Chapter Summaries

After seven experts became Dou Di, Xiao Yan questioned how Lin Dong had passed the Third-layer Reincarnation Tribulation so easily. Lin Dong described dismissing each dream trial with overwhelming strength, while Xiao Yan concluded that Lin Dong’s reincarnation experience and extraordinary fortune had made the trials little more than a formality.

• Seven experts, including Azure Emperor and Medicine Emperor Qihuang, became Dou Di, while Xiao Yan delayed accepting Tou She Ancient God's inheritance after an unexpected event arose on the Profound Sky Continent.
• Xiao Yan asked Lin Dong how he had passed the Third-layer Reincarnation Tribulation after sleeping in the Ancestral Palace, and Lin Dong said he woke in the Triple Reincarnation Realm.
• Lin Dong described defeating the first dream’s dangers with the Great Desolate Prison Heaven Finger and dismissing its attempt to recreate his early life.
• Lin Dong said he overcame the second dream, in which Lin Langtian and the Yuan Sect humiliated and pursued him, by using the Azure Heaven Dragon Transformation Art.
• Lin Dong dismissed the third dream’s negative versions of himself, saying he had little fear, greed, or hatred left to confront.

Lin Dong prepared to break through to the Ancestor Realm, and Xiao Yan invited powerful experts to witness the first such breakthrough. At the ceremony, Lin Dong’s aura vanished as he began revealing the Profound Sky Continent’s cultivation path, leaving the gathered spectators watching its earliest stages unfold.

• Lin Dong explained that his Hundred Lifetimes Reincarnation beneath the Bodhi Tree made the reincarnation tribulations and his coming breakthrough feel effortless.
• Xiao Yan learned that Lin Dong had received the Plane Embryo’s recognition and agreed to invite Supreme Experts and Dou Di seniors to observe his breakthrough.
• Three days later, experts from across the Profound Sky Continent gathered above the Great Desolate Sect to witness Lin Dong’s ceremony.
• The Azure Emperor, Medicine Emperor Qihuang, Time Emperor, and Symbol Ancestor remarked on Lin Dong’s transformation into the mundane and the significance of the first Ancestor Realm.
• Lin Dong released a golden glimmer that projected the Origin Energy cultivation system across the sky, beginning with the Nine Stages of Body Tempering and the refinement of Earthly Sha Energy.

Lin Dong demonstrated the martial cultivation realms to the beings of the Profound Sky Continent, then broke through the peak of reincarnation and established the Ancestor Realm. He emerged as the Plane Master, and the crowd at the Great Desolate Sect knelt before him.

• Lin Dong’s martial demonstration revealed the Core Formation, Creation, Nirvana, Life and Death, and Reincarnation realms, inspiring many cultivators to break through.
• The Dark Sacred Tiger Emperor wondered whether Triple Reincarnation was the end, while the Six-fingered Dragon Emperor urged everyone to watch Lin Dong.
• Lin Dong declared that the Profound Sky Continent needed its own martial pinnacle, the Ancestor Realm, rather than following the path of the Symbol Ancestor.
• Lin Dong used the Great Desolate Prison Heaven Finger to break through the reincarnation barrier and absorb the Origin Energy of heaven and earth.
• Lin Dong achieved the Ancestor Realm and became the Plane Master, surpassing all other experts in the Profound Sky Continent.
• The crowd at the Great Desolate Sect knelt as Lin Dong appeared in the Light of Chaos, calling him the Martial Ancestor.

Lin Dong fused with the Profound Sky Continent’s Plane Embryo, removing the plane’s restraints and opening the path to Ancestor Realm. As the seven newly born Dou Di returned to the Dou Qi Continent, the Xiao Clan’s bloodline awakened, confirming that Xiao Xuan had become a Dou Di.

• Lin Dong fused with the Plane Embryo, reshaped the Profound Sky Continent’s laws, and removed the shackles that had held back its peak Supreme Experts.
• The Lord of Devouring and other peak Triple Reincarnation Realm experts sensed the path to Ancestor Realm opening, while the Symbol Ancestor and Time Emperor welcomed a new flourishing age.
• Lin Dong told Xiao Yan that he could now leave for the Great Thousand World, and Xiao Yan prepared to return to the Dou Qi Continent and break through.
• Xiao Yan and Lin Dong discussed how the seven new Dou Di could strengthen their descendants, including the Xiao Clan and the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.
• In Wutan City, the Xiao Clan’s bloodline awakened and Xiao Chen rose to late Seven-star Dou Sheng, prompting Xiao Kong to realize that Xiao Xuan had become a Dou Di.
• Xiao Yan appeared before the Xiao Clan and confirmed that Xiao Xuan’s resurrection had not severed his connection to the Dou Di bloodline.

