Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan defeated and captured Hun Yan and Hun Jing after they tried to escape, while suspecting Hun Tiandi might be refining Nihility Devouring Flame. In the Soul Realm, Hun Tiandi reflected on Gu Yuan’s strength and resolved to absorb Nihility Devouring Flame to increase his own power.

• Hun Yan and Hun Jing attacked Xiao Yan, but his Flame Splitting Wave Ruler suppressed their combined strike.
• Xiao Yan sealed the surrounding space and unleashed the Endless Fire Domain and Great Desolate Prison Heaven Hand, capturing Hun Yan and Hun Jing.
• Xiao Yan considered using the two Soul Clan Demon Saints as puppets or resurrection material for his teacher.
• Hun Tiandi recalled that Gu Yuan had injured him during their battle and worried that other powerful figures could pose an even greater threat.
• Hun Tiandi decided that he needed to gather all power within himself and prepared to absorb Nihility Devouring Flame.

Hun Tiandi confronted Nihility Devouring Flame after discovering his secret attempt to seize the Blood Sea and turn the Soul Clan against him. Hun Tiandi revealed that he had fused the power of the three Gates of Deathly Silence, wiped out the rebellious elders, and moved to devour Nihility Devouring Flame.

• Nihility Devouring Flame demanded that Hun Tiandi resume searching for the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, hoping to refine it and increase his power.
• Hun Tiandi pulled a Devouring Seed from the Blood Sea and accused Nihility Devouring Flame of plotting against him.
• Nihility Devouring Flame revealed that he had controlled many Soul Clan elders and planted Bloodline Marks in most clan members before attacking Hun Tiandi.
• Hun Tiandi swallowed the elders' black flame formation and killed the elders by absorbing them into the Blood Sea.
• Nihility Devouring Flame realized Hun Tiandi had fused the cores of all three Gates of Deathly Silence into his body and gained immense temporary power.
• Hun Tiandi declared that he would refine Nihility Devouring Flame and reached out to seize him.

Hun Tiandi consumed Nihility Devouring Flame and plotted to use the Ancient Clan’s foundation to restore the Soul Clan. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan’s group defeated the Soul Clan forces and learned of the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s inheritance, leaving Xiao Yan at the Yellow Springs Stone Tablet.

• Hun Tiandi immobilized Nihility Devouring Flame, destroyed him, and absorbed his scattered flames to increase his combat strength.
• Hun Tiandi planned to rest before using the Emperor Slaying Ghost Blood Array against the Ancient Clan, confident he could defeat Gu Yuan, Zhu Kun, and Azure Emperor through schemes.
• After the battle in the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Tribe’s Nether Snake Earth Vein, Xiao Yan accepted Yao Ming’s allegiance, while Saint Blood River devoured the Soul Gu Frog and advanced to Six-star Dou Sheng.
• Yao Ming told Xiao Yan that the Yellow Springs Demon Saint was his ancestor and that the tribe possessed the Yellow Springs Stone Tablet containing his inheritance and Essence Blood.
• Xiao Yan followed Yao Ming to the ancient altar and examined the Yellow Springs Stone Tablet, including the inscriptions for the Yellow Springs Finger and Yellow Springs Palm.

Xiao Yan entered the Yellow Springs Stone Tablet to seek the Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath and the demon saint's Essence Blood. Outside, Yao Ming and the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python elders guarded the site by forming the Coiled Snake Formation.

• Yao Ming explained that his soul had been too weak to obtain the stone tablet's inheritance and warned Xiao Yan of the pressure within it.
• Xiao Yan sent his Great Perfection Heavenly Realm soul into the stone tablet after telling the others not to disturb him.
• The Heavenly Snake Saint ordered Yao Ming to seal the Nether Snake Earth Vein and protect Xiao Yan.
• Yao Ming commanded the elders to form the Coiled Snake Formation, which produced a giant snake that suppressed space and sealed spatial fluctuations.

The Heavenly Snake Saint strengthened the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Tribe while Cai Lin began evolving her bloodline. Xiao Yan entered the space hidden in the stone tablet and offered the Yellow Springs Demon Saint a chance to restore his soul and live again on the open Emperor Path.

