Chapter Summaries

After Gu Yuan, Xuan Jin, and their allies captured Nihility Devouring Flame, they discussed taking him to the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion. The Soul Clan’s four Demon Saints concealed the loss while Hun Tiandi remained in seclusion refining the Emperor Pill.

• Hun Tu, Hun Sha, Hun Jing, and Hun Yan awoke and realized Gu Yuan and Xuan Jin had captured Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Hun Jing urged the others to suppress the news until Hun Tiandi emerged from seclusion, and the four agreed.
• Zhu Kun complained that he had not fought, while Gu Yuan and the others praised Xuan Jin’s coordination in sealing Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Gu Lie asked what they would do with their captive, and Xuan Jin proposed taking him to the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion to absorb him safely and pursue its inheritance.
• Zhu Kun volunteered to accompany Xuan Jin, claiming his role as Xuan Jin’s father-in-law made it his duty.

Xuan Jin returned to Saint Pill City with Zhu Kun, reunited him with Zi Yan, and received Gu Xun Er’s questions about Xiao Yan. The next morning, Xuan Jin and Zhu Kun traveled to the outskirts of Jia Nan Academy and descended toward the Ancient Emperor’s Cave Mansion.

• Xuan Jin and Zhu Kun returned to the Flower Hall, where Xuan Jin introduced Zhu Kun to Cao Ying, Xiao Yi Xian, and Cai'er.
• Zhu Kun reunited with Zi Yan and agreed to wait until morning before setting out for the cave mansion.
• Gu Xun Er asked Xuan Jin about the Ancient Clan’s movements and Xiao Yan; Xuan Jin reported capturing Nihility Devouring Flame but had no news of Xiao Yan.
• Ya Fei advised Xuan Jin that the wounded Soul Clan was unlikely to act soon, and Xuan Jin told her to keep watch.
• At dawn, Xuan Jin and Zhu Kun traveled to Jia Nan Academy, entered the Heavenly Incineration Qi Refining Tower, and descended toward the magma world.

Xuan Jin entered the Ancient God's statue to absorb its complete inheritance, strengthening his foundation and understanding of fire, alchemy, and source qi. After two months, he prepared to confront the sealed Nihility Devouring Flame.

• Zhu Kun and Xuan Jin explored the plaza and discussed the Heavenly Flames, the Emperor Grade Embryonic Pill, and the inheritance sealed within the statue.
• Xuan Jin told Zhu Kun to guard the entrance while he entered the statue's glowing chest to cultivate.
• Xuan Jin absorbed the Ancient Emperor's insights into the Great Dao of Fire, alchemy, and source qi over two months.
• Xuan Jin emerged with a reforged foundation and sensed Nihility Devouring Flame stirring inside its Jade Slip.
• Xuan Jin summoned the Star Sea Ice Lotus Flame and formed a domain with ten Heavenly Flames before calling Nihility Devouring Flame out.

Xuan Jin absorbed Nihility Devouring Flame and combined its origin with Ancient Emperor's origin source energy and the Medicine Emperor's fire-path foundation to break through to Dou Emperor. His breakthrough shook the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion and awakened the bloodline mark in Xuan Xi, while Hun Tiandi also struggled to absorb an Emperor Grade Embryonic Pill and reached the threshold of Dou Emperor.

• Xuan Jin used the Star Sea Ice Lotus Flame and the Medicine Emperor Origin Essence to dismantle Nihility Devouring Flame and merge its power into his ten Heavenly Flames.
• Xuan Jin combined Ancient Emperor's origin source energy, Nihility Devouring Flame's origin, and the Medicine Emperor's fire-path foundation to break through the barrier between Dou Saint and Dou Emperor.
• Hun Tiandi spent half a year suppressing the Emperor Grade Embryonic Pill's backlash and absorbing most of its origin source energy, reaching the threshold of Dou Emperor with an unstable foundation.
• Xuan Jin shattered the final barrier and released a pure violet-gold Imperial Dao aura that made the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion tremble.
• Zhu Kun sensed Xuan Jin's breakthrough and recognized the aura as exceptionally pristine, while natural energy converged on the cave mansion.
• Xuan Xi felt Xuan Jin's aura in Saint Pill City, and the dormant violet-gold bloodline mark within her qi sea awakened as her Dou Qi surged.

