Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan was forced into a public challenge by Yang Hao, Third Commander of the Black Annihilation Army, who sought to defend the Ancient Clan’s dignity and punish Xiao Yan for winning Xun Er’s favor. Xiao Yan effortlessly endured Yang Hao’s three attacks and then sent him crashing across the platform with a single palm strike.

• Xiao Yan surveyed Ancient Saint City and reflected on the strength and influence of the Ancient Clan’s Dou Di bloodline.
• Ling Quan urged Yang Hao to confront Xiao Yan, and Yang Hao accused Xiao Yan of disrespecting the Ancient Clan and being unworthy of Xun Er.
• Yang Hao announced that he accepted Xiao Yan’s challenge, while the crowd blocked Xiao Yan’s path and turned hostile toward him.
• Xiao Yan accepted the fight and told Yang Hao to make the first three moves before he retaliated.
• Yang Hao’s three attacks failed to harm Xiao Yan, who then struck him with Breath Fire Palm and sent him crashing onto the distant platform.

Xiao Yan brutally defeated Yang Hao, then knocked Lin Xiu, the Ancient Clan’s Second Commander, off the stage before he could finish challenging him. Lin Xiu woke embedded in a wall with shattered bones and a sealed qi vortex, while Xiao Yan had already disappeared.

• Yang Hao charged Xiao Yan in a rage after losing, but Xiao Yan stomped him into submission and kicked him through the tavern furniture.
• Huo Zhi told her companions that Xiao Yan had killed Hun Miesheng and destroyed the Soul Hall, leaving them stunned by his strength.
• Lin Xiu arrived and rebuked Yang Hao for disgracing the Ancient Clan before challenging Xiao Yan on the stage.
• Xiao Yan struck Lin Xiu before he could finish speaking, sending him into a wall and shattering his bones while sealing his qi vortex.
• Lin Xiu realized Xiao Yan had vanished and wondered whether his strength had reached the level of an Eight- or Nine-Star Dou Zun.

Xiao Yan reunited with Xun Er in the Ancient Realm, where Gu Yao confronted him over his relationship with her. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan revealing his Dou Sheng power and overpowering Gu Yao.

• Xun Er welcomed Xiao Yan aboard the warship, while onlookers gossiped about her cultivation and her affection for him.
• Ling Quan and Hun Yu reacted to Xiao Yan's reunion with Xun Er, and Hun Yu recognized him as the one behind the Bodhi Ancient Tree incident.
• Gu Yao arrived, seized Xiao Yan's wrist, and demanded that he leave the Ancient Clan or be killed.
• Gu Yuan and the Great Elder watched from afar as Gu Yuan praised Xiao Yan's strength and acknowledged his hopes for repairing ties between the Ancient and Xiao Clans.
• Xiao Yan twisted Gu Yao's arm behind him and unleashed the power of a Dou Sheng.

Xiao Yan revealed his Dou Sheng strength, stunning Gu Yao and the young heirs of the ancient clans before Gu Yuan arrived to oversee the Sky Tomb expedition. As the massive gate opened, Xiao Yan prepared to enter and prove that Xun Er had made the right choice by staying with the Xiao Family.

• Xiao Yan overwhelmed Gu Yao with his Dou Sheng pressure, then let him go after acknowledging his potential.
• Gu Yuan arrived, greeted the ancient clans, and told the sixteen qualified youths that they could enter the Sky Tomb but must not kill one another.
• Xiao Yan taunted Hun Yu and Hun Lin over the Hun Clan’s attempts to seize the Tou She Ancient God Jade and attack his clansmen.
• Xun Er explained the Sky Tomb’s three levels and how its energy beings dropped cores that could be absorbed.
• Gu Yuan’s group reached the Sky Tomb, and a colossal silver gate appeared as Xiao Yan resolved to prove Xun Er’s choice was right.

Xiao Yan led the young experts into the Sky Tomb and used his Emperor Flame to sweep up the first level’s Energy Cores, then shared them among everyone except the Hun Clan youths. On the second level, he gathered stronger cores for Xun Er to absorb and noticed a fleeting Flame Lotus Clan Crest on his forehead.

