Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan and Old Yao launched their assault on the Yao Clan, with Xiao Yan challenging Yao Dan while Old Yao unleashed his Vengeful Souls against the clan’s experts. Xiao Yan’s battle with Yao Dan began as the Vengeful Souls overwhelmed Yao Wanhuo, leaving him injured and questioning the Yao Clan’s past treatment of Yao Chen.

• Xiao Yan attacked Yao Dan with the Candle Dragon Heavenly Seat Seal, but Yao Dan shattered it with his Seven Star Dou Sheng strength.
• Xiao Yan opened the Endless Fire Domain, raised his power close to Yao Dan’s level, and began fighting him.
• Old Yao unleashed the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, and Great Saint Gu You targeted Yao Wangui while Yao Wanhuo intervened.
• Deputy Hall Master Vengeful Soul and ten other Five-star Dou Sheng Vengeful Souls combined their attack, shattered Yao Wanhuo’s Wind Flame palm, and wounded him.
• Yao Wanhuo was trapped by the Vengeful Souls’ chains, and he began to regret that the Yao Clan had driven Yao Chen away.

The Yao Clan activated its Heaven Transformation Medicine Formation as Xiao Yan and Old Yao pressed their assault, bringing the clan to the brink of an all-out clash. Yao Dan fed countless pills into the array and called for the Medicine Emperor’s Progenitor to return.

• Yao Dan ordered the Yao Clan to activate the Heaven Transformation Medicine Formation as its fighters were driven back by Xiao Yan’s forces.
• The Yao Clan elders and members poured Dou Qi into the formation, draining medicinal herbs and gathering immense energy across the Medicine Realm.
• Xiao Yan and Old Yao refused Yao Tian’s plea to turn back, while Great Saint Gu You slapped the captive Yao Wangui for insulting Old Yao.
• Yao Dan offered Xiao Yan a chance to withdraw, but Xiao Yan insisted on subduing the Yao Clan and said he was ready for its other methods.
• Yao Dan sent countless medicinal pills into the formation and invoked Ten Thousand Pills Transform Heaven, calling for the Progenitor to return.

Xiao Yan watched the Yao Clan summon the muddled Medicine Emperor’s Phantom, who sealed him away after sensing his power. Xiao Yan summoned the Ancient Bodhi Tree to subdue the Medicine Emperor, and its first strike shattered the space around the Yao Clan’s formation.

• Yao Dan used countless medicinal pills to summon the Medicine Emperor’s Phantom, whose bloodline pressure made the Yao Clan kneel.
• The Medicine Emperor’s Phantom recognized the Yao Clan but lamented its decline, then sealed Xiao Yan after seeing his ten Heavenly Flames and Ancient Void Dragon bloodline.
• Xiao Yan judged the Medicine Emperor’s consciousness too muddled to reason with and showed the Eternal Illusion Demon Flower.
• Yao Wangui laughed at Xiao Yan and Yao Chen, so Great Saint Gu You chained him up and whipped him.
• Xiao Yan summoned the Ancient Bodhi Tree and asked it to calm the Medicine Emperor’s Phantom.
• The Ancient Bodhi Tree attacked the Medicine Emperor’s Phantom with an emerald whip, shattering the surrounding space and terrifying the Yao Clan experts.

Xiao Yan’s allies subdued the Medicine Emperor’s Lingering Thought, and two ancient Dou Emperors appeared to speak with him. The Medicine Emperor regained his clarity and recognized Emperor Xiao, while Yao Dan began to suspect the Yao Clan had mistaken Yao Chen for a Soul Clan pawn.

• The Ancient Bodhi Tree bound the Medicine Emperor’s Lingering Thought after the Qing Mu Vine Dragon weakened his cauldron and drained his power.
• Xiao Yan told the Medicine Emperor that his predicament could bring renewal and hinted that old acquaintances would soon meet him.
• Emperor Xiao and Tou She Ancient God appeared, prompting Yao Dan to recognize them as ancient Dou Emperors.
• Yao Dan questioned Yao Chen, reconsidered his suspicions, and blamed the clan’s elders for bringing the Yao Clan to the brink of disaster.
• Emperor Xiao placed the Eternal Illusion Demon Flower into the Medicine Emperor’s Remnant Soul, restoring his clarity, and the Medicine Emperor recognized Emperor Xiao.

