Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan returned with five Xuan Mo Emperor corpses, including a Quasi-Heavenly Demon Emperor, shocking everyone with his strength and Spirit Grade Heavenly Sovereign Late-Stage cultivation. The Howling Silver Wolf King joined the Endless Fire Domain, and Xiao Yan revealed that the Life-Reversing Demon Venerable Pill could force a breakthrough to Spirit Grade Heavenly Sovereign at the cost of permanently limiting cultivation and shortening lifespan.

• Tou She Ancient God confirmed that Xiao Yan had slain five Xuan Mo Emperors, including a Quasi-Heavenly Demon Emperor.
• Xiao Yan said he had advanced to Spirit Grade Heavenly Sovereign Late-Stage, while Lin Dong and Symbol Ancestor marveled at his combat strength.
• Old Yao celebrated the Demonic Bodies and Soul Crystals as materials for upgrading his three sacred artifacts.
• Xiao Yan introduced the Howling Silver Wolf King, who pledged that his clan would advance and retreat with the Endless Fire Domain.
• Old Yao asked about the Life-Reversing Demon Venerable Pill, and Xiao Yan explained its breakthrough benefits and severe costs.

Xiao Yan gave Luo Tianshen and four of his followers Life-Reversing Demon Venerable Pills, allowing them a chance to break through to the Heavenly Sovereign level despite the pills’ cost of ending their future potential. To conceal the Endless Fire Domain’s growing strength, he sent them to separate remote continents to undergo their tribulations.

• Luo Tianshen asked Xiao Yan whether the pill could guarantee a breakthrough, explaining that his declining clan needed a Heavenly Sovereign to restore its standing.
• Xiao Yan gave Luo Tianshen a pill in recognition of the Luoshen Clan’s past help, then asked Time Emperor to take him somewhere remote for his tribulation.
• Xiao Yan summoned Blind Elder, Heavy Sword King, Earth Dragon Emperor, and Qingyun True Monarch and bestowed one pill on each of them.
• Xiao Yan assigned Xiao Yue, Tou She, Symbol Ancestor, and Lin Dong to escort the four recipients to separate distant continents for their tribulations.

Xiao Yan arranged for five experts to use Life-Reversing Demon Venerable Pills and break through to Heavenly Sovereign. After they returned safely, he welcomed their gratitude and created a Heavenly Venerate List, leaving the hall to wonder who would appear on it.

• Lin Dong, Tou She Ancient God, Symbol Ancestor, and Howling Silver Wolf King escorted four experts to remote regions to undergo their tribulations, while Time Emperor accompanied Luo Tianshen.
• Old Yao studied the remains of Emperor Xuan Mo and planned how to use them to improve Sacred Artifacts and devise pill formulas.
• Three days later, Luo Tianshen returned with Time Emperor as a Heavenly Sovereign, and Blind Elder, Heavy Sword King, Earth Dragon Emperor, and Qingyun True Monarch arrived with their escorts after successful breakthroughs.
• The five newly ascended Heavenly Sovereigns knelt before Xiao Yan and thanked him for granting them a second life, and Xiao Yan raised them with his Emperor Flame power.
• Xiao Yan recalled famous rankings from his past and formed a massive scarlet-gold Heavenly Venerate List in the hall.

Xiao Yan recorded the Heavenly Sovereign experts in his camp, while Lin Dong told him that Ying Huanhuan had sensed a bloodline summons from the Ice Spirit Clan. Lin Dong decided to visit the clan with Symbol Ancestor and claim its leadership for Huanhuan, leaving with two Life-Reversing Demon Venerable Pills from Xiao Yan.

• Xiao Yan engraved a ranking of twenty Heavenly Sovereigns, placing himself first and Lin Dong second.
• The assembled experts discussed the ranking and praised the strength of Xiao Yan's and Lin Dong's forces.
• Lin Dong told Xiao Yan that Ying Huanhuan's Ice Spirit Clan bloodline had sensed a summons from the far north, and he planned to take her there.
• Xiao Yan offered to accompany Lin Dong, but Lin Dong said he would go with Symbol Ancestor instead.
• Xiao Yan gave Lin Dong two Life-Reversing Demon Venerable Pills to help win over the Ice Spirit Clan's elders and prepare for emergencies.
• Lin Dong accepted the pills and promised to bring back good news from the Ice Spirit Clan.

