Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan attended the Ancient Clan’s Coming-of-Age Ceremony with Xun Er and confronted Gu Yao after clan elders initially barred him from the VIP area. Gu Yao challenged him, but Xiao Yan defeated him with a single kick, leaving the gathered clans stunned.

• Xun Er brought Xiao Yan to the ceremony, where Gu Qian and Gu Xu blocked him from entering the VIP area until Elder Tong Xuan affirmed that the Xiao Clan was an ally.
• Xiao Yan and Xun Er watched the bloodline tests, including Gu Yao’s Eighth Grade result and his newly inscribed purple-gold clan mark.
• Gu Yao challenged Xiao Yan, and Xiao Yan accepted despite Xun Er’s concern.
• Xiao Yan used his Heavenly Flames and speed to strike Gu Yao once, shattering his sternum and sending him through a stone pillar.
• The crowd watched in disbelief as Xiao Yan lowered his leg and called Gu Yao a one-move opponent like Lin Xiu.

Xiao Yan defeated Gu Yao twice at the Ancient Clan ceremony, first with a single strike and then by breaking the Great Extinction Finger with five Heavenly Flames and Heavenly Soul Power. He left Gu Yao badly injured and silenced the Ancient Clan, though Gu Hua noticed that Xiao Yan had taken a medicinal pill to restore his Dou Qi and seemed to be looking at Gu Qingyang.

• Xiao Yan defeated Gu Yao in one move, shocking the gathered clans and easing the Ancient Clan elders’ doubts about Xun Er marrying him.
• Gu Yao accused Xiao Yan of relying on outside power and challenged him to withstand one of his attacks, so Xiao Yan accepted.
• Gu Yao activated his Clan Mark, advanced to Nine Star Dou Zun, and unleashed the Ancient Clan’s Great Extinction Finger.
• Xiao Yan revealed five Heavenly Flames and formed the Five Ring Flame Expelling Formation, then used Heavenly Soul Power to overwhelm Gu Yao’s attack and engulf him in flames.
• Xiao Yan spared the badly burned Gu Yao, while Gu Qingyang told the Ancient Clan to stop opposing Xiao Yan and Xun Er’s relationship.
• Gu Hua noticed that Xiao Yan had taken a medicinal pill to recover Dou Qi and seemed to be looking at Gu Qingyang.

Xiao Yan defeated Gu Yao and challenged Gu Qingyang to confront the Ancient Clan’s expectations surrounding Xun Er. Their battle escalated as they traded physical attacks and powerful techniques, and Xiao Yan used his Heavenly Soul-level Soul Power to strike at Gu Qingyang.

• Xiao Yan defeated Gu Yao, then took an Eighth Grade Medicinal Pill as the spectators realized he intended to challenge Gu Qingyang.
• Gu Qingyang accepted Xiao Yan’s challenge, acknowledging Xiao Yan’s strength and explaining that he had no personal interest in Xun Er.
• Xiao Yan and Gu Qingyang began their fight with physical attacks, matching each other in close combat.
• Xiao Yan used Skyfire Three Mysterious Change, fused six Heavenly Flames, and attacked Gu Qingyang with Eight Extremities Collapse.
• Gu Qingyang unleashed Space Rend, but Xiao Yan used Heavenly Flames to break through the space turbulence and then attacked with a Soul Palm Print.

Xiao Yan and Gu Qingyang fought fiercely, with Xiao Yan using his Heavenly Flames, Soul Power, and techniques to match Gu Qingyang’s speed, spatial control, and weapons. As Gu Qingyang revealed his Ninth Grade Clan Mark, he began unleashing the Ancient Clan’s true foundation.

• Xiao Yan struck Gu Qingyang with his speed, but Gu Qingyang vanished with Void Skywalk and countered Xiao Yan’s Lightning Illusion Body with the Ancient Emperor Seal, sending him crashing into the Ceremony Square.
• Xiao Yan recovered and revealed his many Heavenly Flames, then asked Gu Qingyang to draw his weapon.
• Gu Qingyang brought out the Silver Dragon Halberd, while Xiao Yan wielded the Heavy Xuan Ruler infused with Wind Fury Dragon Flame, and the two began an even weapon clash.
• Xiao Yan and Gu Qingyang traded powerful techniques, including the Five Ring Flame Expelling Technique, Great Extinction Finger, Grand Creation Palm, and Silver Dragon Tail Swing.
• Gu Qingyang revealed his Ninth Grade Clan Mark and prepared to unleash the Ancient Clan’s full strength.

