Chapter Summaries

Xiao Xuan received the Bodhi Heart and completed the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s hundred lifetimes of reincarnation, emerging as a Four-Star Dou Saint with a greatly strengthened soul. He awoke beneath the tree among powerful Central Plains experts, including his Xiao Clan cousins.

• The Bodhi Ancient Tree gave Xiao Xuan the Bodhi Heart and drew him into its hundred-lifetime reincarnation trial.
• Experts from across the Central Plains braved the Heaven Abandoned Mountain Range and gathered near the Bodhi Ancient Tree, where Xiao Chen, Xiao Xiong, Xiao Yun, and Xiao Lan recognized Xiao Xuan.
• After more than a month in the trial, Xiao Xuan awoke beneath the tree as a Four-Star Dou Saint, with his soul realm at Peak Mid-Heavenly Realm.
• Xiao Xuan thanked the Bodhi Ancient Tree and assessed the powerful experts around him, deciding to keep a low profile after he left.

After returning from the Bodhi Ancient Tree, Xiao Xuan used Bodhi Pills to cultivate One Qi Transforms into Three Purities and successfully formed two independent clones. He returned to the Xiao Realm as a Four-Star Dou Saint, where he reunited with his family and revealed that he could fight ordinary Six-Star Dou Saints.

• Xiao Xuan refined Bodhi Pills and entered a secret realm to comprehend One Qi Transforms into Three Purities.
• Xiao Xuan formed two clones, Xiao Li and Xiao Yao, and sent them to explore the Central Plains under different appearances.
• News spread among the Emperor Clans that Xiao Xuan had gained the most from the Bodhi Ancient Tree, while Hun Tiandi and Gu Yuan began preparing to challenge the Dou Saint realm.
• Xiao Xuan returned to the Xiao Realm and reunited with Xiao Feng, Gu Qin, and Xiao Ruoruo.
• Xiao Xuan told Xiao Feng that he had reached Four-Star Dou Saint and could fight ordinary Six-Star Dou Saints.

Over six years, Xiao Xuan strengthened his cultivation and helped Xiao Ruo grow, then took her out to travel. In Guihua City, they reunited with Nangong Ling'er, who agreed to join them on their journey across the Central Plains.

• Xiao Xuan declined to rush into marriage and suggested taking his young sister out to see the world, though Xiao Feng and Gu Qin worried she was too young.
• Xiao Xuan contributed magic cores and the Nine Revolutions Soul Forging Technique to the clan, earning greater recognition as Young Patriarch.
• Over six years, Xiao Xuan advanced to the seventh star and Xiao Ruo reached Da Dou Shi; he then traveled with her toward Shengdan City.
• Xiao Xuan and Xiao Ruo stopped in Guihua City, where they unexpectedly met Nangong Ling'er, now a Dou Zong.
• Xiao Ruoruo teased Xiao Xuan and invited Nangong Ling'er to travel with them, and Nangong Ling'er accepted.

Xiao Yao welcomed Luo Tianyin back to their secluded musical valley, while Xiao Xuan continued establishing the Eight Desolations Divine Realm and met the leaders of the ancient clans in Shengdan City. The chapter ended with Xiao Xuan introducing Nangong Ling and his younger sister to Dan Chengzi.

• Xiao Yao praised Luo Tianyin for reaching the Dou King realm and told her to cook after she returned from a year away.
• Xiao Xuan entered the newly opened Eight Desolations Divine Realm and planned its eight halls, recruiting ten thousand orphans to train there.
• Xiao Xuan arrived in Shengdan City with Nangong Ling and Xiao Ruo and sensed several Dou Saint auras near the Little Dan Tower.
• Dan Chengzi introduced Xiao Xuan to Hun Tiandi, Gu Yuan, Lei Ying, Yan Jin, and other ancient-clan prodigies gathered at the Little Dan Tower.
• Xiao Xuan greeted the ancient-clan leaders and helped Dan Chengzi ease the tension before clarifying that Nangong Ling was an acquaintance and Xiao Ruo was his younger sister.

Xiao Xuan helped Dan Chengzi turn down the Ancient Emperor Clans’ attempts to recruit him, and Dan Chengzi affirmed his intention to build the Dan Tower. The chapter ended with Dan Chengzi reflecting on how long it could take him to become an Advanced Dou Saint.

