Chapter Summaries

Xuan Jin prepared to visit the Yan Clan with Huo Zhi to claim its cultivation empowerment and Ancestral Hall inheritance. He left for the Yan Realm after reassuring Xuan Yi that he could handle the clan’s elders, whose concerns about his identity and Emperor Gold Mark awaited him.

• Huo Zhi told Xuan Jin about the Yan Clan’s empowerment and Ancestral Hall inheritance, and they agreed to leave for the clan in two days.
• Xuan Jin invited Huo Zhi to spend time with the others, and she joined Cao Ying, Ya Fei, Zi Yan, Tang Huo'er, and Xiao Xuanxi in the courtyard.
• Xuan Jin told Xuan Yi about the trip, and she warned him that Yan Jin might covet his Emperor Gold Mark and urged him to take Zi Yan along.
• Three days later, Xuan Jin and Huo Zhi entered a spatial passage toward the Yan Realm.
• Huo Zhi explained that Great Elder Yan Lie and other elders questioned Xuan Jin’s clan identity and feared his Emperor Gold Mark would upset their balance of power, while Xuan Jin said he would claim his opportunity and face anyone who interfered.

Xuan Jin arrived at the Yan Clan and entered its Ancestral Hall for a baptism meant to stabilize his Emperor Gold Mark with the clan’s Origin Fire. As the Myriad Flame Pool opened, his Star Sea Ice Lotus Flame sensed something in its depths that it desperately wanted to devour, and Xuan Jin prepared to enter.

• Xuan Jin and Huo Zhi arrived in the Yan Clan’s territory, where a Half-Saint elder escorted them to the Ancestral Hall.
• Xuan Jin met Yan Jin and the Yan Clan elders, then used his Half-Step Emperor Realm soul pressure to silence Great Elder Yan Lie.
• Yan Jin explained that the Yan Clan Origin Fire would temper Xuan Jin’s Emperor Gold Mark through a baptism in the Myriad Flame Pool.
• Xuan Jin’s Star Sea Ice Lotus Flame reacted to something beyond the sealed stone door, stirring his interest in the pool.
• Yan Jin and the elders opened the Myriad Flame Pool, and Xuan Jin’s flame roared with a desire to devour something deep within it.

Xuan Jin entered the Yan Clan’s Myriad Flame Pool and used the Burning Art to devour its Origin Flames, rapidly strengthening his Dou Qi. Three months later, Yan Lie protested that the pool’s reserves had fallen by thirty percent, but Yan Jin defended the cleansing and its value to the clan.

• Xuan Jin entered the Myriad Flame Pool and found its Origin Flames stirring the Star Sea Ice Lotus Flame within him.
• Xuan Jin activated the Burning Art and spread a vast fire net across the pool, drawing its Origin Flames into his body.
• Yan Lie criticized Xuan Jin’s arrogance and worried he would be harmed, while Yan Jin defended his strength and considered making him an honorary elder.
• Xuan Jin continued absorbing the Origin Flames for three months, using his powerful soul and fused Heavenly Flame to refine them rapidly.
• Yan Lie warned Yan Jin that the pool’s origin fluctuations had weakened by thirty percent, but Yan Jin said the cost was worthwhile for an Emperor Blood clansman.

After three months in the Myriad Flame Pool, Xuan Jin reached the peak of Two-Star Dou Saint and discovered an ancient chamber beneath the pool. There, his Emperor Gold Mark resonated with a drop of Emperor Blood, whose voice recognized him as a descendant.

• Xuan Jin finished absorbing the Myriad Flame Pool's reserves and advanced to peak Two-Star Dou Saint.
• Xuan Jin harvested all the Myriad Flame Spirit Grass around the pool and stored it for refining pills for Ying'er.
• The Emperor Gold Mark on Xuan Jin's forehead resonated with a force beneath the pool, and he plunged into the fiery vortex.
• Xuan Jin found an ancient underground cavern containing a drop of dark golden blood on a crimson altar.
• The blood reacted to Xuan Jin and spoke in his mind, saying that a descendant with Emperor Blood had finally arrived after thirty thousand years.

Xuan Jin met Yan Cang, a remnant of the Yan Clan’s orthodox Emperor Blood lineage, who revealed the lineage’s history and entrusted him with the last ancestor’s Emperor Blood. Yan Cang began using it to awaken Xuan Jin’s Emperor Gold Mark and raise his cultivation.