• Gu Yuan personally oversaw the opening of the Sky Tomb, and Xiao Yan entered with Xun Er and the other young experts.
• Xiao Yan’s Emperor Flame destroyed the first level’s Energy Bodies and gathered their Energy Cores.
• Xiao Yan divided the first level’s cores among the other clans, refusing Hun Yu and Hun Ya a share when they demanded one.
• Xiao Yan and Xun Er reached the second level, where Xiao Yan collected several thousand higher-quality Energy Cores for Xun Er to refine.
• As Xun Er broke through, a Flame Lotus Clan Crest briefly appeared on Xiao Yan’s forehead, and he wondered at the surge in his Dou Qi.

Xiao Yan and Xun Er swept through the Sky Tomb’s third layer, where Xun Er rapidly advanced by absorbing powerful Energy Cores. After Xiao Yan killed Hun Xiu, two more skeletal Energy Bodies arrived and confronted him.

• Xun Er absorbed the second layer’s Energy Cores and advanced to Six-Star Dou Zun before joining Xiao Yan in the third layer.
• Xiao Yan gathered powerful Energy Cores as Xun Er advanced to Dou Zun Peak and then Advanced Half-Saint.
• Xiao Yan killed Hun Xiu, a Six-Star Dou Sheng Energy Body from the Hun Clan, and turned him into an Energy Core.
• Heavenly Fire Venerable regretted that Xiao Yan had destroyed Hun Xiu before asking where his body was buried, and Xiao Yan promised to find him a Seven-Star Dou Sheng body.
• Two skeletal Energy Bodies appeared in black mist, noticed Hun Xiu’s disappearance, and identified Xiao Yan as a descendant of the Xiao Clan.

Xiao Yan and Xun Er faced two Seven Star Dou Sheng Hun Clan energy bodies in the Heavenly Tomb, and Xiao Yan risked unleashing a catastrophic Fire Lotus to fight them. Just before their attacks collided, Xiao Xuan appeared, halted both techniques, and drove the Hun Clan experts to flee.

• Two Hun Clan Seven Star Dou Sheng energy bodies recognized Xiao Yan and attacked him and Xun Er.
• Xun Er urged Xiao Yan to escape, but he summoned sixteen Heavenly Flames and formed a devastating Fire Lotus.
• Xun Er used her God Grade Bloodline and Great Extinction Finger to hold off the Hun Clan experts, but they blasted her away.
• Xiao Yan prepared to release his Fire Lotus as the Hun Clan experts formed a black mountain technique, alarming the other energy bodies nearby.
• Xiao Xuan emerged from the depths of the Heavenly Tomb and stopped both attacks with his Dou Qi, forcing the Hun Clan experts to flee.

Xiao Xuan welcomed Xiao Yan and Xun Er to his Tomb Mansion, gave Xiao Yan two Heavenly Flames and a new fusion method, and allowed Xun Er to take treasures from his treasury. Xiao Yan began entering the blood pool while Xun Er opened the treasury and froze at what she saw.

• Xiao Xuan sensed four bloodlines in Xiao Yan and discovered that one was stronger than the others.
• Xiao Xuan learned that the Xiao Clan had declined and gave Xiao Yan two Heavenly Flames, which Xiao Yan devoured to advance to the early Four Star Dou Sheng realm.
• Xiao Yan preserved the flames' origins, and Xiao Xuan shared his insights into fusing Heavenly Flames and bloodlines.
• Xiao Xuan invited Xun Er to take treasures from his treasury as Xiao Yan entered the blood pool.
• Xun Er opened the treasury doors and froze at what she saw.

Xiao Yan absorbed Xiao Xuan’s remaining Dou Di bloodline, perfectly fused his twenty-three Heavenly Flames, and comprehended a powerful Heaven Rank Dou Skill. He and Xun Er then confronted two Hun Clan Dou Shengs in the Heavenly Tomb Third Layer, where Xiao Yan revealed the strength of his new Fire Lotus Clan Crest.