• The Heavenly Snake Saint approved the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Tribe's growth, carried two One-star Dou Sheng toward Qing Lin, and expected the Heavenly Snake Lineage to produce a new Dou Sheng.
• Cai Lin entered seclusion in the Nine Netherworld Yellow Springs to evolve into a Nine-Colored Sky Swallowing Python and become a Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yan entered the space hidden within the stone tablet and calmly overcame the Yellow Springs Demon Saint's Thunder and probing attacks.
• The Yellow Springs Demon Saint appeared on a mountain throne and offered Xiao Yan the Yellow Springs Three Ultimates and his essence blood.
• Xiao Yan offered to restore the Yellow Springs Demon Saint's soul and let him live again, explaining that the Emperor Path had opened and Dou Di was attainable.
• The Yellow Springs Demon Saint abruptly stood in shock, splitting the heaven and earth around his mountain peak.

Xiao Yan persuaded Yellow Springs Demon Saint to join him in pursuit of revival and the Dou Di realm on the Profound Sky Continent. Yellow Springs agreed, revealed his preserved skeleton, and gave Xiao Yan his essence blood before his collapsing space forced them to leave.

• Xiao Yan explained the Reincarnation Soul Nurturing Pill and the Profound Sky Continent, and Yellow Springs Demon Saint agreed to go with him.
• Xiao Yan asked for Yellow Springs Demon Saint's essence blood, and Yellow Springs offered it while insisting that his own skeleton be used for revival.
• Yellow Springs Demon Saint summoned his skeleton from beneath the earth and explained that the Origin Qi in the Profound Sky Continent could let him become an emperor within three days of revival.
• Yellow Springs Demon Saint gave Xiao Yan six drops of essence blood, and the space began collapsing as his lingering soul separated from it.
• Yellow Springs Demon Saint urged Xiao Yan to leave the collapsing space.

Xiao Yan brought the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s skeleton out of the collapsing Yellow Springs Stone Tablet and revealed that he had promised to revive him. The Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Tribe celebrated the return of their ancestor, who then learned that his old inheritance had founded the Yellow Springs Pavilion.

• The Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s soul returned from the inheritance space as his skeleton began breaking out of the stone tablet.
• Xiao Yan pulled out the complete skeleton and told Yao Ming and the tribe’s experts that he would revive the Demon Saint, who had agreed to serve the Heavenly Snake Mansion and Xiao Family.
• Yao Ming and the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Tribe rejoiced at the prospect of their ancestor’s return, while the Demon Saint scolded them for lacking ambition.
• Xiao Yan explained that the Yellow Springs Pavilion descended from the Demon Saint’s inheritance, and the Demon Saint confirmed he had created its Yellow Springs Blood Art and Yellow Springs Corpse Arm.
• The Demon Saint promised to guide the Yellow Springs Saint and teach him the Yellow Springs Finger after his own soul was restored.

Xiao Yan descended into the Nine Netherworld Yellow Springs to find its Yellow Springs Blood Crystal and use it to advance his cultivation, while investigating whether the strange spring was connected to the Nine Netherworld Python Emperor or a Dou Di. As he struck the lakebed, a massive Seven-Colored Sky Swallowing Python sensed the disturbance from afar.

• The Yellow Springs Demon Saint took Yao Ming and the other juniors away for private tutoring and accepted the Yellow Springs Saint as his nominal disciple.
• Xiao Yan entered the Nine Netherworld Yellow Springs, hoping to use its Yellow Springs Blood Crystal and six drops of Demon Saint Essence Blood to reach the Seven Star Dou Sheng realm.
• Xiao Yan drew out black strange snakes from the spring, refined them into Cold Sha Water, and considered bringing it to Lin Qingtan to help her cultivation.
• Xiao Yan reached the spring's bottom and struck the lakebed, seeking the source of the energy that formed Yellow Springs Blood Crystal.
• A thousand-zhang Seven-Colored Sky Swallowing Python sensed Xiao Yan's strike and turned its gaze toward him.

