Chapter Summaries

Lin Dong reunited with Xiao Yan at the Eight Extremes Sect ruins and explained how he had become Old Man Heitong’s disciple and gained a rapid path to greater strength. With the ruins cleared and their allies gathered, the group prepared to explore the Four Profound Sects and open the Azure Dragon Hall.

• Lin Dong and Little Sable recalled surviving the dangerous journey to the Hundred Dynasties Battlefield and said they had looted all sixteen Protector Sect ruins.
• Xiao Yan arrived and was surprised by Lin Dong’s greatly increased cultivation.
• Lin Dong told Xiao Yan that Senior Heitong had taken him as his final disciple, empowered him, and made him the Current Sect Leader of the Great Desolate Sect.
• Lin Dong explained that Teacher expected him to reach at least the Eight-Origin Nirvana Realm within two months by releasing the infused energy with the Devouring Ancestral Talisman.
• Xiao Yan and Old Yao examined the Primordial Demon Dragon Hound, which Little Sable had modified into a mount with strength comparable to the Seven Nirvana Realm.
• Xiao Yan recognized the ruins as the Eight Extremes Sect and realized they could soon open the Azure Dragon Hall and seek the Dragon Clan’s support.

Xiao Yan and his companions explored the Eight Extremes Sect ruins, where he obtained its inheritance and began transforming his Eight Extremes Collapse technique. As Old Yao reassured the others about their strength, the story shifted to Yuan Sect in Yuan Domain.

• Lin Dong showed Xiao Yan the treasures he and Little Sable had gathered from the Tiangang Alliance ruins, and Xiao Yan chose three martial arts and a stone pier containing Eight Extremes Fist Intent.
• Little Sable explained that the stone pier held the Eight Extremes Sect inheritance and that its martial arts could grow stronger through cultivation.
• Xiao Yan touched the stone pier, received a vision of the Eight Extremes Sect founder, and used the inheritance to evolve Eight Extremes Collapse into a more powerful Dou Skill.
• Lin Dong and Old Yao watched as Xiao Yan entered a state of sudden enlightenment and began incorporating the three inherited martial arts into his technique.
• Little Sable warned that the Eastern Profound Region's Eight Super Sects might respond to their entry, but Old Yao said they could handle any threat below the Zhuanlun Realm and revealed Xiao Yan's strength.
• The scene shifted to Yuan Domain, where three mountains hovered deep within Yuan Sect.

Yuan Gate’s Sect Leader detected the disturbance in the Battlefield Space and sent the Three Little Kings to seize what he believed was a supreme inheritance. Meanwhile, Old Yao gave Lin Dong two powerful puppets, and Xiao Yan completed his comprehension of Eight Extremes Collapse before testing its renewed power.

• The silver-haired Yuan Gate Sect Leader sensed a major fluctuation in the Battlefield Space and summoned Lei Qian, Ling Zhen, and Yuan Cang to retrieve the supposed inheritance.
• The Three Little Kings accepted the order, with Yuan Cang confident that their strength would let them dominate the battlefield.
• Old Yao gave Lin Dong two puppets made from the Black-White Heavenly Venerates, whose combined strength matched an expert at Life Profound Realm Great Achievement.
• Lin Dong accepted the puppets and stored them in his Universe Bag, pleased to have powerful protection beyond relying on Little Sable.
• Xiao Yan awakened from his insight and realized he had mastered the true Eight Extremes Collapse, now able to channel Heavenly Flame power through its strikes.
• Xiao Yan demonstrated the technique with an Eightfold Hidden Strength punch, beginning with Heavenly Gang Yang Flame, Nirvana Profound Origin Flame, and Green Lotus Core Flame.

Xiao Yan transformed Eight Extremes Collapse into the Heavenly Tier Dou Technique Eight Extremes Collapse Sky Fist, then led the group toward the newly appeared Four Profound Sects Ruins. They entered the vast ruins and avoided its ancient guardian beasts as they headed for the sects’ inheritances and Little Sable’s chance to revive.

• Xiao Yan demonstrated his upgraded Eight Extremes Collapse, destroying a floating island and triggering a heaven-and-earth anomaly.
• Old Yao explained the technique’s power, and Xiao Yan named it Eight Extremes Collapse Sky Fist.
• Xiao Yan and the group set out for the Four Profound Sects Ruins, which appeared before them as space shook.
• Little Sable asked Xiao Yan and Old Yao to help restore his physical body, and Xiao Yan promised to secure the Life and Death Reincarnation Pill.
• The group arrived at the ruins, where Xiao Yan sensed ancient guardian beasts waking beneath the island.
• At Old Yao’s advice, Xiao Yan avoided the living guardian beasts and carried the group toward the ruins’ depths.

