Chapter Summaries

Lei Ying and Yan Jin invited Xiao Yan, Xiao Lan, and Old Yao to Thunder Emperor Hall under the pretext of a Coming of Age Ceremony, intending to form an alliance against the Ancient Clan and Soul Clan. Old Yao and Xiao Lan rejected the proposal, and Lei Ying erupted in anger.

• Lei Cang escorted Xiao Yan, Xiao Lan, and Old Yao through the Thunder Realm Heavenly Gate while the Flame Master and Thunder Master secretly concealed themselves nearby.
• The group passed the Thunder Clan’s ancestral statues, and Xiao Yan and Old Yao noticed the potential value of the Dou Sheng remains buried within them.
• Lei Cang brought the visitors to Thunder Emperor Hall, where Lei Ying and Yan Jin proposed a Four-Clan Alliance with the Xiao and Yao Clans.
• Old Yao refused on behalf of the Yao Clan, saying they wanted no part in conflict.
• Xiao Lan rejected the alliance, criticizing the Thunder and Yan Clans for failing to help the Xiao Clan when the Soul Clan attacked.
• Lei Ying angrily slammed his throne’s armrest and cracked it after Xiao Lan’s rebuke.

Lei Ying activated the Thunder Clan’s Heaven-Suppressing Array to trap Yao Chen and force the alliance, but Xiao Yan summoned Zhu Kun’s Dragon Emperor Phantom to oppose it. The two powerful phantoms faced off above Thunder Emperor Hall as the Thunder Clan’s confidence gave way to shock.

• Lei Ying’s pressure failed to overcome Old Yao’s Emperor Realm Soul, so Lei Ying ordered the Thunder Clan to activate its protective array.
• The array summoned the Thunder Emperor Phantom, whose mid Nine-star Dou Sheng pressure shook the Thunder Realm and alarmed Yan Jin and Old Yao.
• Lei Ying and the Thunder Clan elders declared that they would suppress Yao Chen and force the Xiao and Yao Clans into the alliance.
• Xiao Yan answered by using Zhu Kun’s dragon scale and calling on him for help.
• Zhu Kun’s Dragon Emperor Phantom appeared with Half-Emperor pressure, and Lei Ying’s smug expression turned to horror.

The Thunder Clan and Yan Clan used their clan array to empower Lei Ying and Yan Jin, but Xiao Yan called on Flame Master and Thunder Master to block them. The masters confronted their opponents, and the chapter ended as Flame Master and Yan Jin exchanged attacks while Lei Ying launched a Thunder Tribulation Palm at Thunder Master.

• The Dragon Emperor Phantom and Thunder Emperor Phantom clashed evenly, while Lei Ying and Yan Jin grew envious of the support the Xiao Clan and Yao Clan had received.
• Lei Ying ordered the Thunder Clan elders to sacrifice their Essence Blood to the clan array, raising his and Yan Jin's power to the early-stage Nine-star Dou Sheng level.
• Lei Ying charged the Dragon Emperor Phantom and Yan Jin attacked Old Yao and Xiao Yan, but Flame Master and Thunder Master appeared and stopped them.
• Lei Ying and Yan Jin questioned the two masters and tried to persuade them to join their clans, but Thunder Master refused and Flame Master attacked Yan Jin.
• Flame Master unleashed Torrent of Ten Thousand Treasures against Yan Jin's Meteor Heaven Profound Finger, while Lei Ying struck Thunder Master with Thunder Tribulation Palm.

Xiao Yan called on Zhu Kun to intervene as the Thunder and Flame Masters overpowered Lei Ying and Yan Jin. Zhu Kun struck across the distance and shattered the Thunder Emperor Phantom, leaving the Thunder Clan and Yan Clan facing the might of a Half-Emperor.

• The Thunder Master used Thunder Tribulation Finger to break through Lei Ying's Thunder Tribulation Palm and force him back.
• The Flame Master's Torrent of Ten Thousand Treasures swallowed Yan Jin's Meteor Heaven Profound Finger and overwhelmed his defenses.
• Lei Cang considered attacking Xiao Yan's group, but Old Yao's Emperor Realm Soul pressure stopped him and kept the Thunder Clan Dou Sheng at bay.
• Xiao Yan asked Zhu Kun to lend him strength, and the Dragon Emperor Phantom burned its power to break through the Thunder Realm's spatial barrier.
• Zhu Kun reached through the rift from Ancient Dragon Island and crushed the Thunder Emperor Phantom with his dragon claw.

