Chapter Summaries

After defeating four Ancient Clan fighters, Xuan Jin secured a quota for the Heavenly Tomb and drew Gu Yuan’s attention. Gu Yuan asked him to protect Xun Er inside, and Xuan Jin agreed in exchange for Gu Yuan safeguarding Cao Ying and the others in the Ancient Realm.

• Yao Xingji abandoned his plan to challenge Xuan Jin, while Hun Ya and Hun Li discussed killing him in the Heavenly Tomb and Mang Tianchi praised his victory.
• Xuan Jin returned to the Mountain-Side Courtyard, where Cao Ying, Cai'er, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin teased him about his arena performance.
• Gu Yuan arrived with Xun Er and asked Xuan Jin to protect her in the Heavenly Tomb from dangers including Hun Ya and Hun Li.
• Xuan Jin agreed to help Xun Er on the condition that Gu Yuan keep Cao Ying and the others safe in the Ancient Realm.
• Gu Yuan promised their safety and left with Xun Er, while Xuan Jin warned that he would deal with the Soul Clan if its members provoked him.

Xuan Jin entered the Heavenly Tomb, where he found that its first level offered little challenge to his strength. After leaving Xun Er to meet him on the second level, he discovered Huo Zhi besieged by energy bodies.

• Xun Er gave Xuan Jin an Ancient Clan Jade Tablet, and he gave her a Soul Jade Slip before the Heavenly Tomb opened.
• Gu Yuan sent Cao Ying and the other three women to the Heavenly Spring Ancient Pavilion and arranged pills and medicinal ingredients for them.
• Xuan Jin entered the Heavenly Tomb, destroyed a One-Star Dou Venerate energy body, and decided to meet Xun Er on the second level.
• Xuan Jin traveled through the first level, defeating energy bodies along the way, until he sensed a familiar battle in a valley.
• Xuan Jin found Huo Zhi struggling against more than a dozen Three-Star Dou Venerate energy bodies.

Xuan Jin rescued Huo Zhi from a swarm of energy bodies in the Heavenly Tomb and learned that his presence caused the Red Lotus Karma Flame to recoil. When Huo Zhi asked whether he came from the Pill Tower, Xuan Jin revealed that he had little memory of his origins, leaving her to suspect a connection to the Yan Clan.

• Xuan Jin descended into the valley and destroyed the energy bodies surrounding Huo Zhi with his Star Sea Ice Lotus Flame.
• Huo Zhi collected the crystal cores and explained that she had been separated from Huo Xuan and the other Yan Clan members after entering the Heavenly Tomb.
• Xuan Jin observed that Huo Zhi’s struggle against the energy bodies was worsened by her Red Lotus Karma Flame acting up near him.
• Huo Zhi asked whether Xuan Jin was truly from the Pill Tower, and he said his teacher had brought him there from outside and he remembered little of his past.
• Huo Zhi realized Xuan Jin’s unknown origins and ability to suppress Heavenly Flames might be connected to the Yan Clan.

Huo Zhi suspected Xuan Jin had a Yan Clan bloodline of extraordinary grade, but he refused to dwell on his origins and continued into the Heavenly Tomb. After crossing into the Second Layer, he began hunting stronger Energy Bodies to gather crystal cores and advance toward Half-Saint.

• Huo Zhi told Xuan Jin that the Red Lotus Karma Flame and her Clan Mark reacted to him as if his bloodline surpassed the Yan Clan Leader's, and she wondered if he had a reverted bloodline.
• Xuan Jin said his origins no longer mattered and that he was only Xuan Jin of the Pill Tower, while Huo Zhi decided to report her suspicions to the Yan Clan Leader after leaving the Heavenly Tomb.
• Huo Zhi set off to meet Huo Xuan and the others, and Xuan Jin traveled through the First Layer for three days toward the Second Layer.
• Xuan Jin crossed the stone gate into the Second Layer and found a group of Five-Star and Four-Star Dou Venerate Energy Bodies.
• Xuan Jin destroyed the Energy Bodies with the Star Sea Ice Lotus Flame, collected their crystal cores, and headed deeper into the Second Layer to seek stronger prey and approach Half-Saint.

