Chapter Summaries

After returning from the Scripture Depository, Eternal found that Zi Yan had wrecked his residence and punished her while making Xiao Yan and the others help catch and roast the escaped chickens. He then hinted at the Xiao Clan’s troubled history and revealed that Xun’er’s family had come for her, leaving her urgently trying to protect Xiao Yan.

• After half a year of contemplation, Eternal left the Scripture Depository and caught Zi Yan fleeing from him.
• Eternal discovered that Zi Yan had trashed his residence and chased her and the chickens through the Inner Academy, recruiting Xiao Yan, Xun’er, and Hu Jia to help catch them.
• Eternal restrained Zi Yan with a seed flame, ordered Xiao Yan to prepare the chickens, and took the group to the Back Mountain to roast them.
• While they ate, Eternal told Xiao Yan that the Xiao Clan had once had Half-Saints but that its promising members had repeatedly died young.
• Eternal sensed that Xun’er’s family had come to take her away, and Xun’er hurried Xiao Yan into the forest to hide.

Ling Quan arrived with the Black Legion to escort Xun'er back and insulted Xiao Yan, prompting Shi Yongheng to intervene. After Shi Yongheng drove the newcomers away with a gust of wind, Su Qian learned the visitors were from the powerful Gu Clan and left worried about Shi Yongheng's confidence.

• Ling Quan arrived on Four-Winged Unicorns and told Xun'er he had come by order of the clan leader to escort her home.
• Ling Quan mocked Xiao Yan and the Xiao Clan, and Xun'er and Zi Yan rebuked him.
• Shi Yongheng challenged Ling Quan and unleashed powerful winds that blew the visitors and their beasts away.
• Su Qian arrived and learned that the visitors were from the Gu Clan, then worried that Shi Yongheng might provoke a powerful enemy.
• Shi Yongheng boasted of his strength and asked the others whether he was annoying, and Xiao Yan flattered him.

Shi Yongheng brought Xiao Yan to the Magma World beneath the academy, warned him about its dangers and secrets, and urged him toward a different path to grow stronger. He left Xiao Yan, Yao Chen, and Medusa stranded there with a talisman, while the academy students whispered about him.

• Shi Yongheng took Xiao Yan through a spatial rift to the Magma World, where Xiao Yan saw the peak Fallen Heart Flame.
• Shi Yongheng explained that the Magma World housed powerful Fire Lizards and hidden Heavenly Flames, and warned Xiao Yan to keep the place secret because Xiao Yan's girlfriend's father sought it.
• Shi Yongheng described his ambition to explore the Human Body Heaven Diagram, then teased Medusa about her deep fate with Xiao Yan.
• Shi Yongheng advised Xiao Yan to pursue Han Feng's Sea Heart Flame to grow stronger, but refused to help subdue the Fallen Heart Flame or Han Feng.
• Shi Yongheng gave Xiao Yan a spatial transmission talisman and left, prompting Medusa and the others to complain about him.
• Shi Yongheng returned to the academy, where students whispered that his smile seemed ominous and that he was up to no good.

Xiao Yan defeated Han Feng and refined the Sea Heart Flame, advancing to five-star Dou Wang. Meanwhile, Mang Tian Chi visited Jia Nan Academy, Shi Yongheng departed for the Central Plains, and the story turned to the Gu Clan and the guarded entrance to its Ancient Realm.

• Xiao Yan challenged Han Feng in Feng City, and Yao Chen took control of Xiao Yan's body to defeat Han Feng and seize his soul.
• Xiao Yan refined the Sea Heart Flame over two days and broke through to five-star Dou Wang.
• Mang Tian Chi visited Jia Nan Academy, discussed its promising disciples with Shi Yongheng, and then left for the Central Plains.
• Shi Yongheng departed from Jia Nan Academy and appeared in the Central Plains after opening a spatial gate.
• The chapter described the Gu Clan's influence in the eastern Central Plains and identified Ancient Saint City as the restricted entrance to the Ancient Realm.

Shi Yongheng arrived at the Gu Clan’s Ancient Saint City and clashed with Ling Quan and the city’s guards, prompting a senior Gu Clan elder to challenge his presence. Gu Xun’er appeared, recognized Shi Yongheng as her former academy elder, and invited him into the Ancient Realm.