Xiao Xuan’s return to the Dou Qi Continent revived the Xiao Family’s Dou Di Bloodline, empowering its members and revealing that Pure Lotus Demon Emperor had also become a Dou Di. The chapter ended when Xiao Yan and Xiao Xuan noticed that Xiao Han had broken through to the Reincarnation Realm after receiving the bloodline feedback.

• Xiao Xuan’s return triggered the Xiao Family’s bloodline revival, greatly raising the strength of its hundreds of cultivators and making Xiao Hao celebrate the birth of a new Dou Di.
• Xiao Ding, Xiao Li, Xiao Chen, and Xiao Kong reacted to the Xiao Family’s newfound power, while Xiao Yan noted how its resources could help produce many Dou Shengs.
• Xiao Xuan emerged from the Ring of Time, and a white-robed Pure Lotus Demon Emperor followed, revealing that he had advanced to Dou Di with help from Flame Emperor and Heaven Refining Medicine Emperor.
• Pure Lotus Demon Emperor explained that Flame Emperor was a late Nine-star Dou Sheng who could break through soon, while Xiao Lan wondered why he had not felt bloodline feedback from Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Xuan sensed that Xiao Han had reached the Reincarnation Realm after receiving the Dou Di Bloodline feedback.

Xiao Yan and his companions prepared to enter Tou She's Ancient Emperor Cave Mansion after several allies became Dou Di and returned to their clans. Inside, Xiao Yan reached the Heavenly Flame Plaza, where Tou She Ancient God explained the Heavenly Flame Ranking and the role of a flame’s accumulated energy.

• Xiao Yan confirmed Xiao Han’s breakthrough and told his companions that they would head to the Ancient Emperor’s Cave Mansion while the others returned to their clans.
• Zhu Kun and Blood Dragon Emperor left to return to the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, and Yellow Springs Demon Emperor departed for his clan.
• Xiao Yan instructed Xiao Kong, Bodhi, and Qihuang to oversee the clan, then left with Lin Dong to accept Tou She's inheritance.
• Xiao Yan and the lingering soul fragments entered the cave mansion, where Tou She Ancient God dispersed the mist that suppressed their view.
• Xiao Yan reached the Stone Hall and its plaza of twenty-three pillars, where Tou She Ancient God explained that the Heavenly Flame Ranking reflected the order in which he had devoured the flames and that their strength depended on their stored energy.

Xiao Yan learned that Tou She Ancient God had created the Heavenly Flame Ranking by gathering and devouring its listed flames, while Emperor Xiao planned to restore the sealed flames and open the Dou Qi Continent's Origin Qi channel. The group reached Tou She Ancient God's statue and its store of techniques, where Tou She prepared to begin Xiao Yan's inheritance.

• Tou She Ancient God explained that he had devised the Heavenly Flame Ranking and stopped collecting flames after becoming a Dou Di.
• Emperor Xiao restored the Profound Yellow Flame and Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame with Origin Qi Pills and proposed breaking the seal that blocked Origin Qi from the Dou Qi Continent.
• Tou She Ancient God explained that the Ancient Hundred Emperors' seal was difficult to break from either side, and Xiao Yi appeared, recognizing the plaza as familiar.
• Xiao Yan refined the Exotic Fires within him as the group passed the empty pillars where the Nihility Devouring Flame and Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame had once been.
• The group reached Tou She Ancient God's enormous statue, surrounded by hundreds of Heavenly Tier cultivation methods and Dou Techniques.
• Tou She Ancient God asked Xiao Yan if he was ready to begin the inheritance.

Xiao Yan began accepting Tou She Ancient God’s inheritance, entering the statue’s hidden sea of flames after being welcomed as his disciple. There he met an afterimage of Tou She Ancient God, who was surprised to hear Xiao Yan call him Teacher.

• Tou She Ancient God explained that Xiao Yan’s Flame Mantra and Exotic Flames made him uniquely suited to inherit his insights and become an emperor.
• Tou She Ancient God opened the statue’s inheritance, and Xiao Yan formally accepted him as a teacher before entering the stone cave.
• Xiao Yan passed the statue’s inspection and arrived in a vast sea of flames.
• An afterimage of Tou She Ancient God sensed Old Man’s aura on Xiao Yan and asked whether his original form had returned.
• Xiao Yan saluted the afterimage and called him Teacher, startling it.