Xuan Jin refined crystal cores in the second layer of the Heavenly Tomb, slightly loosening his bottleneck at the peak of Eight-Revolution Dou Venerate, while Xun Er and the others gathered on the first layer and set out for the second-layer entrance. The groups traveled together, unaware of what awaited them in the main passage.

• Xuan Jin sealed himself inside a cave and refined more than a dozen crystal cores, slightly loosening his bottleneck.
• Xuan Jin decided not to clear the Ancient Devouring Insects from the main passage for the other entrants.
• Xun Er defeated a Four-Star Dou Venerate energy body and met up with Gu Qingyang, Gu Hua, and Gu Zhen.
• Gu Qingyang and Gu Hua complained about the injuries and lingering burns Xuan Jin had inflicted on them.
• Huo Xuan and Huo Zhi joined the Ancient Clan group, and the two groups agreed to travel together toward the second-layer entrance.
• Xun Er and Huo Zhi continued to wonder about Xuan Jin as the group hurried through the first layer.

At the second layer of the Heavenly Tomb, the Ancient and Yan Clan groups encountered Hun Ya and Hun Li before splitting up to seek opportunities. Xuan Jin, cultivating in seclusion, received an urgent signal from Xun Er’s Jade Tablet, suggesting she was in serious danger.

• Huo Zhi worried that Xuan Jin might be a lost Yan Clan bloodline and that the Ancient Clan was trying to use him.
• Gu Qingyang’s group met Hun Ya and Hun Li at the teleportation array, but Hun Ya avoided a fight and entered the second layer with Hun Li.
• The Ancient and Yan Clan groups arrived in the crimson second layer and split up to pursue their own targets.
• Xuan Jin spent a month cultivating in a cave, refining energy-being cores and cracking the barrier at the peak of Eight-Revolution Dou Venerate.
• Xuan Jin’s Jade Tablet flashed with an urgent signal from Xun Er, and he realized she was facing serious danger.

Xuan Jin rescued Xun Er and the others from a swarm of Ancient Devouring Insects, then burned through the Insect Mother's Crystal Wall to reach the passage to the Third Layer. He and Xun Er and Huo Zhi crossed the spatial membrane first, with the rest following behind.

• Xuan Jin sensed several clans trapped by Ancient Devouring Insects and rushed to the basin to help Xun Er.
• Xuan Jin incinerated a large section of the insect swarm and sent the flames into Hun Ya and Hun Li, injuring them.
• Xuan Jin identified the Crystal Wall as the Insect Mother's barrier to the Third Layer, and Gu Qingyang's attack failed to damage it.
• Xuan Jin used the Star Sea Ice Lotus Flame to melt a passage through the Crystal Wall, leading Xun Er and Huo Zhi inside.
• Xuan Jin cleared the passage for the others, then crossed the spatial membrane into the Third Layer with Xun Er and Huo Zhi following.

Xuan Jin and Huo Zhi followed a powerful Yan Clan bloodline resonance through the third layer and found an ancient tomb chamber. Inside, they encountered the soul of an unknown red-haired Yan Clan elder whose pressure forced Huo Zhi to her knees.

• Xuan Jin and Xun Er sensed separate bloodline calls, so Xun Er headed northwest while Xuan Jin traveled northeast with Huo Zhi.
• Xuan Jin and Huo Zhi crossed the third layer, where he easily defeated powerful energy beings as the fire-attributed energy grew stronger.
• Xuan Jin found a massive tomb chamber, and its ancient Yan Clan aura caused both his and Huo Zhi's bloodlines to react.
• The bronze gate opened on its own, and Xuan Jin and Huo Zhi entered before the doors shut behind them.
• Xuan Jin discovered an old red-haired soul seated in the chamber, and Huo Zhi collapsed to her knees under the pressure of an Eight-Star Dou Sheng.