Cai Lin considered how Xiao Yan’s help and the Blood Art could make the Sky Swallowing Python clan’s revival possible. At the bottom of the Nine Netherworld Yellow Springs, Xiao Yan found a Yellow Springs Blood Crystal, refined it with the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s Essence Blood, and advanced to early-stage Seven Star Dou Sheng.

• Cai Lin recognized that the Blood Art could let the Sky Swallowing Python clan’s Lingering Soul Fragments regain their bodies and eventually restore their bloodlines.
• Xiao Yan broke through the yellow crystal lakebed with his Exotic Flames and descended through the increasingly cold rock layers.
• Xiao Yan found a head-sized Yellow Springs Blood Crystal and brought out six drops of the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s Essence Blood.
• Xiao Yan refined the crystal and Essence Blood, enduring the alternating icy and fiery energy as it tempered his body and nourished his Dou Qi.
• After three days and nights of cultivation, Xiao Yan broke through to early-stage Seven Star Dou Sheng and gained a body comparable to a late-stage Seven Star Dou Sheng Ninth-order Monster Beast.

Xiao Yan failed to break through the dark golden rock beneath the Nine Netherworld Yellow Springs and learned from Yellow Springs Demon Saint that it concealed a dangerous secret connected to the Nine Netherworld Python Emperor. As they spoke, Cai Lin completed her evolution into a Nine-Colored Sky Swallowing Python.

• Xiao Yan struggled to melt the exceptionally hard, suppressive rock layer beneath the Yellow Springs, then stopped and decided to return when his strength improved.
• Yellow Springs Demon Saint told Xiao Yan that the hidden rock layers were connected to the tribe’s earth vein and that forcing them open might unleash a calamity and destroy the tribe.
• Yellow Springs Demon Saint explained that the Nine Netherworld Python Emperor had left no powerful protections for his tribe, believing its members should earn their own strength.
• A python’s roar shook the Yellow Springs, and a nine-colored pillar of light erupted from the lake as Cai Lin finished evolving into a massive Nine-Colored Sky Swallowing Python.

Cai Lin completed her bloodline transformation and emerged as a Five-star Dou Sheng after receiving mysterious ancient essence blood from the depths of the Nine Netherworld Yellow Springs. As Xiao Yan wondered whether the event was linked to his earlier strike, Qing Lin also became a Saint, prompting the Heavenly Snake Saint to call for help.

• Cai Lin emerged from her transformation as a Five-star Dou Sheng, astonishing Xiao Yan.
• Cai Lin told Xiao Yan that a nine-colored crystal containing ten drops of ancient Essence Blood had risen from beneath the lake and propelled her breakthrough.
• The Yellow Springs Demon Saint suspected the Essence Blood belonged to a supreme ancient expert, while Xiao Yan wondered whether his earlier strike had triggered its appearance.
• The Heavenly Snake Saint announced that Qing Lin had become a Saint and called Xiao Yan to come see what had happened.

Qing Lin broke through to Five-star Dou Sheng after receiving ten drops of Ancient Heavenly Snake essence blood from a mysterious void rift, awakening the complete Nine-Headed Heavenly Snake inheritance. Xiao Yan and the others realized the bloodline gifts might be connected to the strange disappearance of the ancient snake clans.

• Qing Lin manifested the enormous phantom of the Nine-Headed Heavenly Snake and reached Five-star Dou Sheng, astonishing the Heavenly Snake Saint and Yao Ming.
• Xiao Yan, Cai Lin, and the Yellow Springs Demon Saint arrived and asked Qing Lin how she had advanced so rapidly.
• Qing Lin explained that ten drops of blue-gold essence blood had emerged from a void rift, empowered her breakthrough, and strengthened her Heavenly Snake Lingering Soul Fragment.
• The Yellow Springs Demon Saint recognized that Cai Lin and Qing Lin had each received ten drops of essence blood from an ancient progenitor.
• Yao Ming recalled that the Python Emperor had defeated the ancient snake progenitors, but said the two clans' unexplained disappearance suggested their fate might have been more complicated than extermination.