Xiao Yan returned to the Dou Qi Continent to seclude himself in the Heavenly Tomb’s eightyfold World of Time and refine Soul Nurturing Pills. He left the Endless Fire Domain’s affairs to Emperor Xiao as questions about the continent’s ancient demon invasion remained unanswered.

• Lin Dong and the Symbol Ancestor left Flame Emperor Hall for the Ancestral Stone Continent to prepare for a visit to the Ice Spirit Clan.
• Xiao Yan dismissed the others to cultivate and prepare for possible battles, while Old Yao took Emperor Xuan Mo’s Demonic Bodies and Soul Crystals to study the Heavenly Demon Coffin in the Heavenly Tomb.
• Xiao Yan and Emperor Xiao questioned why Dou Qi Continent had faced demons in Ancient Times, long before the Evil Clan from Outside the Realm descended on the Great Thousand World.
• Xiao Yan told Emperor Xiao he would refine the Spirit Grade Soul Nurturing Pill and study the Immortal Grade version, then asked Emperor Xiao and the Progenitor to oversee the Endless Fire Domain during his seclusion.
• Xiao Yan crossed the Plane Passage to Wutan City, entered the Heavenly Tomb’s World of Time, and sealed it off with the Exotic Fire Seal.

Xiao Yan spent forty years in the World of Time refining Spirit Grade Soul Nurturing Pills and improving the Life-Reversing Demon Venerable Pill formula to reduce its lifespan cost. Back in the Great Thousand World, he summoned Luo Tianshen and presented him with a pill.

• Xiao Yan refined three furnaces of Spirit Grade Soul Nurturing Pills, producing six pills after learning from the first furnace's failure.
• Xiao Yan spent thirty-five years revising the Life-Reversing Demon Venerable Pill formula, theoretically lowering its lifespan cost from thirty percent to ten percent, but lacked the main ingredient to test it.
• Xiao Yan recorded the improved formula, completed forty years of seclusion, and returned to the Great Thousand World after only half a year had passed outside.
• Xiao Yan summoned Luo Tianshen to the Flame Emperor Hall and offered him a lustrous white pill.

Xiao Yan gave Luo Tianshen a Spirit Grade Soul Nurturing Pill that could revive the Luoshen Clan’s fallen Heavenly Sovereign ancestor, then entered Wanyan Continent to meet the Fire Spirit Clan’s Eight Immortals. He prepared to tell them good news about the possibility of reviving their ancestors.

• Xiao Yan explained the Spirit Grade Soul Nurturing Pill’s power, and Luo Tianshen realized it could restore the Luoshen Clan’s ancestor’s Residual Thought.
• Xiao Yan gifted Luo Tianshen the pill and explained that a compatible powerful corpse could help the revived ancestor cultivate more effectively.
• Luo Tianshen thanked Xiao Yan and hurried back to the Luoshen Clan with the pill.
• Xiao Yan considered using his remaining five pills to revive Fire Spirit Clan ancestors and to help the Western Heaven Battle Hall, then entered Wanyan Continent.
• Xiao Yan nourished the sleeping Three Saints’ Lingering Soul Fragments and met Nine Flames Immortal Venerable and the other seven Immortals, saying he had good news for them.

Xiao Yan revealed that his Spirit Grade Soul Nurturing Pills could restore the lingering soul fragments of the Fire Spirit Clan’s ancestors and asked the Eight Immortals whom to revive first. With their guidance, he began reviving Fire Phoenix Venerable, Black Flame Ancestor, and Immortal Flame Lady, leaving their restoration underway after eighty-one days.

• Xiao Yan showed the Eight Immortals three Spirit Grade Soul Nurturing Pills and explained that they could restore a Spirit Grade Heavenly Sovereign’s lingering soul fragment.
• Xiao Yan offered the Eight Immortals the choice of which Fire Spirit Clan ancestors to revive first, and Nine Flames Immortal Venerable recommended Fire Phoenix Venerable, Black Flame Ancestor, and Immortal Flame Lady.
• Nine Flames Immortal Venerable and Immortal Venerable Linghuang explained the three ancestors’ strength, sacrifices, and abilities, and Xiao Yan agreed to revive them.
• Xiao Yan brought out the three ancestors’ natal Divine Fires and fed each one a Spirit Grade Soul Nurturing Pill.
• Xiao Yan used Chaos Emperor Flame, his Soul Power, and the Flame of Life to restore their souls and prepare their bodies over eighty-one days.