Xuan Jin met Flame Emperor, an ancient guardian of the Yan Clan Imperial Bloodline, who discovered Xuan Jin’s extraordinary Yan Clan bloodline and lamented that he had grown up outside the clan. Flame Emperor began reconsidering his old rules and expectations for the clan’s next Emperor Blood descendant.

• Flame Emperor confronted Xuan Jin about his powerful Yan Clan bloodline and demanded to know why he had no Clan Mark.
• Xuan Jin said he was not a Yan Clan member, and Huo Zhi suggested that he was lost Yan Clan blood who had undergone Bloodline Reversion.
• Xuan Jin explained that Gu Yuan had given him a Heavenly Tomb quota, prompting Flame Emperor to accuse Gu Yuan of scheming to win Xuan Jin’s favor.
• Flame Emperor introduced himself as the guardian of the Yan Clan Imperial Bloodline and recounted killing at least eighty Dou Saints during the ancient war.
• Flame Emperor lamented the decline of the Yan Clan Bloodline and questioned whether he should keep waiting for an Emperor Blood descendant raised within the clan.

The Flame Emperor gave Xuan Jin the Yan Clan's Emperor Blood and transferred his Soul Power, while Huo Zhi mastered the Pure Fire Art and controlled the Red Lotus Karma Flame. Xuan Jin reached Peak Half-Saint and the late Heaven Realm, then left with Huo Zhi to confront two Soul Clan enemies.

• The Flame Emperor offered Xuan Jin his Emperor Blood in exchange for a promise to protect the Yan Clan, and gave Huo Zhi the Pure Fire Art to refine her Red Lotus Karma Flame.
• The Flame Emperor opened an ancient blood pool and guided the Yan Clan's Emperor Blood into Xuan Jin, discovering his fused Dragon Phoenix Bloodline.
• Huo Zhi mastered the Red Lotus Karma Flame and reached the peak of the Nine-Star Dou Venerate realm while Xuan Jin continued absorbing the blood pool for two and a half years.
• Xuan Jin emerged at Peak Half-Saint and late Heaven Realm, awakened the Emperor Gold Mark, and received the Flame Emperor Burning Heaven Wheel.
• The Flame Emperor passed away after entrusting Xuan Jin with the Yan Clan's future, and Xuan Jin left with Huo Zhi to settle scores with two Soul Clan enemies.

Xuan Jin was ambushed by Hun Ya, Hun Li, and two Soul Clan Dou Saint Remnant Souls, but he overcame their coordinated attacks. He killed Hun Ya and Hun Li, while Hun Diao and Hun Xi remained occupied by his formation.

• Hun Ya and Hun Li enlisted Hun Diao and Hun Xi to ambush Xuan Jin near the Flame Emperor's Tomb Chamber.
• Xuan Jin sensed the ambush and told Huo Zhi to hide before the four Soul Clan members attacked him.
• Xuan Jin used the Five Rounds of Leaving Fire Technique to divide the attackers and isolate Hun Ya and Hun Li.
• Xuan Jin suppressed Hun Ya and Hun Li with his soul power and sealing techniques, then shattered their defenses with his flaming attacks.
• Xuan Jin killed Hun Ya and Hun Li with the Crimson Annihilation Divine Light.

Xuan Jin fought Hun Diao and Hun Xi after they destroyed his formation, ultimately killing both One-Star Dou Saint Energy Bodies. Huo Zhi emerged from hiding and asked in shock whether he had just killed two Dou Saints.

• Hun Diao and Hun Xi unleashed their full power and shattered Xuan Jin's Five Rounds of Leaving Fire Formation.
• Xuan Jin trapped the two Soul Clan elders in his Eight Extremes Flame Prison and attacked them with a gigantic imperial seal.
• Xuan Jin used the Flame Emperor Burning Heaven Wheel to fatally wound Hun Diao and Buddha's Rage Fire Lotus to destroy Hun Xi.
• Xuan Jin's Flame Emperor Burning Heaven Wheel finished off Hun Diao, and Xuan Jin collected both elders' crystal cores.
• Huo Zhi crawled out from the rocks and asked Xuan Jin if he had killed two One-Star Dou Saints.