Xiao Yan concluded that powerful ancient snake and python progenitors might be sealed beneath the Nether Snake Earth Vein, but chose to focus on preparing for Ancestor Xiao Xuan’s revival and the trip to the Ancient Realm. Meanwhile, the Blood Dragon Emperor revived in the Dragon Tomb, giving the Ancient Void Dragon Clan a second supreme expert-level combat force.

• Xiao Yan and Cai Lin suspected that the Nine-Colored Sky Swallowing Python and Ancient Heavenly Snake King were sealed beneath the Nine Netherworld Yellow Springs, but Xiao Yan decided to strengthen his allies first.
• Xiao Yan told the Yellow Springs Demon Saint that three or four supreme expert-level combat forces could join him on the trip to the Ancient Realm.
• The Blood Dragon Emperor regenerated his body from his skeleton in seven days, then emerged from the Dragon Tomb in human form.
• The Blood Dragon Emperor’s roar stirred Ancient Dragon Island, and the Ancient Void Dragon Clan gathered to welcome his return.
• Zhu Bahuang tearfully welcomed his grandfather, the Blood Dragon Emperor, back into the world.

Xiao Yan returned to the Northwest Continent with the Yellow Springs Demon Saint and reunited with Xiao Zhan, who showed him how greatly the Xiao Family and Wutan City had prospered. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan deciding it was time to visit the Ancient Clan to propose marriage to Xun'er and rescue Xiao Xuan.

• Xiao Yan and the Yellow Springs Demon Saint arrived in the Northwest Continent and traveled toward Wutan City, where Xiao Yan saw the Xiao Family's growing influence.
• Xiao Yan met Xiao Zhan in the council hall and revealed that he had reached the early stage of Seven Star Dou Sheng, astonishing his father.
• Xiao Zhan displayed the Xiao Family's prosperity, including its Dou Sheng Ancestors, widespread branch halls, and dominance over the Northwest Continent.
• Xiao Zhan noted that Xiao Yan was only sixteen and a half by actual age, while Xiao Yan reflected on his promise to Xun'er and his plans to visit the Ancient Clan, advance his soul realm, and rescue Xiao Xuan.

Xiao Yan returned to the Xiao Family with the Yellow Springs Demon Saint and learned that Old Yao’s pill refinement was nearing completion. Old Yao emerged from the lightning with five Ninth Grade Golden Pill prototypes, leaving the family poised to revive ancient experts.

• Xiao Zhan described how the Xiao Family had grown powerful enough for any adult clan member to defeat the Mu Family and recalled the Nalan Family’s debt to them.
• Xiao Yan introduced the Yellow Springs Demon Saint, who had returned to ask whether Old Yao had completed his second batch of pills.
• A collapsing Small World released a sea of Black Demon Lightning and Nine Profound Golden Lightning above Wutan City, and Xiao Family experts used the lightning to temper their bodies.
• Xiao Zhan revealed that Li'er had become the Xiao Family’s fourth Dou Sheng, while Xiao Yan watched him absorb even the Nine Profound Golden Lightning.
• Old Yao emerged from the lightning with five Ninth Grade Golden Pill prototypes, having advanced his soul power, and greeted Xiao Yan, Xiao Zhan, and the Yellow Springs Demon Saint.

Old Yao completed a second furnace of Reincarnation Soul Nurturing Pills, producing five pills, and Xiao Yan gave one to the Yellow Springs Demon Saint. The Demon Saint’s soul recovered beyond its former peak, and Old Yao offered him another pill to speed his physical rebirth.

• Old Yao produced five Reincarnation Soul Nurturing Pills, bringing the total revival pills available to Xiao Yan to six.
• The Black Demon Lightning Sea dispersed, and Old Yao sealed the five pills and handed them to Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan gave the Yellow Springs Demon Saint a Reincarnation Soul Nurturing Pill to repair his Lingering Soul Fragment.
• The pill restored the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s soul and made it stronger than before, allowing him to begin rebuilding his body and expect a full return in about ten days.
• Old Yao gave the Yellow Springs Demon Saint a Saint Blood Derivative Pill, which he said could rapidly regenerate flesh and heal bodily injuries.

