Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan entered the contest for Ninth Tian Zun’s seat and fought Black White Tian Zun in the First Tian Zun’s expanded battlefield. After a fierce exchange, Xiao Yan wounded White Tian Zun and showed that he still had strength in reserve.

• First Tian Zun Ming Jin ruled that Yan Tianzun and Black White Tian Zun had to fight, with the winner earning the right to challenge Mo Yu.
• Xiao Yan revealed his late Spirit Realm Soul Power and used Asura Soul Severing Technique to raise his cultivation from Three Star to Five Star Dou Zun.
• Black Tian Zun attacked Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan’s lightning clone detonated into a thunderstorm, allowing him to strike Black Tian Zun into the ground.
• Black Tian Zun bound Xiao Yan with a chain while White Tian Zun struck him with Luo Tian Yao Spirit Blade, leaving a deep wound that began to heal.
• Xiao Yan summoned his Heavenly Phoenix Wings and attacked both opponents with soul techniques, then slashed White Tian Zun through his Black Mist and sent him flying in a spray of blood.

Xiao Yan defeated Black White Tian Zun with his Six-Colored Fire Lotus and was recognized as the Soul Hall’s Tenth Tian Zun. The chapter ended with the Soul Palace Venerables kneeling before him.

• Xiao Yan gained the upper hand against Black White Tian Zun with his speed and Soul Skills, while Venerable Qing Hai realized he was still holding back his Heavenly Flames.
• Black White Tian Zun unleashed their combined Demon Subduing Flying Immortal attack, but Xiao Yan blocked it with his Ancient Phoenix Wings.
• Black White Tian Zun attacked with the Heaven Rank Yin-Yang Heaven Seal, so Xiao Yan released six Heavenly Flames and destroyed it with his Heaven's Wrath Fire Lotus.
• Xiao Yan's attack overwhelmed Black White Tian Zun, leaving them collapsed as his secret technique ended and his Cultivation Level returned to Three-Star Dou Zun.
• Hun Miesheng made Xiao Yan the Tenth Tian Zun, upgraded his Soul Robe, and ended the fight before he challenged Mo Yu.
• Xiao Yan sat in the hall and asked whether everyone had gone mute, prompting Venerable Qing Hai and the other Soul Palace Venerables to kneel and greet him as Tenth Tian Zun.

Xiao Yan became Soul Palace’s Tenth Tian Zun and chose Soul Origin to strengthen his soul, using the Asura Soul Severing Technique to absorb its negative energy. As Xiao Yan cultivated for two months, Hun Tiandi and his advisors watched him, and Hun Tiandi admitted that he feared both Xiao Yan’s future threat and the Ancient Clan.

• Xiao Yan dismissed the assembled experts and received a Tenth Tian Zun Soul Token, then entered the Treasure Hall to claim a reward.
• Xiao Yan rejected the lesser soul-enhancing options and chose Soul Origin instead of risking the Bone Soul Valley Secret Realm.
• Xiao Yan spent half a day purifying the Soul Origin’s negative energy with the Asura Soul Severing Technique, then began absorbing its power.
• Xiao Yan cultivated with the Soul Origin for two months, while Hun Tiandi, Hun Xuzi, and a black-robed man watched him through a Soul Light Membrane.
• Hun Tiandi acknowledged Xiao Yan’s strong talent and admitted he feared raising a future threat, recalling his past fear of Xiao Xuan and his concern about the Ancient Clan.

After reaching great perfection in the Spirit Realm, Xiao Yan entered the Hun Realm to attend the Hun Clan’s Coming-of-Age Ceremony, where he witnessed the clan’s bloodline tests and marks. The ceremony ended with Xiao Yan presenting a blood bottle to use despite having no Dou God Bloodline of his own.

• Xiao Yan completed his Spirit Realm breakthrough, then entered the Hun Realm through a Soul Path after Hun Xuzi announced that the ceremony was about to begin.
• Xiao Yan reached Corpse Soul City and watched the ceremony test young descendants, granting clan marks to the few who met the bloodline requirements.
• Hun Gu and other Hun Clan offspring displayed powerful cultivation and high-grade bloodlines, while Xiao Yan considered how much stronger he would need to become before going to the Gu Realm.
• Hun Yu revealed a God Grade Bloodline, creating tension with the other God Grade descendant, Hun Feng.
• When the elders called for Soul Hall Tenth Tian Zun, Xiao Yan entered the field and presented a blood bottle after they noted he had no Dou God Bloodline.

