Chapter Summaries

Gu Han and the Ancient Void Dragon Kings stopped the Soul Clan’s escape and captured Nihility Devouring Flame’s Child Flame, but Gu Han altered its message before returning it to the true body. Nihility Devouring Flame ordered Hun Miesheng to join with the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Clan and ambush Black Tortoise Hall, while Gu Han rewarded the Dragon Kings and confirmed he had suppressed the North Dragon King.

• Zhu Xuan and Qian Ye discussed the Old Dragon Emperor’s expected return and their lingering rivalry as they protected Cai Die and Cai Li.
• Qian Ye discovered Nihility Devouring Flame’s Child Flame hiding in a Spatial Torrent, but it escaped into the void before Gu Han froze and seized it.
• Gu Han altered the Child Flame’s mark and sent it back, causing Nihility Devouring Flame to receive false information about the battle.
• Nihility Devouring Flame ordered Hun Miesheng to ally with the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Clan and ambush Black Tortoise Hall in the Savage Ancient Region, sending him an Earth Child Flame.
• Gu Han gave Qian Ye and Zhu Xuan blood essence to help them advance and said he had completely suppressed the North Dragon King.

Gu Han revealed that he had become a Peak First Grade Sovereign and took Cai Die and Cai Li to the Savage Ancient Region, where he explained the Great Thousand World's cultivation system to the women. He left them with a new understanding of the Dou Qi Continent's place in the greater world and his strength.

• Cai Die and Cai Li arrived, and Gu Han revealed that he was a Peak First Grade Sovereign before departing with them for the Savage Ancient Region.
• Gu Han brought the two women into his Sovereign Sea, where he subdued them after Cai Die challenged him.
• Several days later, Gu Han gathered Cai Die, Cai Li, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, Hua Lan, and Yun Yun beside a lake and explained that the Dou Qi Continent was a lower plane within the Great Thousand World.
• Gu Han described the Great Thousand World's cultivation stages, Sovereign realms, and the transformations Dou Emperors would undergo after traveling there.
• Gu Han said that his Sovereign Sea gave him enough power to suppress ordinary Four-Star Dou Saints, even without using his Sovereign Celestial Body.

Gu Han used Sovereign Spirit Liquid to bypass the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s illusion and enter its Origin Space, where he offered to resolve the tree’s corruption in exchange for its help and allegiance. The tree showed Gu Han and the women a vision of a mysterious black-robed figure from tens of thousands of years ago, whose aura suggested he was a Dou Emperor.

• Gu Han explained his Sovereign Realm cultivation, Black Tortoise techniques, and growing strength to the women.
• Gu Han led the women through a cliff transformed into a light curtain and offered the Bodhi Ancient Tree a drop of Sovereign Spirit Liquid.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree brought Gu Han into its Origin Space and eagerly accepted the liquid, then agreed to follow him once its current troubles were resolved.
• Gu Han learned the tree was suppressing an evil Dou Emperor’s body and suffering from the body’s negative emotions, and promised to address both problems.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree brought Cai Die and the other women into its Origin Space and showed them a vision of a black-robed figure confronting it tens of thousands of years earlier.

Gu Han learned that the Bodhi Ancient Tree had been damaged in an ancient battle between two Dou Emperors and offered to cleanse the lingering negative emotions in exchange for its Bodhi Heart. He discovered that a sealed corpse beneath the tree belonged to a Low-Rank Demon General of the Devouring Demon Clan, whose arrival had created the Tunling Clan and contributed to the Savage Ancient Region’s dangers.

• Cai Die, Yun Yun, Qing Lin, and Xiao Yi Xian witnessed an ancient image of a Black-Robed Dou Emperor attacking the Bodhi Ancient Tree before another Dou Emperor destroyed him.
• Gu Han explained that the dead Dou Emperor’s remnant soul and negative emotions had entered the tree, leaving the two locked in a stalemate for tens of thousands of years.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree offered Gu Han twenty-four Bodhi Seeds in exchange for help, and Gu Han gave three to Yun Yun, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin to refine with Demon Saint Essence Blood.
• Gu Han told the Bodhi Ancient Tree he could cleanse the lingering emotions and asked it for the Bodhi Heart.
• Gu Han discovered that the body suppressed beneath the tree was a Low-Rank Demon General of the Devouring Demon Clan, whose actions had created the Tunling Clan and made the Savage Ancient Region dangerous.