• Shi Yongheng reached Ancient Saint City and found Ling Quan guarding its gate.
• Ling Quan attacked Shi Yongheng, but a protective aura threw Ling Quan into the city wall; Shi Yongheng then knocked away the Black Annihilation Squad when Ling Quan ordered them to seize him.
• A Gu Clan elder arrived with several Dou Zuns and accused Shi Yongheng of causing trouble, while Shi Yongheng defended his connection to Jia Nan Academy and threatened to visit the Hun Clan instead.
• Gu Xun’er appeared at the city gate, and the gathered Gu Clan members respectfully addressed her as Miss.
• Shi Yongheng praised Gu Xun’er’s peak Half-Saint cultivation, and she questioned his claim that he was a Half-Saint.
• Gu Xun’er invited Shi Yongheng to the Ancient Realm and took her leave of Elder South Sea.

Shi Yongheng forced Gu Yuan to let him study the Gu Clan’s ancient texts, then returned to the northwest after nearly seven years. He left Gu Yuan with his latest discoveries and emerged through a spatial rift onto the Red Cliff Plains.

• Shi Yongheng met Gu Yuan on Qingfeng and revealed that he had survived the Xiao Clan’s destruction a thousand years earlier.
• Shi Yongheng demanded access to the Gu Clan’s ancient texts, and Gu Yuan agreed after Shi Yongheng gave him the Human Body Heaven Diagram.
• Shi Yongheng spent nearly seven years reading the Gu Clan’s Scripture Depository while ignoring its Dou Techniques.
• Shi Yongheng gave Gu Yuan a drawing of the thirty additional acupoints he had discovered and said he was returning to the northwest.
• Shi Yongheng tore through the Ancient Realm’s spatial barrier and emerged onto the Red Cliff Plains.

The Lion Nether Sect surrounded Xuanhuang Fortress and demanded the Flame Alliance surrender and hand over the Xiao Clan. Cai Lin refused and prepared to defend the fortress, while Xiao Ding and Xiao Li urged her to escape with Xiao Xiao if the battle went badly.

• The Lion Nether Sect's army emerged from the black fog and gathered outside Xuanhuang Fortress.
• Xiao Ding and Xiao Li asked Cai Lin to take Xiao Xiao and flee if the fortress could not hold.
• The blond Lion Nether Sect leader, Shi Tian, demanded that Cai Lin surrender and turn over the Xiao Clan in exchange for sparing the alliance.
• Cai Lin refused to surrender and ordered the Flame Alliance crossbowmen to ready their weapons.
• A voice behind Shi Tian warned him not to let anyone from the Xiao Clan escape, regardless of his interest in capturing Cai Lin.

Eternal appeared during Shi Tian’s assault on Medusa’s fortress, rescued Xiao Xiao, and healed the legs of a wheelchair-bound young man before taking the girl away. He brought Xiao Xiao to Dragon Island, where he encountered the grown-up Zi Yan, who attacked him over his past behavior.

• Shi Tian ordered his army to attack Medusa’s fortress, but Eternal’s giant palm vaporized the soldiers outside it.
• Eternal recognized Medusa and took Xiao Xiao, gave Medusa a Nine-Colored Origin Stone, and used green light to heal the wheelchair-bound young man’s legs.
• Eternal crossed paths with Xiao Yan’s group while carrying Xiao Xiao, then continued toward the Beast Domain.
• Eternal showed Xiao Xiao his Dragon God Technique and took her to Dragon Island through collapsing space.
• Zi Yan appeared on Dragon Island, recognized Eternal, and attacked him; he dodged and teased her about spanking her.

Xiao Yan learned that Yongheng had taken Xiao Xiao to raise her on East Dragon Island, where she grew strong over three years. When Xiao Yan reunited with them, Yongheng explained that the Xiao Clan had been hunted for centuries and that Xiao Yan's father's survival depended on protecting the Ancient Emperor Jade and becoming strong.