Xuan Xi suddenly broke through from Dou Ling to five-star Dou Saint, alarming her family and the Pill Tower. The Pill Tower Ancestor revealed that her violet-gold brow mark showed Emperor Blood awakening, and the surge of origin energy marked the birth of a new Emperor.

• Xuan Xi's aura surged from Dou Ling through successive realms until she reached five-star Dou Saint, leaving Cao Ying, Xiao Yi Xian, Ya Fei, Qing Lin, and Zi Yan stunned.
• Xuan Xi told Cao Ying that she felt stronger and could sense birds outside the courtyard with her eyes closed.
• Cai Lin and Xuan Yi hurried to the Flower Hall, examined Xuan Xi, and confirmed her immense, pure Dou Saint aura.
• Cao Ying connected Xuan Xi's breakthrough to the energy surge and worried about Xuan Jin, who had gone to the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor arrived and identified the violet-gold mark on Xuan Xi's forehead as Emperor Blood awakening, saying the continent's origin energy had celebrated a new Emperor's birth.

Xuan Jin broke through to the Three-Star Dou Emperor realm in the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion and awakened a towering violet-gold Supreme Dharma Body. Its Emperor Dao pressure spread across the continent, compelling fire-related powers to submit to him.

• The Pill Tower Ancestor told the Flower Hall that Xuan Jin had become a Dou Emperor and that the Emperor Dao Origin had awakened Xuan Xi's dormant Emperor Blood.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor warned that Xuan Jin's ascension produced an unprecedented amount of Origin Qi and that he had likely advanced far beyond an ordinary breakthrough.
• Zhu Kun sensed Xuan Jin's aura pouring from the statue and realized it surpassed the Dao resonance he had once felt from Tou She Ancient God.
• Xuan Jin's realm rose to Three-Star Dou Emperor as the Ancient Emperor Origin Qi, Nihility Devouring Flame origin, and Medicine Emperor's Fire Dao foundation merged into one.
• Xuan Jin manifested a towering violet-gold Supreme Dharma Body, whose Emperor Dao pressure spread through the cave dwelling and beyond.
• Fire-related forces across the Dou Qi Continent responded to Xuan Jin's aura, and the fire laws acknowledged him as their new master.

Xuan Jin completed his breakthrough to three-star Dou Emperor and prepared to leave the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion. His emergence shook the continent's fire laws, helped Huo Zhi break through to three-star Dou Saint, and left the Ancient Clan certain he could end the Soul Clan's upheaval.

• Xuan Jin stabilized his three-star Dou Emperor realm after reshaping the fire laws through his breakthrough.
• Gu Xun Er and Gu Yuan sensed the fire path submitting to a new Dou Emperor and realized Xuan Jin had succeeded.
• Xuan Jin concealed his Emperor's aura and headed for the cave mansion's exit as Zhu Kun urged him to come out.
• Huo Zhi absorbed the awakened Yan Clan bloodline's power, broke through from peak Half-Saint to three-star Dou Saint, and wondered whether Xuan Jin had succeeded.

Xuan Jin emerged from the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion after becoming a Dou Emperor, and his breakthrough caused the Yan Clan bloodline and cultivations to surge. He returned with Zhu Kun to Saint Pill City, where his family and companions awaited him.

• The upheaval in the Myriad Flame Pool loosened the Yan Clan bloodline, allowing Yan Jin to break through to the Nine-Star Dou Saint realm and Fairy Fire Spirit to reach the late stage of the Eight-Star Dou Saint realm.
• Fairy Fire Spirit recognized that Xuan Jin had become a Dou Emperor, and Yan Jin ordered the clan to prepare while he led a team to Saint Pill City.
• Xuan Jin emerged from the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion and told Zhu Kun that the Yan Clan would likely experience breakthroughs, while Hun Tiandi remained trapped by the Emperor Pill's power.
• Zi Yan, Cao Ying, Ya Fei, Cai Lin, Huo Zhi, and others waited in the Pill Tower Branch Courtyard as Xuan Jin's return drew near.
• Xuan Jin and Zhu Kun descended into the courtyard through a violet-gold fissure in the sky.