• Hun Tiandi, Gu Yuan, and representatives of other clans offered Dan Chengzi their support and invited him to associate with their clans.
• Dan Chengzi refused to join any Emperor Clan, saying he wanted to strengthen the Dan Tower and make it a holy land for alchemists.
• Xiao Xuan and Gu Yuan backed Dan Chengzi’s decision, prompting the clan representatives to leave.
• Dan Chengzi thanked Xiao Xuan for helping him avoid the recruitment efforts and remarked on Hun Tiandi’s and Gu Yuan’s abilities.
• Xiao Xuan warned Dan Chengzi to be cautious of Hun Tiandi and said powerful Dou Saints could command the clans’ respect.
• Dan Chengzi explained that he had remained a one-star Dou Saint for five or six years and believed advancing further could take centuries.

Xiao Xuanye arranged for Xiao Ruoruo to learn alchemy from Dan Chengzi and sent Nangong Ling'er to the Xiao Realm with his parents’ approval. After receiving a map to investigate a village that had become a dead land, he set out, suspecting the culprit might be someone with the Woeful Poison Body.

• Xiao Xuanye offered Dan Chengzi a Heavenly Rank Dou Technique in exchange for teaching Xiao Ruoruo alchemy, and Xiao Ruoruo agreed to learn from him.
• Xiao Xuanye’s parents appeared above Shengdan City, approved the arrangement, and invited Dan Chengzi to visit the Xiao Realm.
• Xiao Feng warned Xiao Xuanye to treat Nangong Ling'er properly, and Xiao Xuanye promised to bring her back to the Xiao Realm.
• Xiao Feng gave Xiao Xuanye a map and ordered him to investigate a village in the Northern Domain that had become a dead land overnight.
• Xiao Xuanye left to investigate, suspecting the disaster might involve the Woeful Poison Body.

Xiao Xuan rescued Feng Yu, a boy whose uncontrolled constitution had killed the people of Nether Town, and left him in Xiao Li’s care to learn cultivation. In the Black-Corner Region, Xiao Xuan found and subdued the Fallen Heart Flame, intending to give it to Little Sister.

• Xiao Xuan found Feng Yu alive among the corpses in Nether Town, buried the dead, and carried the boy away.
• Xiao Li brought Feng Yu into the secret realm, explained the danger of his special constitution, and promised to teach him to control it.
• Xiao Xuan searched the Black-Corner Region for nearly a month before the Fallen Heart Flame appeared within him.
• Xiao Xuan descended into a subterranean cavern, defeated the Fallen Heart Flame’s fiery python form, and took its source flame.
• Xiao Xuan gave one-tenth of the source to a newly born Fallen Heart Flame, absorbed the rest, and continued deeper into the Magma World.

Xiao Xuan discovered the Ancient Emperor Cave Abode and encountered a trapped Ancient Void Dragon before returning to his life in the Xiao Clan. Decades later, after misfortune struck the clan, he confronted a Hun Clan elder who had attacked his friends.

• Xiao Xuan expanded a magma whirlpool, revealed the Ancient Emperor Cave Abode, and met a trapped Ancient Void Dragon that demanded to know whether he had an Ancient Emperor Jade.
• Xiao Xuan explained that he had no Emperor Jade and left without revealing the cave abode to others.
• Xiao Xuan returned to Shengdan City, where he married Nangong Ling'er and later settled back in the Xiao Realm.
• Xiao Tian died of old age, Xiao Gong failed to reach the Nine-Star level, and Xiao Yu was badly injured refining a Tier 9 Profound Pill.
• Xiao Xuan sensed a powerful battle in the far north and found Dan Chengzi and Tang Xiao wounded by an Eight-Star Dou Saint from the Hun Clan.
• The Hun Clan elder said Dan Chengzi and Tang Xiao had offended his clan, while Xiao Xuan questioned whether the elder was provoking or underestimating the Xiao Clan.

Xiao Xuan rescued Dan Chengzi and Tang Xiao by defeating Hun Shengtian, then discovered that the Xiao Clan’s dwindling Dou Emperor Bloodline threatened its survival. He gathered the clan’s Saint-level elders and presented the crisis, leaving them to confront how close the clan was to extinction.