The Medicine Emperor learned that the Yao Clan had cast out Yao Chen, a prodigy who rose to greatness without its support. Enraged by his descendants’ treatment of Yao Chen and their infighting, he used the God Beating Whip to punish them.

• Emperor Xiao told the Medicine Emperor that Yao Chen was an abandoned Yao Clan member and that his achievements had nothing to do with the clan.
• The Medicine Emperor condemned the Yao Clan elders for neglecting Yao Chen and asked the Ancient Bodhi Tree to free one of his hands.
• The Medicine Emperor summoned the God Beating Whip from the Clan Protection Array and explained that it was an Emperor Tier Soul Attack Dou Skill.
• Emperor Xiao explained to Xiao Yan that Emperor Tier Dou Techniques required an Emperor Realm Soul to use.
• The Medicine Emperor hung Yao Dan and the other Yao Clan Dou Shengs in the air and lashed them as punishment, earning Old Yao’s approval.

Emperor Xiao explained that the Ancient Clans had declined because they relied too heavily on their ancestral bloodlines instead of cultivating their own talent. The Medicine Emperor removed Yao Dan as clan leader and recognized Yao Chen as the chance for the Yao Clan to change course.

• Emperor Xiao told Old Yao that the Xiao Clan had once been stronger than the Yao Clan because its descendants had relied on themselves rather than their ancestor’s legacy.
• Xiao Yan argued that the Ancient Clans could still prosper without bloodline power if they cultivated with their resources and techniques.
• The Medicine Emperor lashed the Yao Clan’s Dou Sheng until they were unconscious, leaving only Yao Dan conscious.
• Emperor Xiao urged the Medicine Emperor to use Yao Chen as the opportunity to reform the Yao Clan and said its Dou Sheng were unfit to manage it.
• The Medicine Emperor removed Yao Dan as clan leader, and Yao Dan accepted the order.
• The Medicine Emperor turned to Yao Chen and gently told him that he had suffered for all those years.

With the Medicine Emperor's backing, Old Yao took control of the Yao Clan and used its resources to refine pills for reviving the clan's dead Dou Shengs. The Medicine Emperor learned that he might also be revived, and he pledged the restored Yao Clan's strength to Xiao Yan against the Soul Clan.

• The Medicine Emperor's strength and Old Yao's forces silenced the Yao Clan elders, allowing Old Yao to become clan leader.
• Old Yao refined batches of Four Poles Soul Nurturing Pills and Eternal Soul Nurturing Pills, impressing the Yao Clan's alchemists and Yao Dan.
• Tou She Ancient God explained to the Medicine Emperor that the revival method created by Yao Chen and Xiao Yan could restore remnant souls with the aid of Soul Nurturing Pills.
• Xiao Yan reported that the Yao Clan ancestral hall held 365 Dou Sheng remnant souls and that up to 170 could be revived within three months.
• The Medicine Emperor celebrated the prospect of his own revival and promised that the restored Yao Clan would follow Xiao Yan and help destroy the Soul Clan.

Xiao Yan and the Yao Clan learned that Elder Shennong had arrived, and Medicine Emperor revealed his identity to him. Impressed by the chance to learn from an Emperor Grade Alchemist, Elder Shennong asked to become Medicine Emperor’s disciple, who agreed but warned him that he was only a lingering thought of a dead man.

• Yao Tian reported that Elder Shennong had appeared in the Shennong Mountain Range, and Xiao Yan welcomed the prospect of using the Flame of Life to revive powerful experts.
• Elder Shennong arrived at the Medicine Realm and was startled when he could not discern the strength of the three illusory figures.
• Medicine Emperor introduced himself as the Yao Clan’s ancient Dou Di ancestor, while Emperor Xiao identified himself and Tou She Ancient God.
• As Pill Rain filled the sky, Elder Shennong knelt and asked Medicine Emperor to accept him as a disciple.
• Medicine Emperor accepted Elder Shennong but told him that he was dead and existed only as a lingering thought sustained by his Emperor Realm Soul.

Xiao Yan helped the Yao Clan and his allies grow stronger before traveling to the Profound Sky Continent. There, Ling Qingzhu and Ying Huanhuan waited for Lin Dong in the Thunder Emperor's Cave Mansion, while Ling Qingzhu struggled with her growing feelings for him.