• Yongheng gave Zi Yan an Ancient Void Dragon Magic Core and told her to refine it after digesting the Dragon Emperor Origin Fruit.
• Xiao Yan and the others reached Xuanhuang Fortress and learned that Yongheng had taken Xiao Xiao, while Xiao Yan reassured Cai Lin that the ancestor would keep her safe.
• Yongheng stayed on East Dragon Island with Xiao Xiao, strengthening her foundation as Zi Yan fought and cultivated; three years later, Xiao Xiao had reached the Da Dou Shi level.
• Xiao Yan arrived on East Dragon Island and confronted Yongheng because Xiao Xiao did not recognize him, then agreed to take her with him.
• Yongheng told Xiao Yan that the Xiao Clan had been deliberately hunted and that Hun Tiandi would keep Xiao Yan's father alive only until he obtained the Ancient Emperor Jade.

After warning Xiao Yan about the Hun Clan’s overwhelming strength and urging him to grow stronger, the mysterious Xiao Clan expert left. With the Hun Clan stealing the Thunder and Flame Clans’ Ancient Jade and destroying the Yao Clan, Gu Yuan called the surviving clans together to form an alliance against Hun Tiandi.

• The mysterious Xiao Clan expert told Xiao Yan that the Hun Clan had two Nine-Star Dou Saints and urged him to absorb Soul Origin, seek the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame, train in the Heavenly Tomb, and help Zi Yan unite the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.
• The Stone Clan and Spirit Race were destroyed, and the Hun Clan annihilated the Yao Clan during the Medicine Canon and seized its Ancient Jade.
• Lei Ying and Yan Jin reported that the Thunder and Flame Clans had lost their Ancient Jade after clan elders betrayed them and handed the treasures to Hun Clan experts.
• Gu Yuan gathered Xiao Yan, Xun'er, Lei Ying, and Yan Jin to discuss the Hun Clan’s threat and revealed that another Xiao Clan survivor had grown beyond Xiao Xuan’s former peak.
• Gu Yuan proposed an alliance to annihilate the Hun Clan, warning that it regarded the ancient clans as sources of bloodline power.

Xiao Yan refused to hand over the final Ancient Jade and asked Gu Yuan to send him into the Heavenly Tomb in search of a way to revive Xiao Xuan. He reached the tomb’s depths and confronted the Blood Saber Saint, who recognized him as an old acquaintance.

• Xiao Yan rejected the suggestion to surrender the last Ancient Jade, insisting that he needed it to save his father from the Hun Clan.
• Gu Yuan agreed to force open a rift into the Heavenly Tomb so Xiao Yan could seek Xiao Xuan and ask about restoring him to life.
• Gu Yuan opened the rift, and Xiao Yan entered alone, promising to return within a year.
• Xiao Yan raced through the Heavenly Tomb and reached its depths in barely an hour, drawing the attention of the energy bodies there.
• The Blood Saber Saint sent his saber toward the approaching figure, but it was knocked back, and Xiao Yan greeted him as an old acquaintance.

Xiao Yan visited Xiao Xuan in the Heavenly Tomb and asked how he might revive him, but Xiao Xuan said he knew no way. Shi Yongheng appeared and revealed that Xiao Xuan planned to capture the Heavenly Tomb Soul to help Xiao Yan reach the Emperor Realm; Shi Yongheng then rose to confront it.

• Blood Saber Saint recognized Xiao Yan and led him through the Heavenly Tomb to Xiao Xuan's tombstone before turning back.
• Xiao Yan greeted Xiao Xuan, who praised his strength and listened as he recounted his experiences and the threat posed by the Hun Clan.
• Xiao Yan asked to revive Xiao Xuan, but Xiao Xuan said he knew of no method and mentioned that a Dou Emperor might be able to do it.
• Shi Yongheng appeared, explained that Xiao Xuan intended to capture the Heavenly Tomb Soul to help Xiao Yan's soul reach the Emperor Realm, and said he would take over the fight.
• Shi Yongheng's pressure spread through the Heavenly Tomb, and the Heavenly Tomb Soul formed a gigantic face in the sky and challenged him.

Yongheng destroyed the Heavenly Tomb Soul and gave its crystalline ring to Xiao Yan to refine, explaining that Xiao Yan could become the tomb’s new master and might revive Xiao Xuan after reaching Dou Emperor. While Xiao Yan refined the ring, Yongheng discussed the Flame Mantra, the Tou She Ancient God, and his Dragon God Technique with Xiao Xuan.