• Xiao Xuan struck Hun Shengtian with Soul Strike and burned him away with the F-Flame of Life after Hun Shengtian refused to release Dan Chengzi and Tang Xiao.
• Xiao Xuan told Dan Chengzi and Tang Xiao that he had reached Peak Dou Saint and gave them Message Talismans to summon him if they faced danger.
• Xiao Xuan reviewed clan records and found that talented young Xiao Clan members and those with Dou Emperor Bloodlines were extremely rare.
• Xiao Xuan summoned the Xiao Clan’s Saint-level elders to the Xiao Emperor Hall and declared that the clan faced its greatest threat of annihilation.
• Xiao Xuan distributed the investigation results, and the elders realized the clan’s declining bloodline and lack of promising successors could leave it vulnerable to destruction.

Xiao Xuan devised a plan to protect the Xiao Clan by scattering its descendants across the continent, while a century later Xiao Li oversaw the rising Eight Desolations Divine Hall. After hearing reports of powerful new forces, he ordered the Divine Hall to remain detached from outside affairs unless its interests were threatened.

• Xiao Xuan rejected hopes of restoring the Xiao Clan's bloodline by becoming a Dou Emperor and proposed dividing the clan into hidden branches across the continent.
• Xiao Xuan and Nangong Ling'er sent their infant son Xiao Wu away from the Xiao Realm, and other Xiao Clan infants were secretly exiled over the following years.
• Xiao Wu grew up in hiding with Xiao Xuan's family and eventually became a Dou Zun after reaching more than a hundred years of age.
• Over the following century, the Soul Hall, Sound Valley, and Eight Desolations Divine Hall rose to prominence across the Central Plains Continent.
• Feng Yu told Xiao Li that the Soul Hall had traces of Dou Saints and that other mysterious powers were also emerging.
• Xiao Li ordered the Eight Desolations Divine Hall to continue developing steadily and ignore outside events unless its interests were threatened.

Xiao Xuan investigated visions in an ancient Xiao Clan secret realm and learned how the Dou Qi Continent’s Plane Embryo shaped its history. The visions suggested that an ancient Xiao Clan Dou Emperor took the Plane Embryo away, leaving the continent’s Source Qi depleted and preventing further Dou Emperors from emerging.

• Xiao Xuan entered the ancient secret realm and saw visions of the Dou Qi Continent’s origins and its connection to the Great Thousand World.
• Xiao Xuan learned that the Plane Embryo changed the world’s cultivation laws and granted bloodline power to Dou Emperor clans to oppose outsiders.
• Xiao Xuan saw that the Dou Emperors fought over the Plane Embryo after driving away the powerhouses from the Great Thousand World.
• Xiao Xuan concluded that the victorious Dou Emperor was the Xiao Clan’s ancestor, who took the Plane Embryo away when he left the continent.
• Xiao Xuan connected the ancestor’s departure to the Xiao Clan bloodline’s decline and the eventual exhaustion of Source Qi, which ended the possibility of new Dou Emperors.

After reaching the Emperor Realm with his soul, Xiao Xuan learned that the Tunling Clan had been devouring other clans’ bloodlines and joined discussions to form an alliance against them. The clans planned to gather at the Burial Heaven Mountain Range in half a month, with Xiao Xuan choosing a force that would limit losses to the weakened Xiao Clan.

• Xiao Xuan broke through to the Emperor Realm with his soul and considered studying Heavenly Flames and space to pursue further strength.
• Hun Tiandi told the gathered clan leaders that the Tunling Clan had been devouring other Emperor Clan bloodlines, and Xiao Kong confirmed that Xiao Clan members had also died under suspicious circumstances.
• Xiao Xuan agreed in principle to an alliance attack and set a meeting at the Burial Heaven Mountain Range for half a month later.
• Xiao Xuan selected two Eight-Star Dou Saints, five Intermediate Dou Saints, ten Low-Stage Dou Saints, and twenty Dou Zuns, stressing that the Xiao Clan’s experts should prioritize their safety.
• The other Emperor Clans prepared forces of roughly similar size, though the Thunder, Flame, Stone, Spirit, and Yao clans had fewer powerful Dou Saints than the Gu and Hun clans.

The allied clans attacked the Tunling Clan after discovering its efforts to devour other clans’ bloodlines. As the battle devastated the Burial Heaven Mountain Range, the Tunling Clan’s elders began sacrificing themselves, and the chapter ended with the clan’s self-destruction tearing open a vast rift.