Xiao Yan received the Tou She Ancient God’s inheritance and prepared to use it to advance to Dou Di, while Lin Dong visited the reforged Ancient Dragon Island. Zhu Kun described the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s rapid recovery and growth, and Lin Dong began considering how to build war fortresses of his own.

• The Tou She Ancient God’s lingering image gave Xiao Yan a Gorgeous Lotus Seed containing the inheritance and said his advancement to Dou Di depended on his fortune.
• Xiao Yan considered whether, after advancing, he could exploit flaws in the ancient seal to bring Origin Qi into the Dou Qi Continent sooner.
• Lin Dong traveled across the Dou Qi Continent, then followed the Emperor Might of Zhu Kun and the Blood Dragon Emperor to the Ancient Dragon Island.
• Lin Dong examined the island’s Dragon Domain Barrier and fortress-like defenses, then planned to create similar war fortresses using formations from Old Yao.
• Zhu Kun told Lin Dong that the two Dragon Emperors’ bloodline feedback and Soul Nurturing Pills had strengthened and revived the clan, which now had thirty-three Nine-star Dou Shengs.

Lin Dong visited the Ancient Void Dragon Clan and proposed gathering powerful allies to draw Origin Qi into the world. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan began receiving the Tou She Ancient God inheritance, but the Flame Lotus Seed's power overwhelmed him and burst his body apart.

• Lin Dong saw the Ancient Void Dragon Clan's revived experts and learned that Zi Yan and several Dragon Emperors were nearing the Dou Di realm.
• Zhu Kun introduced Sky Dragon Emperor, Holy Dragon Emperor, and Tyrant Dragon Emperor to Lin Dong.
• Lin Dong proposed joining forces to tear open a crack in the seal and draw Origin Qi into Dou Qi Continent.
• Blood Dragon Emperor agreed and planned to summon Nine Netherworld, Jing Lian Bodhi, Xiao Xuan, and Yao Qihuang to help.
• The Residual Image placed the Flame Lotus Seed into Xiao Yan's head as he began accepting the inheritance.
• The Flame Lotus Seed's power ravaged Xiao Yan, causing his eyes to explode before his body burst apart.

Xiao Yan endured repeated bodily destruction and rebirth as he absorbed the inheritance of the Flame Lotus Seed, steadily transforming toward becoming an emperor. After eighty-one days, he had reached Quasi-Emperor, while Lin Dong and the other Dou Di Experts set out beyond the ninth heaven.

• Xiao Yan kept his soul awake as his body dissolved into blood mist, realizing that enduring the process would temper his will and allow him to inherit the Flame Lotus Seed's power.
• The Flame Lotus Seed drew the blood mist back around Xiao Yan's soul, restoring his body stronger than before and raising him from late Nine-star Dou Sheng to Half-Emperor.
• Xiao Yan's body repeatedly exploded and re-formed as inherited memories taught him the nature of different Heavenly Flames and their powers.
• The Residual Image praised Xiao Yan's resilience and understanding as the cycle continued for eighty-one days and 9,999 rebirths, bringing him to Quasi-Emperor.
• Lin Dong led the gathered Dou Di Experts beyond the ninth heaven of the Dou Qi Continent.

Lin Dong and the seven Dou Di used the Eight Extremes Heaven-Collapsing Formation to shatter the Ancient Hundred Emperors' seal, allowing Great Thousand World Origin Qi to flow into the Dou Qi Continent. Beneath the Nine Netherworld Yellow Springs, two ancient, starving beasts sensed the Origin Qi and vowed that the Sky Swallowing Python clan would return.

• Lin Dong and the seven Dou Di entered the Void Domain and found the cracked seal that had blocked both the Evil Clan from Outside the Realm and the flow of Origin Qi.
• Old Yao brought the Eight Extremes Heaven-Collapsing Formation, and the eight emperors joined their powers to summon a giant Martial Ancestor Phantom.
• Lin Dong struck the seal with the Great Desolate Prison Heaven Finger, shattering it and opening a passage for Great Thousand World Origin Qi to sweep across the continent.
• Experts across the Dou Qi Continent saw the colossal phantom and felt the renewed vitality brought by the Origin Qi.
• Beneath the Nine Netherworld Yellow Springs, a nine-colored giant python and a nine-headed Heaven Snake sensed the Origin Qi and declared that the Sky Swallowing Python clan would return.