Xiao Yan restored the souls of Fire Phoenix Venerable, Black Flame Ancestor, and Immortal Flame Lady, then used precious natural treasures to give them new bodies. The three ancestors revived as Quasi-Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereigns and pledged themselves to Xiao Yan, leaving the Fire Spirit Clan’s restoration in his hands.

• After eighty-one days, Xiao Yan completed the restoration of the three ancestors’ souls.
• Xiao Yan used Ten-Thousand Year Fire Lotus Root and other natural treasures to form new bodies and reunite the ancestors’ souls with them.
• Fire Phoenix Venerable, Black Flame Ancestor, and Immortal Flame Lady emerged with Quasi-Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereign power.
• Nine Flames Immortal Venerable explained that Xiao Yan had revived the ancestors, restored the Burning Heaven Divine Formula, and been appointed the Fire Spirit Clan’s young master.
• The three revived ancestors thanked Xiao Yan and pledged to serve him as their master.

Xiao Yan took Shiluo to the Tianluo Continent to help him seek a breakthrough through experience in the Northern Boundary. After they reached the Great Luo Heaven Domain, Shiluo had begun reflecting on the region’s cruelty, and they arrived at Great Luo Heaven.

• Xiao Yan and Shiluo traveled from the Exotic Fire Continent to Black Rock City, the gateway to the Northern Boundary.
• A gate commander demanded an exorbitant entry fee, so Xiao Yan subdued him and the guards with his Heavenly Sovereign pressure.
• Xiao Yan explained that witnessing greed and fear could help Shiluo cultivate, and Shiluo began to understand his guidance.
• Xiao Yan and Shiluo traveled through the Northern Boundary, where Shiluo observed its violence and grew steadier.
• Several days later, Xiao Yan and Shiluo reached Great Luo Heaven, the headquarters of the Great Luo Heaven Domain.

Xiao Yan arrived at the Great Luo Heaven Domain to seek Mandala’s knowledge of the Ancient Heavenly Palace and its inheritance, including the supernatural power One Qi Transforms into Three Purities. Mandala welcomed him and led him and Shiluo to the main hall to discuss matters.

• Xiao Yan and Shiluo flew to the entrance of the Great Luo Heaven Domain, where its guards stopped them.
• Xiao Yan identified himself as the Flame Emperor and requested an audience with Mandala, prompting the guards to hurry and report his arrival.
• Mandala came to meet Xiao Yan and recognized the immense power he carried.
• Xiao Yan explained that he had come to disturb Mandala, and she respectfully invited him and Shiluo to the main hall.

Xiao Yan visited the Great Luo Heaven Domain to learn what happened to the Ancient Heavenly Palace and removed the Eternal Life Curse afflicting Mandala. Mandala revealed how the palace was destroyed and promised to locate its sealed coordinates within ten days so Xiao Yan could enter and deal with the demonic threat.

• Xiao Yan told Mandala he had come to ask about the Ancient Heavenly Palace and revealed that Lu Heng had planted the Eternal Life Curse in her.
• Xiao Yan used the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame to destroy the curse, freeing Mandala and raising her cultivation to the peak of an Upper Earthly Sovereign.
• Mandala recounted that the Heavenly Emperor fought a Demon Emperor before the palace was devastated, and that Lu Heng attacked her as she investigated the ruins.
• Shiluo realized that a surviving Demon Emperor could threaten the Tianluo Continent if the seal weakened.
• Xiao Yan said he intended to eliminate the demonic threat in the Heavenly Palace and asked Mandala to locate its sealed coordinates.
• Mandala sensed a connection to her original body and promised to pinpoint the coordinates in ten days and lead Xiao Yan into the Heavenly Palace.

Xiao Yan arranged for Shiluo to lead the Great Luo Heaven Domain into the Northern Domain Hegemony Competition, where Shiluo could temper his Buddhist heart. The competition was three days away, and Xiao Yan planned to watch over the team in disguise while Mandala prepared to depart.