Xuan Jin returned from the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion with Zhu Kun and reunited with his family and companions. He helped Xuan Xi contain her powerful Dou Saint aura, then welcomed Huo Zhi's news of her breakthrough, though she left disappointed by his brief response.

• Xuan Jin returned with Zhu Kun, and Cao Ying asked whether his mission had succeeded; he told her it had.
• Xuan Xi rushed into Xuan Jin's arms, and he found that her five-star Dou Saint power was difficult for her to control.
• Xuan Jin sealed Xuan Xi's excess power, lowering her visible cultivation to the peak of Nine-Star Dou Venerate until she learned to control it.
• Xuan Jin reunited with Cai'er, while Zhu Kun struggled to adjust to finding his daughter Zi Yan married to someone else.
• Huo Zhi told Xuan Jin she had reached three-star Dou Saint, and he called it merely not bad; Tang Huo'er then revealed that Huo Zhi had come to wait for him.

Xuan Jin set aside Pill Tower and outside affairs for three days to spend time with his family. As they shared meals and explored the medicinal garden, they discussed Xuan Xi’s seal and Cai’er’s pregnancy, while Zhu Kun found himself reluctant to return to Dragon Island.

• Xuan Jin declared that he would ignore outside guests and other affairs for three days, and he laid a barrier around the courtyard to begin the family’s leisure time.
• At breakfast, Cao Ying urged Xuan Xi to eat and accept that she could now fight only at the Dou Venerate level, while Zhu Kun teased Xuan Jin about his past.
• Xuan Yi and Xiao Yi Xian discussed adjusting Xuan Xi’s seal and revising a Fetal-Stabilizing Pill for Cai’er’s unborn child, and Cai’er said the child had kicked her three times.
• The family visited the rear mountain, where Xiao Yi Xian examined medicinal plants and Tang Huo’er tried her fire-control technique with Huo Zhi.
• Xuan Xi asked Xuan Jin when she could learn fire control, and he told her to memorize more pill formulas first.
• Zhu Kun watched Xuan Jin, Zi Yan, and Xuan Xi together and realized he felt reluctant to return to Dragon Island.

Xuan Jin visited Xuan Yi secretly, and the two acknowledged their feelings and spent the night together. By morning, Xuan Jin had decided to go alone to the Soul Clan to assess Hun Tiandi’s condition, while Xuan Yi warned him to remember the people depending on him.

• Xuan Jin slipped away from Cao Ying and visited Xuan Yi in her courtyard on the last night of the three-day deadline.
• Xuan Jin embraced Xuan Yi, told her he loved her, and the two kissed.
• Xuan Jin asked Xuan Yi to have a child with him, and she accepted.
• After spending the night together, Xuan Jin explained that Hun Tiandi’s foundation might be unstable after refining the Emperor Pill.
• Xuan Jin told Xuan Yi he planned to go alone to the Soul Clan, and she reminded him that more people now depended on him.

Xuan Jin revealed that he had spent the night with Xuan Yi and announced that he would venture alone into the Soul Clan to investigate Hun Tiandi. A report of violent energy fluctuations during Hun Tiandi’s seclusion left Xuan Jin uncertain about what he would find.

• Xuan Jin left Xuan Yi and went to the main courtyard, where he admitted to everyone that he had spent the night visiting his teacher.
• Xuan Yi arrived, and Cao Ying promised to speak for her if anyone asked about their relationship.
• Xuan Jin announced that he would go alone to the Soul Clan to check on Hun Tiandi, despite Cao Ying, Zi Yan, and Zhu Kun raising concerns.
• Xuan Jin said goodbye to his family, and Ya Fei told him that Hun Tiandi’s secluded location had experienced intense energy fluctuations the previous night before falling silent.
• Xuan Jin looked toward the Soul Clan, troubled by the unexplained fluctuations.

Xuan Jin invaded the Soul Realm to stop Hun Tiandi from refining the Emperor Grade Embryonic Pill, but his attack disrupted the process and forced Hun Tiandi to break through as a Pseudo-Emperor. Hun Tiandi then discovered that Xuan Jin had already become a peak Three-star Dou Emperor.