Xiao Yan underwent the Hun Clan’s Coming-of-Age Ceremony, endured the integration of its Dou God Bloodline, and cultivated the Emperor Soul Art under Hun Tiandi’s watch. He reached the Heavenly Soul and left the gathered Hun Clan descendants staring at him in shock.

• Xiao Yan revealed a full bottle of Dou God Bloodline, provoking envy among the Hun Clan disciples and elders before he intimidated them with his peak Spirit Realm Soul Power.
• The elders prepared the ceremony, but Hun Tiandi arrived, recognized Xiao Yan as the Xiao Clan’s young clan leader, and personally began the ritual.
• Hun Tiandi merged the bloodline into the formation, causing Xiao Yan immense pain as he endured it and studied the Emperor Soul Art.
• After ten days of studying and further days of cultivation, Xiao Yan absorbed the Hun Realm’s soul light and broke through to the Heavenly Soul.
• The souls of Corpse Soul City’s descendants rose and bowed toward Xiao Yan, who challenged the onlookers for staring at him.

After obtaining a sixth-grade Hun Clan bloodline and reaching the Heavenly Soul, Xiao Yan sought payment from Hun Tiandi for his alchemy work and asked for help pursuing the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. He discovered that the Soul Hall’s Heaven Hall stood above the ruined Xiao Realm, learned how the other clans had divided its resources, and recognized the Xiao Clan’s Dou God in its murals.

• Xiao Yan examined how the Hun Clan bloodline strengthened his Soul Power and improved his affinity for clan Skills and Combat Techniques.
• Xiao Yan asked Hun Tiandi for intelligence and unobstructed access to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, arguing that it would help him refine an embryonic pill.
• Xiao Yan asked whether Hun Tiandi had the Xiao Realm, and Hun Tiandi revealed that Heaven Hall stood above its ruins.
• Hun Tiandi explained that the Spirit, Shi, Yao, Lei, Yan, Ancient, and Hun Clans had divided the Xiao Realm’s resources and inheritance after the Xiao Clan fell.
• Xiao Yan recognized the Heaven Hall murals’ fighting figure as Xiao Potian, the Xiao Clan’s Dou God.

Xiao Yan signed a Soul Contract with Hun Tiandi, then returned to Xiao City to pursue the Asura Soul Severing Technique and reconnect with his clan. After discovering corruption in the city’s administration, he purged its officials and left Xiao Yu in charge.

• Xiao Yan studied the Heaven Hall murals and reflected on the disappearance of the Dou Gods and the decline of the Xiao Clan.
• Hun Tiandi secured Xiao Yan’s help refining the Emperor Pill with a Soul Contract and promised him the Xiao Realm and support in obtaining the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Hun Tiandi told Nihility Devouring Flame to prepare to exploit the nearly depleted Spirit Clan, while he gathered alchemists for his long-awaited plan to become a Dou God.
• Xiao Yan traveled to Xiao City, reunited with Xiao Yu and Xiao Mei, and visited Jia Nan Academy before inspecting the city.
• Xiao Yan uncovered widespread corruption in Xiao City and dismissed or killed half its administrators, then kept Xiao Yu in charge while promising to check on the city more often.

Xiao Yan returned to Peace Town and obtained Hun Lao Gui’s complete Heaven Rank High-Level Asura Soul Severing Technique after agreeing to use it to challenge Hun Tiandi. He survived its initial cultivation and set his sights on preparing for the Heaven Tomb and his coming visit to the Gu Realm.

• Xiao Yan left Xiao City after making his return known and traveled to Peace Town to meet Hun Lao Gui.
• Hun Lao Gui offered Xiao Yan the complete Asura Soul Severing Technique in exchange for Xiao Yan using it to challenge Hun Tiandi, and Xiao Yan accepted.
• Xiao Yan absorbed the scroll’s soul information and spent a month cultivating until the Asura Shadow grew into a three-headed, six-armed figure resembling him.
• Xiao Yan suppressed the new Asura with eleven fused Heavenly Flames and learned from Hun Lao Gui that the technique’s final tribulation had defeated him.
• Xiao Yan departed for the Flame Alliance, calculated that less than two years remained before the Heaven Tomb opened, and resolved to grow stronger before meeting Xun Er in the Gu Realm.

Cai Lin told Xiao Yan about a dangerous ancient forest that might contain serpent-sage ruins, so he traveled with her and Qing Lin to investigate and improve his strength. After Qing Lin advanced to Dou Zun, they reached Strange Serpent Forest and learned that Nine Serpent Ridge had just opened, though its rumored Ancient Heavenly Serpent ruins might be a false legend.