After defeating two Soul Clan Energy Bodies, Xuan Jin hunted powerful Energy Bodies across the Heavenly Tomb to stockpile energy for a future breakthrough. On the last day, he reunited with Gu Xun Er and the Ancient Clan group, his strength and bloodline now surpassing even hers.

• Xuan Jin told Huo Zhi to keep the deaths of Hun Ya and Hun Li secret, but allowed her to reveal his identity to the Yan Clan if asked.
• Huo Zhi left to meet Huo Xuan, while Xuan Jin began hunting Half-Saint and One-Star Dou Saint Energy Bodies throughout the Third Level.
• Xuan Jin refined the crystal cores he collected and sealed their energy in his meridians and qi sea for a later attempt to reach the Dou Saint realm.
• With one day remaining before leaving the Heavenly Tomb, Xuan Jin stopped hunting and followed the Jade Tablet Xun Er had given him toward the northwest.
• Xuan Jin reached the Ancient Clan group and found Gu Xun Er holding a dense reserve of energy, while his own bloodline had grown stronger than hers.

Xuan Jin returned from the Heavenly Tomb with an awakened Yan Clan Mark, surprising Xun Er and the other prodigies. After the surviving cultivators were expelled, Hun You discovered that Hun Ya and Hun Li had died and fixed his furious gaze on Gu Qingyang.

• Xuan Jin told Xun Er he had awakened the Yan Clan Mark after inheriting an ancient Yan Clan senior’s legacy, though she remained suspicious of his explanation.
• The Heavenly Tomb’s three-year period ended, and its repulsive force sent the surviving prodigies back to the plaza.
• Cao Ying, Cai'er, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin greeted Xuan Jin, who asked whether anyone had troubled them while he was away.
• Hun You found Hun Ya and Hun Li’s life-bound soul tablets shattered and realized both Soul Clan prodigies had died.
• Yao Xingji and Mang Tianchi mocked the Soul Clan’s losses as Hun You lost control and stared at Gu Qingyang.

After the Heavenly Tomb ended, Gu Yuan stopped Hun You from blaming Gu Qingyang for the Hun Ya brothers’ deaths and ordered the clans to leave. Xuan Jin’s Peak Half-Saint strength and Yan Clan Emperor Gold Mark drew attention from Mang Tianchi and the Yan Clan, leaving Huo Xuan and Huo Zhi uncertain about his bloodline.

• Hun You demanded an explanation from Gu Qingyang for the deaths of the Hun Ya brothers, but Gu Yuan’s pressure forced him to withdraw.
• Gu Yuan ordered everyone to return and watched Xuan Jin, noting his rapid advancement and Yan Clan Emperor Gold Mark.
• Mang Tianchi questioned Xuan Jin about his strength and mark, then warned that the revelation would attract enemies before leaving with Lei Luo and Lei Xue.
• Huo Xuan approached Xuan Jin with complicated feelings about the possibility that he carried the Yan Clan’s Emperor Blood, then stepped aside.
• Huo Zhi stood before Xuan Jin, aware that her own advancement still left her feeling inferior to him.

Huo Zhi gave Xuan Jin a Yan Clan token, and he told Gu Yuan that his bloodline could not choose his path for him. Xuan Jin and his companions left the Ancient Realm for the Pill Tower, while Gu Xun Er watched them go.

• Huo Zhi gave Xuan Jin her Yan Clan Jade Tablet and left with Huo Xuan.
• Cao Ying, Cai'er, and Qing Lin teased Xuan Jin about the women around him before he led the group to speak with Gu Yuan.
• Xuan Jin told Gu Yuan he had inherited a Yan Clan senior's bloodline but remained Xuan Yi's disciple and would choose his own path.
• Xuan Jin said he would return to the Pill Tower, and he predicted the Yan Clan would come to him.
• Xuan Jin and his companions departed through the teleportation array as Gu Xun Er watched from the plaza.