• Xuan Jin learned that Hun Tiandi was close to breaking through and left to attack the Soul Realm before the pill’s Origin Qi was fully refined.
• Xuan Jin opened an Emperor Path Space Channel to the Soul Realm and sensed Hun Tiandi’s unstable power gathering within the forbidden ground.
• Xuan Jin unleashed his imperial might, suppressing the Four Demon Saints and dispersing the Soul Realm’s dark mist.
• Xuan Jin used the Emperor Flame World-Suppressing Art and Myriad Flames Return to Ruins to crush the Soul Clan’s barriers and destroy the black palace.
• Hun Tiandi emerged from the ruins and forcibly fused the remaining Origin Qi, becoming a Pseudo-Emperor.
• Hun Tiandi recognized Xuan Jin and realized that Xuan Jin’s imperial might surpassed his own.

Xuan Jin used Myriad Flames Return to Origin to overwhelm Hun Tiandi and gather the continent’s wandering flames, then struck him with an Emperor Path Buddha’s Rage Fire Lotus. Hun Tiandi’s Blood Emperor Body was destroyed, leaving him gravely injured and unable to retrieve his weapon.

• Xuan Jin summoned his Flame Emperor Body and clashed with Hun Tiandi’s Blood Emperor Body, revealing the gap between their foundations.
• Xuan Jin attacked with the Flame Emperor Burning Heaven Wheel and Great Heaven Creation Palm, weakening Hun Tiandi and forcing him to retreat.
• Xuan Jin spread Myriad Flames Return to Origin across the continent, briefly unsettling the Heavenly Flames held by Huo Zhi, Yan Jin, and Gu Xun Er before withdrawing his summons toward them.
• Xuan Jin absorbed ownerless Heavenly Flame remnants and Soul Fires, strengthening his foundation in the Dao of Fire.
• Xuan Jin activated Heavenly Flame Three Profound Changes and formed an Emperor Path Buddha’s Rage Fire Lotus, destroying Hun Tiandi’s Blood Emperor Body.
• Hun Tiandi fell gravely injured, and Xuan Jin’s law suppression prevented him from retrieving the Emperor-Slaying Ghostblood Blade.

Xuan Jin defeated Hun Tiandi and spent three days refining him, while the Soul Clan’s survivors waited to learn whether their clan would be spared. By the end, only a stubborn trace of the Emperor Pill’s origin remained, still resisting fusion.

• Hun Tiandi accepted his defeat after Xuan Jin sealed away his formation plate and other backup plans.
• Xuan Jin began refining Hun Tiandi with Purple-Gold Emperor Flame as the Soul Clan’s Four Demon Saints watched helplessly.
• Over three days, Hun Tu tested his restraints, and Soul Clan members gathered at a distance, afraid to flee or approach.
• On the morning of the third day, Xuan Jin stripped away Hun Tiandi’s body and most of his Emperor Pill origin, but a sliver of will continued to resist fusion.

Xuan Jin destroyed Hun Tiandi’s remaining will and gained seven drops of Dou Di essence blood, then prepared to seal the Soul Realm and investigate a hidden threat within the Soul Clan. Back in Saint Pill City, his family and companions worried after three days without news, while spies reported that a gigantic flaming Dharma Body had remained over the Soul Clan’s forbidden grounds.

• Xuan Jin shattered the Emperor Pill essence entangled with Hun Tiandi’s will, erased Hun Tiandi, and collected seven drops of Dou Di essence blood.
• Xuan Jin told Gu Yuan, Zhu Kun, Lei Ying, and the others that he had refined Hun Tiandi but not the Emperor Pill essence, then ordered them to seal the Soul Realm.
• Xuan Jin revealed that something within the Soul Clan could not be left alive and led the others toward its core forbidden grounds to investigate the Tunling Clan.
• Zi Yan, Cao Ying, Xuan Yi, Cai'er, and the others worried in Saint Pill City because Xuan Jin had not returned or sent word for three days.
• Ya Fei reported that spies had seen a gigantic flaming Dharma Body over the Soul Clan’s sealed forbidden grounds, and the group debated whether to go there themselves.

