Chapter Summaries

Hun Tiandi revealed the Soul Clan’s overwhelming hidden forces and trapped Gu Yuan and the Ancient Clan Three Immortals in a hopeless battle. Three days later, Xiao Yan advanced to the middle Six-star Dou Sheng stage in the Nirvana Emperor Blood Tower, with combat strength comparable to a middle Eight-star Dou Sheng.

• Hun Yuantian appeared as an Eight-star Dou Sheng and used the Gate of Deathly Silence to seal space around the Ancient Clan Three Immortals.
• Nihility Devouring Flame revealed that it had reached the Nine-star Dou Sheng realm and joined Hun Tiandi to pin down Gu Yuan.
• Three more Eight-star Dou Shengs emerged from black coffins and summoned three Gates of Deathly Silence, leaving the Ancient Clan Three Immortals with no hope of escape.
• The battle resumed, and the Demonic Fire Desert became a glazed plain after the fighting and self-detonations.
• Three days later, Xiao Yan broke through to the middle Six-star Dou Sheng stage and gained physical strength comparable to a Mid Ninth Rank Magical Beast.

After refining the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, Xiao Yan emerged at the middle Six-star Dou Sheng level and learned that the Soul Clan had killed the Ancient Clan Three Immortals and gravely wounded Gu Yuan. He planned to use the Ancient Clan’s weakened state and Xun’er’s mother’s lingering soul to help Xun’er take control of the Ancient Clan.

• Xiao Yan left the Nirvana Emperor Blood Tower after refining the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and reached the middle Six-star Dou Sheng level.
• Xiao Xun’er told Xiao Yan that the Soul Clan had killed the Ancient Clan Three Immortals, while Gu Yuan escaped to the Ancient Realm seriously injured.
• Xiao Yan comforted Xiao Xun’er and summoned Gu Donglai, his controlled Ancient Clan subordinate.
• Gu Donglai presented the memorial tablet containing Xiao Xun’er’s mother’s lingering soul, which he had secretly retrieved from the Ancient Clan.
• Xiao Yan decided that reviving and enlisting Xiao Xun’er’s mother could allow Xun’er to take control of the Ancient Clan and its realm.

Xiao Yan revived Gu Yunxi’s soul and told her how the Ancient Clan had treated Xun’er, leaving her furious with Gu Yuan and the clan. After Xiao Yan revealed that Gu Yang had betrayed her on the Soul Clan’s behalf, Gu Yunxi was left grieving and disillusioned with the people she had once trusted.

• Xiao Yan used an Eternal Soul Nurturing Pill to summon Gu Yunxi from her jade spirit tablet.
• Xiao Yan told Gu Yunxi about the Ancient Clan’s treatment of Xun’er, and Gu Yunxi condemned Gu Yuan for sending their daughter to the Northwest Continent.
• Gu Yunxi praised Xiao Yan for giving Xun’er a home and recognized him as a worthy future son-in-law.
• Xiao Yan asked how Gu Yunxi had died, and she recalled being ambushed by Hun Tu and Hun Sha after leaving the Ancient Realm.
• Xiao Yan identified Gu Yang as the traitor and explained that the real Gu Yang had died a century earlier, replaced by a Soul Clan Dou Sheng.
• Gu Yunxi realized that the Ancient Clan had failed to recognize the impostor and was left sorrowful and chilled by Gu Yuan’s inaction.

Xiao Yan helped Gu Yunxi plan to seize control of the Ancient Clan by promising a resurrection method, and she agreed to make the clan a vassal of the Xiao Clan. The Azure Emperor returned with the Yan Realm, two Exotic Flames, and skeletons for Xiao Yan, leaving the Yan Clan subdued.

• Xiao Yan told Gu Yunxi that an Eternal Soul Nurturing Pill could resurrect her and greatly raise her cultivation, and she resolved to take control of the Ancient Clan and make it Xun'er's dowry to the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Yan gave Gu Yunxi a Ninth Grade Profound Pill-level Eternal Soul Nurturing Pill, and she began secluded cultivation in a Xiao Family Dou Sheng Small World.
• The Azure Emperor suppressed the Yan Realm and brought it to the Xiao Family, turning it into a blazing sun above the family's back mountain.
• The Azure Emperor gave Xiao Yan the Eight Desolations Destruction Flame, the Red Lotus Karmic Fire, and a Storage Ring containing skeletons.
• Xiao Yan safely took the two Exotic Flames into his hands using the dou qi produced by Fen Jue.