Xuan Jin returned to the Pill Tower as a Peak Half-Saint and told Xuan Yi that he had awakened the Yan Clan Bloodline, but he declared his loyalty to the Pill Tower. Meanwhile, Huo Zhi returned to the Yan Clan and urgently reported that she had encountered someone with its bloodline.

• Xuan Jin and the four women returned to Saint Pill City, where the women entered seclusion to cultivate.
• Xuan Jin told Xuan Yi about his trip to the Ancient Clan, his experiences in the Heavenly Tomb, and his awakened Yan Clan Bloodline and Ancestral Emperor Blood.
• Xuan Yi worried that the Yan Clan would claim Xuan Jin, but he vowed to remain a man of the Pill Tower and her disciple.
• Huo Xuan and Huo Zhi returned to the Yan Clan's Burning Saint City after the Heavenly Tomb.
• Huo Zhi rushed to report to a Half-Saint elder that she had encountered someone with the Yan Clan Bloodline.

After learning that Xuan Jin possessed the Yan Clan’s Emperor Gold Mark and extraordinary power, Yan Jin decided to personally bring him back and address the clan’s past injustice. Yan Jin arrived at the Pill Tower with Huo Yao and Huo Zhi, where Xuan Jin and Xuan Yi awaited the coming storm.

• Huo Zhi told a Half-Saint elder that Xuan Jin had inherited a Yan Clan ancestor’s legacy, reached Peak Half-Saint, and awakened an Emperor Gold Mark.
• Huo Yao heard Huo Zhi’s account and reported it to Yan Jin, who connected Xuan Jin to a branch bloodline believed to have perished thirty years earlier.
• Yan Jin ordered preparations to visit the Pill Tower, then chose to go personally and vowed to bring Xuan Jin home and deliver justice to the branch.
• At the Pill Tower, Xuan Yi worried about the Yan Clan’s silence while Xuan Jin sensed its arrival.
• Yan Jin arrived above Saint Pill City with Huo Yao, Huo Zhi, and the Flame Saint Guards, announcing his visit to the Pill Tower.

Yan Jin arrived at the Pill Tower with elite guards and demanded to see Xuan Jin, prompting the tower’s leaders to prepare for a confrontation. After Lin Cang persuaded Yan Jin to ease his pressure, Xuan Jin appeared with Xuan Yi, and Yan Jin recognized the Emperor Gold Mark between Xuan Jin’s brows.

• Yan Jin arrived above Saint Pill City with his forces, and Xuan Kongzi and Tian Lei Zi called on Lin Cang to face him.
• Lin Cang met Yan Jin, who said he had come to see Xuan Jin, startling the Pill Tower’s leaders.
• Lin Cang asked Yan Jin to withdraw some of his pressure, and Yan Jin complied before descending with Huo Yao and Huo Zhi.
• Xuan Jin and Xuan Yi came to the plaza, where Xuan Yi moved protectively in front of him.
• Yan Jin saw the Emperor Gold Mark between Xuan Jin’s brows and recognized him as a powerful Yan Clan descendant.

Yan Jin explained that Xuan Jin might be the infant survivor of a Yan Clan branch purged thirty years earlier, and came to apologize and acknowledge him as kin. Xuan Jin listened without revealing his thoughts, recognizing the discovery as a potential bargaining chip.

• Yan Jin arrived at the Pill Tower, apologized to Xuan Jin, and asked to acknowledge kin after seeing his Emperor Gold Mark.
• Lin Cang led Yan Jin, Xuan Jin, and Xuan Yi to the Pill Tower Council Hall for a private discussion.
• Yan Jin asked whether Xuan Jin remembered his parents, and Xuan Jin said Xuan Yi had found him when he was very young.
• Yan Jin recounted how a Yan Clan branch was exterminated thirty years earlier after a child’s birth triggered unusual signs of powerful bloodline potential.
• Yan Jin said Huo Zhi had encountered Xuan Jin in the Heavenly Tomb and that his age, Emperor Gold Mark, and bloodline reversion matched the missing infant.
• Xuan Jin considered Yan Jin’s guilt and the clan’s debt useful leverage for his future ambitions.