Chapter Summaries

After the Ancient Clan Three Immortals died, Gu Donglai seized their cultivation peaks and opened the sealed Ancient Realm to welcome the Young Clan Leader. A powerful flaming Phoenix blocked the clan’s Dou Shengs, and an imposing woman’s voice challenged their claim that she was an outsider.

• The deaths of the Ancient Clan Three Immortals fueled factional tensions, and Gu Donglai occupied their cultivation peaks at Xiaoyao Peak.
• Gu Donglai used his blood and hand seals to open a rift in the Ancient Realm despite warnings that the Soul Clan could exploit it.
• The Ancestral Hall Great Elder and more than twenty Dou Shengs confronted Gu Donglai and attacked him with Heavenly Tier Dou Techniques.
• A thousand-zhang flaming Phoenix emerged through the spatial gate and blocked the attacks as an eight-star Dou Sheng’s pressure overwhelmed the gathered experts.
• The Ancient Clan experts accused Gu Donglai of inviting an enemy into the realm, and a woman’s voice asked when she had become an outsider.

Gu Yunxi returned to the Ancient Clan as an Eight-star Dou Sheng, shocking its experts and openly condemning Gu Yuan. Gu Donglai declared her the Young Clan Leader and urged the clan to follow the mysterious Young Clan Leader, while the Ancestral Hall Great Elder challenged him.

• Gu Yuan heard Gu Yunxi's voice and, recognizing her, decided not to leave seclusion while he healed his injuries.
• Gu Yunxi appeared on Xiaoyao Peak, released her Divine Grade Ancient Clan bloodline, and demanded that Gu Yuan come out and kneel to welcome her.
• Gu Nanhai recognized Gu Yunxi, and the clan experts reacted in disbelief that she had returned from the dead with Eight-star Dou Sheng cultivation.
• Gu Donglai bowed toward the space behind Gu Yunxi and welcomed the Young Clan Leader, prompting confusion and anger among the assembled experts.
• The Ancestral Hall Great Elder accused Gu Donglai of betrayal, but Gu Donglai denounced Gu Yuan and the clan elders and insisted the Young Clan Leader could restore the Ancient Clan.

Xiao Yan arrived at the Ancient Clan to propose marriage, and Gu Yunxi declared that Xun'er would become clan leader with the Ancient Realm as her dowry. The Black Annihilation King Gu Lie emerged from seclusion to oppose her, and their battle began.

• Xiao Yan appeared at Xiaoyao Peak and announced that he had come to propose marriage to the Ancient Clan.
• Gu Yuan tried to delay the decision until the clan leader emerged from seclusion, but Gu Yunxi arrived and declared she would decide the matter.
• Gu Yunxi announced that Xun'er would succeed as clan leader and that the Ancient Realm would be her dowry, silencing the gathered Dou Shengs with her Eight-star Dou Sheng pressure.
• Gu Lie emerged from seclusion and condemned Gu Yunxi’s plan to give the Ancient Realm to the Xiao Family.
• Gu Yunxi attacked Gu Lie with the Earth Covering Seal, and he countered with the Heaven Annihilating Seal before unleashing the Black Annihilation World-Ending Art.

Gu Yunxi overpowered Gu Lie, the Black Annihilation King, during their confrontation in the Ancient Realm and sealed his Dou Qi. The Ancient Clan experts were left stunned by her victory in fewer than five moves.

• Gu Yunxi broke through Gu Lie’s attacks while the Ancient Clan experts discussed her resurrection and the possibility of Xiao Xuan’s revival.
• Gu Lie used the Great Nirvana Finger against Gu Yunxi, accusing her of selling out the clan for glory.
• Gu Yunxi revealed that Gu Lie’s former master, the previous Black Annihilation King, might have a chance to return, then chose to settle their dispute in battle.
• Gu Yunxi shattered Gu Lie’s finger attack and struck him with the Five Seals Stacked, breaking his armor and hurling him into a mountain wall.
• Gu Yunxi sealed Gu Lie’s Dou Qi meridians, leaving the Ancient Clan experts astonished at her victory in fewer than five moves.

After Gu Yunxi defeated Gu Lie, Gu Yuan agreed to yield to the Xiao Family, and Xiao Yan prepared to enter the Heavenly Tomb. Xiao Yan summoned Yao Jiuyou from the Great Desolate Tablet, whose arrival stunned the Ancient Clan experts.