Gu Qingyang activated his Ninth Grade Dou God Bloodline and overwhelmed Xiao Yan with enhanced strength, techniques, and soul defense. After surviving Gu Qingyang’s decisive attacks, Xiao Yan revealed his Dragon Phoenix Ancient Armor and fused six Heavenly Flames into Beast God Descent, then launched a lightning-fast counterattack.

• Gu Qingyang activated his Clan Mark, using his Ninth Grade Dou God Bloodline to shatter Xiao Yan’s Grand Creation Palm and send him crashing into Ceremony Square.
• Xiao Yan attacked with the Asura Soul Severing Technique, but Gu Qingyang resisted it with the Great Extinction Art’s Nirvana Soul Breath and then pierced Xiao Yan with his Silver Dragon Halberd.
• Gu Qingyang shattered Xiao Yan’s Ancient Emperor Seal with the Great Extinction Finger, crushed him beneath it, and hurled the Silver Dragon Halberd down in Silver Dragon Pierces the Moon.
• Xiao Yan caught and kicked back Gu Qingyang’s halberd after transforming with the Dragon Phoenix Ancient Armor and unleashing Beast God Descent with six fused Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Yan surged toward Gu Qingyang at tremendous speed and struck upward with a dragon-shaped punch.

Xiao Yan unveiled the Flame Emperor Seal, a new Dou Technique that wounded Elder Tong Xuan and proved he could challenge the Ancient Clan’s bloodline legacy. After exhausting himself in the battle, he revealed that he had come to the Gu Realm to ask Xun Er to marry him, and she accepted.

• Xiao Yan battered Gu Qingyang with his fused Heavenly Flames and Six-Colored Fire Lotus, but Gu Qingyang survived and prepared the Ancient Emperor Seal.
• Xiao Yan created and unleashed the Flame Emperor Seal, combining five Heavenly Flames with the Emperor Seal Technique and other techniques, and injured Elder Tong Xuan when he intervened.
• Xiao Yan collapsed from the technique’s cost, while the onlookers recognized that he had broken the legend of the Dou God Bloodline.
• Xiao Yan presented Xun Er with a Nine Revolutions Heaven Transformation Pill and asked her to marry him.
• Xun Er embraced Xiao Yan and accepted his proposal.

Xiao Yan won Xun Er’s acceptance by defeating Gu Qingyang and proposed to her, earning the Gu Clan’s approval. Xun Er then revealed a God Grade Bloodline during her Coming-of-Age Ceremony test, shattering the Star Plate.

• Xun Er used her Golden Emperor Burning Flame to stabilize Xiao Yan’s injuries, and Xiao Yan proposed marriage to her; she accepted.
• Gu Qingyang conceded defeat, while the Gu Clan’s leaders approved Xiao Yan as Xun Er’s match and granted him a Heaven Tomb quota.
• The Pill Beast from Xiao Yan’s Nine-Colored Pill Lightning pill became a ring on Xun Er’s finger, astonishing the Yao Clan youths.
• Elder Tong Xuan resumed the Coming-of-Age Ceremony and called Xun Er to undergo her bloodline test.
• Xun Er’s bloodline produced ten stars and shattered the Star Plate, revealing her God Grade Bloodline.

Xun Er revealed her natural God Grade Bloodline, and Elder Tong Xuan used the Seven-Colored Heavenly Emperor Brush to give her a Seven-Colored Clan Mark. Two days later, Xiao Yan and Xun Er arrived as the Heavenly Tomb opened, leaving Xiao Yan eager to seek the inheritance of his ancestor Xiao Xuan.

• Xun Er's God Grade Bloodline astonished the Ancient Clan, and Elder Tong Xuan used the Seven-Colored Heavenly Emperor Brush to carve a Seven-Colored Clan Mark on her forehead.
• Xun Er promised to help Xiao Yan obtain the Xiao Clan's Heavenly Tomb quota, and Xiao Yan recovered while reflecting on how to improve his Flame Emperor Seal.
• Xun Er explained the Heavenly Tomb's three layers and warned Xiao Yan about powerful energy bodies, including former Dou Sheng experts.
• Xiao Yan and Xun Er arrived at the Heavenly Tomb at the last moment, and the enormous Gate of Heavenly Tomb appeared in the void.

Xiao Yan and Xun Er entered the Heavenly Tomb, where they hunted energy bodies and used their Energy Cores to strengthen Xiao Yan’s Three-Faced Asura. After nearly four months, they reached the second layer and were attacked by a group of powerful energy bodies as soon as they crossed its barrier.