• Cai Lin negotiated with her officials over the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool and then reunited with Xiao Yan and their daughter, Xiao Xiao, in the palace garden.
• Xiao Yan told Cai Lin he planned to stay in the Flame Alliance for nearly two years before going to the Gu Realm, and she told him Qing Lin had sensed a frightening presence in an ancient forest.
• Xiao Yan traveled with Cai Lin to Northern Border City, refined a pill for Qing Lin, and helped her break through to Dou Zun.
• Xiao Yan, Cai Lin, and Qing Lin went to Strange Serpent Forest and asked a stall owner about the newly opened Nine Serpent Ridge.
• The stall owner said Nine Serpent Ridge was rumored to have formed from an ancient heavenly serpent but claimed the Strange Serpent Tribe had invented the ruins story to attract visitors.

Xiao Yan, Cai Lin, and Qing Lin entered Nine Serpent Ridge to find the Ancient Heavenly Serpent Ruins, following the strange voices Qing Lin heard. A buried serpent skeleton emerged and revealed the ruins, drawing the Strange Serpent Tribe and rival factions underground to compete for its power.

• Xiao Yan learned that visitors to Nine Serpent Ridge had to surrender half their harvest to the Strange Serpent Tribe, then obtained a map from a stall owner.
• Xiao Yan concealed his identity with Cai Lin and Qing Lin and entered Nine Serpent Ridge after crushing their jade pendants.
• Qing Lin heard nine voices and led Xiao Yan and Cai Lin to a barren area where the power of heaven and earth seemed diminished.
• The ground erupted, exposing the enormous black bones of a serpent and draining the surrounding land of life.
• Serpent Eight Heads declared the skeleton to be his tribe's ancestor and led the Strange Serpent Tribe underground to seek its Essence Blood and bloodline power.
• The Nine Serene Earthly Underworld Python Tribe, the major factions, and other cultivators followed underground to compete for the Ancient Heavenly Serpent Ruins.

Xiao Yan, Cai Lin, and Qing Lin entered an underground world and discovered the remains of a Nine-Headed Heavenly Serpent, while the other factions searched for treasures. Black insects awakened and attacked the intruders, and Cai Lin charged through the swarm toward the serpent’s Rank 9 Magic Core as Xiao Yan remained unable to act.

• Serpent Eight Heads and the arriving factions discovered an underground world containing the enormous skeleton of a Nine-Headed Heavenly Serpent and began searching among its remains.
• Xiao Yan recognized that the serpent’s remnant soul might still linger and secretly began sealing the space while the factions gathered treasures.
• Black insects erupted from the bones, drained several people of their flesh and blood, and trapped the survivors inside the underground world.
• Xiao Yan spotted the serpent’s perfectly preserved Rank 9 Magic Core, and Cai Lin declared she would seize it while Xiao Yan completed the spatial seal.
• Cai Lin crossed through the black insect swarm using her three Heavenly Flames and raced toward the Magic Core as the factions recognized Queen Medusa.

Cai Lin seized the Nine-Headed Heavenly Serpent’s Rank 9 magic core, then faced a coalition of greedy Dou Zuns as Xiao Yan joined the battle. Xiao Yan killed Yellow Springs Venerable, while Qing Lin used her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to control two Nine Serene Deep Ground Python experts, leaving the Serpent tribes shaken and the standoff unresolved.

• Cai Lin revealed her Seven-Colored Swallowing Heavens Python bloodline and three-colored heavenly lightning as she destroyed the insect tide and swallowed the Rank 9 magic core.
• Serpent Eight Heads, Commander Jiu Xia, and other Dou Zuns surrounded Cai Lin and attacked her to claim the core.
• Xiao Yan abandoned his plan to seal the battlefield and struck Yellow Springs Venerable, killing him and the Yellow Springs Pavilion disciples.
• Xiao Yan ordered the weaker factions to surrender what they had taken from the ruin, while the Serpent tribes demanded Cai Lin give up the magic core.
• Qing Lin used her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to control two Rank 8 Nine Serene Deep Ground Python experts, then Xiao Yan warned her to rest.

Xiao Yan overwhelmed the Strange Serpent Tribe with his five-flame technique, but the arrival of Yao Ao and other reinforcements left him facing a much stronger force. As the battle reached a standoff, Xiao Yan prepared to reveal another trump card, while Cai Lin understood he meant to use his first time here.