• Gu Yunxi demanded that the Ancient Clan stop objecting, and Gu Yuan agreed to follow her demands.
• Gu Yuan judged that yielding to the Xiao Family was preferable to risking more losses against the Soul Clan, and the surviving Ancient Clan experts accepted his decision.
• Gu Yunxi threw the defeated Gu Lie to Xiao Yan, who sealed him inside the Great Desolate Tablet.
• Gu Nanhai asked Gu Yunxi to close the forcibly opened Ancient Realm Passage, but she refused and told Xiao Yan to begin entering the Heavenly Tomb.
• Xiao Yan summoned Yao Jiuyou from the Great Desolate Tablet, and the Ancient Clan experts recoiled under the pressure of his arrival.

Xiao Yan entered the Heavenly Tomb with Old Yao, who began harvesting its energy bodies to strengthen the Human Emperor Banner. Outside, Gu Yunxi suggested that the Ancient Clan earn Xiao Family contribution points through campaigns, while she prepared to draw Hun Tiandi out by using Gu Yang as bait.

• Yellow Springs Demon Saint opened the Heavenly Tomb gate, and Xiao Yan entered after Gu Yunxi warned him that he could stay for at most one year.
• Gu Yuan asked how the Ancient Clan could gain a chance to revive its ancestors, and Gu Yunxi advised them to earn merit through campaigns; she then asked where Gu Yang was stationed.
• Xiao Yan found the Heavenly Tomb rich in dense energy and summoned Old Yao from the Great Desolate Tablet.
• Old Yao captured an energy body with the Human Emperor Banner and explained that the tomb's layers contained energy bodies of different strengths.
• Xiao Yan asked Old Yao to clear the first two layers, and Old Yao unleashed the banner's Vengeful Souls and Dou Sheng Main Souls to wipe out the first layer's energy bodies.
• Old Yao recalled the Vengeful Souls and headed with Xiao Yan toward the second layer.

Xiao Yan and Old Yao entered the Heavenly Tomb’s second level, where Old Yao’s Human Emperor Banner harvested energy bodies and empowered its vengeful souls. Several souls broke through to early Nine-star Dou Sheng, leaving Old Yao confident that his growing forces could challenge Hun Tiandi as they prepared to meet Xiao Xuan on the final level.

• Xiao Yan and Old Yao crossed the barrier into the Heavenly Tomb’s second level, where Old Yao’s Emperor Realm Soul revealed the energy bodies within the mist.
• Old Yao unleashed the Human Emperor Banner’s vengeful souls, which hunted the energy bodies and fed their power into Great Saint Gu You.
• Great Saint Gu You absorbed the gathered energy and broke through to Nine-star Dou Sheng.
• Lei Ying, Yan Jin, and the Cyan Battle Armor-clad Dou Sheng Main Soul also reached early Nine-star Dou Sheng.
• Old Yao calculated that his four Nine-star Dou Sheng could challenge a late Nine-star expert with a trapping-and-killing formation, and Xiao Yan urged him onward to meet ancestor Xiao Xuan.

Xiao Yan and Old Yao collected Ancient Devouring Insects and turned the energy crystal wall into pure energy crystals for the Great Desolate Tablet. Their actions alerted the powerful beings on the third layer, and Xiao Xuan awakened in the depths of the Heavenly Tomb after sensing a descendant of the Xiao Clan.

• Old Yao recognized that the solid energy wall could be refined into puppet cores, and Xiao Yan planned to use it to develop puppet refining within the Xiao Family.
• Old Yao extracted the Ancient Devouring Insects and their queen, and Xiao Yan stored them in the Great Desolate Tablet.
• Old Yao ordered Gu You, Yan Jin, Lei Ying, and the wind-attributed Main Soul to destroy the energy wall and refine its fragments into pure energy crystals.
• Xiao Yan used the Great Desolate Tablet to absorb all the energy crystals, alerting powerful energy bodies on the third layer.
• Xiao Xuan appeared by an ancient stone tablet, sensed the four Nine-star Dou Shengs and Old Yao, and excitedly recognized Xiao Yan as a descendant of his clan.

Xiao Xuan sensed Xiao Yan’s Xiao Clan bloodline in the Heavenly Tomb and mistakenly credited Gu Yuan with nurturing the young Seven Star Dou Sheng. After Xiao Xuan greeted Xiao Yan, Old Yao’s confused question about “Four Da Dou Shi” left Xiao Xuan suspecting that his assumptions were wrong.