• An ancient voice recognized Xuan Jin’s Emperor Blood and revealed that it belonged to Yan Cang, younger brother of the Flame Emperor in the Heavenly Tomb.
• Xuan Jin entered the hidden space beneath the Myriad Flame Pool and met Yan Cang, who teased him for draining the pool’s reserves and taking its Spirit Grass.
• Yan Cang explained that he had hidden the last source of Emperor Blood after collateral branches seized power and his elder brother retreated to the Heavenly Tomb.
• Xuan Jin revealed that Yan Lie’s faction had exterminated his branch over thirty years earlier, and he vowed to kill Yan Lie in time.
• Yan Cang gave Xuan Jin the final drop of the last ancestor’s heart’s blood and promised it would awaken his ultimate Emperor Gold Mark and raise his cultivation to the Four-star Battle Saint level.

Xuan Jin accepted Yan Cang’s Emperor Blood and endured its violent energy and Dou Di insights as he began a dangerous breakthrough. Months later, an overwhelming pressure emerged from the Myriad Flame Pool, and Yan Jin realized Xuan Jin was charging toward an Emperor Realm Soul.

• Yan Cang explained that the Emperor Blood could strengthen Xuan Jin’s foundation and grant him insights into higher laws, but warned that its Dao Rhyme could overwhelm his soul and will.
• Yan Cang used his remaining strength to stabilize the space, then vanished into its spatial barrier after urging Xuan Jin to avenge their lineage’s grievances.
• Xuan Jin touched the Emperor Blood, endured its destructive energy, and circulated the Burning Art while absorbing the Dou Di memories flooding his consciousness sea.
• After several months, Yan Lie and the other elders worried that Xuan Jin’s absorption was weakening the Myriad Flame Pool, while Yan Jin insisted the cost was worthwhile.
• A powerful law-level pressure shook the Ancestral Hall and frightened the elders and Huo Zhi, whose Red Lotus Karma Flame trembled before it.
• Yan Jin stared at the stone door and recognized that Xuan Jin was charging toward an Emperor Realm Soul.

Xuan Jin broke through to the Peak Four-Star Dou Saint realm and awakened an Emperor Realm Soul after absorbing the Myriad Flame Pool’s power. He left the Ancestral Hall and confronted Yan Lie over the pool and the massacre of his branch, accusing Yan Lie of leading the attack.

• Xuan Jin’s soul entered the Emperor Realm, and his cultivation rose from Two-Star to Peak Four-Star Dou Saint.
• Yan Cang told Xuan Jin about another inheritance in the Ancestral Hall that he could claim after reaching Seven-Star Dou Saint, then fell silent.
• Yan Jin and Fairy Fire Spirit discussed Xuan Jin’s breakthrough while Yan Lie complained that he had drained the Myriad Flame Pool.
• Xuan Jin emerged from the stone chamber, and Yan Lie accused him of damaging the Yan Clan’s foundation by absorbing the pool’s energy.
• Xuan Jin reminded Yan Lie that his branch had been exterminated thirty years earlier and accused him of leading the attack.

Xuan Jin fought Yan Lie in the Ancestral Hall and killed him with an eight-colored Fire Lotus despite Yan Jin’s attempt to intervene. The story left Yan Jin and the elders staring at the destruction in stunned silence.

• Yan Lie attacked Xuan Jin, but Xuan Jin activated the Heavenly Flame Three Profound Changes and forced him back.
• Yan Lie summoned a Flame Giant Tiger, which Xuan Jin absorbed and refined with Myriad Flames Return to Ruins.
• Yan Lie used his blood essence to empower his flames, while Xuan Jin revealed eight Heavenly Flames and formed an eight-colored Fire Lotus.
• Yan Jin tried to shield Yan Lie, but the Fire Lotus melted through the shield and annihilated Yan Lie.
• Fairy Fire Spirit protected Huo Zhi as the blast damaged the hall, and Yan Jin stood beside the crater in silence.

Xuan Jin avenged his family by killing Yan Lie, and Yan Jin punished the elders who had helped him while concealing the truth from the clan. Afterward, Xuan Jin warned Yan Jin that the Soul Clan was preparing to seize control of the continent and that several ancient clans were dangerously vulnerable.