Xiao Yan, Lin Dong, Little Sable, and Old Yao explored a medicinal sea and pill complex, harvesting rare spiritual medicines and Nirvana Pills. They reached a sealed inner room whose door Little Sable destroyed, unleashing a surge of pill Qi and suggesting something better than Nirvana Pills lay inside.

• Xiao Yan activated his Great Nirvana Golden Body and Dragon Emperor Bloodline, driving the Demonic Beasts away with the pressure of a Great Void Ancient Dragon.
• Old Yao urged Xiao Yan and Little Sable to harvest the spiritual medicines, and Xiao Yan pointed out the central Pill Field containing the Life and Death Reincarnation Pill.
• Xiao Yan, Lin Dong, and Little Sable collected the mature medicines, while Old Yao hurried to study the Life and Death Reincarnation Pill.
• Lin Dong opened outer Pill Rooms and found rivers of Nirvana Pills; Xiao Yan collected them in his Sky Swallowing Bag despite Lin Dong initially dismissing them as useless.
• Lin Dong failed to break an inner Pill Room door, so Little Sable explained its protective art, destroyed it, and teased Lin Dong for needing more practice.
• A powerful surge of pill Qi burst from the newly opened room, and Xiao Yan and Old Yao smiled at the prospect of finding pills better than Nirvana Pills.

Lin Dong and Xiao Yan explored the Pill Room, where Old Yao took the Misfortune Crossing Pill and the Life and Death Reincarnation Pill to study. Xiao Yan then brought Lin Dong to the Four Great Profound Sects Ruins, where Lin Dong began opening the Azure Dragon Hall.

• Lin Dong and Little Sable entered the Pill Room and found many valuable pills, including the Misfortune Crossing Pill and the Life and Death Reincarnation Pill.
• Old Yao took the Misfortune Crossing Pill to study ways to create a new pill for Starfall Pavilion’s disciples.
• Little Sable handed the Life and Death Reincarnation Pill to Old Yao for study and withdrew into Lin Dong’s Ancestral Talisman to endure the wait.
• Xiao Yan took Lin Dong to the Four Great Profound Sects Ruins and explained that the inheritance halls had been left by Reincarnation Realm experts.
• Xiao Yan told Lin Dong to place his palm on the Azure Dragon Hall and release the auras of the Ancestral Stone and Devouring Ancestral Talisman.
• Lin Dong touched the Bronze Gate, and it began to tremble as a strange light spread across it.

Xiao Yan and Lin Dong opened the sealed entrance to Azure Dragon Hall and met Qing Zhi in a vast Thunder Sea. Qing Zhi welcomed them and offered them the opportunity hidden there, while puzzling over Xiao Yan’s powerful, unusual dragon bloodline.

• Xiao Yan joined Lin Dong in using their strength to open the Bronze Gate, and the two entered the darkness beyond it.
• Xiao Yan’s Heavenly Flames and purple-gold Dragon Scales dispelled the darkness, revealing a gigantic pale-green gate marked with the words Four Symbols Profound Sect, Azure Dragon Hall.
• Qing Zhi’s will transported the brothers into a deadly Thunder Sea, where Xiao Yan called for the Azure Dragon King to appear.
• A colossal azure dragon rose from the sea, and Qing Zhi appeared seated on its head.
• Qing Zhi recognized Lin Dong as a junior of the Sky Demon Sable Clan, mistook Xiao Yan’s scales for signs of a Primordial Dragon Bone, and offered both brothers the opportunity of Azure Dragon Hall.

Qing Zhi bestowed the Azure Heaven Dragon Transformation Art on Lin Dong and learned that Xiao Yan’s teacher was researching a way to resurrect Reincarnation Realm experts. Excited by the possibility of reviving the Dragon Clan’s Progenitor, Qing Zhi left to seek materials and clan support, including help for Zhu Kun.