• Xun Er collected Xiao Xuan’s Energy Cores while Xiao Yan absorbed the remaining Dou Di bloodline from the blood pool.
• Xiao Yan’s Fire Lotus bloodline overwhelmed his other bloodlines, and he perfectly fused his twenty-three Heavenly Flames into the Emperor Flame.
• Xiao Yan comprehended the Heaven Rank High-Level Dou Skill Moonlit Star Soul Lotus and reached the peak of Four Star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Xuan explained that only a Dou Di body could restore him, and Xiao Yan promised to find one; Xun Er emerged from the storeroom as a Five Star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yan and Xun Er found two Hun Clan Dou Shengs and fought them, with Xiao Yan’s Fire Lotus Clan Crest raising his aura to the peak of Five Star Dou Sheng.

Xiao Yan and Xun Er defeated two Hun Clan Dou Sheng energy bodies in the Sky Tomb and claimed a Hun Clan Eight Star Dou Sheng skeleton. When they emerged, the Ancient Clan elders were stunned by their rapid rise in strength.

• Xiao Yan shattered a Hun Clan Dou Sheng’s Corrosion Spear with his Vajra Glazed Body and burned the Seven Star Dou Sheng energy body to nothing.
• Xun Er defeated the remaining Hun Clan Dou Sheng with her Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame and Great Extinction Finger, and Xiao Yan gave her the recovered Energy Core.
• Xiao Yan took the Hun Clan Eight Star Dou Sheng skeleton from an empty tomb and set off with Xun Er for the Sky Tomb exit.
• The Second Elder and other Ancient Clan elders urged Gu Yuan to separate Xun Er from Xiao Yan and arrange her marriage to Gu Yao, but Gu Yuan said Xun Er should decide her own future.
• Hun Ya blamed Xiao Yan for taking most of the First Layer’s Energy Cores, and Hun Lin vowed to punish him when he emerged.
• Xiao Yan and Xun Er left the Sky Tomb, and the observers were shocked to sense Xiao Yan at peak Four Star Dou Sheng and Xun Er at Five Star Dou Sheng.

Xun Er emerged from the Sky Tomb as a Five Star Dou Sheng, silencing the Ancient Clan elders’ objections, while Xiao Yan learned that the Dragon Kings and their allies had attacked Ancient Dragon Island. He rushed toward Void Space as Zi Yan emerged from her transformation early and confronted the North Dragon King with the Dragon Slaying Sword.

• Xun Er revealed her Five Star Dou Sheng strength, ending the Ancient Clan elders’ opposition to her relationship with Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan heard the Spirit Clan elder warn that black flames had appeared around the Spirit Realm, then learned the Three Dragon Kings and their allies had attacked Ancient Dragon Island to seize Zi Yan’s bloodline.
• Yao Xiaotian and the South Dragon King overpowered Eastern Dragon Island’s defenders while the North Dragon King prepared to kill Qing Mu and Qing Shan.
• Zi Yan emerged from her transformation as a Three Star Dou Sheng, stopped the North Dragon King’s attack, and formed the Dragon Slaying Sword.

Zi Yan summoned the Dragon Slaying Sword, claimed the Dragon Emperor’s authority, and killed the South and West Dragon Kings while wounding the North Dragon King. The North Dragon King summoned Huang Tian and the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan, who joined him in seeking the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and Zi Yan’s throne.

• Zi Yan revealed the Dragon Slaying Sword, and the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s elders and guards bowed to her as Dragon Emperor.
• The South and West Dragon Kings attacked Zi Yan, but she killed them with two strikes of the Dragon Slaying Sword.
• Zi Yan struck the North Dragon King, severing his right arm when his Sky Curtain Dragon Armor failed to stop her sword.
• The North Dragon King called on Huang Tian and the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan, revealing that he had given them the coordinates of Void Space.
• Huang Tian crushed Zi Yan’s sword light with his phoenix claw and agreed with the North Dragon King to take the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and Dragon Emperor’s throne.
• The North Dragon King called on the dead West and South Dragon Kings to lend him their bodies.

