Recaps

Lin Ming extracted the intelligent portion of Nihility Devouring Flame’s soul and threatened to subject him to the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s Hundred Lives Reincarnation unless he revealed the Pill Transformation Divine Art. Nihility Devouring Flame handed over a Soul Imprint, and Lin Ming promised to free him if it proved genuine and helped him become an Emperor.

• Lin Ming used the Five Elements Roulette to separate a weak, intelligent portion of Nihility Devouring Flame’s soul while leaving most of his Soul Power in his origin.
• Lin Ming grabbed Nihility Devouring Flame’s soul and threatened to make him endure a hundred reincarnations using the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• Nihility Devouring Flame recognized the subdued Bodhi Ancient Tree and, terrified of the promised torment, agreed to reveal the Pill Transformation Divine Art.
• Nihility Devouring Flame gave Lin Ming a Soul Imprint containing the art and swore that it was genuine.
• Lin Ming promised to reshape Nihility Devouring Flame’s body and free him if the art helped him become an Emperor, then imprisoned the soul and examined the imprint.

Lin Ming comprehended the Pill Transformation Divine Art in less than a day, then imprisoned the Nihility Devouring Flame Soul and began refining the Nihility Devouring Flame Origin. As Lin Ming meditated beneath the Bodhi Ancient Tree, the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame stayed beside him as his protector.

• Lin Ming absorbed the Pill Transformation Divine Art’s knowledge and mastered it in less than a day, shocking the Nihility Devouring Flame Soul.
• Lin Ming sent the Nihility Devouring Flame Soul and the members of the Hun Clan to the space before the Bodhi Ancient Tree, where they were imprisoned.
• Lin Ming used the Five Elements Roulette to absorb the Nihility Devouring Flame Origin and began refining it through the Chaos Spirit Five Elements Art.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame arrived, formed a protective barrier around Lin Ming, and meditated beside him as his protector.
• Lin Ming continued refining the flame beneath the Bodhi Ancient Tree while the area fell into silence.

Hun Tiandi set out to investigate why Nihility Devouring Flame and the Hun Clan forces had not returned from the Five Elements Sect, but Gu Yuan blocked his path and invoked the Ancient Races’ agreement. Their dispute escalated into a standoff between two Late Stage Nine-Star Dou Saints.

• Hun Tiandi grew concerned after more than half a month passed without news from Nihility Devouring Flame’s mission to destroy the Five Elements Sect.
• Hun Tiandi left the Hun Clan's Soul Realm to investigate, but Gu Yuan appeared and stopped him in the void.
• Gu Yuan reminded Hun Tiandi that the Ancient Races had agreed that experts of Five-Star Dou Saint level and above would not casually act in the outside world.
• Hun Tiandi accused Gu Yuan of using the agreement to protect the Ancient Clan’s interests and demanded that he move aside.
• Hun Tiandi unleashed his aura, and Gu Yuan stood firm before releasing an equally powerful aura and challenging him.

Gu Yuan confronted Hun Tiandi while Lin Ming completed the refinement of Nihility Devouring Flame beneath the Bodhi Ancient Tree. After Lin Ming's two Heavenly Flames clashed in his dantian, his five-colored Dou Qi vortex drew them both into its chaotic space.

• Gu Yuan released his late-stage Nine-Star Dou Saint aura and blocked Hun Tiandi, and the two began a fierce battle in the void.
• Lin Ming completed the final meridian cycle of the Chaos Spirit Five Elements Art and fully refined Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame entered Lin Ming's body, where it and Nihility Devouring Flame faced off in his dantian.
• Lin Ming used his five-colored Dou Qi vortex to dissolve the flames' hostility and draw both origins into its chaotic space.
• Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and Nihility Devouring Flame were pulled together until they made contact.

Lin Ming completed the unprecedented fusion of all his Heavenly Flames into a Flame Lotus beneath the Bodhi Ancient Tree, though the energy did not unlock the next level of his cultivation art. The fusion’s vast energy feedback began driving him past the peak of Mid-Stage Nine-Star Dou Saint.

• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and the Nihility Devouring Flame resisted the Five-Colored Qi Vortex before accepting its force and beginning to merge inside Lin Ming.
• Hun Tiandi and Gu Yuan ended their half-month stalemate, and Hun Tiandi left after threatening to make Gu Yuan pay.
• Three months passed without major developments in the Middle Continent while Lin Ming continued his transformation beneath the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• The fusion finished, forming a Flame Lotus from the Nihility Devouring Flame, the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and Lin Ming’s other Heavenly Flames.
• Lin Ming found that the fusion had not advanced the Chaos Spirit Five Elements Art, but its energy feedback began pushing his cultivation beyond Peak Mid-Stage Nine-Star Dou Saint.

Lin Ming completed his breakthrough, integrating the Five Elements Origin and Chaos Lightning into his blood and reaching the Half-Emperor realm. He emerged from seclusion to reunite with Ya Fei, Zi Yan, Qing Lin, Xiao Yi Xian, and Yun Yun, declaring that he was invincible in this age.

• Lin Ming's cultivation surged beyond the peak of the Late Stage Nine-Star Dou Saint as his blood transformed into Origin Blood infused with the Five Elements Origin and Chaos Lightning.
• Lin Ming reached the Half-Emperor realm and opened his eyes after his breakthrough.
• Ya Fei, Zi Yan, Qing Lin, Xiao Yi Xian, and Yun Yun rushed to greet Lin Ming when he emerged from seclusion.
• Lin Ming reassured the five women that they would never again be threatened at their own doorstep.
• Lin Ming declared that he was invincible in this age unless an ancient Dou Di returned to life, leaving the five women stunned.

Lei Dong emerged from five years of training in the Demonic Lightning Pool as a late-stage Three-Star Dou Saint, confident he could defeat Lin Ming. He learned that Lin Ming had already surpassed him, earned an Honorary Elder seat in the Lei Clan, and refined the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.

• Lei Dong left the Demonic Lightning Pool after reaching the late stage of Three-Star Dou Saint and announced that he would defeat Lin Ming.
• Lei Clan members praised Lei Dong, but fell silent when he asked where Lin Ming was.
• An elder told Lei Dong that Lin Ming had reached early-stage Four-Star Dou Saint after less than two years in the Demonic Lightning Pool.
• The elder revealed that Lei Ying had made Lin Ming an Honorary Elder and that Lin Ming had rescued everyone from the Demonic Flame Space.
• The elder told Lei Dong that Lin Ming had refined and absorbed the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, leaving Lei Dong stunned and defeated.

Lei Ming returned to the Lei Clan and presented its leaders with three Ninth Grade Treasure Pills and a Tier 9 Profound Pill. He gave the rarest pill to Mang Tianchi and warned the clan against threatening him, displaying an aura that shocked even Lei Ying.

• Lei Dong accepted that he would never catch up to Lin Ming after hearing of his achievements.
• Lei Ying welcomed Lin Ming to the Lei Clan, where its elders and younger geniuses gathered to receive him.
• Lin Ming gave Ninth Grade Treasure Pills to Lei Ying, Lei Jie, and Mang Tianchi in recognition of their past roles in helping him.
• Lin Ming gave Mang Tianchi the Tier 9 Profound Pill and entrusted him with deciding how to handle it.
• Lin Ming warned the Lei Clan not to threaten Mang Tianchi and released an aura that made the grand hall tremble and left everyone, including Lei Ying, struggling under its pressure.

Lin Ming asked Lei Ying to lend him the Tou She Ancient God Jade and argued that the Lei Clan could not protect it as its bloodline weakened. He revealed that he knew why no one had become a Dou Di in ten thousand years and began by telling Lei Ying that their world was only a small world within a greater one.