After Old Yao destroyed the Thunder Emperor Phantom and broke the Thunder Emperor Heaven-Suppressing Array, he used the Human Emperor Banner to overwhelm the Thunder Clan’s weakened Dou Shengs. The Thunder Clan’s fighters were killed and their souls devoured, while Old Yao framed the slaughter as repayment for the clan’s past role in the Xiao Clan’s destruction.

• The Thunder Emperor Heaven-Suppressing Array collapsed, and its backlash severely injured Lei Cang, Lei Ying, Yan Jin, and the other Thunder Clan Dou Shengs.
• Old Yao opened the Human Emperor Banner and unleashed more than two hundred Dou Sheng-level Vengeful Souls led by Great Saint Gu You.
• Great Saint Gu You tore apart and devoured a Thunder Clan Six-star Dou Sheng who insulted Old Yao, terrifying the clan’s other survivors.
• Thunder Clan elders detonated themselves, but the Vengeful Souls quickly revived and continued pulling souls from the injured Dou Shengs.
• The Vengeful Souls devoured the Thunder Clan Dou Shengs’ souls, and Old Yao said the massacre repaid the Thunder Clan for killing Xiao Clan members during the clan’s fall.

After defeating the Thunder Clan’s leaders, Xiao Yan chose to spare the clan’s ordinary descendants and planned to establish a Jia Nan Academy branch in the Thunder Realm. Zhu Kun then compressed the realm into a sphere and carried it toward the Northwest Continent.

• Xiao Yan told Old Yao that he intended to reform the Thunder Clan’s descendants and give them a chance to grow through their own efforts.
• Xiao Yan proposed that Jia Nan Academy establish a branch in the Thunder Realm, while Xiao Lan noted that the realm could also support cultivation and medicinal materials.
• Xiao Yan asked Zhu Kun to move the Thunder Realm after its Heavenly Gate collapsed in the battle.
• Zhu Kun emerged above the Central Plains in his dragon form and used his Power of Space to compress the Thunder Realm into a sphere.
• Zhu Kun carried the Thunder Realm through a spatial passage toward the Northwest Continent.

Zhu Kun moved the Thunder Realm to Wutan City, giving the Xiao Family a powerful headquarters and drawing attention across the continent. As the Ancient and Soul Clans became more likely to suspect the Xiao Family, Xiao Yan prepared to claim the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and advance toward Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion.

• Zhu Kun placed the Thunder Realm beside Wutan City and explained that its intact foundation could become an impregnable Xiao Family headquarters.
• Xiao Yan and the Xiao Family thanked Zhu Kun, while the narration revealed that the Yao Clan, Xiao Clan, and Thunder Clan had come under Xiao Yan's command and the Azure Emperor had gone after the Yan Clan.
• Zhu Kun returned to Ancient Dragon Island as news of the Thunder Realm's arrival and the Thunder Clan's destruction spread across the continent.
• Xiao Lan warned that Zhu Kun's conspicuous actions might alarm the Ancient Clan and Soul Clan and push them to unite against the Xiao Family.
• Xiao Yan dismissed the threat and said he was preparing to take the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame before the seniors opened Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion.

Xiao Yan planned to build up forces on both the Dou Qi Continent and the Profound Sky Continent before ascending, while Old Yao prepared to cultivate in seclusion. In the Soul Realm, Hun Tiandi faced the problem of obtaining the remaining Tou She Ancient God Jade despite Zhu Kun’s power, and Nihility Devouring Flame began proposing a plan.