North Dragon King absorbed West Dragon King and South Dragon King, then fought Zi Yan while Huang Tian’s forces overwhelmed the Ancient Dragon Clan. The Heavenly Mansion Alliance arrived in Void Space and confronted Huang Tian, leaving the battle poised for a new turn.

• North Dragon King absorbed West Dragon King and South Dragon King, reached the peak of Six Star Dou Sheng, and attacked Zi Yan while Huang Tian led the Heaven Demon Phoenix and Nine Nether Earth Python clans against the Ancient Dragon Clan.
• Huang Tian killed two Half-Saint elders, struck Zhu Li into Ancient Dragon Island, sent Xiong Zhan flying, and knocked Bai Ya unconscious.
• Yao Xiatian urged Huang Tian to kill Qing Lin for her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, and Huang Tian moved to gouge out her eyes.
• A sword ray killed Jiu Feng, and more than a dozen Heavenly Mansion Alliance experts emerged from a spatial passage.
• Yun Yun declared the Ancient Void Dragon Clan a member of the Heavenly Mansion Alliance and threatened to slaughter the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan if Huang Tian’s forces did not leave Void Space.

The North Dragon King and Huang Tian fought the Heavenly Mansion Alliance and Ancient Void Dragon Clan on Ancient Dragon Island, but their forces suffered heavy losses. After Zi Yan broke through to Four Star Dou Sheng and wounded the North Dragon King, he devoured Huang Tian and fused their bloodlines, emerging as a Seven Star Dou Sheng and setting his sights on Zi Yan.

• Yun Yun, Medusa, and Xiao Yi Xian attacked Huang Tian while the Heavenly Mansion Alliance and its allies clashed with the enemy forces.
• Little Purple killed Yao Xiaotian, and Xiong Zhan, Bai Ya, and Ancient Void Dragon Half Saints attacked the Nine Nether Earth Python Clan's Great Elder.
• Zi Yan broke through to Four Star Dou Sheng and used the Dragon Slaying Sword to badly wound the North Dragon King and Huang Tian.
• The North Dragon King swallowed Huang Tian and refined his flesh and blood to fuse their power.
• The North Dragon King transformed into a Seven Star Dou Sheng and declared that he would devour Zi Yan.

The North Dragon King overwhelmed the Heavenly Mansion Alliance and nearly devoured Zi Yan, but Xiao Yan arrived and killed him with the Moonlit Star Soul Lotus. The Ancient Dragon Clan and the alliance celebrated Xiao Yan’s victory.

• The North Dragon King blasted the alliance’s experts aside and devoured Feng Qing'er along with surviving members of the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.
• The North Dragon King wounded Zi Yan as she defended the Ancient Dragon Clan, while elders from all four islands burned their bloodlines to protect her.
• Zi Yan prepared to burn her Dragon Phoenix Bloodline, but the North Dragon King pierced her chest and lifted her toward his mouth.
• Xiao Yan struck the North Dragon King with the Moonlit Star Soul Lotus, trapping him in a spatial sphere and killing him.
• The crowd recognized Xiao Yan as the Alliance Lord and cheered his victory.

Xiao Yan refined the North Dragon King's Star Bead into a Ninth Grade Golden Pill for Zi Yan, then set out to claim the descending Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. At its arrival, Hun Miesheng revealed himself as a Seven Star Dou Sheng, and Yao Wangui of the Yao Clan appeared before Xiao Yan.

• Xiao Yan refined the North Dragon King's Star Bead into a Ninth Grade Golden Pill and gave it to Zi Yan to help her inherit the North Dragon King's bloodline.
• Xiao Yan and Heavenly Fire Venerable witnessed the signs of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame's descent, and the Demonic Flame Remnant Map sent a mysterious ray into Xiao Yan before turning to ash.
• Xiao Yan and Heavenly Fire Venerable flew to the flame's arrival site, where powerful Dou Sheng and Dou Zun gathered beside a vast milky-white desert.
• Hun Miesheng revealed himself as the real Hall Master of the Soul Hall and said the Hun Miesheng Xiao Yan had fought before was only an avatar.
• Hun Miesheng claimed Xiao Yan would not defeat him as easily this time, and Heavenly Fire Venerable suspected he had advanced by devouring soul bodies.
• Yao Wangui of the Yao Clan called out to Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan killed Yao Wangui after Yao Tian insulted Yao Lao, openly challenging the Yao Clan to answer for its past treatment of his teacher. As Xiao Yan prepared to face Hun Miesheng, the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s seal began to loosen.