• Xiao Xuan sensed a Seven Star Dou Sheng with Xiao Clan bloodline and assumed Gu Yuan had secretly protected and supported the clan.
• Xiao Xuan rushed toward Xiao Yan’s aura, while powerful energy bodies in the Heavenly Tomb hid from him.
• Xiao Xuan discovered two Soul Clan Dou Sheng energy bodies, suppressed them into energy crystal cores, and took them as gifts for his descendant.
• Old Yao told Xiao Yan that Xiao Xuan’s lingering soul had awakened, and Xiao Xuan met Xiao Yan among Old Yao’s Vengeful Souls.
• Xiao Xuan praised Gu Yuan for supposedly raising Xiao Yan, but Old Yao’s puzzled question about “Four Da Dou Shi” made Xiao Xuan’s smile stiffen.

Xiao Yan showed Xiao Xuan the Xiao Family’s history, revealing how the Ancient Clan had kept its resources after Xiao Xuan’s death while the family dwindled. Xiao Xuan learned that his descendants had rebuilt the clan and was reunited with Xiao Chen, who explained that he had missed the battle against the Soul Clan after falling into the Demon Flame Space.

• Old Yao explained that the Xiao Family had once had only four Da Dou Shi when he took Xiao Yan as his disciple.
• Xiao Yan gave Xiao Xuan a jade slip containing the Xiao Family’s history, and Xiao Xuan became furious over the Ancient Clan’s treatment of his descendants.
• Old Yao offered to bring Xiao Xuan back from the dead, and Xiao Yan clarified that Old Yao was the Yao Clan’s clan leader and Medicine Saint.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Xuan that four Dou Sheng now presided over the Xiao Family, including two ancestors from a thousand years earlier.
• Xiao Chen appeared with a Six-star Dou Sheng aura, and he told Xiao Xuan that he had fallen into the Demon Flame Space and missed the battle against the Soul Clan.

Xiao Yan gave Xiao Xuan a Reincarnation Soul Nurturing Pill, restoring his soul and Emperor Realm origin. Xiao Xuan resolved to leave the Heavenly Tomb, reclaim the Xiao Clan’s resources from Gu Yuan, and prepare for revival in a suitable body.

• Xiao Lan appeared in the form of a Blood-colored Three-headed Dragon, and Xiao Yan explained that he had returned from the dead in a powerful new body.
• Xiao Lan told Xiao Xuan that he could also be revived, and Xiao Yan offered him a Reincarnation Soul Nurturing Pill.
• Xiao Xuan swallowed the pill, which transformed his lingering soul into a solid form and restored his Emperor Realm pressure and origin.
• Xiao Xuan vowed to confront Gu Yuan and recover the resources Gu Yuan had taken from the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Chen celebrated Xiao Xuan’s restoration and anticipated his cousin’s return to full strength once he obtained a suitable body.

Xiao Yan brought Xiao Xuan and the others to Xiao Xuan’s Tomb Mansion in the deepest part of the Heavenly Tomb to prepare his revival. He presented a Yan Clan supreme expert’s skeleton as a vessel, then revealed a Dou Di finger bone and proposed combining it with Xiao Family bloodline to help Xiao Xuan reach the Quasi-Emperor realm.

• Xiao Chen told Xiao Xuan that most current Supreme Experts belonged to the Xiao Family’s camp, including Zhu Kun and the Azure Emperor, who were approaching transformation into emperors.
• Xiao Xuan led Xiao Yan, Old Yao, Xiao Chen, and the others to his Tomb Mansion in the deepest part of the Heavenly Tomb.
• Xiao Yan decided to use the Xiao Family’s bloodline to aid Xiao Xuan’s revival rather than replace his own bloodline with Xiao Xuan’s.
• Xiao Yan produced a dark-gold Yan Clan supreme expert’s skeleton for Xiao Xuan to use as his physical body.
• Xiao Yan revealed a Dou Di finger bone and suggested transplanting it into the skeleton and using the Xiao Family’s Dou Di Bloodline to guide Xiao Xuan toward the Quasi-Emperor realm.

Xiao Yan began transplanting the Fire Emperor’s Dou Di Finger Bone into the Yan Clan supreme expert’s skeleton to prepare a new body for Xiao Xuan. The Fire Emperor’s remnant thought emerged and possessed the skeleton, leaving Xiao Yan ready to suppress it and complete Xiao Xuan’s revival.