• Elder Tong Xuan opened the Heavenly Tomb, and Xiao Yan entered with Xun Er while Gu Qingyang led Gu Hua, Gu Xing, and Gu Zhen inside.
• Xiao Yan and Xun Er landed together on the first layer, where Xun Er explained how to capture energy bodies and absorb their Energy Cores.
• Xiao Yan discovered that Energy Cores could strengthen the Three-Faced Asura, so he and Xun Er competed to collect them and traveled across the first layer together.
• Xiao Yan absorbed the cores while Xun Er protected him, and they spent more than two months cultivating and keeping each other company.
• After nearly four months, Xiao Yan and Xun Er crossed the powerful barrier into the second layer, where more than a dozen energy bodies attacked Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan and Xun Er fled the second layer’s energy storm with the other Dou Di Families, then joined forces to break through the materialized barrier to the third layer. When Ancient Devouring Insects began repairing the passage, Xiao Yan used Mao Wu to secretly consume the Energy Crystal Layers and persuaded the others to hand over their valuable Energy Cores.

• Xiao Yan eliminated the Energy Bodies Hun Ya and Hun Li had lured toward him, collected their Energy Cores, and later refined them with Xun Er.
• Xiao Yan and Xun Er battled Energy Bodies for months, gathered more Energy Cores, and found that Ninth Grade cores improved Xiao Yan’s strength.
• An energy storm swept across the second layer, forcing Xiao Yan, Xun Er, and the other clans’ descendants to race toward the third-layer entrance.
• Gu Qingyang and the others took turns with Xiao Yan and Xun Er to break through the materialized energy barrier, until awakened Ancient Devouring Insects began closing the passage.
• Xiao Yan burned the insects with Heavenly Flame while Mao Wu secretly devoured the Energy Crystal Layers, then feigned exhaustion and collected Energy Cores from Xun Er and the other clans.

Xiao Yan captured the dormant Ancient Devouring Insect Queen and used Mao Wu to refine the Crystal Walls while he cultivated in the Heaven Tomb. After a year, he reached Nine Star Dou Zun, while Xiao Xuan watched him from the Tomb of Xiao Xuan and questioned his bloodlines and motives.

• Xiao Yan collected Energy Cores and a strange cocoon from the Crystal Layer passage, then led the group onto the third floor of the Heaven Tomb.
• Xiao Yan pretended to recover so the others would leave, then revealed refined Energy Crystals to Xun Er and gave her some before returning to the Crystal Wall passage.
• Xiao Yan used the Asura Soul Severing Technique to control the dormant Ban Sheng Insect Queen and gathered the Ancient Devouring Insects into a sphere.
• Xiao Yan sent Mao Wu to refine the Crystal Walls and absorbed the Energy Cores to cultivate his soul technique and Dou Qi.
• Xiao Xuan sensed Xiao Yan's arrival and suspected his Hun Clan bloodline and Nihility Devouring Flame might signal a threat to the Xiao Clan.
• After one year in the Heaven Tomb, Xiao Yan absorbed the crystals and advanced to Nine Star Dou Zun.

After reaching Nine Star Dou Zun, Xiao Yan traveled with Xun Er into the Heaven Tomb’s depths, where Hun Ya and Hun Li ambushed them with two Hun Clan Dou Saint Energy Bodies. Xiao Yan battled Hun Diao and countered his strongest attack with the Ancient Devouring Insects, then prepared to use the Saint Demon Slash.

• Xiao Yan emerged from seclusion at Nine Star Dou Zun, and he and Xun Er set out to find Xiao Xuan’s Tomb Mansion.
• Xiao Yan and Xun Er encountered Hun Ya and Hun Li, who summoned the Dou Saint Energy Bodies Hun Diao and another Elder to attack them.
• Xun Er activated her Seven-Colored Clan Mark to face the second Elder while Xiao Yan fought Hun Diao with his Heavenly Flames, armor, and techniques.
• Hun Diao unleashed a powerful palm strike, but Xiao Yan survived and continued fighting as Hun Diao’s Energy Body began to weaken.
• Hun Diao used his remaining Dou God Bloodline to launch the Zero Domain Heaven Seal, and Xiao Yan blocked it with the Ancient Devouring Insect Ball before invoking the Asura Soul Severing Technique—Saint Demon Slash.