Gu Han refined the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s Bodhi Heart and the negative emotions of fallen Dou Emperors, while his companions grew strong enough to carry out his plan. In the Savage Ancient Region, Xiao Yi Xian trapped a Soul Hall Blood-Robed Man in a poison-filled ambush, leaving him calling for the Vice Hall Master to save him.

• Gu Han used the Black Tortoise Immortal-Suppressing Technique to refine the Bodhi Heart and the negative emotions within the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• After three months, Cai Die, Cai Li, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Yun Yun entered the Savage Ancient Region to kill Tier 8 Ancient Fierce Beasts and lure the Soul Hall and Soul Clan.
• Xiao Yi Xian killed a Peak Tier 8 Magical Beast, then found herself trapped behind a barrier set by a Blood-Robed Man.
• The Blood-Robed Man attacked Xiao Yi Xian, but she countered with poison tentacles, the Netherworld Poison Fire, and hidden poison on his scythe.
• Xiao Yi Xian ignited her poison threads and the Blood-Robed Man’s severed arm, engulfing the area in poison gas and fire as he cried out for the Vice Hall Master.

Xiao Yi Xian battled the Soul Hall's Vice Hall Master and killed the Blood-Robed Man, then faced Fenghuang as Qing Lin joined the fight. The Vice Hall Master discovered that cyan flames had spread through his blood and purple poison had stained his soul.

• Xiao Yi Xian released the Calamity Poison Body and fought the Soul Hall's Vice Hall Master, using poison to destroy the Blood-Robed Man's body and soul.
• The Vice Hall Master prepared to kill Xiao Yi Xian, but she revealed Fenghuang, a Two-Star Dou Saint from the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, who attacked her.
• Qing Lin emerged from the void and sent a Cyan Energy Giant Python against the Vice Hall Master's chains.
• The Vice Hall Master recognized Qing Lin's Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils and prepared to attack her, but cyan flames appeared in his blood and purple poison spread through his soul.

Qing Lin used her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to manifest an Ancient Heavenly Snake, which swallowed the poisoned Soul Hall Vice Hall Master, while Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin drove Fenghuang away. Cai Li and Cai Die then confronted Hun Miesheng and revealed that they knew he was an Early-Stage Five-Star Dou Saint, leaving him startled.

• The Vice Hall Master realized Xiao Yi Xian had poisoned his blood and soul, but Qing Lin manifested an Ancient Heavenly Snake and swallowed him with its Heavenly Snake Swallows the World ability.
• Cai Li blocked the Soul Hall Hall Master from interfering as Qing Lin imprisoned the Vice Hall Master inside the Ancient Heavenly Snake to refine him.
• Qing Lin helped Xiao Yi Xian corner Fenghuang, but Fenghuang used the Demon Phoenix Step to escape before Xiao Yi Xian could strike her.
• Cai Die joined Cai Li and challenged Hun Miesheng to reveal his Early-Stage Five-Star Dou Saint strength, surprising him by exposing his true cultivation.

The Soul Hall and Black Tortoise Hall faced off as the Dou God Clans and other powerful factions gathered to watch. Gu Han revealed his formidable soul power to Fairy Fire Spirit, who realized he had reached the Half-Step Emperor Realm.

• Cai Die exposed Hun Miesheng's hidden Five-Star Dou Saint strength and his plan to seize the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Fairy Fire Spirit, Gu Nanhai, Lei Xiao, and other powerful experts arrived as the Black Tortoise Hall's battle with the Soul Hall drew attention from across the continent.
• Hun Miesheng abandoned his concealment, reached the Early-Stage Five-Star Dou Saint realm, and challenged the Black Tortoise Hall's Hall Master.
• Cai Li said Gu Han was present but undetectable to those gathered, prompting Gu Nanhai to ask Fairy Fire Spirit whether she could sense him.
• Gu Han contacted Fairy Fire Spirit with his soul power and asked her to protect the Black Tortoise Hall from the Soul Clan.
• Fairy Fire Spirit sensed that Gu Han's soul surpassed her own and concluded that he had reached the Half-Step Emperor Realm.