• Xuan Jin killed Yan Lie with a single attack and told Yan Jin that other elders had helped destroy his family.
• Yan Jin ordered the implicated elders stripped of their positions and imprisoned for life, then declared Yan Lie had died from a cultivation deviation.
• Fairy Fire Spirit praised Xuan Jin and left the Ancestral Hall, while Xuan Jin thanked Yan Jin for deliberately allowing him to take revenge.
• Yan Jin asked Xuan Jin to assess the continent, and Xuan Jin said the Soul Clan was plotting to obtain Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion.
• Xuan Jin criticized Gu Yuan and warned that the Yan Clan and Thunder Clan lacked Nine-star Dou Saints to withstand Hun Tiandi.
• Xuan Jin told Yan Jin that the Yao Clan, Stone Clan, and Spirit Clan had weakening bloodlines and were likely targets for the Soul Clan.

Xuan Jin told Yan Jin about Ancestor Yan Cang’s gift and hidden inheritance, then agreed to take Huo Zhi back to the Pill Tower. Yan Jin urged Huo Zhi to bear Xuan Jin a child for the Yan Clan, and the chapter ended as a violet-gold figure crashed in front of Xuan Jin after they arrived.

• Xuan Jin told Yan Jin that Ancestor Yan Cang had given him Emperor Blood and revealed an inheritance in the Ancestral Hall that he could claim after reaching Seven-Star Dou Saint.
• Xuan Jin said he would return to Zhongzhou to attend to the Pill Tower and his daughter, and Yan Jin gave him a Flame Marrow Bead for the child.
• Yan Jin asked Xuan Jin to take Huo Zhi with him, and Xuan Jin agreed.
• Before they departed, Yan Jin urged Huo Zhi to bear Xuan Jin a child to preserve his Emperor Gold Mark bloodline for the Yan Clan.
• Xuan Jin and Huo Zhi traveled through the spatial passage and arrived at the Lesser Pill Tower, where a violet-gold figure crashed in front of Xuan Jin.

Xuan Jin returned from the Yan Clan after avenging his family and rising to the peak of the Four-star Battle Saint realm with Emperor Realm Soul Power. He reunited with Zi Yan and his household, explained his gains, and revealed that Huo Zhi had been sent to stay with him as an informant.

• Xuan Jin returned with Huo Zhi, and Zi Yan greeted him before discovering his immense cultivation and soul-power advances.
• Xuan Jin and Zi Yan brought Huo Zhi back to his private courtyard, where Xuan Jin reunited with his daughter Xuan Xi and the others.
• Cao Ying and Ya Fei teased Xuan Jin about Huo Zhi joining the household, while Cai'er questioned her reason for coming.
• Xuan Jin told the group that he had killed Yan Lie and settled matters with the Yan Clan.
• Zi Yan revealed Xuan Jin's cultivation and Emperor Realm Soul Power, shocking everyone in the courtyard.
• Xuan Jin explained how he gained his strength and said Yan Jin had sent Huo Zhi to him as an informant.

After spending half a month tending to his family and companions, Xuan Jin prepared to answer the Ancient Clan’s long-standing invitation. He left Zi Yan to guard the Pill Tower and arrived alone at Ancient Holy City, where the city guards noticed his arrival.

• Xuan Jin told Cao Ying that he would rest at home before visiting the Ancient Clan to learn why they had invited him.
• For half a month, Xuan Jin balanced time with his family and companions, trained Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin, and checked on Xuan Yi’s cultivation.
• Xuan Jin promised Xuan Yi that he would help her reach Dou Saint and said he planned to leave for the Ancient Clan the next day.
• Xuan Jin said Zi Yan should remain behind to guard the Pill Tower in case Soul Hall caused trouble.
• Xuan Jin bid farewell to Cao Ying and the others, tore open space, and traveled alone to Ancient Holy City.
• Xuan Jin appeared outside Ancient Holy City, alerting the guards on its walls.

Xuan Jin entered the Ancient Realm with Gu Yuan’s invitation and was summoned to meet the Ancient Clan leader. Gu Yuan was stunned to discover Xuan Jin had reached Peak Four-Star Dou Saint and likely Emperor Realm soul power, then began considering a marriage alliance to bind him to the Ancient Clan.

• Xuan Jin presented Gu Yuan’s invitation to the Black Annihilation Army captain, who escorted him to the Ancient Realm’s spatial gate.
• Xuan Jin entered the Ancient Realm and sensed its dense energy and the floating Sky Ancient City.
• Gu Yuan detected Xuan Jin’s arrival and used spatial power to bring him directly to Heavenly Pivot Hall.
• Xuan Jin apologized for arriving late and told Gu Yuan that an inheritance in the Yan Clan’s Myriad Flame Pool had helped him break through.
• Gu Yuan inspected Xuan Jin and realized he had reached Peak Four-Star Dou Saint, with soul power likely at the Emperor Realm.
• Gu Yuan considered arranging a marriage alliance to tie Xuan Jin to the Ancient Clan.

Gu Yuan considered arranging a marriage alliance between Gu Xun Er and Xuan Jin, then brought Xuan Jin to witness Gu Xun Er’s breakthrough. The Ancient Clan elders were stunned by Xuan Jin’s power as they waited outside the Bloodline Hall.

• Gu Yuan considered Gu Xun Er the only suitable marriage match for Xuan Jin and reflected on how he had spread rumors about them two years earlier.
• Gu Yuan hinted at a marriage alliance while praising Xuan Jin, who recognized Gu Yuan’s scheme and responded politely.
• A golden pillar of fire erupted from the Ancient Realm, and Gu Yuan confirmed that Gu Xun Er had broken through to the Dou Saint realm.
• Gu Yuan invited Xuan Jin to the Bloodline Hall, where Ancient Clan elders and Black Annihilation Army commanders had gathered.
• Xuan Jin’s Peak Four-Star Dou Saint cultivation and Emperor Realm Soul pressure shocked the assembled Ancient Clan members.
• Gu Yuan introduced Xuan Jin as a Pill Tower visitor who had come to see Gu Xun Er emerge from seclusion.

Xuan Jin visited the Ancient Clan, where Gu Xun Er emerged from seclusion as a Peak One-Star Dou Saint and learned how far he had advanced. Gu Yuan then warned them that the Soul Clan was plotting something major and that the Spirit Clan and Stone Clan might already have met with disaster.

• Xuan Jin arrived at the Ancient Clan and shocked Gu Yuan, Gu Qingyang, and the elders with his Peak Four-Star Dou Saint strength and Emperor Realm Soul.
• Gu Xun Er emerged from the Bloodline Hall as a Peak One-Star Dou Saint, greeted Xuan Jin, and learned that he had reached Peak Four-Star Dou Saint.
• Gu Yuan dismissed the plaza crowd and brought Xuan Jin and Gu Xun Er to the Heavenly Pivot Hall to talk.
• Gu Yuan asked Xuan Jin about the Soul Hall’s mass collection of souls, and Xuan Jin said major factions knew of it but feared openly opposing the Soul Hall.
• Gu Yuan told Xuan Jin and Gu Xun Er that the Spirit Clan and Stone Clan might have met with disaster because their realms’ spatial barriers had been sealed shut.

Gu Yuan told Xuan Jin and Xun Er that the Spirit Clan and Stone Clan had likely fallen, then warned that the Soul Clan was too powerful for the Ancient Clan to face alone. Xuan Jin agreed that the Yan Clan would ally with the Ancient Clan if the Soul Clan made its move, leaving Gu Yuan reassured.

• Gu Yuan said he had found the Spirit Realm and Stone Realm sealed and believed something had happened to the Spirit Clan and Stone Clan.
• Gu Yuan asked Xuan Jin to represent the Yan Clan in an alliance with the Ancient Clan against the Soul Clan.
• Gu Yuan explained that the Soul Clan held a deeper foundation and more high-level fighters than the Ancient Clan, despite Xiao Xuan having slain four of its Eight-Star Dou Shengs.
• Xuan Jin assessed the Ancient Clan's military weakness and agreed that the clans would need to stand together.
• Xuan Jin assured Gu Yuan that Yan Jin would join the Ancient Clan if the Soul Clan threatened them, and Gu Yuan relaxed with relief.