• Hun Tiandi, Gu Yuan, Xiao Xuan, and the other clans broke the Tunling Clan’s protective formation and confronted its Patriarch.
• The Tunling Clan Patriarch ordered his people to fight for their survival, and the allied clans launched their attack.
• The Patriarch summoned black-flame creatures that devoured flesh, blood, and Dou Qi, throwing the battlefield into chaos.
• The Patriarch urged Tunling Clan elders to self-destruct and preserve their bloodline, while Hun Tiandi ordered the attackers to leave no survivors.
• Tunling Clan experts self-destructed one after another, and the resulting destruction leveled the mountain range and opened a vast rift.

After the Tunling Clan destroyed its own members to crack open the sealed space, Xiao Xuan searched for a way to preserve the Xiao Clan and settled near the Black Sacred Tree. Meanwhile, his son Xiao Wu reached Sound Valley injured, where Luo Tianyin allowed him to recover after recognizing his soul technique.

• The Tunling Clan Patriarch ordered more Dou Saints to self-destruct, and the explosions devastated the Tunling Realm before Xiao Xuan returned to the Xiao Clan and disappeared.
• Xiao Xuan found the Black Sacred Tree on an island in the Endless Sea, failed to approach within a hundred zhang, and built a hut nearby.
• Xiao Yu and Xiao Kong urged the Xiao Clan elders to guard the Xiao Realm while Xiao Xuan sought a way for the clan to endure.
• Xiao Wu entered Sound Valley while injured, and Luo Tianyin recognized the aura of the Nine Revolutions Soul Forging Technique and arranged for him to recover.
• Xiao Yao watched Xiao Wu through the Void, while Xiao Li wondered how his adopted son would react if he learned about his powerful background.

After five hundred years of reincarnating beneath the Ancient Tree, Xiao Xuan made progress on a method to preserve souls and allow the Xiao Clan’s elders to be reborn. He had begun merging his incarnations, while Xiao Yao assured the clan that Xiao Xuan was alive and nearing success.

• Xiao Xuan continued conscious reincarnation beneath the Ancient Tree, seeking to understand Samsara and apply it to the dying Xiao Clan elders.
• After Xiao Xuan had been missing for a century, Xiao Feng resumed the position of Patriarch, and the clan endured centuries of losses without producing new Dou Saints.
• Five hundred years after Xiao Xuan vanished, Xiao Yao arrived in the Xiao Realm and told Xiao Feng and the elders that Xiao Xuan was safe and close to succeeding.
• Xiao Yao visited Xiao Wu at Sound Valley, praised his Half-Saint cultivation, and passed him the Void Record on spatial traversal.
• Xiao Xuan reached Great Perfection in the Three-Part Realm, began merging his two incarnations, and developed a method for preserving a soul and its memories through rebirth.

Xiao Xuan returned to the Xiao Clan with the Samsara Ancient Tree and explained how the clan could preserve its elders until a new Dou Emperor emerged. He brought Xiao Wu back to meet his family and offered him a chance to advance through enlightenment beneath the tree.

• Xiao Xuan brought the island into the Xiao Realm and presented the Samsara Ancient Tree as the Xiao Clan’s Supreme Treasure.
• Xiao Xuan explained that the clan’s bloodline decline could only be overcome by a new Xiao Clan Emperor, and arranged for elders nearing the end of their lives to conceal themselves and reincarnate later.
• Xiao Xuan told the elders that Source Qi had vanished after Emperor Xiao enslaved the Dou Qi Continent and that Tou She Ancient God consumed the last of it ten thousand years ago.
• Xiao Xuan proposed bringing Xiao Wu back, and Xiao Ruoruo went to retrieve him.
• Xiao Wu met his family and learned the Xiao Clan’s history and why he had grown up away from them.
• Xiao Xuan offered Xiao Wu a Tier 9 Bodhi Enlightenment Pill and the chance to contemplate beneath the Samsara Ancient Tree, warning that failure would mean death.

Xiao Wu reunited with the Xiao Clan and met his relatives, while Xiao Xuan introduced him to the clan’s younger generation and discussed the risks facing its scattered descendants. Xiao Xuan revealed that he planned to use their presence outside the Xiao Realm to draw out information about the Ancient Emperor Jade, while remaining determined not to let them be sacrificed.