Gu Han negotiated with Fairy Fire Spirit, offering her a path to an Emperor Realm Soul or the Mysterious Yellow Flame to help her reach Eight-Star Dou Saint. After Fairy Fire Spirit joined the Black Tortoise Hall as a Guest Elder, Cai Die and Cai Li fused and challenged Hun Miesheng, beginning a battle in the void.

• Gu Han offered Fairy Fire Spirit an Emperor Realm Soul through soul-level dual cultivation or a breakthrough to Eight-Star Dou Saint in exchange for guarding the Black Tortoise Hall.
• Gu Han revealed that he knew where to find Xiao Xuan's Mysterious Yellow Flame, and Fairy Fire Spirit agreed to join the Black Tortoise Hall as a Guest Elder.
• Fairy Fire Spirit confirmed that Gu Han had been nearby and announced her decision to join the Black Tortoise Hall.
• Hun Sha appeared to back Hun Miesheng, but Cai Die and Cai Li stepped forward and fused into a Nine-Colored Immortal Robe.
• Cai Die and Cai Li challenged Hun Miesheng to fight in the void, and their nine-colored light clashed with his black flames.

Cai Die and Cai Li merged to fight Hun Miesheng, unleashing a devastating lightning technique that astonished the gathered experts. As the battle continued, Fairy Fire Spirit recalled how Xiao Chen and Ancestor Fen Yan disappeared, leaving Xiao Xuan exposed to the Soul Clan’s attack.

• Hun Miesheng launched a sneak attack on Cai Die and Cai Li, but they fought back and pressed him with their speed and Dou Techniques.
• Cai Die and Cai Li unleashed their improved Nine-Colored Heaven-Piercing technique, summoning Black Demon Lightning that shocked the spectators.
• Xiao Yan asked Yao Chen about the lightning, and Yao Chen explained its connection to Ninth-Grade Profound Pills.
• Fairy Fire Spirit and Hun Sha discussed Hun Miesheng’s talent and his decision to pursue the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame instead of returning to the Soul Clan to advance.
• Fairy Fire Spirit recalled that Xiao Chen and Ancestor Fen Yan had vanished, leaving Xiao Xuan to face the Soul Clan’s surprise attack and the Xiao Clan’s destruction.

Xiao Yan learned that Xiao Chen might still be alive, while Shuang Cai’s Nine-Colored Heaven Transforming Light defeated Hun Miesheng and his Nihility Devouring Flame Child Flame. As Hun Sha and Hun Qianmo withdrew with the wounded Hun Miesheng, Gu Han appeared to answer his taunt with a lethal Soul Power attack.

• Xiao Yan revealed his restored Seventh Grade Dou Emperor Bloodline and asked Fairy Fire Spirit whether Xiao Chen could be the surviving Xiao Clan ancestor.
• Fairy Fire Spirit confirmed that Xiao Chen was the most likely Xiao Clan Dou Saint to have survived the Soul Clan’s purge.
• Hun Miesheng summoned a Child Flame of the Nihility Devouring Flame, which Xiao Yan and Yao Chen recognized as a fragment of the Soul Clan’s formidable clan flame.
• Shuang Cai transformed into her Nine-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python form and used Nine-Colored Heaven Transforming Light to shatter, devour, and seal the Child Flame, leaving Hun Miesheng near collapse.
• Hun Sha tried to save Hun Miesheng, but Fairy Fire Spirit stopped him until Hun Qianmo arrived and pulled Hun Miesheng out of the attack; Hun Sha then declared the Soul Hall’s defeat temporary.
• Hun Miesheng taunted Gu Han for hiding behind women, and Gu Han’s voice answered as a Soul Power finger appeared before him.

Gu Han killed Hun Miesheng and gave his allies opportunities, while Nihility Devouring Flame broke through to the Emperor Realm and prepared to enact the Soul Clan’s plan with Hun Tiandi. A year later, Xiao Yan defeated Gu Qingyang in the Ancient Realm, and the gathered clans debated whether he would be allowed into the Heavenly Tomb.