• Xiao Xuan and Old Yao agreed that Xiao Yan could use exotic flames and Origin Qi Pills to fuse the Fire Emperor’s finger bone into the Yan Clan supreme expert’s skeleton.
• Xiao Yan removed the skeleton’s index finger and began forging the replacement finger bone into place with his fused exotic flames.
• The finger bone began to merge with the skeleton, releasing reddish-gold light as Xiao Chen watched and Old Yao warned that it might contain a Fire Emperor remnant thought.
• The Fire Emperor’s remnant thought emerged, unleashing Dou Di pressure that shattered the Tomb Mansion and sent everyone except Xiao Xuan’s protected group onto the third layer of the Heavenly Tomb.
• The Fire Emperor’s remnant thought condemned the intruders and possessed the skeleton, gathering a powerful flame at its fingertip.
• Xiao Yan revealed that he had expected the remnant thought and planned to suppress it before using the refined skeleton to revive Xiao Xuan.

Xiao Yan summoned four Supreme Experts to form the Four Directions Demon-Subduing Array, which subdued and refined the Fire Emperor Lingering Soul and strengthened the Yan Clan expert’s skeleton to the Quasi-Emperor stage. Xiao Xuan began merging his bloodline and Soul Body with the skeleton to resurrect.

• Xiao Yan called Azure Emperor, Zhu Kun, the Blood Dragon Emperor, and the Pure Lotus Demon Saint through the Great Desolate Tablet, and they formed the Four Directions Demon-Subduing Array.
• The array suppressed the Fire Emperor Lingering Soul, refined it into soul essence, and fused the Dou Di Finger Bone with the Yan Clan supreme expert’s skeleton.
• The refined skeleton advanced from late Nine-star Dou Sheng to the Quasi-Emperor stage, while Xiao Yan considered using Emperor Grade Pills to revive powerful experts and eventually decided to pursue that path after the Ancient Realm trip.
• Xiao Yan asked Xiao Xuan to merge his bloodline into the skeleton; Xiao Xuan entered the pool and infused its water with his bloodline.
• Xiao Xuan’s Soul Body transformed into golden light and shot toward the scarlet-gold skeleton.

Xiao Xuan was reborn through the Emperor Bone and emerged as a Quasi-Emperor, naming himself the Tianxuan Fire Emperor. His aura shattered the Heavenly Tomb’s restrictions and shook the Ancient Realm, where the injured Gu Yuan recognized him in disbelief.

• Xiao Xuan’s soul fused with the Emperor Bone, and a complete physical body formed around it.
• Xiao Xuan awakened with Quasi-Emperor strength, stronger than the Pure Lotus Demon Saint, and thanked Xiao Yan and the others for his rebirth.
• Xiao Xuan declared himself the Tianxuan Fire Emperor and demonstrated his power by tearing open the void with scarlet-gold Dou Qi.
• The auras inside the Heavenly Tomb shattered its restrictions and sent pressure rippling throughout the Ancient Realm.
• The Heavenly Tomb’s pressure worsened Gu Yuan’s injuries, and he recognized Xiao Xuan’s aura.

Xiao Xuan returned with Quasi-Emperor power, confronting Gu Yuan over his failure to protect the Xiao Clan and his attempt to disrupt Xiao Xuan's breakthrough. Gu Yuan was left at Xiao Xuan's mercy as four more powerful figures appeared, some urging his execution and another arguing that Xiao Yan should decide his fate.

• Gu Yuan feared Xiao Xuan had survived and was about to break through, so he ordered the Ancient Clan elders to activate the Clan Protection Array and break open the Heavenly Tomb.
• The Yellow Springs Demon Saint prepared to strike Gu Yuan, but Xiao Xuan emerged from the void and revealed his Quasi-Emperor aura.
• Xiao Xuan's pressure forced the gravely injured Gu Yuan to the ground, and Gu Yuan greeted him humbly while denying that he had tried to ruin his breakthrough.
• Xiao Xuan accused Gu Yuan of neglecting the Xiao Clan, whose strongest members were only four Da Dou Shi, and lifted him before himself with Dou Qi.
• Four figures radiating imperial might appeared behind Xiao Xuan; they discussed killing Gu Yuan, making him a Flame Slave, or leaving him for Xiao Yan to deal with.

Xiao Xuan and Xiao Yan confronted Gu Yuan with a group of Supreme Experts and moved to take control of him. Gu Yuan’s allies refused to help, and Xun’er appeared as the Ancient Clan’s new leader.