Xiao Yan absorbed the remaining Eight Desolations Destruction Flame and Red Lotus Karmic Fire through Fire Spirit Xiao Yi, strengthening his Dou Qi without breaking through. While examining the Yan Clan’s Dou Sheng remains, he learned that a supreme expert’s skeleton belonged to Great Saint Xuanji, a Half-Emperor whose body could offer a solution for his aunt.

• Xiao Yan summoned Fire Spirit Xiao Yi, which swallowed and refined the two remnant Exotic Flames, feeding purer flame power back into him.
• Xiao Yan’s Dou Qi grew more condensed, but the energy was insufficient to advance him beyond the middle stage of Six-star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yan opened Azure Emperor’s Storage Ring and brought out several hundred Yan Clan Dou Sheng skeletons, including five Supreme Experts.
• Xiao Yan called Huo Yao to identify a petite skeleton with crimson-gold patterns.
• Huo Yao identified the remains as Great Saint Xuanji, a former Yan Clan leader with a Divine Grade Bloodline, an Emperor Realm Soul, and late Nine-star Dou Sheng strength.
• Xiao Yan recognized Great Saint Xuanji as a Half-Emperor and concluded that her body offered a solution for his aunt.

Xiao Yan received the Gate of Deathly Silence and the Fire Emperor Finger Bone from the Azure Emperor after the Yan Clan was suppressed. A terrifying lightning tribulation then shattered the Medicine Saint’s Small World, leaving Xiao Yan and the Xiao Family wondering what he had refined.

• The Azure Emperor left Great Saint Xuanji’s skeleton aside and had Huo Yao manage the Yan Clan Dou Shengs after they were controlled with Life and Death Talismans.
• The Azure Emperor gave Xiao Yan and Medicine Saint a Gate of Deathly Silence containing the Death Emperor’s life-and-death power.
• The Azure Emperor gave Xiao Yan the Fire Emperor Finger Bone, a relic severed from the Fire Emperor by the Blade Emperor and hidden in the Yan Realm’s Clan Protection Array.
• Black lightning erupted above the Xiao Family, and the Azure Emperor realized a tribulation had shattered the Small World where Medicine Saint was refining pills and puppets.
• The lightning surged toward a dark region at its center as the Xiao Family experts sensed a pressure far stronger than Black Demon Lightning.

Xiao Yan and the others witnessed Yao Lao complete a furnace of Ninth Grade Golden Pills, the Reincarnation Soul Nurturing Pills, as Nine Profound Golden Lightning descended to temper them. The chapter left the pills facing their final trial, while Xiao Li and other Xiao Family members gained Black Demon Lightning Dou Qi and Xiao Li’s path to Dou Sheng opened.

• Xiao Yan and Azure Emperor recognized the golden dragon in the Thunder Sea as the Nine Profound Golden Lightning summoned by a Ninth Grade Golden Pill.
• Yao Lao completed the Reincarnation Soul Nurturing Pills, a breakthrough made possible in part by Xiao Yan’s suggestion to use Dou Sheng Skeletons as medicine.
• Yao Lao urged Xiao Yan to seize the lightning as an opportunity for Lightning Dou Qi cultivators to mutate their Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yan asked the Thunder Master to help Xiao Li, Thunder Venerable, and other Xiao Family members, and the Thunder Master guided them to mutate their Dou Qi into Black Demon Lightning.
• Xiao Li gained a trace of Nine Profound Golden Lightning Dou Qi, reached High-level Half-Saint, and broke through the shackles blocking his advancement to Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yan watched as the Bodhi Tree faced the Nine Profound Golden Lightning’s final tempering of the pills.