• Qing Zhi gave Lin Dong and Xiao Yan the Azure Heaven Dragon Transformation Art, then sent a strand of Dragon Qi into Lin Dong to help him cultivate it.
• Xiao Yan told Qing Zhi that Zhu Kun was alive, had reached peak Triple Reincarnation Realm, and was trapped in another space.
• Xiao Yan explained his teacher’s plan to revive Reincarnation Realm experts using the Life and Death Reincarnation Pill, prompting Qing Zhi to promise the Dragon Clan’s support.
• Xiao Yan asked Qing Zhi to provide powerful Super Monster Beast Essence Blood for refining a body, and Qing Zhi decided to seek the Progenitor’s Essence Blood.
• Xiao Yan asked Qing Zhi to send Life and Death Reincarnation Pills and help Zhu Kun escape, and Qing Zhi departed to contact the clan.

Qing Zhi returned to the Dragon Clan and told the Six-fingered Dragon Emperor that Xiao Yan had revealed the existence of his twin brother, the Grand Void Ancient Dragon Emperor, who was trapped somewhere. The Six-fingered Dragon Emperor doubted the claim at first, then asked Qing Zhi to recount everything about his journey.

• Qing Zhi arrived at the Ancient Dragon Transformation Pool and entered it to report an important matter to the Progenitor.
• Qing Zhi reached the hall of ancestral dragon bones and summoned the Six-fingered Dragon Emperor.
• Qing Zhi told the Six-fingered Dragon Emperor that he had met the descendant of a twin brother who was supposedly still alive.
• Qing Zhi identified the twin brother as the Grand Void Ancient Dragon Emperor and said his bloodline pressure matched the Progenitor's.
• The Six-fingered Dragon Emperor asked Qing Zhi to explain his trip in full, and Qing Zhi began recounting Xiao Yan's resurrection plan and the Grand Void Ancient Dragon Emperor's predicament.

Qing Zhi persuaded the Six-fingered Dragon Emperor that Xiao Yan and Yao’s resurrection plan was feasible, and the Dragon Emperor pledged major support. The Dragon Emperor emerged in a skeletal form and sent Qing Zhi to deliver the resources to the Eastern Profound Region while he prepared to investigate the Grand Void Ancient Dragon Emperor.

• After hearing Qing Zhi’s account of the resurrection plan, the Six-fingered Dragon Emperor gave him fifty drops of Life Blood Essence.
• Qing Zhi imagined the Dragon Clan resurrecting its fallen experts and sweeping the Demon Suppressing Domain.
• At the Dragon Transformation Pool, Yuan Gan and the elders felt the pool shake and saw two figures emerge amid gathering tribulation clouds.
• The Six-fingered Dragon Emperor destroyed the clouds and revealed himself as a crystalline skeleton wrapped in purple-gold light.
• The Six-fingered Dragon Emperor ordered Qing Zhi to explain what had happened and bring one hundred Life and Death Reincarnation Pills to the Eastern Profound Region for Yao.
• The Six-fingered Dragon Emperor sat above the pool to absorb energy and prepare for a possible battle while the Dragon Clan confirmed whether the Grand Void Ancient Dragon Emperor existed.

Qing Zhi explained that the Six-fingered Dragon Emperor had sent a hundred Life and Death Reincarnation Pills and fifty drops of Life Blood Essence to support a possible revival of the Progenitor. Yuan Gan organized the Dragon Clan to send the supplies discreetly and prepare to rescue a potentially trapped peak Triple Reincarnation Realm senior, while Xiao Yan and Old Yao examined a pill in the Azure Dragon Hall.

• Qing Zhi told Yuan Gan that two young people in the Eastern Profound Region might be able to revive the Progenitor, who had invested fifty drops of Life Blood Essence alongside one hundred Life and Death Reincarnation Pills.
• The Dragon Clan elders reacted with excitement and offered more pills and help, but Qing Zhi declined their contributions for the initial delivery to avoid complications during long-distance teleportation.
• Qing Zhi revealed that the Progenitor also planned to rescue a possibly trapped peak Triple Reincarnation Realm Dragon Clan senior if the report proved true.
• Yuan Gan ordered the clan to secretly transmit the supplies to the Azure Dragon Hall and prepare a forceful response once the senior's existence was confirmed.
• One day later, Old Yao told Xiao Yan that he had only superficially studied the Life and Death Reincarnation Pill and recommended letting Little Sable condense his physical body first.

Xiao Yan and Yao Chen received the Six-fingered Dragon Emperor’s essence blood and one hundred Life and Death Reincarnation Pills from Qing Zhi to support Yao Chen’s resurrection. Xiao Yan then offered to help rescue the Grand Void Ancient Dragon Emperor, whose location remained to be explained.