• Yongheng defeated the Heavenly Tomb Soul, extracted its crystalline ring, and restored the Energy Bodies’ clarity.
• Yongheng told Xiao Yan to refine the ring and explained that Xiao Yan’s connection to the Tou She Ancient God gave him the best chance of reviving Xiao Xuan.
• Yongheng revealed the origin of the Emperor Flame and urged Xiao Yan to trade the Ancient Jade for his father before confronting Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame at the Ancient Emperor Cave Abode.
• Yongheng admitted that he had fought the Old Dragon Emperor while seeking blood essence for the Dragon God Technique, then gave Xiao Xuan the technique’s booklet.
• Xiao Yan entered the crystalline ring to refine the Heavenly Tomb Soul, and a month passed without any sign of change.

After refining the Heavenly Tomb Soul, Xiao Yan advanced to an Emperor-Realm Soul and returned to the Ancient Realm. Gu Yuan and the others were shocked by his power, and Xiao Yan revealed that neither ancestor could revive Xiao Xuan.

• Xiao Yan spent two months refining the Heavenly Tomb Soul, reaching the Emperor Realm in soul power and the early Eight-Star level in cultivation.
• Xiao Xuan spoke with Yongheng about Hun Tiandi obtaining the Xiao Clan's Emperor Jade and the approaching opening of the Ancient Emperor Cave Abode.
• Gu Yuan failed to open the Heavenly Tomb's passage and his attack was dispersed by a powerful soul fluctuation.
• Xiao Yan emerged from the Heavenly Tomb, surprising the Gu Clan experts and revealing that his Emperor-Realm Soul had repelled Gu Yuan's strike.
• Xiao Yan said the two ancestors had given him the opportunity to advance, then told Gu Yuan that neither ancestor could revive Xiao Xuan.

Xiao Yan, the three ancient clans, and the Heavenly Mansion Alliance gathered at the Burial Heaven Mountain Range to exchange the Ancient Jade for Xiao Zhan and confront the Hun Clan. Hun Tiandi revealed Xiao Zhan in chains, while Xiao Yan’s Emperor-Realm Soul stunned the Hun Clan and made Hun Tiandi see him as a threat.

• Xiao Yan agreed to hand over the Ancient Jade to rescue his father, and Gu Yuan arranged for the three clans and the Heavenly Mansion Alliance to join the operation.
• Yong Heng emerged from the Heavenly Tomb and agreed to help Xiao Yan’s forces.
• The clans and Heavenly Mansion Alliance gathered at the Burial Heaven Mountain Range, where Xiao Chen and Medusa confronted Yong Heng over his past actions.
• Hun Tiandi arrived with Nihility Devouring Flame and the Hun Clan’s experts, and Yong Heng demanded that he release Xiao Zhan in exchange for the Ancient Jade.
• Hun Tiandi revealed Xiao Zhan bound inside a black-mist cage, and Xiao Yan’s Emperor-Realm Soul shocked the Hun Clan and drew Hun Tiandi’s killing intent.

Xiao Yan rescued Xiao Zhan and returned to the Star Realm after the exchange with Hun Tiandi, while Yongheng pursued a disturbance in the chaos and found the Plane Embryo. After absorbing its primordial power for what felt like thousands of years, Yongheng broke through to a level just below Dou Emperor.

• Xiao Yan exchanged the Ancient Jade for the prisoners, then fought Nihility Devouring Flame while Yongheng confronted Hun Tiandi and Gu Yuan faced the Hun Clan’s four Eight-Star Dou Saints.
• Hun Tiandi retreated to the Hun Realm after Yongheng struck him, and the Heavenly Mansion Alliance returned to the Star Realm with Xiao Zhan.
• Xiao Xiao met Xiao Zhan and called him Grandpa, while Yongheng told Xiao Yan to prepare ambushes and take Zi Yan with him.
• Yongheng sensed the Ancestral Baleful Energy stirring, traveled into a realm of chaos, and discovered the Plane Embryo.
• Yongheng absorbed the Plane Embryo’s primordial power for thousands of years and broke through to a level close to Dou Emperor.

Eternal refined the Plane Embryo, grew stronger, revived Xiao Xuan, and entrusted the Plane Embryo to Xiao Xiao before rejoining the Xiao Clan at Star Fall Pavilion. There, he reunited Xiao Xuan with his kin and faced Zhu Kun and Zi Yan as Hun Tiandi’s progress toward becoming a Dou Emperor raised concern.