Old Yao refined three Reincarnation Soul Nurturing Pills, but their powerful spirits tried to escape before the Azure Emperor subdued them. The Azure Emperor then captured the Nine Profound Golden Lightning and offered it to Xiao Yan for mutual benefit, leaving Xiao Yan with a rare opportunity to temper his body and help the lightning spirit transform.

• Old Yao used the Nine Profound Golden Lightning to temper the pills and formed three Ninth Grade Golden Pills.
• The pills transformed into golden-robed figures with Seven Star Dou Sheng strength and tried to escape through a Space Rift.
• The Azure Emperor sealed the space, struck down the pill spirits, and Old Yao stored the pills in a sealed Jade Bottle.
• The Azure Emperor pulled the Nine Profound Golden Lightning from the void and brought it before Xiao Yan, proposing that it aid his body tempering while gaining a chance to transform.
• The Thunder Master remarked that the Nine Profound Golden Lightning's power rivaled the Thunder Ancestral Symbol.

Xiao Yan tempered his body with the Nine Profound Golden Lightning, advanced to late Six-star Dou Sheng, and transformed the lightning into Xiao Jiulei. Old Yao gave him three Reincarnation Soul Nurturing Pills and left him to choose which supreme experts to revive.

• Flame Master and Thunder Master discussed the Nine Profound Golden Lightning and whether it could provide a foundation for creating a Thunder Ancestral Symbol.
• Xiao Yan swallowed the Nine Profound Golden Lightning and endured three days and nights of lightning tempering while the Ancient Bodhi Tree protected Wutan City.
• Xiao Yan's body reached the strength of a Late Ninth Rank Magical Beast, and his cultivation advanced from middle to late Six-star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yan transformed the lightning into a youth named Xiao Jiulei, who initially called him Father before agreeing to address him as Young Clan Leader.
• Old Yao gave Xiao Yan three Reincarnation Soul Nurturing Pills and explained that reviving the Medicine Emperor would require an Emperor Grade Pill.

Xiao Yan gave the Pure Lotus Demon Saint a Reincarnation Soul Nurturing Pill to begin his revival, then brought another pill to Zhu Kun. Zhu Kun led Xiao Yan into the Dragon Tomb, where he revealed the strength of the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s revived experts and showed him the burial sites of its ancient Supreme Experts.

• Xiao Yan chose the Pure Lotus Demon Saint and ancestor Xiao Xuan for the first two Reincarnation Soul Nurturing Pills, reserving the third for the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.
• Xiao Yan gave the Pure Lotus Demon Saint the first pill, and the saint began seclusion in the Xiao Family to rebuild his soul.
• Zhu Kun thanked Xiao Yan for bringing a Reincarnation Soul Nurturing Pill and said reviving the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s ancestor was nearly assured.
• Zhu Kun explained that two batches of revived Dou Sheng Experts had greatly strengthened the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, then escorted Xiao Yan to the Dragon Tomb.
• Xiao Yan entered the vast Dragon Tomb and saw twenty-seven enormous tombstones marking the resting places of the clan’s ancient Supreme Experts.

Zhu Kun and Xiao Yan awakened the Blood Dragon Emperor’s Lingering Soul Fragment and offered him the Reincarnation Soul Nurturing Pill to restore him. After mourning the eight elders who sacrificed themselves to protect the clan, the Blood Dragon Emperor agreed to revive and reclaim his name in the Central Plains.

• Zhu Kun led Xiao Yan to the Blood Dragon Emperor’s tombstone and explained how the ancestor had died after using the Dragon Transformation Demonic Array to defend the clan.
• Zhu Kun poured his Essence Blood onto the tombstone, awakening the Blood Dragon Emperor’s nine-headed, twenty-clawed Lingering Soul Fragment.
• The Blood Dragon Emperor angrily demanded to know why Zhu Kun had awakened him, while Xiao Yan resisted the fragment’s pressure.
• Zhu Kun offered the Reincarnation Soul Nurturing Pill and asked the Blood Dragon Emperor to revive and lead the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.
• The Blood Dragon Emperor regretted that the pill had come too late to save the eight elders, then resolved to live again and ordered Zhu Kun to bring it to him.