Xuan Jin led Gu Yuan and the others into the Soul Clan’s hidden underground space, where he discovered and destroyed the imprisoned Tunling Clan before leaving the Soul Clan’s remaining forces to the others. He returned to Saint Pill City, where his worried companions welcomed him, and Ya Fei asked what had happened during his three-day absence.

• Xuan Jin led Gu Yuan, Zhu Kun, Yan Jin, Fairy Fire Spirit, and Lei Ying through the Soul Clan’s underground restrictions to a chamber where the Soul Clan had imprisoned the Tunling Clan.
• Xuan Jin ordered the Tunling Clan destroyed and incinerated its members, then agreed that the others could divide the Soul Clan’s remaining forces and treasures.
• Xuan Jin left through a spatial rift, and Gu Yuan, Zhu Kun, Yan Jin, Fairy Fire Spirit, and Lei Ying headed out to deal with the Soul Clan.
• Xuan Jin returned to Saint Pill City, where Cao Ying, Xiao Yi Xian, Cai'er, Zi Yan, Xuan Yi, and Qing Lin showed their relief at his return.
• Ya Fei asked Xuan Jin what had happened at the Soul Clan after spies reported that a manifestation in its core forbidden ground had lasted three days before disappearing.

Xuan Jin told his companions that he had refined Hun Tiandi and negotiated for half of the Soul Clan’s treasures. After Gu Yuan and the others cleared out and divided the vault’s contents, Fairy Fire Spirit delivered Xuan Jin’s share to Saint Pill City.

• Xuan Jin revealed that Hun Tiandi had fallen and that he had refined him into seven drops of Dou Di blood essence.
• Xuan Jin told his companions that Gu Yuan and the others would handle the remaining Soul Clan members, while he would receive half of the clan’s treasures.
• Gu Yuan, Lei Ying, Yan Jin, Zhu Kun, and Fairy Fire Spirit cleared the Soul Clan’s treasure vault and counted its contents.
• Gu Yuan’s group set aside half the treasures for Xuan Jin, and Fairy Fire Spirit took them to Saint Pill City.
• Fairy Fire Spirit delivered the storage ring to Xuan Jin, who inspected his share of the Soul Clan’s wealth.

After Fairy Fire Spirit delivered Xuan Jin’s share of the Soul Clan’s spoils, Xuan Jin reflected on his peaceful family life and decided to give his companions proper status. Elsewhere, Gu Yuan returned to the Ancient Clan and confirmed that Xuan Jin had killed Hun Tiandi and destroyed the Soul Clan.

• Fairy Fire Spirit gave Xuan Jin the Yan Clan’s invitation and departed, prompting Cao Ying and Ya Fei to tease each other about their interest in him.
• Xuan Jin welcomed Xuan Xi, then decided to formally recognize the women who had stood by him and give them a proper home.
• Xuan Jin watched his family and companions in the courtyard while Xuan Xi ran off to get more pastries.
• Gu Yuan returned to the Ancient Clan with the clan elders and their share of the Soul Clan’s treasury.
• Gu Yuan told Gu Lie and the gathered Ancient Clan members that Xuan Jin had refined Hun Tiandi in three days and that the Soul Clan was finished.

After the Soul Clan was destroyed and its treasury divided, Gu Xun Er went to search for Xiao Yan at a former Soul Hall stronghold. She found only ruins and lingering traces of Dou Qi, with Xiao Yan’s whereabouts still unknown.

• Gu Yuan told the Ancient Clan elders that Emperor Xuan Jin took half the Soul Clan’s treasury and the five factions would divide the rest, then confirmed the Soul Clan’s remaining forces had been eliminated.
• Gu Xun Er learned that Hun Tiandi had been refined but Xiao Yan was still missing, and she set out to search near the Starry Sky Mountain Range.
• Zhu Kun and Yan Jin distributed Soul Clan treasures to the Ancient Void Dragons and Yan Clan, respectively, while noting Xuan Jin’s share and the destruction of the Soul Clan.
• Gu Xun Er reached a ruined former Soul Hall stronghold and searched it for clues, but found no useful information about Xiao Yan.