• Elder Shennong accepted the Medicine Emperor as his master and met Old Yao, whose batch pill-refining method impressed him.
• Xiao Yan used the Yao Clan's resources to refine pills that helped Yao Dan, Old Yao, and their allies advance in cultivation.
• After refining another Bodhi Great Returning Pill, Xiao Yan traveled through the Dual-Passage Gate to the Profound Sky Continent with the Ancient Bodhi Tree.
• In the Thunder Emperor's Cave Mansion, Little Sable told Ling Qingzhu and Ying Huanhuan that Lin Dong had gone to seek the Thunder Ancestral Symbol.
• Ling Qingzhu admitted that she had begun to feel drawn to Lin Dong, and Ying Huanhuan teased her about acting young.

Lin Dong obtained the Thunder Ancestral Symbol and helped revive the Thunder Emperor, who broke through to the Reincarnation Realm and agreed to join the Great Desolate Sect. After Lin Dong emerged greatly strengthened, Xiao Yan appeared to reunite with his brothers.

• Little Sable, Ling Qingzhu, and Ying Huanhuan approached the Thunder Hall as the revived Thunder Emperor's power shook the area.
• Lin Dong used his three Ancestral Symbols to destroy the sealed Otherworldly Demon, and the Thunder Emperor emerged revived with his scepter.
• The Thunder Emperor thanked Lin Dong, agreed to bring Thunder Mansion experts to the Great Desolate Sect, and became its second Supreme Elder after Old Man Fentian.
• Lin Dong revealed that his Spiritual Power had reached the peak of the Lesser Talisman Sect and his Origin Energy had reached great perfection in the Death Profound Realm after obtaining the Thunder Ancestral Symbol.
• Little Sable congratulated Lin Dong and mentioned that Xiao Yan had gone to pursue the Ancient Bodhi Tree Opportunity.
• Xiao Yan appeared and greeted Little Sable and Lin Dong as his Second Brother and Third Brother.

Xiao Yan revealed that he had advanced to Late Four-star Dou Sheng with the help of the Ancient Bodhi Tree and his teacher, then summoned Brother Bodhi in the Thunder Emperor's Cave Mansion. The Ancient Bodhi Tree transformed into a human and became a Quasi-Emperor, with complete Dou Di bloodline transformation expected in about half a year.

• Little Sable questioned Xiao Yan about his immense increase in strength, and Xiao Yan confirmed he had reached Late Four-star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yan released the Ancient Bodhi Tree, which absorbed Heaven and Earth Energy, Origin Qi, and the Sky Thunder Sea Region's thunderclouds as its spiritual body took shape.
• The Ancient Bodhi Tree became a green-robed human, and Zhu Kun and the Thunder Emperor sensed that his power surpassed theirs.
• The Ancient Bodhi Tree explained that he possessed an Emperor Realm Soul, a Half-Emperor body, and Dou Di-level Dou Qi, but still needed his bloodline to finish transforming.
• Xiao Yan asked whether the Ancient Bodhi Tree had chosen a title, and the tree was described as a Quasi-Emperor who expected to become a true Dou Di in roughly half a year.

The Azure Emperor offered Dou Shengs the chance to comprehend the Hundred Lifetimes Reincarnation, and Xiao Yan chose Old Yao to go first. After ten days of enlightenment, Old Yao broke through to become a Six-star Dou Sheng.

• The Azure Emperor explained that one Dou Sheng at a time could comprehend the Hundred Lifetimes Reincarnation, and let Xiao Yan choose who would go first.
• Xiao Yan selected Old Yao, judging that his broad studies and advancement could benefit his allies and disciples.
• The Azure Emperor formed a Bodhi Cushion and sent Old Yao into a hundred lifetimes of cultivation across pills, talismans, artifacts, formations, and puppetry.
• Zhu Kun asked whether the Azure Emperor could defeat the sealed Demon Emperor, and the Azure Emperor estimated his chances at three to seven against him.
• After ten days of enlightenment, Old Yao drew in Heaven and Earth Energy, broke through his bottleneck, and became a Six-star Dou Sheng.

Old Yao broke through to the Emperor Realm Soul, gaining immense soul power and advancing his plans for new pills and stronger allies. He empowered Great Saint Gu You, who swore loyalty and asked to attack the Soul Hall and capture Hun Miesheng.