• Gu Han killed Hun Miesheng with a prepared attack, prompting Hun Qianmo and Hun Sha to retreat as they prioritized Nihility Devouring Flame’s breakthrough.
• Gu Han shared opportunities with his allies, including locations of Heavenly Flames for Xiao Yan, and the news of Black Tortoise Hall’s strength spread across the continent.
• Nihility Devouring Flame reached the Emperor Realm, learned that he could restrain the Imperial Clans’ incomplete Dou Emperor souls, and agreed with Hun Tiandi to begin their plan by targeting Gu Yuan.
• Xiao Yan defeated Gu Qingyang in the Ancient Realm despite being at a lower cultivation level, while the younger generation discussed Black Tortoise Hall’s power and Xiao Yan’s chance to enter the Heavenly Tomb.

Xiao Yan won the duel for the Xiao Clan’s Heavenly Tomb qualification, but Gu Shan challenged the result by claiming Xun’er had become the Ancient Clan’s strongest junior. Xiao Yan summoned Gu Han to settle the dispute, and Gu Han confronted the Ancient Clan before asking Gu Yuan for his view.

• Xiao Yan defeated Gu Qingyang and asked Elder Tong Xuan to let him enter the Heavenly Tomb.
• Gu Shan argued that the qualification remained contested because Xun’er had emerged from seclusion as a Nine-Revolution Dou Venerate Peak.
• Gu Shan offered Xiao Yan a Dou Technique or spiritual medicine instead of letting him fight Xun’er, but Xiao Yan refused and summoned Gu Han.
• Gu Han appeared, intimidated Gu Shan, and warned that the Black Tortoise Hall knew how to use force if the Ancient Clan broke the rules.
• Gu Han looked toward Gu Yuan and asked what his uncle thought.

Gu Han challenged the Eight Imperial Clans’ control of the Heavenly Tomb slots and claimed Black Tortoise Hall could replace the Soul Clan. He asked Gu Yuan to capture Gu Yang, but Gu Yuan found no sign that Gu Yang had been tampered with.

• Gu Yuan explained that Xiao Yan’s Heavenly Tomb slot had always been promised to him by Xiao Xuan’s agreement with the Ancient Clan.
• Gu Han detailed the Heavenly Tomb’s history and said he wanted to compete for the Soul Clan’s two slots on behalf of Black Tortoise Hall.
• The Soul Clan Half-Saint warned that taking its slots would threaten the Eight Imperial Clans’ shared agreement, but Gu Han said the other clans would accept Black Tortoise Hall as its replacement.
• Gu Han asked Gu Yuan to capture Gu Yang and offered to marry into the Ancient Clan if anything went wrong.
• Gu Yuan seized Gu Yang and sealed his cultivation, then said he had found no sign of tampering.

Gu Han exposed Gu Yang as a sleeper agent altered by the Nihility Devouring Flame and helped the Ancient Clan contain him. He warned the other Imperial Clans that the Soul Clan might be targeting their Tou She Ancient God Jades, and their leaders confirmed they had already uncovered traitors.

• Gu Han used the Yin Yang Twin Flames to activate a hidden rune in Gu Yang, revealing that the Nihility Devouring Flame had secretly altered him centuries earlier.
• Gu Han explained that Gu Yang had remained loyal to the Ancient Clan until the Nihility Devouring Flame activated him, then warned Gu Yuan not to kill him because that could alert the enemy.
• Gu Yuan imprisoned Gu Yang in a special space, praised Gu Han for uncovering the traitor, and approved Black Tortoise Hall's qualification to enter the Heavenly Tomb.
• Gu Han warned the gathered clans that the Soul Clan might have tampered with other Imperial Clan elders to target their Tou She Ancient God Jades.
• The Thunder Clan and the other clans thanked Gu Han after their Clan Chiefs confirmed their own traitors had already been exposed and brought under control.

Gu Han exposed the Soul Clan’s infiltration of the Imperial Clans and captured its agents, then reunited with Xun’er in the Ancient Realm. He predicted that Xun’er had a God-grade bloodline just before her Coming-of-Age Ceremony and entry into the Heavenly Tomb.

• The Imperial Clans reported that they had rooted out Soul Clan traitors whose souls Nihility Devouring Flame had altered to target the Tou She Ancient God Jade, and Gu Han persuaded Lei Ying and Yan Jin to delay confronting the Soul Clan.
• The gathered clans suspected the Soul Clan had discovered Tou She Ancient God’s Cave Mansion and sought the jade to help Hun Tiandi reach Dou Emperor.
• Gu Han sealed the Soul Clan Half-Saint and his two disciples inside the Yin Yang Tai Xu Map, then gave the map to Xiao Yan so it could lead him to Xiao Xuan in the Heavenly Tomb.
• Gu Han reunited with Xun’er and explained that he had come to witness her Coming-of-Age Ceremony and give her a congratulatory gift.
• Gu Han predicted that Xun’er possessed a God-grade bloodline, and she asked whether that would make him feel pressured.

