Chapter Summaries

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.

The battle in the Hun Clan's Soul Realm drew experts from across the continent, but the clash's shockwaves kept them at a distance. Hun Tiandi's Blood Origin Explosion knocked down Lin Ming's five fire beasts, and as the allied clans feared defeat, Lin Ming began forming a seal and hinted that the beasts had another purpose.

• The battle's immense energy alerted secluded experts and major factions across Middle Continent, who hurried toward the Soul Realm.
• A violent gust from the Soul Realm injured dozens of approaching experts and forced them to retreat hundreds of miles away.
• Hun Tiandi unleashed Blood Origin Explosion, blasting Lin Ming's five fire beasts into the ground and devastating the Soul Realm.
• Hun Clan members celebrated Hun Tiandi's apparent victory while Lei Ying, Yao Dan, Shi Jian, and Gu Dao worried that Lin Ming had lost his strongest weapon.
• Lin Ming calmly challenged Hun Tiandi's assumption that the fire beasts could only brawl, then formed a profound seal as a vast aura surged from him.

Lin Ming activated the Five Rounds Leaving Fire Array, trapping Hun Tiandi and burning away his enormous Blood Emperor Body. Hun Tiandi was reduced to his badly burned original form, still trapped within the flames.

• Lin Ming summoned the five fire beasts into position and formed the Five Rounds Leaving Fire Array.
• The completed array imprisoned Hun Tiandi, and his attacks failed to break through its barrier.
• The array descended and engulfed Hun Tiandi in five-colored flames that melted his armor and body.
• Hun Tiandi’s Blood Emperor Body collapsed, leaving his charred original form darting through the flames in search of escape.

After Lin Ming crippled Hun Tiandi with the Five Rounds Leaving Fire Great Array, Hun Tiandi activated an ancient formation covering the entire Soul Realm. He revealed that the Emperor-Slaying Array was meant to kill Lin Ming, leaving the battle poised to escalate.

• Lin Ming mocked the severely burned Hun Tiandi and threatened to destroy the Hun Clan if he had no trump cards left.
• Hun Tiandi assessed his depleted power and injuries, then resolved that he would not allow himself or the Hun Clan to lose.
• Hun Tiandi sent a blood-colored pillar into the ground, causing blood lines to spread across and cover the entire Soul Realm.
• Blood pillars erupted throughout the Soul Realm, and Lei Ying recognized them as part of the Hun Clan's Soul-Devouring Life-Extinguishing Array.
• The blood pillars joined into a vast formation in the sky, and Hun Tiandi named it the Emperor-Slaying Array and declared he would use it to slay Lin Ming.

Hun Tiandi activated the Emperor-Slaying Array and sacrificed the Soul Clan’s remaining Dou Saints and its Dou Di remnant soul to restore his strength. The array condensed its power into the Emperor-Slaying Blood Blade, leaving everyone wondering whether Lin Ming could withstand it.

• Hun Tiandi revealed that the Emperor-Slaying Array had once killed a Dou Di and decided to fuel it with a blood sacrifice.
• The array drained the essence blood, dou qi, and souls from Hun Yuantian and the Soul Clan’s remaining Dou Saints, killing them and absorbing their blood mist.
• The array extracted the Soul Clan Dou Di’s weakened remnant soul while it fought Gu Yuan, consuming its remaining power.
• Blood Qi restored Hun Tiandi’s strength and healed his wounds as the array gathered its power into the Emperor-Slaying Blood Blade.
• The blood blade darkened the Soul Realm and began splitting the space around it, while Lei Ying and the others looked to Lin Ming to stop it.

As Hun Tiandi summoned the legendary Emperor-Slaying Ghost Blood Blade, Gu Yuan explained that it had once killed a Dou Di, leaving the gathered clans fearing for Lin Ming. Lin Ming revealed his hidden Five Elements Power, surrounding himself with the complete forces of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth as the blood blade trembled.

• Hun Tiandi activated the Emperor-Slaying Great Array, sacrificing the Hun Clan's remaining Dou Saint experts and its Dou Di ancestor's Remnant Soul to summon the blood blade.
• Gu Yuan identified the weapon as the Emperor-Slaying Ghost Blood Blade, a formation-born weapon that had once slain a Dou Di.
• Lin Ming faced the blood blade without panic and told Hun Tiandi he had preparations of his own.
• Lin Ming formed ancient hand seals and unleashed his Five Elements Power.
• Metal, wood, water, fire, and earth lights rose around Lin Ming, forming a pillar that made the Emperor-Slaying Blood Blade tremble and stunned the onlookers.