• Old Yao's soul broke through to the Emperor Realm, and he demonstrated its reach and destructive power across the Sky Thunder Sea Region.
• Old Yao realized his soul alone could wield Eight-star Dou Sheng-level strength and thanked the Azure Emperor for enabling his breakthrough.
• Old Yao revealed that his hundred lifetimes of pill-refining experience had produced the preliminary formula for the Reincarnation Soul Nurturing Pill.
• Old Yao used the Human Emperor Banner to refine weaker Vengeful Souls and feed their Soul Power to the Main Souls, especially Great Saint Gu You.
• Great Saint Gu You rose to Six-star Dou Sheng, thanked Old Yao, and requested permission to attack the Soul Hall and capture Hun Miesheng.

The Heavenly King's Palace awakened and learned that the Lord of Darkness and the Lord of Space were hunting the Demon Prison's forces across the Profound Sky Continent. He ordered the demons to attack human and Demon Clan forces to buy him time while he recovered, accepting their deaths as expendable.

• The Second King's Palace and Third King's Palace discussed how the Lord of Darkness and the Lord of Space had forced their eldest brother to withdraw.
• Eight members of the Demon King's Palace gathered around the coffin of the still-injured Heavenly King's Palace, who awoke and suspected the ancient masters had found an Ancestor Realm seedling.
• The Otherworldly Demon True Kings reported that demons had suffered heavy losses, including the destruction of another Demon Suppressing Prison and the capture of more than ten false kings and three True Kings.
• The Third King's Palace proposed joining forces to surround and kill the two ancient masters, but the Heavenly King's Palace rejected the plan because he had not recovered.
• The Heavenly King's Palace ordered the demons to attack human and Demon Clan forces to buy him time, dismissing their deaths as a glory.

Second King's Palace decided to retaliate against the Lord of Darkness by attacking the Great Desolate Sect and freeing Ninth King's Palace. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan's group encountered the Lord of Space, who learned that the Azure Emperor could become a Dou Di in about half a year.

• Second King's Palace proposed hunting the Profound Sky Continent's Reincarnation Realm experts and chose the Great Desolate Sect as their target.
• Second King's Palace and Third King's Palace agreed to destroy the Great Desolate Sect and rescue Ninth King's Palace.
• Xiao Yan traveled toward the Eastern Profound Region with Zhu Kun, the Azure Emperor, Old Yao, and the Thunder Emperor.
• The Lord of Space appeared and was astonished by Old Yao's strength and the Azure Emperor's pressure.
• Xiao Yan explained that the Azure Emperor would likely complete his transformation into a Dou Di in about half a year.
• Xiao Yan asked the Lord of Space why he had come, wondering whether he had brought demons' souls and corpses for the Human Emperor Banner.

The Lord of Space told Xiao Yan and Lin Dong that the Nine-tailed Clan had survived in the Demon Domain, so they traveled there to revive the Nine-tailed Spirit Fox and strengthen the clan. When Beast Battle Domain raiders arrived to demand tribute, Lin Dong attacked them with the Thunder Ancestral Symbol.

• The Lord of Space gave Old Yao the demonic spoils he had collected and revealed that the Nine-tailed Clan lived between Thunder Abyss Mountain and Hundred Beast Ridge.
• Xiao Yan agreed to visit the Nine-tailed Clan, and the Lord of Space departed to inspect the ancient masters and hunt Demon Kings.
• Xiao Yan, Lin Dong, Little Sable, and Old Yao arrived at Nine-tailed Village and learned that a Demonic Soul had been devouring clan members and worsening the clan's decline.
• The Nine-tailed Clan's beautiful clan leader and elders bowed to the visitors, and Xiao Yan raised them with his Soul Power.
• A band of raiders arrived to collect tribute, and Lin Dong immobilized them before summoning the Thunder Emperor Starfall Hand.

Lin Dong annihilated Hundred Beast Ridge's raiders, and Xiao Yan told the Nine-tailed Clan that they had come to revive its ancestor. The group entered Ancestral Soul Hall and reached the enormous statue of the Nine-tailed Spirit Fox, which the clan leader identified as their ancestor's remains.