Xiao Yan watched the Blood Dragon Emperor use the Reincarnation Soul Nurturing Pill and the Dragon Transformation Demonic Array to begin restoring his body. After Zhu Kun pointed him toward the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Tribe’s possible inheritance and lingering soul fragment, Xiao Yan set out to search for them.

• The Blood Dragon Emperor swallowed the Reincarnation Soul Nurturing Pill and instantly restored his soul to its peak.
• The Blood Dragon Emperor raised his buried Dragon Bone and reunited his soul with it, using the Dragon Transformation Demonic Array to regrow flesh and begin his resurrection.
• Xiao Yan estimated that the Blood Dragon Emperor would return within ten days to half a month and told Zhu Kun he was leaving for the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Tribe.
• Zhu Kun advised Xiao Yan to search the tribe’s grounds for the Nine Netherworld Python Emperor’s inheritance or Lingering Soul Fragment.
• Xiao Yan decided to gather powerful figures and resources before ascending to the Great Thousand World, then departed Ancient Dragon Island for the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Tribe.

Yao Xiaotian plotted to join Soul Hall and regain power in the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Tribe, while Hun Miesheng agreed to intervene. Ice River Heavenly Venerate concealed the Heavenly Mansion Alliance’s involvement as Hun Miesheng prepared to travel to the tribe.

• Yao Xiaotian complained about his house arrest and secretly told the Great Elder that he had arranged for Soul Hall to help restore his authority.
• Yao Xiaotian promised the Great Elder high positions in Soul Hall and planned to claim the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils after defeating Yao Ming and the Heavenly Snake Saint.
• Ice River Heavenly Venerate reported Yao Xiaotian’s offer to Hun Miesheng and falsely claimed the tribe’s unrest had nothing to do with the Heavenly Mansion Alliance.
• Hun Miesheng judged that Soul Hall could use two outside Dou Shengs and decided to personally visit the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Tribe.

Hun Miesheng broke through to Early Five-star Dou Sheng and left the Heaven Hall, unaware that Ice River Heavenly Venerate had used Yao Xiaotian’s information to lure him into a trap. At the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Tribe, Xiao Chen and Heavenly Snake Saint prepared to capture Yao Xiaotian and the Great Elder, letting Qing Lin use their power to advance to Dou Sheng while awaiting Hun Miesheng.

• Hun Miesheng completed his breakthrough to Early Five-star Dou Sheng and departed through a Space Rift as Ice River Heavenly Venerate privately reflected that the fishing plan had succeeded.
• Heavenly Snake Saint taught Qing Lin that her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils could attack and temper Soul Power, and she demonstrated their power.
• Blood Axe Xiao Chen arrived at the valley as a Late Five-star Dou Sheng and confirmed that information had reached the Soul Hall and the plan was proceeding smoothly.
• Xiao Chen told Heavenly Snake Saint to capture Yao Xiaotian and the Great Elder so Qing Lin could control them and absorb their Dou Qi to become a Dou Sheng.
• Yao Ming confronted Yao Xiaotian while Heavenly Snake Saint faced the Great Elder, and both captives realized they were in danger before Hun Miesheng could arrive.

Yao Ming defeated and captured Yao Xiaotian after the latter tried to resist with powerful Dou Techniques, while Heavenly Snake Saint subdued the Great Elder. As Yao Ming kept Yao Xiaotian alive for his remaining usefulness, Hun Miesheng arrived through a Space Rift.

• Yao Xiaotian pretended to seek forgiveness, then attacked Yao Ming with his icy Dou Qi and Yellow Springs Finger.
• Yao Ming transformed into his Nine Netherworld Underworld Python form and used the Yellow Springs Great Seal to crush Yao Xiaotian’s attack and pin him down.
• Yao Ming restrained Yao Xiaotian and said he still had some value, while Heavenly Snake Saint captured the Great Elder.
• A Space Rift opened above the Nether Snake Earth Vein, and Hun Miesheng emerged amid black mist and howling souls.

Hun Miesheng arrived to force the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Tribe into submission, but Blood Axe Xiao Chen emerged and struck him down. Elder Hun Mo rescued Hun Miesheng and confronted Xiao Chen, and their clash began.