• Gu Yuan was shocked to discover Xiao Xuan and four other Supreme Experts in the Ancient Realm, then recognized Xiao Yan as a Seven Star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yan asked Xiao Xuan how to deal with Gu Yuan and proposed controlling him with the Life and Death Talisman.
• Xiao Xuan struck Gu Yuan with the Mystic Fire Heaven-Holding Hand and sealed his Dou Qi.
• Gu Yuan called for Gu Lie and the Clan Protection Array, but the elders did not assist him.
• Xiao Yan revealed Gu Lie, who urged Gu Yuan to submit to the Xiao Family and said Xun’er could become an emperor with their support.
• Gu Yuan learned that Xun’er had become clan leader, and Xun’er arrived and claimed responsibility for the decision.

Gu Yunxi rejected Gu Yuan’s plea to defend the Ancient Clan’s array, while Xiao Yan’s allies subdued the clan and exposed the Soul Clan spy hiding in Gu Yang’s body. Xiao Yan arranged to use the spy to lure Hun Tiandi out, as Hun Tiandi continued trying to break through in the transformed Soul Realm.

• Gu Yunxi told Gu Yuan to step aside and let her and Xun'er care for the Ancient Clan, and the clan’s elders and commanders supported her while Gu Yuan fainted in anger.
• Xiao Yan placed Gu Yuan in the Great Desolate Tablet and asked about Gu Yang, whom Gu Yunxi revealed had been replaced by a Soul Clan member a century earlier.
• Xiao Yan asked Yellow Springs Demon Saint to control the impostor’s soul and send Hun Tiandi a false message that the Ancient Clan’s array hub was sabotaged and its Tou She Ancient God Jade was exposed.
• Hun Tiandi opened his eyes above the Blood Sea and lamented that something was missing from his attempt to break through.
• Hun Tiandi had slaughtered the Soul Realm’s Magical Beasts and used Nihility Devouring Flame and Soul Clan secret methods to create the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame.

Hun Tiandi hid the Soul Realm after sensing Xiao Xuan and several other Supreme Experts, and he launched a scheme to make them fight over the Tou She Ancient God Jade. In the Ancient Realm, Xiao Yan and the others planned to locate the Soul Realm and break in before leaving to prepare for the battle ahead.

• Hun Tiandi realized that devouring the Soul Realm’s beasts had not advanced his realm, then sensed Xiao Xuan, the Ancient Void Dragon, the Ancient Bodhi Tree, and other Supreme Experts gathering nearby.
• Hun Tiandi decided to hide and sent two pieces of Tou She Ancient God Jade toward the Central Plains, hoping to provoke conflict among the Supreme Experts.
• Hun Tiandi concealed the Soul Realm with its Clan Protection Array and the Nihility Devouring Flame after learning that his fallback in the Ancient Realm had activated.
• The Yellow Springs Demon Saint failed to reach Hun Tiandi through Gu Yang’s Space Jade Slip, and Xiao Xuan and the others concluded that Hun Tiandi had gone into hiding.
• Xiao Yan proposed finding the Nihility Devouring Flame with Senior Tou She Ancient God’s help and trying to break open the Soul Realm before the group left for the Profound Sky Continent.

Xiao Yan and the revived experts prepared to attack the Soul Realm and unify the Dou Qi Continent, while Emperor Xiao reunited with Xiao Xuan and encouraged him to reach Dou Di. As Tou She Ancient God began forcing an Emperor Grade Embryonic Pill out of his cave, the group stood ready to assist.

• Xiao Xuan asked Xiao Yan whether Emperor Xiao was truly present, and Xiao Yan confirmed that Emperor Xiao and Tou She Ancient God had been in the cave in recent days.
• Emperor Xiao emerged as a Remnant Will, and Xiao Xuan knelt to pay respects before Emperor Xiao praised his potential and absolved him of guilt over the Xiao Clan's decline.
• Emperor Xiao told Xiao Xuan to cultivate on the Profound Sky Continent and, if he reached Dou Di first, to suppress the Demon Emperor for use in refining Emperor Grade Pills.
• Xiao Yan declared that the Soul Realm should be attacked to demonstrate the Xiao Family's strength and unify the Dou Qi Continent against the Soul Clan and the Abyssal Demon.
• Emperor Xiao asked Tou She Ancient God for help, and Tou She began forcing an Emperor Grade Embryonic Pill out of the cave for Medicine Saint to study.