• Xiao Yan told Mandala that he intended to help Shiluo attain the Arhat fruition and asked about the upcoming Northern Domain Hegemony Competition.
• Mandala warned Xiao Yan that the contest would pit Shiluo against powerful, ruthless Quasi-Heavenly Sovereigns, but Xiao Yan insisted Shiluo was strong enough and would benefit from the battles.
• Xiao Yan instructed Mandala to focus on locating the Ancient Heavenly Palace and assigned Shiluo to lead the Great Luo Heaven Domain into the competition, while he secretly watched over the team.
• Mandala ordered the Great Luo Heaven Domain's Three Emperors and twelve commanders to gather, then overruled their objections and announced Shiluo would lead them.
• Shiluo reassured the commanders that he would protect them, while Mandala prepared three thousand elite soldiers and Xiao Yan disguised himself as an old servant in the baggage train.

Shiluo led Great Luo Heaven Domain’s small army toward Tianluo Platform to join the Northern Domain Hegemony Competition, whose rough rules let the strong decide outcomes. The force arrived amid widespread mockery, while Xiao Yan surveyed the three hegemonic camps and their formidable guards.

• Shiluo led three thousand Great Luo Heaven Army soldiers north, and he refused the Sleeping Emperor’s suggestion to intervene in a battle over a Sacred Artifact.
• Xiao Yan reflected that the Northern Domain Hegemony Competition lacked fixed schedules and strict procedures, with defeated forces often able to bargain their way out of total defeat.
• Five days later, the army reached Tianluo Platform, where more than a hundred Northern Domain forces had gathered.
• Onlookers ridiculed Great Luo Heaven Domain for arriving without an Earthly Sovereign, but Shiluo kept his soldiers calm and settled them in a remote corner.
• Xiao Yan surveyed the field and saw the three hegemonic forces—Leiyin Mountain, Purple Cloud Sect, and Golden Eagle Mansion—surrounded by Earthly Sovereign guards.

At the Northern Domain Hegemony Competition, Shiluo revealed that the Great Luo Heaven Domain had a Quasi-Heavenly Sovereign and overwhelmed the forces of the three overlords. He unveiled his Arhat Golden Body and left one Leiyin Mountain elder gravely injured, with eight other attackers still facing him.

• Elder Ziyan of the Purple Cloud Sect confronted the Great Luo Heaven Domain and attacked Sleeping Emperor.
• Shiluo blocked Elder Ziyan's palm strike and sent him flying with a single blow, revealing himself as a Quasi-Heavenly Sovereign.
• Elder Ziyan ordered eight Great Perfection Earthly Sovereigns from the three overlords' forces to attack Shiluo together.
• Shiluo transformed into his Arhat Golden Body, and the attackers' combined assault failed to damage him.
• Shiluo shattered a Leiyin Mountain elder's twenty-four Buddhist light shields with a fist and gravely injured him.

Shiluo defeated the Northern Domain’s three overlords’ subordinates without killing them, then faced the overlords themselves on Tianluo Platform. He left the Golden Eagle Emperor gravely wounded after unleashing the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms, while True Monarch Purple Cloud and Venerable Leiyin remained poised to act.

• Shiluo defeated the eight remaining Great Perfection Earthly Sovereigns and urged them to save their strength to protect people from the Evil Clan from Outside the Realm.
• True Monarch Purple Cloud, Venerable Leiyin, and the Golden Eagle Emperor arrived with fourteen Great Perfection Earthly Sovereigns and surrounded Shiluo and the Great Luo Heaven Domain group.
• True Monarch Purple Cloud demanded that Shiluo cripple his cultivation and kneel, but Shiluo calmly said he only wanted a place for the Great Luo Heaven Domain.
• The Golden Eagle Emperor attacked Shiluo with Golden Eagle Divine Claw, but Shiluo summoned his Arhat Golden Body and countered with the Great Might Heavenly Dragon.
• Shiluo trapped the Golden Eagle Emperor in eighteen linked dragon shadows and struck him down, leaving him gravely wounded as the crowd stared in disbelief.

Shiluo fought off Venerable Leiyin’s Great Universe Sleeve and faced a joint assault from the Northern Domain’s three overlords and fourteen Great Perfection Earthly Sovereigns. He revealed Great Spirit Mountain’s Holy Buddha Hand, leaving everyone stunned by his identity.