• Xiao Yan planned to reach Dou Di, strengthen forces across both continents, and delay ascending until he could stand at the top of the Great Thousand World.
• Old Yao decided to enter seclusion and absorb the Thunder Emperor’s soul essence to strengthen his Emperor Realm Soul.
• Old Yao urged Xiao Yan to resolve the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, propose marriage to Xun'er, and retrieve Xiao Xuan’s Lingering Soul Fragment from the Heavenly Tomb.
• Hun Tiandi sensed Zhu Kun’s Half-Emperor pressure and decided the Soul Clan had to accelerate its effort to gather the Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Nihility Devouring Flame reported that the Xiao Family held four pieces of the jade and that Zhu Kun made them impossible to seize by force.
• Nihility Devouring Flame offered Hun Tiandi two choices, beginning with activating the Emperor Slaying Ghost Blood Array.

Hun Tiandi chose to seek the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, planning to use it and Nihility Devouring Flame to gain the Dou Di inheritance while manipulating Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun into opposing each other. In the Xiao Family’s Thunder Realm, Yao Chen emerged from nine days of seclusion with greatly increased soul power, leaving Xiao Yan impressed and considering how to use it to strengthen the Human Emperor Banner.

• Nihility Devouring Flame proposed either sacrificing a vast number of experts to activate the Emperor Slaying Ghost Blood Array or finding the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame to locate Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion.
• Hun Tiandi ordered the Soul Clan to search for the Demon Flame Space and secretly planned to refine both Heavenly Flames, then eliminate Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun.
• Hun Tiandi instructed Nihility Devouring Flame to spread a false rumor blaming Zhu Kun and the Ancient Void Dragon Clan for the Ling Clan and Shi Clan’s destruction, hoping Gu Yuan would distrust Zhu Kun.
• After nine days of seclusion in the Thunder Realm, Yao Chen released Emperor Realm soul power that had reached the late stage of Eight-star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yan arrived to see Yao Chen’s breakthrough and considered using the stronger soul power to raise the Human Emperor Banner’s Main Soul and transform Lei Ying and Yan Jin into Vengeful Souls.

Old Yao emerged from seclusion with stronger Emperor Realm Soul Power and began refining the Human Emperor Banner, raising its 248 Dou Sheng Main Souls to greater strength. After the Vengeful Souls swore loyalty to him, he pulled the battered Lei Ying and Yan Jin from the banner.

• Old Yao told Xiao Yan that his seclusion had strengthened his Emperor Realm Soul and deepened his understanding of soul refinement.
• Old Yao used his Soul Power and Falling Heart Flame to refine the Human Emperor Banner as Xiao Lan watched.
• The banner released 248 Dou Sheng Main Souls, whose grotesque forms and fanatical praise alarmed Xiao Lan and impressed Xiao Yan.
• The eight Eight-star Dou Sheng Vengeful Souls and the other Main Souls bowed to Old Yao as their Holy Master.
• Old Yao reached into the Human Emperor Banner and dragged out the battered Lei Ying and Yan Jin.

Old Yao refined Lei Ying and Yan Jin into powerful Dou Sheng Vengeful Souls for the Human Emperor Banner. He then told Xiao Yan to take the Thunder Clan’s resources and refine the Nine Nether Golden Ancestor Fire and Volcano Stone Flame, which could strengthen Xiao Yan’s cultivation.

• Old Yao summoned Lei Ying and Yan Jin’s Soul Bodies and prepared to refine them into the Human Emperor Banner.
• Old Yao fed the banner’s accumulated Soul Origin to Great Saint Gu You, raising him to the peak of late-stage Eight-star Dou Sheng.
• Great Saint Gu You restrained Lei Ying and Yan Jin while Old Yao used his Emperor Realm Soul and the banner’s chains to refine them over three days and nights.
• Lei Ying and Yan Jin emerged as fanatically loyal Late Eight-star Dou Sheng Vengeful Souls and entered the Human Emperor Banner with the other souls.
• Old Yao told Xiao Yan to collect the resources in the Thunder Clan’s statues and refine the Nine Nether Golden Ancestor Fire and Volcano Stone Flame.

Xiao Yan destroyed the Thunder Clan’s ancestral statues and absorbed their soul remnants, then fused two Exotic Flames to reach the Late Five-star Dou Sheng stage. Old Yao and the others planned to dispatch their forces to gather the remaining Heavenly Flames before Tou She Ancient God’s Cave Mansion opened.