Lin Ming revealed his Five Elements power, leaving Hun Tiandi terrified and the spectators in shock. Refusing to accept defeat, Hun Tiandi sacrificed his life force to empower the Emperor-Slaying Blood Blade and launched a final attack on Lin Ming.

• Gu Yuan, Yao Dan, Shi Jian, and Zhu Huo reacted in disbelief when Lin Ming revealed that he possessed all five elements.
• Lin Ming formed a Five-Colored Wheel and told Hun Tiandi that the Hun Clan's end had come.
• Hun Tiandi sacrificed his essence blood to strengthen the Emperor-Slaying Blood Blade.
• Hun Tiandi grabbed the blade's edge and let it consume his blood and life to awaken its full power.
• Hun Tiandi charged at Lin Ming and swung the enormous Emperor-Slaying Blood Blade down with his remaining strength.

Lin Ming defeated Hun Tiandi in their final clash, destroying the Emperor-Slaying Ghost Blood Blade and shattering the Soul Realm. Lin Ming then used the Five Elements Roulette to annihilate Hun Tiandi, ending the battle.

• Lin Ming met Hun Tiandi’s Emperor-Slaying Blood Blade with the Five Elements Roulette in a devastating clash that tore apart the Soul Realm and injured the onlookers.
• Lin Ming emerged from the dust still standing, while the Emperor-Slaying Ghost Blood Blade cracked and broke apart.
• Hun Tiandi realized he had lost as Lin Ming declared that everything would end there and sent the Five Elements Roulette toward him.
• Hun Tiandi tried to escape but lacked the strength and could not evade the roulette.
• The Five Elements Roulette passed through Hun Tiandi and swallowed his body, cultivation, and soul, killing him.

Lin Ming destroyed Hun Tiandi with the Five Elements Roulette, ending the Soul Clan and the battle in the shattered Soul Realm. As the survivors celebrated and recovered, Lin Ming collected the two Tou She Ancient God Jade Fragments and prepared to keep their secret.

• The Five Elements Roulette erased Hun Tiandi completely, leaving behind only two Ancient Jade Fragments.
• Lei Ying, Yan Jin, and Yao Dan celebrated the Soul Clan’s destruction as the exhausted survivors took in the end of the battle.
• Gu Yuan reflected on the Soul Clan’s fall and the uncertain future of the remaining Ancient Clans.
• Zi Yan hurried to Lin Ming, checked his condition, and supported him as he said he needed only a few days of rest.
• Lin Ming summoned the two Tou She Ancient God Jade Fragments, examined them, and put them away discreetly.

After defeating Hun Tiandi, Lin Ming received the Ancient Clan’s Ancient Jade Fragment from Gu Yuan and gathered the fragments needed to open the way to Tou She Ancient God’s cave mansion. He left with Zi Yan, preparing for the next step toward freeing her father and pursuing the Dou Di Realm and the Great Thousand World.

• Gu Yuan overcame his hesitation and gave the Ancient Clan’s Ancient Jade Fragment to Lin Ming, who accepted it with gratitude.
• Lin Ming gathered all eight Tou She Ancient God Jade Fragments, with the Xiao Family fragment still kept by Zhu Kun in the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion.
• Lin Ming told Zi Yan that her father could finally escape his imprisonment, and Zi Yan promised to accompany him when he was ready.
• Lin Ming looked beyond the ruins of the Soul Realm toward the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion, the Dou Di Realm, and the Great Thousand World.
• Zi Yan supported Lin Ming as he joined Gu Yuan and the other clan leaders, who anticipated the new era he would lead.

After the Hun Clan’s destruction, Lin Ming returned to Jia Nan Academy and rested among memories of his youth. He left after sharing a quiet farewell with Instructor Zhang Man, saying he still had final matters to settle.

• Jia Nan Academy’s students celebrated Lin Ming’s return and talked about his rise to Half-Emperor strength.
• Lin Ming rested in a tree and remembered his early years cultivating at the academy.
• Instructor Zhang Man joined Lin Ming, and he teased her about her legs as they reminisced.
• Lin Ming reflected that the Hun Clan’s destruction had ended the threats that once weighed on him and his loved ones.
• Lin Ming told Instructor Zhang Man he needed to handle a few final matters, and she reminded him that Jia Nan Academy would always be his home.