• After the Lei Clan members left the hall, Lin Ming asked Lei Ying to speak with him privately.
• Lin Ming asked to borrow the Tou She Ancient God Jade, and Lei Ying angrily warned him not to raise the request again.
• Lin Ming pointed to the decline of the Lei Clan's bloodline and the destruction of the Xiao and Ling Clans as signs that the jade could not be protected forever.
• Lin Ming said the Lei Clan needed a Dou Di to revive its bloodline, but Lei Ying fell silent when confronted with the clan's lack of a likely candidate.
• Lin Ming claimed he knew why no one had become a Dou Di since Tou She Ancient God and revealed that their world was a small world within a greater one.

Lin Ming explained to Lei Ying that the ancient Dou Di left the Dou Qi Continent to fight an evil race, sealing the world off from the Main World and cutting off Source Qi. He asked Lei Ying for the Lei Clan’s Tou She Ancient God Jade Fragment, arguing that obtaining the last Source Qi could let him become a Dou Di and eventually revive the Lei Clan’s bloodline; Lei Ying was left weighing the offer and its risks.

• Lin Ming told Lei Ying that the ancient Dou Di had sealed the Dou Qi Continent off from the Main World before leaving to fight an evil race.
• Lin Ming explained that the lack of Source Qi had prevented later generations from becoming Dou Di, and that Tou She Ancient God had sealed away the final share in his Cave Mansion.
• Lin Ming asked Lei Ying to lend him the Lei Clan’s Tou She Ancient God Jade Fragment so he could gather all eight fragments, open the Cave Mansion, and obtain the Source Qi.
• Lin Ming argued that becoming a Dou Di would let him reopen the seal and access the Main World’s resources, giving Lei Ying a chance to advance and restore the Lei Clan’s declining bloodline.
• Lin Ming warned Lei Ying that refusing or delaying could leave the Lei Clan’s bloodline to fade and cause future generations to blame him; Lei Ying remained silent, considering the choice.

Lei Ying agreed to give Lin Ming the Lei Clan’s Tou She Ancient God Jade Fragment if Lin Ming defeated him. Their battle ended with Lin Ming effortlessly blocking Lei Ying’s attacks and overpowering his Thunder Tribulation Palm with a five-colored light pillar.

• Lei Ying decided to offer Lin Ming the Tou She Ancient God Jade Fragment on the condition that Lin Ming fight him.
• Lin Ming accepted Lei Ying’s challenge, and the Lei Clan gathered to watch them battle at the Training Ground.
• Lei Ying’s opening palm strike and a relentless barrage of attacks failed to move Lin Ming, who calmly blocked them all.
• Lei Ying unleashed the Lei Clan’s strongest Heaven Tier Dou Technique, the Thunder Tribulation Palm.
• Lin Ming’s five-colored light pillar overwhelmed and dispersed Lei Ying’s giant lightning palm.

After defeating Lei Ying, Lin Ming gathered four more Tou She Ancient God Jade Fragments and proved his strength to Gu Yuan, who agreed to yield the Ancient Clan’s fragment once Lin Ming collected the others. Seven days later, the leaders and powerful experts of five Ancient Clans gathered at Soul Burial Mountain Range.

• Lin Ming defeated Lei Ying’s Thunder Tribulation Palm, leaving the Lei Clan’s witnesses convinced of his superiority.
• Lin Ming negotiated with Yan Jin, Yao Dan, and Shi Jian and obtained three fragments, bringing his total to five of the eight Tou She Ancient God Jade Fragments.
• Lin Ming told Lei Ying he would seek Gu Yuan’s fragment peacefully but take Hun Tiandi’s two fragments by force.
• Lin Ming met Gu Yuan in the Ancient Realm and passed his test by forcing the Late Stage Nine-Star Dou Saint to retreat seven steps.
• Gu Yuan agreed to give Lin Ming the Ancient Clan’s fragment once he gathered the other seven, and Lin Ming departed.
• Seven days later, Gu Yuan, Lei Ying, Yan Jin, Yao Dan, Shi Jian, and their experts assembled atop Soul Burial Mountain Range.

Lin Ming led the allied Ancient Races into the Soul Realm to begin their assault on the Hun Clan. They discovered that Hun Tiandi had slaughtered his own clansmen to create a vast blood sea, and a blood throne rose before them with an unidentified figure seated upon it.