Xiao Yan killed Hun Diao with the Asura Soul Severing Technique and, with Xiao Xuan’s help, defeated the remaining Hun Clan fighters. Xiao Xuan invited Xiao Yan and Xun Er to his Tomb Mansion, where he prepared to speak privately with Xiao Yan.

• Xiao Yan used the Asura Soul Severing Technique to annihilate Hun Diao and obtained his Dou Sheng-level Energy Core.
• The remaining Hun Clan Dou Saint Energy Body fled with Hun Ya and Hun Li, but Xiao Xuan appeared and trapped them.
• Xiao Yan and Xun Er killed the Hun Clan Dou Saint Energy Body, and Xiao Yan subdued Hun Ya and Hun Li and took them into his Void Space.
• Xiao Xuan led Xiao Yan and Xun Er to his Tomb Mansion, where Xiao Yan and Xun Er paid their respects to the Xiao Clan ancestor.
• Xiao Xuan invited Xiao Yan into the Tomb Mansion to speak with him.

Xiao Yan told Xiao Xuan how the Xiao Clan had fallen and promised to protect its surviving descendants. Xiao Xuan explained the Skyfire Three Mysterious Change and began transferring the Xiao Clan’s Dou God Bloodline to Xiao Yan.

• Xiao Yan entered the stone stele with Xiao Xuan and told him that his father had once been the strongest person in a Xiao Clan whose peak strength was only Five Star Da Dou Shi.
• Xiao Yan explained that the Xiao Clan survived within the Flame Alliance and swore to help it flourish, though he would not risk his clansmen’s lives by declaring war on the Hun Clan.
• Xiao Xuan told Xiao Yan that he could not be revived, then explained that the true Skyfire Three Mysterious Change used Heavenly Flames to temporarily raise the grade of the Xiao Clan’s Dou God Bloodline.
• Xiao Xuan learned that the Yan Clan might have taken the Red Lotus Karma Flame and Eight Desolations Destruction Flame, but noted that Xiao Yan’s Fen Jue let him fuse Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Xuan warned that the technique needed a foundation in the Dou God Bloodline, then began pouring his bloodline into the pool as his hair turned white and his face aged.

Xiao Yan inherited Xiao Xuan’s remaining Xiao Clan Dou God Bloodline, but the Dragon Phoenix and Hun Clan bloodlines within him forced him to balance all three powers before they could merge. After a year and a half of cultivation, he began a dangerous breakthrough and the second face of his Asura Soul Severing Technique awakened, leaving his tribulation underway.

• Xiao Xuan drew out his remaining Dou God Bloodline and urged Xiao Yan to inherit it and shoulder the Xiao Clan’s future.
• Xiao Yan endured nearly a month of absorbing the bloodline, but his Dragon Phoenix Bloodline resisted its fusion.
• Xiao Yan used the Emperor Soul Art to release the Hun Clan’s Dou God Bloodline, forming a balance among the three bloodlines with Xiao Xuan’s help.
• Xiao Xuan learned that Xiao Yan had recovered the Xiao Realm and accepted that the Xiao Clan’s future might require change.
• After a year and a half, Xiao Yan emerged from seclusion and controlled his rapidly rising Cultivation Level instead of losing himself.
• The second face of Xiao Yan’s Asura Soul Severing Technique awakened, and he began suppressing its calamity with the Skyfire Three Mysterious Change as eleven Heavenly Flames erupted.

Xiao Yan overcame the second tribulation of the Asura Soul Severing Technique with Xun Er’s help, and the pair completed their Heaven Tomb training. As they prepared to leave, Xun Er told Xiao Yan she would have to accept her clan’s inheritance and suggested he introduce her to Cai Lin.

• Xiao Yan’s eleven Strange Flames and Xiao Clan bloodline raised his Dou God Bloodline to God Grade as he endured the Asura Soul Severing Technique’s second tribulation.
• Xun Er entered Xiao Yan’s Soul Illusion Realm and helped him escape its temptations, allowing the second face to reach complete perfection.
• After the pair awoke near the end of their Heaven Tomb stay, Xiao Yan reached First Turn Peak Dou Zun while Xun Er refined the excess inheritance energy to reach Second Turn Peak Dou Zun.
• Xiao Yan recalled how he had saved Xun Er from the Golden Emperor Burning Flame when they were children, inadvertently awakening Venerable Yao’s inheritance and helping Xun Er develop a God Grade bloodline.
• Xun Er told Xiao Yan she would accept the Ancient Clan’s inheritance after leaving the Heaven Tomb and asked him to introduce her to Cai Lin.