• Eternal entered the Heavenly Tomb, increased his Human Body Heaven Diagram to one thousand blood apertures, replaced his Dou Qi with spiritual power, and revived Xiao Xuan.
• Eternal sent the Plane Embryo to Xiao Xiao for safekeeping, then met Xiao Yan and Xiao Xuan outside the Heavenly Tomb.
• Eternal and Xiao Xuan traveled to Star Fall Pavilion, where Eternal introduced the revived Xiao Xuan to the Xiao Clan members and their allies.
• Xiao Chen reunited with Xiao Xuan, while Xiao Xiao teased Eternal for having hidden away.
• Zhu Kun arrived with Zi Yan, confronted Eternal over their past, and learned that Eternal had taken his blood essence to develop a cultivation method.
• Eternal warned that Hun Tiandi had made considerable progress toward breaking through to Dou Emperor.

The Hun Clan's formation ravaged the Central Plains while the Heavenly Mansion Alliance could only hold out beneath its barrier. After completing his breakthrough, Hun Tiandi turned on the Nihility Devouring Flame, who had secretly prepared to stop him, and demanded his source flame.

• Eternal assured Cai Lin that he would stand with the others against a Dou Emperor and help buy Xiao Yan time.
• The Hun Clan's formation covered the Central Plains in blood clouds, killing those who challenged it and forcing survivors to seek shelter.
• Zhu Kun and Gu Yuan concluded that Hun Tiandi was nearing success, while Lei Ying demanded they take action against him.
• Seven months later, Hun Tiandi rose from the sea of blood as the Nihility Devouring Flame revealed he had sacrificed descendants and secretly marked much of the Hun Clan.
• The Nihility Devouring Flame and dozens of Hun Clan elders attacked Hun Tiandi, but Hun Tiandi swallowed their black-flame formation and killed the elders.
• Hun Tiandi revealed that he had become a Dou Emperor half a month earlier and demanded the Nihility Devouring Flame's source flame despite the threat to the Hun Clan.

Hun Tiandi became a Dou Emperor and attacked the Heavenly Mansion Alliance, overwhelming its defenders. As the battle turned desperate, Xiao Yan’s family awakened their Dou Emperor bloodline, and a figure shrouded in fire appeared above the alliance.

• Hun Tiandi swallowed the Nihility Devouring Flame, declared himself a Dou Emperor, and turned toward the Central Plains.
• Gu Yuan and the alliance prepared for Hun Tiandi’s attack while they waited for Xiao Yan to emerge from the Ancient Emperor Inheritance.
• Hun Tiandi shattered the alliance’s defensive barrier and effortlessly broke its counterattack.
• The Void Dragon attacked Hun Tiandi but was battered and sent flying, while Zi Yan sensed Xiao Yan’s Dragon Seal growing fainter.
• Xiao Xiao’s aura surged and activated the Dou Emperor bloodline in Xiao Zhan, Xiao Ding, Xiao Li, and the others.
• Gu Yuan summoned a vast curtain of fire, from which a figure shrouded in dazzling flames emerged.

Xiao Yan defeated Hun Tiandi at the cost of his physical body, and the survivors drew Origin Emperor Qi to pursue further breakthroughs. After leaving for the Great Thousand World and later returning to seclusion, Yongheng spent over a thousand years refining his techniques, forming a Unique Heavenly Passage, and advancing through Spirit Transformation into the Inscription Realm.

• Xiao Yan revealed that he had inherited the Ancient Emperor’s legacy and fought Hun Tiandi with his flames against the Blood Demon Corroding Heart Lightning.
• Xiao Yan sacrificed his physical body to seal Hun Tiandi, and their battle left the Central Plains split by the Twin Emperors Abyss.
• Xiao Yan and the others drew in Origin Emperor Qi, and Xiao Xuan, Gu Yuan, and Zhu Kun successively broke through while Yongheng continued along his own path.
• Yongheng left the Dou Qi Continent, became a renowned Heavenly Supreme in the Great Thousand World, and later returned to secluded cultivation at the Heaven Mending Pavilion.
• After more than a thousand years in seclusion, Shi Yongheng shattered his ten heavenly passages and fused them into a Unique Heavenly Passage, then advanced to Spirit Transformation.
• Shi Yongheng opened all one thousand blood acupoints and inscribed the Dragon God Technique’s runes for all seven levels, planning to develop still higher runes.