• Yao Chen realized he could not analyze the Life and Death Reincarnation Pill without studying enough examples, while Xiao Yan expected Qing Zhi to bring several.
• Qing Zhi appeared through a spatial light screen among Dragon Clan experts at the Ancient Dragon Transformation Pool, where Xiao Yan recognized the Six-fingered Dragon Emperor’s remains.
• Emperor Xiao told Xiao Yan that the Six-fingered Dragon Emperor’s skeleton could briefly unleash late Nine-star Dou Sheng strength at the cost of being destroyed.
• Qing Zhi gave Xiao Yan and Yao Chen fifty drops of the Six-fingered Dragon Emperor’s essence blood and one hundred Life and Death Reincarnation Pills.
• Qing Zhi explained that he had withheld his own essence blood because the Dragon Clan needed to remain in top condition to rescue the Grand Void Ancient Dragon Emperor.
• Xiao Yan thanked Qing Zhi and offered to help locate and rescue the trapped Dragon Clan expert.

Xiao Yan learned from Emperor Xiao that they had a chance to rescue Zhu Kun by joining forces with experts at the Reincarnation Realm. After Lin Dong completed his cultivation and the Thunder Sea trial ended, Xiao Yan gave Little Sable the Life and Death Reincarnation Pill and prepared to help him rebuild his body.

• Emperor Xiao told Xiao Yan that numbers alone could not overcome the gap between Dou Di and Dou Sheng, but that he could help draw Tou She Ancient God out of the space beyond his cave mansion.
• Lin Dong emerged from four days of cultivation with an Azure Dragon Skin, a Nirvana Golden Body, and Three-Yuan Nirvana Realm strength.
• Little Sable said Lin Dong had obtained a top-ranked Dragon Clan martial art, while Lin Dong wondered whether Qing Zhi had already left.
• The Thunder Sea collapsed after Lin Dong emerged, revealing a river of Nirvana Qi and Nirvana Fire.
• Xiao Yan gave Little Sable the Life and Death Reincarnation Pill and Xuan Yuan Pills, while Old Yao supplied three seventh-grade pills to aid his revival and shorten his seclusion.

Little Sable swallowed the Life and Death Reincarnation Pill and began rebuilding his body in seclusion, while Xiao Yan and Lin Dong left to explore the other inheritances. In Dragon Domain, Yuan Gan mobilized the Dragon Clan and ordered secrecy after realizing Xiao Yan might be connected to an Ancestor Realm expert.

• Little Sable thanked Xiao Yan and Lin Dong, swallowed the pills, and became enclosed in a black-and-white energy cocoon.
• Old Yao said Little Sable would revive within a month, and Lin Dong considered visiting Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace and investigating Yuan Sect.
• Xiao Yan protected Little Sable with a Heavenly Flame Array, then led the others to explore the remaining three halls.
• Yuan Gan activated the Grand Void Divine Array and ordered the Dragon Clan elders to keep the discovery of another world secret.
• Yuan Gan reasoned that Xiao Yan was likely related to Emperor Xiao, prompting the elders to question whether an Ancestor Realm expert stood behind him.

The Six-fingered Dragon Emperor agreed to accompany the Dragon Clan experts to the Dou Qi Continent, while Xiao Yan and Lin Dong collected the remaining Four Symbols Profound Sect inheritances. Xiao Yan returned to the Dou Qi Continent, and after training alone in the Ancient Battlefield, Lin Dong encountered three newcomers.

• The Six-fingered Dragon Emperor and Yuan Gan agreed to help the Grand Void Ancient Dragon Emperor and form a connection with him by traveling to the Dou Qi Continent.
• Xiao Yan and Lin Dong collected the inheritances of the White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise Halls at the Four Symbols Profound Sect ruins.
• Xiao Yan left the Ancient Battlefield to return to the Dou Qi Continent and seek Zhu Kun's help adapting the Azure Heaven Dragon Transformation Art.
• Lin Dong stayed in the Ancient Battlefield to train by fighting ancient Monster Beasts while Diao Lao San remained in seclusion.
• Three young figures appeared before Lin Dong, carrying powerful Origin Energy and cultivation levels of Half-step Life Profound Realm and Nine-element Nirvana Realm.

Lin Dong confronted the Three Little Kings of Yuan Gate, who mistook him for a Myriad Puppet Sect disciple after he summoned two powerful Heavenly Puppets. He revealed his hostility toward Yuan Gate and ordered the puppets to kill them.