• Qing Lin revealed the Snake Clan members controlled by her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, and Jiu Xia secretly crushed a Space Jade Pendant to summon reinforcements.
• Xiao Yan attacked the Strange Serpent Tribe, then used the Five Ring Flame Expelling Technique to defeat Serpent Eight Heads and incapacitate three of his allies.
• Yao Ao, the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Tribe's Fourth Elder, arrived through a Space Wormhole, and his forces gathered against Xiao Yan, Cai Lin, and Qing Lin.
• Xiao Yan refused Qing Lin's offer to use her pupils against the stronger enemies, and Cai Lin understood that he was preparing to use his first time here.

Xiao Yan summoned Third Tian Zun Gui Ming, who killed the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Tribe’s attackers in exchange for a promise of a Nine Revolutions Heaven Transformation Pill. Xiao Yan, Cai Lin, and Qing Lin then uncovered the Nine-Headed Heavenly Serpent’s remains, where Qing Lin’s attempt to control its remnant soul triggered a battle that ended with Xiao Yan beginning to absorb its Soul Origin.

• Third Tian Zun Gui Ming appeared in the Small World and revealed that Xiao Yan’s Soul Hall token had summoned him.
• Gui Ming rejected Yao Ao’s offer, killed the gathered Dou Zun experts, and left after Xiao Yan promised him a Nine Revolutions Heaven Transformation Pill.
• Xiao Yan and Cai Lin examined the Nine-Headed Heavenly Serpent’s remains, while Qing Lin prepared to communicate with its remnant soul.
• Qing Lin’s Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils drew out the Nine-Headed Heavenly Serpent’s soul, which tried to seize control of her.
• Cai Lin and Xiao Yan restrained the serpent’s soul, and Xiao Yan used his Soul Hall techniques to seize it and absorb its Soul Origin.

Xiao Yan and Cai Lin defeated the Nine-Headed Heavenly Serpent’s attempt to seize Qing Lin, then brought the serpent’s ruins and treasures back to the Flame Alliance. Qing Lin later woke with the remnant soul manifested as a tattoo on her back, while Cai Lin welcomed her as a sister as they cultivated together in the blood pool.

• Xiao Yan trapped the Nine-Headed Heavenly Serpent with the Asura Soul Severing Technique, but the serpent self-destructed and sent its remaining soul into Qing Lin through her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• Xiao Yan confirmed Qing Lin was battling the serpent within her soul, then he and Cai Lin refined the serpent’s Magic Core and essence blood and divided the gains with Qing Lin.
• Xiao Yan and Mao Wu swallowed the entire Small World, and Xiao Yan returned to the Flame Alliance with Cai Lin and the unconscious Qing Lin.
• After Qing Lin awoke, Xiao Yan discovered the Nine-Headed Heavenly Serpent’s soul had become a tattoo across her back and explained that her pupils would gradually absorb and control it.
• Xiao Yan began refining the essence blood to improve his cultivation, while Cai Lin and Qing Lin entered the blood pool together.
• Cai Lin asked whether Qing Lin liked Xiao Yan, then ordered her to stop calling her queen and address her as Sister Cai Lin.

After reaching Five-Star Dou Zun, Xiao Yan refined a Nine-Colored Pill Lightning Bearing Venerable Spirit Pill in Xiao Yi Xian’s valley. He then learned of a Beast Domain ruin that might contain the Heaven Rank Dou Technique he lacked and began gathering allies and intelligence for the expedition.

• Xiao Yan refined the Nine-Headed Heavenly Serpent essence blood, advanced to Five-Star Dou Zun, and lamented that he still lacked the final Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame Remnant Map.
• Xiao Yan visited Xiao Yi Xian in the Small Mountain Valley, where he practiced alchemy and taught her while refining several pills.
• Xiao Yan used six sets of ingredients to produce a Nine-Colored Pill Lightning Bearing Venerable Spirit Pill, while Xing Tian struggled to withstand the lightning.
• Ya Fei told Xiao Yan that a Ban Sheng-level Ancient Ruins had appeared in the Beast Domain and might contain a Heaven Rank Low-Level Dou Technique.
• Xiao Yi Xian agreed to accompany Xiao Yan, and he arranged for the Mittel Auction House to gather information, called back Venerable Tian Huo, and invited Hai Bodong to join the trip.

Xiao Yan led a group from the Flame Alliance to the Skeleton Mountain Range to investigate the Creation Sage’s remains, while rival factions gathered and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Tribe arrived with their own objectives. Feng Qing’er learned that Xiao Yan was nearby when his familiar voice suddenly called to her, leaving her terrified as she claimed she was going to inspect the ruins.