• Xiao Yan warned Yao Wangui and Yao Tian to leave, promising to visit the Yao Clan over its mistreatment of Yao Lao.
• Yao Tian attacked Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan revealed his Four Star Dou Sheng strength and struck Yao Wangui through his defenses.
• Xiao Yan killed Yao Wangui with the Five Seals Combined as One and shattered Yao Tian’s right arm, telling him to report that Xiao Yan of the Xiao Clan had done it.
• Yao Tian fled toward the Medicine Realm, while Hun Miesheng praised Xiao Yan’s strength and threatened to stop him.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s seal loosened, flooding the distance with milky-white light as the desert became a sea of milky-white magma.

Xiao Yan entered the Demon Flame Space to pursue the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, but its illusions scattered and endangered the intruders. After escaping an illusion and rescuing Heavenly Fire Venerable and other experts, he faced a group of Fire Slaves, one of whom bore a familiar Xiao Clan aura.

• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame opened a vast halo, and Xiao Yan entered the Demon Flame Space after Heavenly Fire Venerable while Hun Miesheng followed them inside.
• Heavenly Fire Venerable clashed with Hun Miesheng, forcing Hun Miesheng to abandon his attack and enter the space ahead of Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan encountered Soul Emperor, who showed him his father's bloodied robe and triggered an illusion of the Xiao Family's dead.
• Xiao Yan recognized the illusion, expelled the demon flame from his body, and awakened Heavenly Fire Venerable and several nearby experts.
• Fire Slaves emerged from distorted space and killed a Dou Zun Peak, while Xiao Yan's lotus mark reacted to a figure identified as a member of the Xiao Clan.

Xiao Yan rescued Blood Axe Xiao Chen from the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s control and learned that the Xiao Clan had been destroyed while Xiao Chen was trapped for a thousand years. With Xiao Chen freed, the battle was about to resume as the surrounding Dou Sheng experts prepared to act.

• Fire Slaves swarmed the Demon Flame Plains, killing many of the weaker experts while Xiao Yan fought them off.
• A blood-red axe killed a bamboo-hatted Dou Sheng, and the Xiao Clan pattern on Xiao Yan’s forehead resonated with Xiao Chen’s.
• The experts recognized the Fire Slave as Blood Axe Xiao Chen, Xiao Xuan’s cousin, and Hun Miesheng attacked him from behind.
• Xiao Yan reached Six Star Dou Sheng strength and met Hun Miesheng’s punch before retreating with Xiao Chen.
• Xiao Yan forced the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame out of Xiao Chen, who learned that a thousand years had passed and the Hun Clan had exterminated the Xiao Clan.
• As Xiao Chen recognized Xiao Yan as a member of the Xiao Clan, an unseen opponent declared that their reunion had to end.

Hun Miesheng and Xiao Yan fought over the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, which appeared as the Purification Lotus Demon Saint before Xiao Yan exposed the illusion. The flame allied with Hun Miesheng to attack Xiao Yan, and Hun Miesheng unleashed a mysterious force that revealed the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan.

• Hun Miesheng summoned a Heaven Rank High-Level Dou Skill, but the Purification Lotus Demon Saint appeared and stopped his descending blade.
• The Demon Saint warned the gathered experts to leave and displayed the source of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Xiao Yan recognized the white-robed figure as the flame’s illusion and attacked it with his Emperor Flame.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame revealed its true form and allied with Hun Miesheng, who promised the Hun Clan would not refine it.
• Xiao Yan fought Hun Miesheng and the flame as Heavenly Fire Venerable joined the battle.
• Hun Miesheng exploded a Storage Ring, opening countless chilling pupils across the sky and exposing the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan.