Old Yao prepared the revival.
• Xiao Yan placed Heavenly Fire Venerable’s soul power in the corpse and gave him a Bone-Regenerating Blood-Melting Pill to swallow before the right moment.
• Xiao Yan added Wind Thunder Golden Ape essence blood and three drops of Ninth Stage Peak Ancient Void Dragon essence blood to strengthen the corpse, and Xiao Lan invited Heavenly Fire Venerable to join the Xiao Clan after his revival.
• Xiao Yan heated the corpse until its flesh regained vitality, then called for Heavenly Fire Venerable to enter it.
• Old Yao shielded Heavenly Fire Venerable’s soul from the flames, and the soul fused with the corpse as Xiao Yan confirmed the process was proceeding well.

Xiao Yan and Yao Chen prepared to leave for the Profound Sky Continent after entrusting Heavenly Fire Venerable and Yun Potian to Xiao Lan and handing Wind Venerable a powerful formation to guard the Xiao Family. The chapter ended with Wind Venerable considering uniting the Four Directions Pavilion while he continued cultivating.

• Xiao Yan watched Heavenly Fire Venerable endure two days of burning by the Exotic Flames as a new aura began building within his body.
• Xiao Yan asked Xiao Lan to watch over Heavenly Fire Venerable and Yun Potian while he and Yao Chen traveled to the Profound Sky Continent for nine days.
• Yao Chen decided to leave the Great Zhou Heavenly Star Array with Wind Venerable to protect the Xiao Family during their absence.
• Wind Venerable received the puppets and instructions for the formation, then considered using the next Four Directions Pavilion Conference to unite the other three pavilions.
• Wind Venerable returned to the Nirvana Emperor Blood Tower to cultivate.