• Hun Miesheng demanded that Yao Ming and the Heavenly Snake Saint submit to the Soul Hall, while Yao Xiaotian and the Great Elder celebrated his arrival.
• Xiao Chen appeared and used Mountain Opening to split Hun Miesheng’s soul handprint and badly wound him.
• Hun Miesheng called for help, and Elder Hun Mo arrived and challenged Xiao Chen.
• Xiao Chen attacked Elder Hun Mo with his blood-red axe, and Hun Mo blocked it with ghastly white bone chains.

Xiao Chen fought Elder Hun Mo and countered his Soul Gu Frog by summoning Saint Blood River, whose strength shocked Hun Miesheng. Elder Hun Mo refused to retreat and waited for Hun Qianmo, hoping to uncover the source of Blood River’s sudden rise in power.

• Elder Hun Mo used a Soul Gu Frog to attack Xiao Chen, but Xiao Chen struck it back with Earth Splitting Slash.
• Xiao Chen summoned Saint Blood River from his blood-colored banner, revealing that he had reached Late Five-star Dou Sheng.
• Hun Miesheng recognized Blood River as Soul Hall’s former Fourth Heavenly Venerate and learned that he had joined the Holy Master.
• Blood River warned that Great Saint Gu You would arrive and turn the Soul Clan fighters into consumables if they resisted.
• Hun Miesheng urged Elder Hun Mo to flee, but Elder Hun Mo said he had summoned Hun Qianmo and ordered him to stall for time.

Xiao Chen unleashed a powerful axe technique against Elder Hun Mo, but Hun Qianmo arrived in time to save him and attack Xiao Chen. Xiao Chen revealed that he had been waiting for Hun Qianmo, and Xiao Lan struck from a shattered void.

• Hun Miesheng confronted Saint Blood River while Elder Hun Mo resumed his fight with Xiao Chen.
• Xiao Chen raised his strength to early Six-star Dou Sheng and unleashed Firmament Slash, Split the Firmament at Elder Hun Mo.
• Hun Qianmo appeared and blocked Xiao Chen’s strike, then used spatial displacement to attack him from behind.
• Xiao Chen said he had been waiting for Hun Qianmo and called for Xiao Lan to act.
• Xiao Lan’s scaled dragon arm burst through the void and swatted toward Hun Qianmo.

Xiao Lan joined Xiao Chen and the others, overwhelmed Hun Qianmo, and sealed him as Hun Miesheng summoned Soul Clan reinforcements. Two late-stage Seven Star Dou Shengs arrived, leaving the battle poised to escalate.

• Xiao Lan appeared and rebuked Hun Qianmo, while Xiao Chen identified him as the Xiao Clan’s Life and Death Flame Saint.
• Xiao Lan fought Hun Qianmo, broke his arm, and suppressed and sealed him after three exchanges.
• Hun Miesheng tore open a scroll of black flames and summoned two late-stage Seven Star Dou Shengs along with more than a dozen Soul Clan Dou Shengs.
• Hun Qianmo celebrated the arrival of the reinforcements, but Xiao Lan and Xiao Chen joked about using them to make more pills, unsettling the Soul Clan fighters.

Xiao Lan and Xiao Chen killed or captured several Soul Clan experts while Great Saint Gu You revealed his power and overwhelmed the Soul Clan forces with soul attacks. Hun Yan and Hun Jing tried to withdraw, but a powerful black-robed youth appeared in their path.

• Xiao Lan killed Hun Qianmo and sealed his Soul Body in a Jade Bottle.
• Great Saint Gu You revealed the Dark Skeleton King and used demonic soul sounds to incapacitate weaker Soul Clan Dou Shengs.
• Saint Blood River suppressed Hun Miesheng into the blood-colored Small Banner, while Xiao Chen killed another Hun Qianmo and took the bodies and souls.
• Hun Yan and Hun Jing decided to retreat after recognizing Gu You's strength, but Gu You sent chains after them.
• A black-robed youth with mid Six-star Dou Sheng strength appeared in the pair's escape route, and Hun Yan attacked him.