• Venerable Leiyin attacked Shiluo with the Great Universe Sleeve, a Quasi-Peerless Sacred Artifact that threatened to swallow him.
• Shiluo countered with Dragon Roar of the Nine Heavens, and his dragon flame scorched the Great Universe Sleeve and stopped its suction.
• Venerable Leiyin called on True Monarch Purple Cloud and the injured Golden Eagle Emperor to join the fight.
• True Monarch Purple Cloud, Golden Eagle Emperor, and fourteen Great Perfection Earthly Sovereigns attacked Shiluo together.
• Shiluo summoned the Holy Buddha Hand, and Venerable Leiyin recognized it as Great Spirit Mountain’s mountain-guarding Supernatural Power.

True Monarch Purple Cloud, Venerable Leiyin, the Golden Eagle Emperor, and fourteen Great Perfection Earthly Sovereigns attacked Shiluo despite learning he belonged to Great Spirit Mountain. Shiluo overwhelmed them with one strike, but True Monarch Purple Cloud refused to yield and deployed his Purple Divine Rosy Clouds, which Xiao Yan recognized as a potential aid to Shiluo’s golden body.

• True Monarch Purple Cloud and the others learned Shiluo was from Great Spirit Mountain, but chose to keep fighting rather than risk retreating.
• Shiluo struck with the Holy Buddha Hand, destroying Venerable Leiyin’s Great Universe Sleeve and leaving Venerable Leiyin, the Golden Eagle Emperor, and the fourteen Great Perfection Earthly Sovereigns badly injured.
• Shiluo asked True Monarch Purple Cloud whether he still wanted to fight, but True Monarch Purple Cloud refused to accept defeat and activated his Purple Divine Rosy Clouds.
• Xiao Yan recognized the Purple Divine Rosy Clouds as a Quasi-Peerless Sacred Artifact whose supreme yang power could help perfect Shiluo’s Arhat Golden Body.

Shiluo devoured True Monarch Purple Cloud’s Purple Divine Rosy Clouds and absorbed the attacks of Venerable Leiyin and the Golden Eagle Emperor, refining their powers to strengthen his Arhat Golden Body. As his cultivation surged beyond the Quasi-Heavenly Sovereign realm, he approached a breakthrough to Heavenly Sovereign.

• True Monarch Purple Cloud hid inside the Purple Divine Rosy Clouds, expecting Shiluo to exhaust himself trying to break through its defenses.
• Shiluo used the Mahakala Root Mudra to devour the Purple Divine Rosy Clouds, weakening True Monarch Purple Cloud and drawing the crowd’s astonished attention.
• Venerable Leiyin and the Golden Eagle Emperor attacked Shiluo together while his focus seemed fixed on swallowing the clouds.
• Shiluo manifested Mahakala and devoured the Great Thunder Sound Staff and Golden Eagle Divine Claw, sending both attackers flying with severe backlash.
• Shiluo refined the powers of the clouds, staff, and claw into nourishment for his Arhat Golden Body, while Xiao Yan recognized his exoteric and esoteric Buddhist mastery.
• Shiluo’s Arhat Golden Body advanced toward great perfection as his aura broke past the Quasi-Heavenly Sovereign limits, prompting the crowd to realize he was about to become a Heavenly Sovereign.

Shiluo devoured True Monarch Purple Cloud’s Life-Bound Sacred Artifact and triggered a mutated fourfold Heavenly Sovereign tribulation. After swallowing and refining the tribulations, he reached Early-stage Spirit Grade Heavenly Sovereign and declared himself the Dragon Subduing Arhat.

• True Monarch Purple Cloud tried to destroy the Purple Divine Rosy Clouds, but Shiluo swallowed them and left him gravely wounded.
• Shiluo’s breakthrough summoned a mutated tribulation of formation, abiding, destruction, and emptiness, while Xiao Yan recognized the danger of its Buddhist Dao rhythms.
• Shiluo endured the first two tribulations with his Arhat Golden Body and met the Thunder of Destruction with an Arhat Fist.
• Shiluo used the Vajra Flaming Mouth Wisdom King Dharma Image to swallow the Thunder of Emptiness and then absorbed the remaining tribulation clouds and Dao rhythms.
• Shiluo purified Tianluo Platform’s lingering killing intent, attained Early-stage Spirit Grade Heavenly Sovereign, and proclaimed himself Dragon Subduing Arhat.