Xun'er revealed a God-Grade Bloodline during her coming-of-age ceremony, astonishing the Ancient Clan and its guests. Gu Han’s Fire Beads began raising her Bloodline grade even further, prompting a veiled woman to demand an explanation.

• Gu Han teased Xun'er about needing to grow stronger, and Gu Yuan directed her to begin her Bloodline test before entering the Heavenly Tomb.
• Xun'er's Bloodline shattered the testing Star Disk and manifested as a God-Grade Bloodline, causing many Ancient Clan members to kneel and others to bow.
• Tong Xuan presented the Seven-Colored Heavenly Emperor Brush to carve Xun'er's Clan Mark, but Gu Han interrupted to give her a congratulatory gift first.
• Xun'er absorbed Gu Han's golden Fire Beads with the Golden Emperor Blazing Heaven Flame, and her Bloodline grade began to rise beyond God-Grade.
• A veiled woman standing on a scarlet Fire Lotus asked Gu Han what the Fire Beads were.

Gu Han revealed that Emperor Flame Fire Beads came from the Flame Lizardmen and carried the bloodline-transforming power of Tou She Ancient God, the former Emperor Flame. Huo Zhi and other clan members sought to trade for the beads, but Gu Han said only fire-attributed cultivators could refine them.

• Huo Zhi asked Gu Han whether his Fire Beads could help raise her low-grade Dou Emperor Bloodline.
• Gu Han explained that Emperor Flame was a Heavenly Flame that became Tou She Ancient God after reaching the Dou Emperor realm and had once devoured other Heavenly Flames.
• Gu Han revealed that Tou She Ancient God created the Flame Lizard Race, whose Fire Beads contained power that could raise bloodline grades.
• Huo Zhi asked to trade for the beads, and members of the Ling Clan and others also expressed interest.
• Gu Han clarified that only cultivators with fire-attributed Dou Qi could refine the Fire Beads.

Gu Han traded Emperor Flame Fire Beads to Huo Zhi for access to the Fire Emperor Profound Canon and refused Medicine Spirit’s request for a private deal. After the younger generation entered the Heavenly Tomb, Gu Yuan sealed the Ancient Realm until Gu Han summoned him five months later to deliver a grand gift to the Soul Clan.

• Gu Han gave Huo Zhi ten Fire Beads in exchange for the Fire Emperor Profound Canon’s Heaven Tier material and Red Lotus Karmic Fire.
• Gu Han told Medicine Spirit that her special constitution was more valuable than the Yao Clan’s bloodline, but demanded extra payment to explain it.
• Gu Han left after congratulating Xun'er, who arranged for Xiang Qingyue to enter the Heavenly Tomb alongside her.
• The younger generation entered the Heavenly Tomb, and Gu Yuan sealed the Ancient Realm and ordered that its events remain secret for half a year.
• Five months later, Gu Yuan received Gu Han’s message summoning him to help send the Soul Clan a grand gift.

The Soul Clan attacked the Ling Clan, but Ling Yun revealed that the clan had prepared in advance to counter Nihility Devouring Flame. As the Ling Emperor Remnant Soul gained strength, Fairy Fire Spirit and other allies arrived to hold off the Soul Clan’s Demon Saints.

• Nihility Devouring Flame and the Four Demon Saints invaded the Ling Realm, where the Ling Emperor Remnant Soul battled the Flame and tried to consume it.
• Ling Yun strengthened the Five Elements Spirit Orbs with five rare spiritual treasures gathered from other clans, revealing that the Ling Clan had anticipated the attack.
• The awakened Ling Emperor Soul Mark unleashed the Five Elements Heaven and Earth Seal against Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Nihility Devouring Flame ordered the Four Demon Saints to attack the Ling Clan Dou Saints, while Ling Yun and Fairy Fire Spirit intercepted two of them.
• A youth riding an ox and a burly middle-aged man confronted the other two Demon Saints, and Hun Jing recognized the middle-aged man as the Pill Tower Ancestor.