• Xiao Yan and his group traveled to the Skeleton Mountain Range, where they learned the remains were believed to belong to the Creation Sage and contain a powerful Heaven Rank technique and rare treasures.
• Xiao Yan established a camp and waited as the ruins’ seal weakened, while Hai Bodong and Venerable Tian Huo gathered information about the factions assembling nearby.
• Hai Bodong reported that Wind and Thunder Pavilion had allied with the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and that the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Tribe was also present; Venerable Tian Huo confirmed the Ancient Void Dragon Clan had not appeared.
• Feng Qing’er arrived secretly at Wind and Thunder Pavilion’s camp with other Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan members, and the gathered factions discussed seeking an Ancient Heavenly Phoenix’s remains and a medicinal pill.
• After Feng Qing’er heard the others dismiss the Flame Alliance’s chances of appearing, Xiao Yan’s voice suddenly called to her, and she nervously announced she was going to inspect the ruins.

Xiao Yan confronted Feng Qing'er, forced her to reveal why the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan had come to the Ancient Ruins, and gave her a Soul Jade Pendant to contact him. As the ruins opened and its deadly entrance traps claimed eager intruders, Xiao Yan's group approached the palace and encountered Yun Yun leading the Flower Sect.

• Xiao Yan used the Asura Soul Severing Technique to punish Feng Qing'er for hiding information, then threatened her and made her explain the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan's search for the remains of an Ancient Heavenly Phoenix and an Ancient Void Dragon.
• Xiao Yan gave Feng Qing'er his Soul Jade Pendant and left her to conceal their encounter before the Ancient Ruins seal broke at dawn.
• Xiao Yan and his companions flew to the ruins, where crowds gathered around a vast sea of bones and the crimson palace rose from beneath it.
• Several people rushed into the palace but were killed by its magma and blue fire traps, so Xiao Yan's group waited for the entrance to settle before proceeding.
• Xiao Yan sensed a familiar aura and watched Yun Yun emerge from a Space Channel as the leader of the arriving Flower Sect.

Xiao Yan reunited with Yun Yun and learned that her kindness to Granny Hua had earned her the Flower Sect inheritance, but Hua Jin was forcing her into a dangerous paired contest. After promising to help Yun Yun, Xiao Yan broke through the Ancient Ruins’ first trial and confronted the puppet formation guarding the Stone Gate.

• Yun Yun arrived at the Ancient Ruins with Nalan Yanran and the Flower Sect, where Hua Jin mocked her and Xiao Yan noticed their strained situation.
• Nalan Yanran told Xiao Yan that Granny Hua had transferred her Nine Star Peak Dou Zun power to Yun Yun and named her the next Flower Sect master before she died.
• Nalan Yanran explained that Hua Jin wanted Yun Yun to surrender the inherited power and had challenged her to a paired contest with Yaouhua Xiejun; Xiao Yan agreed to help.
• Xiao Yan froze the Blazing Flame Passage with the Bone Chiling Flame, led his group past the traps, and reached the plaza before the other entrants.
• A puppet formation transformed its lead puppet into a Two-Star Dou Venerable and injured a Loose Cultivator; Xiao Yan then caught its punch with one hand, revealing his Five-Star Dou Venerable strength.

Xiao Yan revealed his Five-Star Dou Venerable strength, secured the Heavenly Demon Puppets, and led his companions through the Ancient Ruins to a vast medicinal herb forest. After finding a Soul Infant Demon Tree guarded by a Soaring Sky Flood Dragon, Hai Bodong stepped forward to fight it.

• Xiao Yan caught a Heavenly Demon Puppet’s punch, claimed all ten puppets, and astonished the experts by revealing his Five-Star Dou Venerable strength.
• Xiao Yan persuaded Yun Yun to accept eleven puppets for protection and let her enter the ruins ahead while he stayed with his group.
• Xiao Yan chose a passageway, followed traces of another group to a sealed gate, and discovered an immense forest of rare medicinal herbs.
• Xiao Yan drove off nearby treasure seekers, claimed the herb forest for the Flame Alliance, and promised Xiao Yi Xian he would take it home for her.
• Xiao Yan found a Soul Infant Demon Tree beside a lake and identified the peak Seventh-Tier Soaring Sky Flood Dragon guarding it.
• Hai Bodong descended toward the Soaring Sky Flood Dragon on an ice staircase and declared that he would handle it.