• Lin Ming opened a Spatial Portal at the Soul Burial Mountain Range, and the gathered experts followed him into the Soul Realm.
• Shi Jian led the group deeper into the silent realm as an increasingly powerful stench of blood filled the air.
• The allies found a vast blood sea made from the slaughtered descendants of the Hun Clan and realized Hun Tiandi had sacrificed his own people.
• The blood sea surged, a blood throne rose from its center, and a figure seated upon it slowly raised his head.

Hun Tiandi revealed that he had reached the Half-Emperor realm and restored four Hun Clan elders who had supposedly died in the ancient war, prompting the allied experts to realize the Hun Clan had used a bloody sacrifice to strengthen itself. The chapter ended with Lin Ming's allies regaining confidence because they believed their combined strength, especially Lin Ming and Gu Yuan, still gave them the advantage.

• Hun Tiandi unleashed his Half-Emperor aura before Lin Ming, Gu Yuan, and the other allied experts.
• Yan Jin and Lei Ying recognized four Hun Clan elders who had supposedly died in the war against the Xiao Clan a thousand years earlier, but who now possessed Late Stage Eight-Star Dou Sheng strength.
• Yao Dan accused Hun Tiandi of sacrificing the blood and souls of Hun Clan descendants to reverse death and increase cultivation.
• The allied experts considered the threat posed by Hun Tiandi and the restored elders, then concluded their combined forces were stronger than the Hun Clan.
• The allies regained their confidence, believing Gu Yuan could tip the battle either by aiding Lin Ming against Hun Tiandi or by crushing the other Hun Clan fighters.

As the allied clans prepared to destroy the Hun Clan, Hun Tiandi revealed that the Soul Realm itself could turn the battle in his favor. The blood pool gathered the souls of the Hun Clan into a figure identified as the clan’s founder, a Dou Di from ten thousand years ago, who threatened to kill the invaders.

• Lei Ying denounced Hun Tiandi and the Hun Clan, while the allied experts readied themselves to attack.
• Hun Tiandi dismissed the allies’ confidence and declared that their battle was taking place in the Soul Realm, where the Hun Clan controlled the surroundings.
• The Soul Realm shook as the blood pool drew together and fused the souls of countless Hun Clan clansmen.
• A black figure emerged from the blood pool, and Gu Yuan identified it as the Hun Clan founder and a Dou Di from ten thousand years ago.
• The founder threatened to kill the intruders and unleashed an aura that shocked the allied experts.

Gu Yuan and the Soul Clan Dou Di's Remnant Soul began a battle while Lin Ming and Hun Tiandi fought in the Soul Realm. As Lei Ying and Yan Jin engaged four Soul Clan Elders, the other experts joined the all-out war.

• Gu Yuan explained that Hun Tiandi had reconstituted the Soul Clan Dou Di's Remnant Soul through a sacrifice and that its power would eventually run out.
• Gu Yuan charged the Remnant Soul, and the two clashed above the blood sea.
• Hun Tiandi attacked Lin Ming, and their battle shook the Soul Realm as both fighters traded blows.
• Lei Ying took on two Late Stage Eight-Star Dou Saint Soul Clan Elders, while Yan Jin charged the other two.
• The remaining experts chose their targets, and nearly thirty Dou Sheng-level fighters joined the battle across the Soul Realm.

The allied clans battled the Hun Clan across the Soul Realm, with Lin Ming’s side gaining ground in several clashes. Lei Ying and Yan Jin overwhelmed four late Eight-Star Dou Saint elders between them, leaving the battle at its fiercest stage with the Soul Clan elders badly injured.

• Lei Ying, Yan Jin, Zhu Huo, Zi Yan, the Three Immortals, Yao Dan, Yao Wanhuo, Shi Jian, and the other allied fighters engaged Hun Clan opponents across the Soul Realm.
• The Three Immortals trapped three Hun Clan experts in their combined formation, while Yao Dan and Yao Wanhuo disrupted and fought two more.
• Shi Jian and the burly old man used their powerful bodies to drive back their opponents as other allied fighters fought Hun Clan experts of comparable strength.
• Lei Ying’s lightning attacks overwhelmed the two Soul Clan elders facing him, and one punch shattered their barrier and badly injured their arms.
• Yan Jin’s blazing palm strike broke through a Soul Clan elder’s shields, charred him, and sent him flying.