Xuan Jin stayed in the Ancient Realm and told Xun Er that Soul Hall might have captured Xiao Yan, urging her to recognize how dangerous the Soul Clan was. Meanwhile, Gu Yuan argued to the Ancient Clan’s leaders that Xuan Jin’s loyalty and relationships made him a potential ally against the Soul Clan.

• Gu Yuan arranged for Xuan Jin to stay beside Xun Er’s residence, and Xun Er invited him to her courtyard while his room was being prepared.
• Xun Er asked whether there was news of Xiao Yan, and Xuan Jin warned that Soul Hall might have captured him for his soul.
• Xun Er said she wanted to become stronger, and Xuan Jin cautioned her about the Soul Clan’s power and her father’s pressures before leaving for his guest room.
• Gu Lie, Gu Dao, Gu De, and Gu Kun questioned whether the Ancient Clan should trust Xuan Jin because of his extraordinary strength.
• Gu Yuan said Xuan Jin valued his relationships and would become a powerful ally against the Soul Clan as long as the Ancient Clan did not cross his bottom line.

Gu Yuan tried to bind Xuan Jin to the Ancient Clan by showering him with resources and pairing him with Xun Er, but Xuan Jin accepted the gifts without developing romantic interest. After seven days in the Ancient Realm, Xuan Jin returned to Saint Pill City, where Cai'er greeted him.

• Gu Yuan and the other Ancient Clan elders decided Xuan Jin had little attachment to the Yan Clan and saw Xun Er as a way to secure his ties to the Ancient Clan.
• Gu Yuan sent Xuan Jin rare resources and ordered Xun Er to accompany him, while Xuan Jin openly accepted the gifts as a long-term investment.
• Xuan Jin told Xun Er he saw her as a friend and had no interest in marrying her, and the two spent their days quietly exploring the Ancient Realm as he gathered medicinal ingredients.
• On the eighth day, Xuan Jin left the Ancient Realm, and Gu Yuan told Xun Er that his taking the clan's resources had formed a bond with them.
• Xuan Jin returned to the Lesser Pill Tower in Saint Pill City, where Cai'er teased him about becoming the Ancient Clan's live-in son-in-law.

Xuan Jin returned from the Ancient Clan and reunited with Cai'er and the others at the Pill Tower. As they discussed family and the marriage alliances Gu Yuan and the Yan Clan had proposed, Xuan Yi reminded him that both clans wanted to bind him through their women.

• Cai'er welcomed Xuan Jin home, said she wanted to have a child with him, and told him that Xian'er and Qing Lin were in seclusion with the Bodhi Great Restoration Pills while Tang Huo'er was also pursuing a breakthrough.
• Cai'er told Xuan Jin that Xuan Yi was caring for Xuan Xi while Cao Ying, Ya Fei, and Huo Zhi helped with the Pill Tower's affairs.
• Xuan Jin told Cai'er that Gu Yuan had tried to match him with Gu Xun Er, but Xun Er already had someone in her heart and Xuan Jin had taken herbs from the Ancient Clan's treasure vault.
• Xuan Jin reunited with Xuan Xi, Xuan Yi, Cao Ying, Ya Fei, and Huo Zhi in Xuan Yi's courtyard and explained that Gu Yuan's marriage plan had failed.
• Xuan Yi reminded Xuan Jin that the Yan Clan and the Ancient Clan both wanted to form marriage alliances with him, with Yan Jin hoping Huo Zhi would bear his child and Gu Yuan hoping to bind him to the Ancient Clan through Xun Er.

Xuan Jin agreed to take Zi Yan and Cai'er to the Beast Domain to pursue Cai'er's opportunity and find Qing Lin a Dou Saint-level snake bodyguard. He also considered targeting Old Man Shennong's Life Spirit Flame after the trip, with Fairy Fire Spirit's help.

• Zi Yan returned with roasted meat and candied Spirit Fruits, then reminded Xuan Jin that they had promised to visit the Beast Domain for Cai'er and Qing Lin.
• Xuan Jin assessed the strength of the magical beast clans and concluded that he and Zi Yan could sweep through them.
• Xuan Jin considered devouring Old Man Shennong's Life Spirit Flame and thought about asking Fairy Fire Spirit to help secure it.
• Xuan Jin told Zi Yan that they would leave for the Beast Domain in a few days, and Zi Yan vowed to subdue anyone who resisted.