• Xiao Yan shattered the Thunder Clan’s statues with Colored Exotic Flame, burning away the lingering souls and collecting the Soul Crystals and ancestral remains.
• Xiao Yan absorbed the Soul Crystals while using Fen Jue to fuse Yan Jin’s Nine Nether Golden Ancestor Fire and Volcano Stone Flame into his Exotic Fire Origin.
• Xiao Yan’s cultivation rose from Late Four-star Dou Sheng to Late Five-star Dou Sheng, and he was revealed to have gathered fourteen of the twenty-two Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Lan praised Xiao Yan’s collection, while Old Yao and the others listed the remaining flames and decided to send their allied forces to search for them before Tou She Ancient God’s Cave Mansion opened.

Xiao Yan refined the Thunder and Yan Clans’ spoils, breaking through to the Great Perfection Heavenly Realm and gaining a Soul Clone. After learning that the Soul Hall was searching for the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, he prepared to seek out the Pure Lotus Demon Saint, who arrived before he could leave.

• Xiao Yan absorbed Soul Origin from the Thunder Clan’s Soul Crystals and advanced to the Great Perfection Heavenly Realm, forming a Soul Clone.
• Old Yao collected four Thunder Clan Dou Sheng Skeletons, while Xiao Yan and Xiao Lan discussed using ancient ruins and remains for resurrection and alchemy research.
• Xiao Lan warned Xiao Yan that the Soul Hall was seeking the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and that rumors blamed Senior Zhu Kun for destroying several clans.
• Xiao Lan revealed that his Xiao Family had planted spies in the Soul Hall, including Binghe, now the Ice River Heavenly Venerate.
• Xiao Yan left the Thunder Realm with Old Yao and Xiao Lan, then announced he would find Senior Pure Lotus Demon Saint to pursue the flame.
• The Pure Lotus Demon Saint’s Lingering Soul Fragment emerged from a volcano and arrived above the Xiao Family Back Mountain.

Xiao Yan and Pure Lotus Demon Saint arrived at the cracked space containing the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, accompanied by four revived Yao Clan Dou Sheng. To give Pure Lotus Demon Saint enough power to confront his former disciple, Xiao Yan summoned Great Saint Gu You and let the lingering soul take control of its body.

• Xiao Yan and Pure Lotus Demon Saint reached the desert surrounding the cracked Demon Flame Space with four Eight-star Dou Sheng from the Yao Clan.
• Xiao Yan explained that the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame remained inside the sealed space, while its residual heat had already turned the mountain range into a desert.
• Xiao Yan summoned Great Saint Gu You from Old Yao's branch banner and shrank its skeletal body to a more manageable size.
• Xiao Yan lent Great Saint Gu You's body to Pure Lotus Demon Saint so he could face the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame with greater strength.
• Pure Lotus Demon Saint sat on Great Saint Gu You's shoulder and began taking control of its body.

The Pure Lotus Demon Saint tore open the Demon Flame Space and drew Xiao Chen out of its flame slaves. Xiao Yan freed Xiao Chen from the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s control, leaving the Blood Axe ancestor to recognize his Xiao Clan descendant.

• The Pure Lotus Demon Saint forcibly opened a vast rift into the Demon Flame Space, revealing its Sea of Fire and tens of thousands of flame slaves.
• Xiao Yan spotted Xiao Chen among eleven Dou Sheng flame slaves, and the Pure Lotus Demon Saint pulled him out of the space.
• Xiao Chen attacked Xiao Yan with his blood-red axe, but Xiao Yan stopped the strike and identified himself as a descendant of the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Chen’s Xiao Clan bloodline awakened his memories, and he recognized himself as Blood Axe Xiao Chen.
• Xiao Yan used his Heavenly Realm soul power and Heavenly Flames to destroy the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s control inside Xiao Chen.

Pure Lotus Demon Saint confronted the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame inside the Demon Flame Space and swiftly overcame its resistance. He sealed the flame and gave it to Xiao Yan.

• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame recognized Pure Lotus Demon Saint in the Dark Skeleton King and accused him of being dead and joining the Soul Hall.
• Pure Lotus Demon Saint rescued a Yao Clan woman from the flame slaves and struck down the other nine without killing them.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame summoned its Demon Flame God Statue, but the Dark Skeleton King destroyed it with a single blow.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame activated the Heaven Refining Ancient Formation, but Pure Lotus Demon Saint immobilized it and sealed it into a Flame Bead.
• Pure Lotus Demon Saint gave the sealed Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame to Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan explained how the Xiao Clan had fallen after the Soul Clan’s attack, shocking Xiao Chen, who resolved to strike back at the Soul Hall. After the group left the Demon Flame Desert, Gu Dao arrived and encountered Hun Sha.

• Xiao Yan accepted the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame from Pure Lotus Demon Saint and told Xiao Chen how the Xiao Clan had nearly been wiped out by the Soul Clan.
• Xiao Chen learned that Xiao Xuan and Xiao Kong had fallen, then decided to join Xiao Lan in attacking the Soul Hall.
• Xiao Yan opened a Space Rift and led the group back so he could refine the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Pure Lotus Demon Saint compressed the Demon Flame Space into a bead, gathered the Flame Slaves, and marked them as his servants with the Nightmare Life and Death Talisman.
• Gu Dao arrived at the Demon Flame Desert, sensed a hidden presence, and recognized the figure on a nearby mountain as Hun Sha.

Gu Dao and Hun Sha fought in the Demonic Fire Desert after accusing the Soul Clan of destroying the Shi and Ling Clans. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan prepared to refine the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame in the Nirvana Emperor Blood Tower.

• Hun Sha threatened Gu Dao and admitted little as Gu Dao accused the Soul Clan of destroying the Shi and Ling Clans.
• Gu Dao refused to yield, and he and Hun Sha began fighting in the Demonic Fire Desert.
• Hun Sha unleashed Blood God Heaven Splitting, devastating the desert as he hoped Hun Jing would join the battle.
• Xiao Yan reached the ninth level of the Nirvana Emperor Blood Tower and prepared himself to refine the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Xiao Yan summoned the pearl containing the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, whose power approached that of a Six-star Dou Sheng.

Xiao Yan unleashed the Endless Fire Domain, broke the seal on the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and trapped it inside a flame prison. He then struck with the Great Desolate Heaven-Refining Hand, beginning to forcibly strip away and refine its Exotic Fire Origin.

• Xiao Yan released the Endless Fire Domain to protect himself before using his soul power to crack the Fire Bead’s seal.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame emerged in a frenzy, unleashed Demonic Flame World Destruction, and searched for the Pure Lotus Demon Saint.
• Seeing Xiao Yan instead, the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame assumed it could defeat him and threatened to refine him into a Flame Slave.
• Xiao Yan formed a square flame prison around the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and concentrated the collapsing Endless Fire Domain into the prison’s pillar of fire.
• Xiao Yan enlarged his body and unleashed the Great Desolate Heaven-Refining Hand, a strike powerful enough to challenge an early Eight-star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yan declared that the technique would forcibly strip away the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s Exotic Fire Origin and refine it.

Xiao Yan slowly refined the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame while the Ancient Clan and Soul Clan clashed in the Demonic Fire Desert. Gu Yuan confronted Hun Tiandi, who demanded the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame and summoned the Soul Clan’s full forces, leaving the Ancient Clan outnumbered and in danger.

• Xiao Yan continued refining the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, needing time to absorb its abundant Exotic Fire Origin and advance his realm.
• Xiao Lan and Xiao Chen went to retrieve Great Elder Xiao Kong’s Dou Sheng Small World, while Xiao Family members searched for the place where Third Elder Xiao Hao had fallen.
• The Ancient Clan Three Immortals fought the Soul Clan’s Four Demon Sages until Gu Yuan arrived and forced the Four Demon Sages back with a palm.
• Gu Yuan sensed that the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame was gone and tried to withdraw, but Hun Tiandi appeared and blocked his way.
• Hun Tiandi demanded that Gu Yuan hand over the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame, and Gu Yuan warned that the Ancient Clan would resist.
• Hun Tiandi revealed that the Soul Clan had mobilized its Dou Sheng forces, leaving Gu Yuan and the Ancient Clan Three Immortals facing overwhelming odds.