Hun Yuantian and the other Soul Clan Elders activated four Gates of Deathly Stillness, overcoming the allied clans’ advantage and pulling everyone into a deadly realm. The Gates fused into the Realm of Death, leaving Lei Ying, Yan Jin, and the other experts trapped inside.

• Lei Ying and Yan Jin overwhelmed the four Soul Clan Elders, while Hun Yuantian watched the Hun Clan forces being pushed back across the battlefield.
• Hun Yuantian summoned the Gate of Deathly Stillness and explained that it had grown stronger by absorbing the blood-souls of the Hun Clan populace.
• The other three Soul Clan Elders summoned matching gates, and the four gates formed a Death Domain around the battlefield.
• Lei Ying warned everyone to retreat, but the four elders opened their gates and their combined suction dragged in the allied experts, including Lei Ying, Yan Jin, Zhu Huo, Zi Yan, and the Three Immortals of the Ancient Clan.
• The four gates shut and fused their spaces into the Realm of Death, trapping the swallowed experts inside.

Trapped in the Hun Clan’s Realm of Death, the gathered experts learned that its death aura could pierce both Dou Qi and Soul Power, leaving them with no clear way out. As they struggled to endure, endless spears of death aura attacked them and forced them to dodge.

• Gu Dao explained that the Great Array of the Realm of Death used the Gate of Deathly Stillness to create an independent space that corroded living beings.
• Yao Dan said his Soul Power could not explore beyond the group, while Lei Ying and Shi Jian warned that staying or charging blindly would both lead to disaster.
• Fairy Huoling doubted that Lin Ming and Gu Yuan could come to their rescue while they were occupied with Hun Tiandi and the Dou Di Remnant Soul.
• Lei Ying spotted an incoming attack as countless black spears burst from the death aura and rained down on the group.
• The experts raised Dou Qi barriers, but the spears corroded and pierced them, forcing everyone to dodge wave after wave.

The alliance experts struggled to survive the Death Array while Hun Tiandi remained confident that it would soon let his forces overwhelm Lin Ming. Lin Ming revealed overwhelming Soul Power and summoned Yellow Spring Heaven Wrath, leaving Hun Tiandi reeling as the attack began.

• The alliance experts, including Lei Ying, Shi Jian, Yao Wanhuo, Zhu Huo, Zi Yan, and Yan Hui, fought off endless black spears inside the Realm of Death as its deathly aura drained and corroded them.
• Hun Tiandi retreated from Lin Ming’s attacks and boasted that the Death Array would let his Hun Clan experts join him in killing Lin Ming.
• Lin Ming calmly declared that he would break the Death Array, then unleashed Soul Pressure that pinned Hun Tiandi in place.
• A vast purple-gold light tore open the Soul Realm’s sky and formed a giant face resembling Lin Ming above the battlefield.
• Lin Ming invoked Yellow Spring Heaven Wrath, and the giant face opened its radiant eyes, unleashing Soul Pressure that nearly knocked Hun Tiandi unconscious.

Lin Ming used Yellow Springs Heaven Rage to break the Death Array and free the trapped clans, while his soul attack also purified the Soul Clan blood pool. The attack weakened the Dou Di Remnant Soul, but Gu Yuan was still struggling against it.

• Hun Tiandi was struck by Lin Ming's Yellow Springs Heaven Rage and was sent flying after spitting blood.
• Lin Ming's soul attack cracked and shattered the Soul Stones, collapsing the four Gates of Deathly Stillness and freeing everyone trapped in the Realm of Death.
• Yellow Springs Heaven Rage swept through the blood pool, purifying the imprisoned Soul Clan descendants' resentful souls and draining the pool's color.
• Gu Yuan continued fighting the Dou Di Remnant Soul, which had kept him firmly on the defensive.

