Chapter Summaries

The Pill Tower Ancestor, Zhu Qin, and Fairy Fire Spirit helped foil the Soul Clan’s assault on the Ling Realm, capturing the Four Demon Saints with Gu Han’s preparations. Nihility Devouring Flame tried to retreat to check on the Shi Clan, but a Nine-Star Dou Saint Ancient Void Dragon struck him down.

• The Pill Tower Ancestor revealed he had broken through to a Tier 9 Golden Pill and challenged Hun Jing, while Zhu Qin confronted Hun Yan.
• Nihility Devouring Flame failed to contact Hun Tiandi as five battles broke out in the Ling Realm.
• Fairy Fire Spirit used the Mysterious Yellow Flame to seal Hun Sha, then worked with Ling Yun, Zhu Qin, and the Pill Tower Ancestor to capture the Four Demon Saints in the Xuanwu Secret Realm.
• Fairy Fire Spirit, the Pill Tower Ancestor, and Zhu Qin empowered the Ling Emperor Remnant Soul, which attacked Nihility Devouring Flame with the Five Elements Spiritual Qi.
• Fairy Fire Spirit revealed that Gu Han had anticipated the Soul Clan’s three-pronged plan, prompting Nihility Devouring Flame to flee toward the Shi Clan.
• A Seven-Colored Ancient Void Dragon claw struck Nihility Devouring Flame from the void, and he realized his attacker was a Nine-Star Dou Saint.

Gu Han and the Ling Clan defeated Nihility Devouring Flame, who escaped by sacrificing a Seven-Star Dou Saint with his Blood Sacrifice of Nihility. With the Ling Clan’s crisis over, Ling Yun handed Gu Han the Five Elements Spirit Orbs as agreed and hinted at offering him a concubine.

• Zhu Huo and the Ling Emperor Remnant Soul cornered Nihility Devouring Flame with the Five Elements Heaven Seal while Fairy Fire Spirit and the others watched.
• Nihility Devouring Flame activated Blood Sacrifice of Nihility, sacrificing a Seven-Star Dou Saint to escape through a Space Node and losing part of his origin flame.
• Gu Han explained Nihility Devouring Flame’s escape technique to Fairy Fire Spirit and the others.
• Gu Han asked Ling Yun for the Five Elements Spirit Orbs, and Ling Yun handed them over in gratitude for saving the Ling Clan.
• Ling Yun asked whether Gu Han needed a concubine, and Fairy Fire Spirit answered that he did.

Gu Han refused to help Fairy Fire Spirit break through to an Emperor Realm Soul because he had accepted her niece Huo Zhi as a concubine, but Fairy Fire Spirit rushed off to speak with her. Meanwhile, Nihility Devouring Flame arrived at the Stone Realm and found the Soul Clan’s forces defeated, leaving him surrounded by Yan Jin, Lei Ying, and the Shi Clan’s Stone Emperor Remnant Soul.

• Gu Han told Fairy Fire Spirit he could not help her because he had agreed to take Huo Zhi as his concubine, and Fairy Fire Spirit hurried away to confront her niece.
• Gu Han explained that his method required Dual Cultivation and worked only for women, then returned to the Xuanwu Secret Realm as Ling Yun and the others reacted with envy.
• At the Stone Realm, Nihility Devouring Flame learned that the Soul Clan’s Four Elders and their Gates of Dead Silence had been destroyed, and the Shi Clan’s defenders had gained the advantage.
• Yan Jin and Lei Ying confronted Nihility Devouring Flame, each planning to claim part of his power for their clan, while the Stone Emperor Remnant Soul stood with them.

Gu Han joined the battle against Nihility Devouring Flame in the Stone Realm and used the Five Elements Spirit Orbs with the Shi Zhong to seal him. Nihility Devouring Flame called for Hun Tiandi’s help, but Hun Tiandi was already being held off while attacking the Yao Clan.

• Lei Ying and Yan Jin attacked Nihility Devouring Flame, whose devouring vortex tore open the Stone Realm’s barrier.
• Gu Han revealed his Emperor Realm Soul and unleashed a vast ice seal against Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Nihility Devouring Flame broke through the ice attack and struck at Gu Han, but a violet-gold dragon claw shattered his black void claw.
• Gu Han used the Five Elements Spirit Orbs and the Shi Zhong to unleash the Five Elements Cold Bell, suppressing Nihility Devouring Flame and freezing his incarnation.
• Nihility Devouring Flame begged Hun Tiandi to rescue him, while Hun Tiandi remained blocked by the Yao Emperor’s remnant soul, Zhu Kun, and Gu Yuan.

The Yao Emperor explained that Han Shanshan had sacrificed herself across time to save Yao Chen, then joined Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun in fighting Hun Tiandi. As the Nihility Devouring Flame remained suppressed, Gu Han revealed that it could fuse with Hun Tiandi to create a new being, leaving the battle’s outcome uncertain.