After the Dou Qi Continent’s seal was broken, Lin Dong entered the Great Thousand World alone to scout its layout. He arrived at the Luoshen Clan, where clan leader Luo Tianshen recognized him as an extraordinarily powerful ascender and offered to help him learn about the upper world.

• Lin Dong left the others behind and crossed the newly opened Plane Passage to explore the Great Thousand World.
• Xiao Xuan and the Azure Emperor accepted that Lin Dong had gone, hoping he would avoid conflict and learn the way for their later arrival.
• Lin Dong sensed a formidable battle aura near the Western Heaven Continent and descended into the Lesser Western Heaven Realm.
• At Luoshen City, Luo Tianshen sensed Lin Dong’s arrival and mistook the youthful Heavenly Sovereign for an old eccentric pretending to be young.
• Lin Dong asked about the Luoshen Clan and his location, and Luo Tianshen deduced that he had ascended after refining a Plane Embryo.
• Luo Tianshen offered to introduce Lin Dong to spiritual arts, divine abilities, and other knowledge of the Great Thousand World.

Lin Dong learned about Heavenly Sovereign cultivation from Luo Tianshen and considered connecting the Luoshen Clan with the Martial Realm or Endless Fire Domain. Xiao Yan emerged from seclusion as a Dou Di, learned that Lin Dong had ascended, and traveled to the Northwest Continent.

• Luo Tianshen explained Heavenly Sovereign ranks, spiritual bodies, and cultivation to Lin Dong while hoping to secure a future bond between his son and the senior.
• Lin Dong considered placing a planar passage near the Luoshen Clan and bringing the clan into an alliance with the Martial Realm or Endless Fire Domain.
• After ten thousand explosions in the statue space, Xiao Yan broke free and emerged from Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion as a Dou Di.
• Xiao Yan sensed that Origin Qi was steadily returning to the Dou Qi Continent and learned that Lin Dong had ascended after breaking the plane's seal.
• Emperor Xiao's Remnant Will told Xiao Yan that the other Dou Di had delayed ascending until he returned, and Xiao Yan then traveled to the Northwest Continent.

After Xiao Yan became a Dou Di, his bloodline power raised the Xiao clan’s strength and brought dozens of its members to Dou Sheng. Xiao Yan returned to Wutan City, learned Lin Dong had already ascended to the Great Thousand World, and considered the Western Heaven Realm as a suitable place for their passage.

• Xiao Zhan, Xiao Ding, Xiao Li, the Xiao clan elders, and younger members broke through to higher realms as Xiao Yan’s Dou Di bloodline nourished them.
• Xiao Xuan watched the Xiao clan’s rise and reflected on how its strength now surpassed its former glory.
• Xiao Yan returned to Wutan City and asked Xiao Xuan whether Lin Dong had already gone to the Great Thousand World.
• Xiao Xuan confirmed Lin Dong had ascended ahead of them and worried he might face danger in the upper world.
• Xiao Yan reasoned that the Greater Western Heaven Realm was stable and its strongest ruler, the Western Heaven War Emperor, was not yet at his peak.
• Xiao Yan concluded that placing the Plane Passage in the Greater Western Heaven Realm suited the Endless Fire Domain and the Martial Realm.

Xiao Yan explained why the Greater Western Heaven Realm was safer now and planned to help Old Yao advance to Dou Di so he could refine Emperor Grade Pills. Meanwhile, Lin Dong established his strength in the Lesser Western Heaven Realm and met Luo Tianshen’s ambitious son, Luo Tianhe.

• Xiao Yan persuaded Xiao Xuan that the Greater Western Heaven Realm was no longer a dangerous frontline and said they would wait for Old Yao to become an emperor and for Lin Dong to return.
• Xiao Xuan explained that refining Emperor Grade Pills would be far easier after Old Yao advanced to Dou Di, and Xiao Yan planned to use the Ring of Time and Heavenly Tomb to speed up his seclusion.
• During two months in the Lesser Western Heaven Realm, Lin Dong cultivated spiritual arts, created the Martial God Art, and developed his Martial Ancestor Dharma Image, Heavenly Venerate Spiritual Body, and Universe Martial Seal.
• Luo Tianshen introduced his son Luo Tianhe to Lin Dong, praising the twenty-seven-year-old’s peak Ninth Grade Sovereign cultivation and potential to become an Earthly Sovereign.
• Luo Tianhe paid respects to Lin Dong and hoped to become a Heavenly Sovereign, restore the Luoshen Clan’s former glory, and reclaim its place as an overlord.