Xiao Yan and Xun Er left the Heaven Tomb after Xiao Xuan gave Xiao Yan marks to help refine two Heavenly Flames and revealed that Breaking through the Heavens was a Dou God combat technique. Outside, Xiao Yan reunited with the other clans’ disciples, drew astonishment over his apparent gains, and asked the Yan Clan about buying the Red Lotus Karma Flame; the Heaven Tomb exit closed with Hun Ya and Hun Li still missing.

• Xiao Xuan gave Xiao Yan two marks that could help him refine the Red Lotus Karma Flame and the Eight Desolations Destruction Flame, then told him Breaking through the Heavens was a Dou God combat technique.
• Xiao Yan promised to return to the Heaven Tomb with Xiao Clan members before the space forcibly carried him and Xun Er out.
• Tong Xuan and the other elders watched Huo Xuan, Huo Zhi, Gu Qingyang, Human Medicine Child, and the other disciples emerge, then saw Xiao Yan and Xun Er appear later.
• Huo Xuan greeted Xiao Yan, who asked whether the Yan Clan would trade the Red Lotus Karma Flame for a Ninth Grade Pill; Huo Zhi refused to sell it, even for a Golden Pill.
• The Heaven Tomb exit closed after everyone emerged except Hun Ya and Hun Li, leaving the Hun Clan Elder worried.

Xiao Yan returned from the Heaven Tomb after the Hun Clan accused him of killing Hun Ya and Hun Li, and he learned that the Spirit Realm had vanished. He reached the Flame Alliance and was told Ya Fei wanted to discuss a Space Trading Fair that might be connected to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame Remnant Map.

• Hun Lin and another Hun Clan elder accused Xiao Yan of killing Hun Ya and Hun Li, but Tong Xuan stopped their attack and drove them away from the Gu Realm.
• Xiao Yan declined Tong Xuan's offer to stay in the Gu Realm, and Gu Yuan later spoke with him about Xun Er and the Xiao Clan before Xiao Yan departed.
• Gu Yuan warned Xun Er that the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame's appearance was approaching, and Xun Er said she understood what she had to do to be with Xiao Yan.
• Tong Xuan escorted Xiao Yan to the Flame Alliance, where Xiao Yan suspected the Void Swallowing Flame had destroyed the Spirit Realm to seize its Tuoshe Ancient Jade.
• Xiao Yan returned to Misty Cloud Sect, and Nalan Yanran told him that Ya Fei wanted to discuss a Space Trading Fair.

Xiao Yan learned that the final fragment map of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame would be offered at the Middle Continent’s Space Trading Fair in half a year, and he resolved to obtain it. He also learned that Cai Lin was fighting the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Tribe, leaving the Flame Alliance under pressure.

• Xiao Yan left Nalan Yanran and flew to the Mittel Auction House headquarters, where Ya Fei and Hai Bodong were waiting for him.
• Xiao Yan identified why Hai Bodong had failed to break through to Dou Zun and trapped him in a temporary ice secret realm to test himself.
• Ya Fei told Xiao Yan that the final fragment map of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame would be auctioned as the Space Trading Fair’s finale item in half a year.
• Xiao Yan said he would gather valuable resources through alchemy and obtain the fragment map, while Ya Fei explained that the Flame Alliance was struggling against Heaven Nether Sect and the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Tribe.
• Xiao Yan resolved to deal with the alliance’s enemies as Cai Lin continued fighting the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Tribe.

Xiao Yan invited Ya Fei and Xiao Yi Xian to join him at the Space Trading Fair, then brought Xiao Yi Xian to the ruined Xiao Realm to seek her help restoring it. He released Ancient Devouring Insects to purify the Wild Ancient Region’s storms and poison, beginning his effort to reclaim the Xiao Clan’s ancestral land.

• Xiao Yan reassured Ya Fei that she was not a burden and invited her to the Space Trading Fair in half a year.
• Xiao Yan checked on the Flame Alliance and Xiao Clan, guided the Ye Family alchemists, and reviewed the progress of Nalan Yanran and his relatives.
• Xiao Yan visited Xiao Yi Xian in Creation Valley and invited her to accompany him to the Xiao Realm.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian traveled to the Wild Ancient Region and found the fallen Xiao Realm buried in a deadly landscape.
• Xiao Yan revealed Ancient Devouring Insects, and Xiao Yi Xian recognized their potential to purify the environment and restore the land.