Lin Ming’s Yellow Springs Heaven Rage destroyed the blood-soul power sustaining the Death Array and weakened the Dou Di Remnant Soul, turning the battle against the Hun Clan. As Gu Yuan and the allied clans drove the Hun Clan into a rout, Hun Tiandi challenged Lin Ming to a final fight between Half-Emperors.

• Lin Ming’s Yellow Springs Heaven Rage annihilated most of the resentful souls in the blood pool, weakening the Remnant Soul of the Dou Di.
• Gu Yuan seized the opening and counterattacked, driving the weakened Remnant Soul of the Dou Di back with a barrage of palms.
• Lei Ying, Yan Jin, Zhu Huo, Zi Yan, and the other allied experts attacked the Hun Clan, pushing its forces into a rout.
• Hun Yuantian watched the alliance overwhelm the Hun Clan and feared the consequences of the Death Array’s failure.
• Hun Tiandi refused to flee and challenged Lin Ming, destroying his Blood-Colored Throne as the blood sea surged around him.
• Lin Ming accepted Hun Tiandi’s challenge, and the two Half-Emperors prepared to fight to the death.

Hun Tiandi unleashed a blood-sea attack and a storm of resentful thunder against Lin Ming, who answered with his fused heavenly flames. Their Half-Emperor clash devastated the Soul Realm, and the watching experts could only wait to see which fighter would prevail.

• Hun Tiandi stomped and raised the blood sea into a towering wave, then compressed it into a storm of blood-colored resentful thunder aimed at Lin Ming.
• Lei Ying warned the fighters to retreat as both sides withdrew from the battlefield and watched the two Half-Emperors.
• Lin Ming faced the incoming blood thunder as Buddhist chanting sounded and his dazzling fused flames erupted around him.
• Lin Ming's flames collided with Hun Tiandi's blood thunder, shattering the sky and tearing the Soul Realm apart with their energy.
• Yao Dan asked Lei Ying who had the advantage, and Lei Ying said Hun Tiandi had deeper knowledge but Lin Ming likely had a hidden trump card.

Hun Tiandi consumed the Hun Clan blood sea and transformed into a colossal Pseudo-Blood Emperor Body, a power resembling the Dou Di Body. As Lei Ying and Yan Jin feared that this move could decide the battle, Lin Ming faced Hun Tiandi without fear and with fierce battle intent.

• Hun Tiandi decided to risk everything after Lin Ming withstood his Blood Demon Heart-Eroding Thunder.
• Hun Tiandi unleashed a vast suction force and swallowed the entire Hun Clan blood sea.
• Hun Tiandi's body expanded into a nearly ten-thousand-zhang giant clad in armor formed from the souls of Hun Clan descendants.
• Hun Tiandi revealed his Blood Emperor Body, which Lei Ying and Yan Jin recognized as a Pseudo-Blood Emperor Body with traces of Dou Di power.
• Lin Ming looked up at Hun Tiandi's colossal form with no fear and burning battle intent.

Lin Ming used his eight fused Heavenly Flames to create five colossal fire beasts and sent them against Hun Tiandi’s blood-colored Half-Emperor body. Their battle devastated the Soul Realm, and the fire beasts managed to pin Hun Tiandi in place through relentless attacks.

• Lin Ming mocked Hun Tiandi’s Blood Emperor Body and separated his fused Heavenly Flames into eight colors.
• Lin Ming fused the flames into five enormous beasts: a wolf, leopard, lion, tiger, and dragon.
• Hun Tiandi charged the beasts and struck with a punch that shattered space, while Lin Ming sent all five to attack him.
• The collision sent a destructive shockwave across the Soul Realm, forcing Lei Ying and the others to retreat.
• Hun Tiandi battered the fire beasts, but they repeatedly recovered and attacked from every direction, tangling his giant body in place.
• Lei Ying and the other Dou Saints watched as the ongoing clash shattered and repaired the Soul Realm’s space and split open its ground.