• Little Thunder King challenged Lin Dong and attacked him with the Thunder Sound Lion Fist.
• Lin Dong summoned the Black-White Heavenly Venerates, who shattered Little Thunder King's attack with one strike.
• Little Spirit King identified the two figures as Heavenly Puppets, while Little Yuan King assumed Lin Dong belonged to the Myriad Puppet Sect and tried to make peace.
• Lin Dong rejected Little Yuan King's offer, declared that he had come to beat up Yuan Gate, and ordered the Black-White Heavenly Venerates to kill the Three Little Kings.

Lin Dong killed the Three Little Kings of Yuan Gate and planned to destroy Yuan Gate with help from Old Yao and the Dragon Clan. Xiao Yan returned to the Xiao Family and witnessed Yun Potian nearing his awakening as a Dou Sheng.

• Lin Dong ordered Black Heavenly Venerate to kill the Three Little Kings of Yuan Gate, then declared Yuan Gate would be his next target.
• Old Yao began secluded research to prepare for his resurrection, while Xiao Yan was summoned urgently by Xiao Lan.
• Xiao Yan arrived in the Life and Death Gate Small World, where Xiao Lan explained that Yun Potian was close to awakening after receiving help from the Bodhi Seed and Yao Chen.
• Xiao Lan reassured Xiao Yan that Yun Potian was bound by the Life and Death Talisman, and Yun Potian announced that his Dao was accomplished as his powerful aura erupted.

Yun Potian broke through to Late One-star Dou Sheng and pledged his loyalty to the Xiao Clan after Xiao Yan and Xiao Lan welcomed him back. Xiao Yan gave him ten drops of Essence Blood from a late Nine-star Dou Sheng, leaving Yun Potian resolved to fight the Soul Clan alongside the Xiao Clan.

• Xiao Lan told Xiao Yan that Yun Potian had reached Late One-star Dou Sheng upon breaking through.
• Yun Potian knelt before Xiao Lan and Xiao Yan, expressing regret and gratitude for their help.
• Xiao Lan forgave Yun Potian and accepted him into the Xiao Clan as its new guardian, while Yun Potian chose the title Heaven Breaking Saint.
• Xiao Yan said the Xiao Clan would not celebrate publicly because of the Soul Clan threat, and Yun Potian agreed that the Soul Hall was too powerful to challenge carelessly.
• Xiao Yan gave Yun Potian ten drops of Essence Blood from a late Nine-star Dou Sheng, and Yun Potian vowed lifelong loyalty to the Xiao Clan and opposition to the Soul Clan.

Xiao Yan gave Yun Potian Dragon Emperor Essence Blood to strengthen the Xiao Family against the Soul Hall, while the Soul Hall’s Bone Nether Saint arrived at the Lion Nether Sect to investigate the destruction of its Northwest Branch Hall. Shi Tian identified the Xiao Family of Wutan City as the likely target, setting the Soul Hall on a path toward Xiao Yan’s clan.

• Xiao Yan explained that he had given Yun Potian the Essence Blood to prepare the Xiao Family for a possible attack by the Soul Hall’s Great Heavenly Saint.
• Yun Potian accepted the Dragon Emperor Essence Blood and vowed to protect the Xiao Clan with his life.
• Shi Tian waited at the Lion Nether Sect as a spatial rift opened and a Soul Hall expert emerged.
• Bone Nether Saint introduced himself as the Soul Hall’s Second Heavenly Venerate and asked who had destroyed the Northwest Branch Hall.
• Shi Tian told Bone Nether Saint that his investigation pointed to a hidden clan in the Jia Ma Empire, then named the Xiao Family of Wutan City.

Bone Nether Saint investigated the Xiao Family and attacked Xiao Yan, but Wind Venerable intervened with the Great Zhou Heavenly Star Array. The chapter ended as the array's Golden Crow phantom clashed with Bone Nether Saint's Dark Skeleton King.

• Bone Nether Saint took Shi Tian to Wutan City after learning that the Xiao Clan remnants might have fled there.
• Xiao Yan sensed a hostile high-level Half-Saint approaching while speaking with Wind Venerable at the Xiao Family.
• Bone Nether Saint emerged from the void and summoned the Dark Skeleton King to attack Xiao Yan.
• Wind Venerable activated the Great Zhou Heavenly Star Array, forming a Three-legged Golden Crow phantom.
• The Golden Crow's ring of fire collided with the Black Skeleton's palm.