• Lin Dong killed Qin Gang and the Hundred Beast Ridge cultivators with a giant hand of Thunder.
• Xiao Yan revealed that the group intended to revive the Nine-tailed Clan's ancestor and asked the clan leader to take them to Ancestral Soul Hall.
• The clan leader led the group to the altar, where Old Yao used the fox statue and his Soul Power to open the Crimson Gate without a blood sacrifice.
• Old Yao brought everyone through the gate into Ancestral Soul Hall, where they saw a vast Blood-red Sea and a colossal Nine-tailed Spirit Fox statue.
• The clan leader recognized the enormous statue as her ancestor's skeleton.

Old Yao exposed the supposed Nine-tailed ancestor as a Demonic Soul formed from three fused Demon Kings, who had killed the clan members seeking her inheritance. Lin Dong attacked, but the Demonic Soul overwhelmed his Ancestral Symbol strike until Xiao Yan intervened and seized the advantage.

• Old Yao summoned a luminous image from the Nine-tailed Spirit Fox's bones, and the figure offered Xinqing her inheritance.
• The beautiful clan leader suspected the offer was a trap, and Old Yao identified the figure as a Demonic Soul containing the auras of three Demon Kings.
• Lin Dong used the Ancestral Symbol Eye to expose the Demonic Soul, which admitted it had devoured Nine-tailed Clan members and unleashed blood-colored chains at him.
• Lin Dong shattered the chains with his Ancestral Symbol power, but the Demonic Soul stopped his attack and summoned the Myriad Luo Demonic Pillar Prison.
• The Thunder Emperor prepared to help Lin Dong, but Xiao Yan used Great Desolate Prison Heaven Hand to smash through the demonic assault and grab at the Demonic Soul.

Xiao Yan freed the Nine-tailed Spirit Fox from the Demonic Soul that had possessed her, and the revived ancestor learned that the group could restore her with an Eternal Soul Nurturing Pill and a Demon Fox King’s corpse. As Xiao Yan, Old Yao, and Lin Dong began purifying the corpse for her new body, the Azure Emperor told her she could comprehend Hundred Lifetimes Reincarnation.

• Xiao Yan pulled the Demonic Soul from the Nine-tailed Spirit Fox’s Lingering Soul Fragment, and Old Yao captured and consumed it with the Human Emperor Banner.
• The Nine-tailed Spirit Fox awoke, thanked Lin Dong and the others, embraced her clan leader, and instructed the clan to seal the Blood Sea and return its energy to the clan members.
• After hearing that the group had come to revive her, the Nine-tailed Spirit Fox received an Eternal Soul Nurturing Pill and learned that she would be given a new body made from the Demon Fox King’s corpse.
• Xiao Yan and Old Yao began refining the Demon Fox King’s corpse with the Two Extremes Heavenly Refining Great Formation, while Lin Dong used the Ancestral Stone to form the Ancestral Spirit Demon Purifying Formation.
• The Azure Emperor told the Nine-tailed Spirit Fox that, once her Demon Spirit and body were in harmony, she could comprehend Hundred Lifetimes Reincarnation, leaving her stunned by the unfamiliar prospect.

Xiao Yan, Lin Dong, and Yao Lao revived the Nine-tailed Spirit Fox by using the Demon Fox King's essence and the Nine-tailed Clan’s blood to restore her body, and she reached the Triple Reincarnation Realm. Azure Emperor then sent her into the Bodhi Hundred Lifetimes Reincarnation Enlightenment Realm, where she began pursuing further enlightenment, though Xiao Yan doubted she could reach the Ancestor Realm.

• Xiao Yan, Yao Lao, and Lin Dong refined the Demon Fox King's corpse and the Nine-tailed Clan’s blood to restore the Nine-tailed Spirit Fox’s body.
• The Nine-tailed Spirit Fox returned to life, broke through to the Triple Reincarnation Realm, and thanked Xiao Yan, Lin Dong, and Yao Lao.
• Azure Emperor offered the Nine-tailed Spirit Fox the Bodhi Hundred Lifetimes Reincarnation Enlightenment Realm, and she entered it to experience a hundred lifetimes.
• Lin Dong asked whether the Nine-tailed Spirit Fox could succeed, and Xiao Yan said the hope was slim because the Profound Sky Continent’s cultivation system lacked a clear path beyond the Reincarnation Realm.
• Xiao Yan reassured the clan leader that failure would only mean the Nine-tailed Spirit Fox gained less, not that she would be in danger.