Lin Dong agreed to take Luo Tianhe as his first disciple after Luo Tianshen sincerely asked him to guide his son. Before leaving the Luoshen Clan to return to the lower plane, Lin Dong arranged to place a Plane Passage in its territory, strengthening their ties as he prepared to bring his allies to the Great Thousand World.

• Luo Tianshen asked Lin Dong to accept Luo Tianhe as a disciple and explained that he hoped to help both his son's cultivation and Lin Dong's standing in the Great Thousand World.
• After weighing Luo Tianshen's kindness and Luo Tianhe's eagerness, Lin Dong agreed to take Luo Tianhe as his disciple, and Luo Tianhe knelt to pledge his loyalty.
• Lin Dong told Luo Tianshen that he planned to return to the lower plane and asked to establish a Plane Passage within the Luoshen Clan's territory.
• Luo Tianshen welcomed Lin Dong's people as honored guests and promised to help prevent disputes with the Luoshen Clan.
• Lin Dong departed to prepare for his return, and Luo Tianshen and Luo Tianhe saw him off.

The Blood God Clan learned of Luo Tianhe’s talent and planned an alliance with the Strength God and Bone God Clans to destroy the Luoshen Clan, while Luo Tianshen prepared a Heavenly Sovereign’s sealed strike to counter them. Back in the Dou Qi Continent, Lin Dong returned and told Xiao Yan that he had taken Luo Tianhe as his disciple, leaving Xiao Yan startled by the tangled family connections.

• Blood Eye Elder reported that Luo Tianhe had reached the peak of Ninth Grade Sovereign at age twenty-seven, and the Blood God elders urged Xue Lingzi to kill him.
• Xue Lingzi ordered Xue Shou and Blood Robe Elder to negotiate an alliance with the Strength God and Bone God Clans and prepared the Blood God Arm for an attack on the Luoshen Clan.
• Luo Xuanhong told Luo Tianshen that the Blood God Clan had received the planted intelligence, while the details about Lin Dong remained sealed.
• Luo Tianshen revealed that he held a jade talisman containing Lord Martial Ancestor’s full-power strike and expressed confidence that the Luoshen Clan could thwart Xue Lingzi’s plans.
• Lin Dong returned to the Xiao Family, described what he had learned in the Great Thousand World, and told Xiao Yan that he had taken Luo Tianhe as his disciple.

Xiao Yan and Lin Dong traveled to the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Tribe to investigate disturbances in the Nether Snake Earth Vein. They learned that two ancient Monster Beasts had broken through the seals and were emerging from the Yellow Springs.

• Xiao Yan invited Lin Dong to visit the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Tribe, and Lin Dong agreed.
• Xiao Yan opened a void rift and brought Lin Dong to the Nether Snake Earth Vein, where the Dou Di experts and other powerful figures had gathered.
• The Yellow Springs Demon Emperor pointed out two enormous whirlpools forming in the Yellow Springs as the earth veins trembled.
• Xiao Yan explained that two ancient Monster Beasts had absorbed Origin Qi, reached the Quasi-Emperor realm, and broken through their ancient seals.
• Xiao Yan recognized the two emerging beasts as the Nine-Colored Sky Swallowing Python and the Ancient Heavenly Snake King.

The Yellow Springs Demon Emperor revealed that the Ancient Heavenly Snake King and Nine-Colored Sky Swallowing Python had been sealed beneath the Nine Netherworld Yellow Springs for tens of thousands of years and were now emerging as Quasi-Emperors. They broke free boasting of their strength, then realized they had emerged before a gathering of Dou Di experts.

• The Yellow Springs Demon Emperor explained that the Nine Netherworld Python Emperor had sealed the two rival clan leaders beneath the Yellow Springs, where they transformed their bloodlines using revived Origin Qi.
• The Heavenly Snake Saint and Cai Lin worried that the newly freed ancestors would provoke the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Tribe, while the Yellow Springs Demon Emperor said he would prioritize the greater situation.
• The Ancient Heavenly Snake King and Nine-Colored Sky Swallowing Python burst from the vortices, declaring their survival and their ambitions for their clans.
• The two ancient beasts transformed into human forms and prepared to act arrogantly, but the Nine-Colored Sky Swallowing Python sensed the powerful experts gathered around them and cried out in shock upon recognizing Dou Di.