Old Yao’s Saint Blood Derivative Pill accelerated the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s recovery, and he announced he would regain his peak strength in three days. Xiao Yan then went with Old Yao to the Yan Realm, where Xun’er waited anxiously for her mother to revive inside a Light Cocoon.

• Old Yao gave the Yellow Springs Demon Saint a Saint Blood Derivative Pill, which rapidly restored his flesh and blood.
• The Yellow Springs Demon Saint said he would recover his peak combat strength in three days, and Xiao Yan arranged for him to recuperate inside the Great Desolate Tablet.
• Xiao Yan followed Old Yao to the Yan Realm and discussed its value as a cultivation realm for fire-attribute experts.
• Xun’er watched over the Light Cocoon in the Magma Ocean, hoping her mother would successfully revive.
• Xiao Yan appeared beside Xun’er, and she called out to him.

Xiao Yan and Xun'er witnessed Gu Yunxi awaken as a middle-stage Eight-star Dou Sheng, and Xiao Yan proposed going to the Ancient Realm to settle his marriage with Xun'er. Three days later, they arrived at the ruined Ancient Saint City and found it stained with blood, its people missing.

• Xun'er reunited with Xiao Yan, and Gu Yunxi emerged from the shattered Light Cocoon with the strength of a middle-stage Eight-star Dou Sheng.
• Gu Yunxi embraced Xun'er and promised to seek justice for the grievances she had suffered.
• Xiao Yan proposed that they travel to the Ancient Realm three days later to openly settle his marriage agreement with Xun'er, and Gu Yunxi reacted with surprise.
• Three days later, Xiao Yan, Old Yao, Gu Yunxi, and the others arrived at Ancient Saint City and found it reduced to bloodied ruins with no human corpses in sight.

Gu Yunxi, Xiao Yan, and Old Yao surveyed Ancient Saint City's ruins and discussed the Ancient Clan's failures and the Soul Clan's massacre. Gu Yunxi vowed to place Xun'er in power and force the elders to submit, while Old Yao revealed that his soul had transformed and could now wield early Nine-star Dou Sheng strength.

• Old Yao explained that Hun Tiandi and the Soul Clan had destroyed Ancient Saint City after Gu Yuan withdrew into the Ancient Realm, and that the Soul Clan had slaughtered its inhabitants.
• Xiao Yan blamed the Ancient Clan's appeasement of the Soul Clan and said he felt no real sympathy for the clan's suffering.
• Gu Yunxi vowed to make Xun'er clan leader, strip the elders of power, and use Xiao Yan's Life and Death Talisman to restrain them.
• Old Yao supported Gu Yunxi's plan, saying powerful elders often forgot ordinary clan members and their suffering.
• Gu Yunxi sensed that Old Yao's soul power had briefly bewitched her, and Old Yao attributed his new power to a vow to rid Tianxuan of Abyssal Demons, claiming his soul had reached early Nine-star Dou Sheng strength.

Xiao Yan proposed absorbing the Heavenly Tomb’s energy bodies into Old Yao’s Human Emperor Banner to strengthen its Vengeful Souls, and Old Yao agreed the accumulated souls could supply powerful Main Souls. Before forcing open the Heavenly Tomb, Xiao Yan’s group entered the sealed Ancient Realm to deal with the Ancient Clan’s crisis.

• Xiao Yan realized Old Yao’s soul strength could let him control Vengeful Souls approaching the early Nine-star Dou Sheng stage, but Old Yao said the Human Emperor Banner lacked enough Soul Power to keep growing.
• Xiao Yan suggested absorbing the Heavenly Tomb’s many energy bodies, and Old Yao saw enough potential in them to cultivate several stronger Main Souls.
• Gu Yunxi explained that the Heavenly Tomb normally opened every twenty years, while a Supreme Expert could force it open briefly; Xiao Yan decided to address the Ancient Clan’s affairs first.
• Xiao Yan used a pillar of Dou Qi light to open a passage into the Ancient Realm, and the group sensed the spatial fluctuations linking it to the ruins of Ancient Saint City.
• The Ancient Clan’s Three Immortals had fallen, leaving the clan in mourning as anxious unrest spread through its main camp in the Ancient Saint Mountain Range.