• Xiao Wu struggled to accept his family after learning why the Xiao Clan had sent him away, but he promised Xiao Ruoruo he would not hate them and would keep his connection to the clan secret.
• Xiao Wuji led Xiao Wu around the clan, introducing him to hundreds of powerful relatives, most of whom were Dou Zuns or Half-Saints.
• Xiao Chen explained the dangers and potential benefits of the Samsara Ancient Tree to the Xiao Clan’s Dou Saints and Dou Zuns.
• Xiao Xuan told the clan that Xiao Wu was his only son and explained that descendants living outside the Xiao Realm helped preserve the bloodline but could attract hostile forces.
• Xiao Feng questioned why Xiao Xuan had revealed the scattered descendants’ identities, and Xiao Xuan admitted he hoped the situation might help him investigate the Ancient Emperor Jade without putting his clansmen at risk.
• Xiao Xuan considered how Hun Tiandi and other powerful figures were pursuing the Ancient Emperor Jade, including people connected to Dan Tower and Fenyan Valley.

Xiao Xuan tried to refine the Plane Embryo, survived its backlash as a powerful Primordial Spirit, and seized a tiny fraction of its control before it suppressed him. While his avatars waited for a chance to save him, Xiao Li retrieved the deceased Xiao Clan elders and sent their souls into samsara, predicting that a new Xiao Clan emperor would emerge within a hundred years.

• In the fifth year, Xiao Wu advanced to One-Star Dou Saint, while other cultivators at the Samsara Ancient Tree either advanced or died, making it a forbidden treasure of the Xiao Clan.
• In the tenth year, the founder of Dan Tower died while refining a Ninth-Rank Golden Pill, which took charge of Dan Tower, and rumors reported the death of Fenyan Valley's ancestor after a failed breakthrough.
• Hun Tiandi obtained two Ancient Emperor Jades from Xu Wu and promised to help him devour the First Heavenly Flame in exchange for the Emperor Pill.
• Several hundred years later, Xiao Xuan tried to refine the Plane Embryo, endured its backlash, and gained a tiny fraction of its control, but the Plane Embryo suppressed him.
• Xiao Xuan's two avatars learned that he had been suppressed and followed his instruction to wait, while Xiao Li returned to the Xiao Clan and retrieved the souls of elders from the Heavenly Tomb.
• Xiao Li told the elders that a new Xiao Clan emperor would emerge within a hundred years, then used the Samsara Secret Art to send their souls beyond the Xiao Realm.

Xiao Xuan began reincarnating the Xiao Clan’s elders into descendants in Wutan City, then arranged the clan’s leadership and protection for the next generation. The elders’ new lives were underway, while Xiao Wu’s position as Young Patriarch was accepted and plans were made to send young clan members to the Northwestern Region.

• Xiao Xuan brought Xiao Gong, Xiao Kong, Xiao Chen, Xiao Jing, and Xiao Yu to Wutan City and explained that he would extract their souls for reincarnation.
• Xiao Gong volunteered first, and Xiao Xuan extracted his soul and sent it into a pregnant woman; over the following years, Xiao Kong and the other elders also began new lives.
• Xiao Xuan explained that the elders would recover their memories only after reaching the Spirit Realm in soul cultivation, and gave their Ninth-Grade Bloodlines to relatives to refine.
• Xiao Xuan appointed Xiao Feng, Xiao Xiong, Xiao Chen, and Xiao Ruoruo to leadership roles and assigned Xiao Wu to manage clan affairs as Young Patriarch.
• Xiao Xuan agreed to send young clan members to the Northwestern Region for training and ordered Dou Emperor protectors to guard the elders’ reincarnated descendants without interfering unless their lives were at risk.

Xiao Xuan visited Zhu Kun, revived Yao Tianhuo in a Dou Saint corpse, and assigned him to secretly protect the Xiao Clan in Wutan City. At the Eight Desolations Divine Hall, Xiao Yao reunited with Xiao Li and discussed how their founded factions had grown over the past thousand years.

• Xiao Xuan visited Zhu Kun at the Ancient Emperor Cave Abode and explained that the Xiao Clan would not seek the Ancient Jade and risk becoming a target.
• Xiao Xuan revived Yao Tianhuo in a One-Star Dou Saint corpse, giving him temporary Seven-Star Dou Zun strength.
• Xiao Xuan told Yao Tianhuo to protect the Xiao Clan in Wutan City, Jia Ma Empire, and warned him not to pursue the newly born Fallen Heart Flame.
• Xiao Xuan appeared at the Eight Desolations Divine Hall, where Feng Yu and the others mistook him for a powerful intruder before Xiao Yao recognized him.
• Xiao Yao and Xiao Li discussed the Eight Desolations Divine Hall's growth and criticized the founders of Sound Valley, Tianque, and the Great Brightness Realm for neglecting their factions.