• The Yao Emperor told Yao Chen that Han Shanshan had used her special constitution to summon his power from the past, sacrificing herself and the Yao Emperor’s bloodline within Yao Chen.
• Yao Chen realized Han Shanshan had sacrificed herself for him, while the Yao Emperor attacked Hun Tiandi in the Medicine Realm.
• Hun Tiandi confronted the Yao Emperor as Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun joined the fight, and the four peak Nine-Star Dou Saints clashed.
• Shi Zhong, controlled by Gu Han through an Emperor Realm Soul, kept the Nihility Devouring Flame suppressed while the Imperial Clan leaders gathered.
• Gu Han revealed that the Tunling Clan had accepted a Bloodline transformation from the Devouring Demon Clan, whose corpse was suppressed beneath the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• Gu Han explained that the Nihility Devouring Flame could fuse with Hun Tiandi, creating a new individual with Hun Tiandi's consciousness likely in control.

As Gu Yuan, Yao Emperor’s remnant soul, and the Ancient Void Dragon’s Old Dragon Emperor cornered Hun Tiandi, he contacted the sealed Nihility Devouring Flame and persuaded it to fuse with him. The fusion left Hun Tiandi’s body shattered under three Quasi-Emperor-tier attacks, and Nihility Devouring Flame considered devouring his consciousness.

• Hun Tiandi realized Nihility Devouring Flame had been sealed and decided he needed to use his trump card while fighting his attackers.
• Hun Tiandi contacted Nihility Devouring Flame through their origin and Bloodline, warning that its intelligence would be erased if it remained captured.
• Hun Tiandi offered to fuse with Nihility Devouring Flame using the Tunling Clan’s secret art, promising to preserve its consciousness and provide it a new vessel later.
• Nihility Devouring Flame agreed, and it and Hun Tiandi fused as Sovereign Demonic Qi opened a passage through the blockade.
• Three Quasi-Emperor-tier Dou Skills struck Hun Tiandi during the fusion, shattering his body and prompting Nihility Devouring Flame to consider devouring his consciousness.

Hun Tiandi killed Nihility Devouring Flame during their fusion and gained power approaching the Dou Emperor level, despite suffering severe injuries and losing Dou Qi. He escaped the assembled experts, who judged him a Pseudo-Emperor and feared his strength would surpass Xiao Xuan's.

• Nihility Devouring Flame tried to seize control of the fused body, but Hun Tiandi erased his consciousness and absorbed his power.
• Hun Tiandi's soul, Bloodline, Dou Qi, and body advanced to levels close to those of a Dou Emperor, though he remained below the Peak Nine-Star Dou Saint level.
• Hun Tiandi realized Gu Han had planned the injuries and burdens that destabilized his soul and body while draining his Dou Qi.
• Hun Tiandi threatened his enemies, used spatial power to escape, and vanished.
• Gu Yuan and the other gathered experts assessed Hun Tiandi as a Pseudo-Emperor whose strength would surpass Xiao Xuan's.

After Hun Tiandi was revealed to be a Pseudo-Emperor, Gu Han reassured the gathered clans and offered ways to strengthen their fighters. He disclosed Ancestor Fen Yan’s inheritance and a Heavenly Tomb method for reaching Emperor Realm Soul, then Gu Yuan proposed how Yan Jin’s clan could use the two opportunities.

• Gu Han assured everyone that Hun Tiandi would need three years to recover and that the allied clans could prepare through warnings and void transmission passages.
• Yan Jin asked Gu Han for help, and Gu Han offered either a path to Nine-Star Dou Saint or a way to condense an Emperor Realm Soul.
• Gu Han revealed that his new opportunity involved Ancestor Fen Yan’s inheritance and a Heavenly Tomb method that could help one person reach Emperor Realm Soul.
• Yan Jin, Lei Ying, and Gu Yuan debated who should receive the opportunities, with Yan Jin asking to obtain both for himself and Huo Ling.
• Gu Han explained that the Tang Clan could open Ancestor Fen Yan’s inheritance site, outlined how its rewards would be divided, and said its strength inheritance could help an Eight-Star Dou Saint advance.
• Gu Yuan proposed that Yan Jin use Ancestor Fen Yan’s inheritance to reach Nine-Star Dou Saint while Huo Lie received the Heavenly Tomb opportunity.

Gu Han arranged powerful opportunities with the Imperial Clans, while Hun Tiandi began a desperate plan to rebuild the Soul Clan. After a month of preparations and the reopening of the Heavenly Tomb, Gu Han prepared to meet Xiao Xuan.

• Gu Han offered Gu Yuan, Yan Jin, and Lei Ying breakthroughs in exchange for rare treasures and techniques, then offered trades to the other Imperial Clans.
• Hun Tiandi returned to the Soul Realm wounded and resolved to absorb the captured Dou Emperor Bloodlines to revive the Soul Clan.
• Gu Han led Yan Jin and Ancestor Huoyun to Ancestor Fen Yan's inheritance, where Yan Jin gained a path to Nine-Star Dou Saint while Gu Han collected energy for Shuang Cai and Zi Yan.
• Gu Han helped Lei Ying obtain and split the Void Lightning Pool Heart, and received the items he had requested from the clans.
• The Heavenly Tomb reopened, and Xun'er, Xiang Qingyue, and Xiao Yan emerged with greatly increased strength; Xiao Yan had gained the Xiao Clan's final Dou Emperor Bloodline.
• Gu Han told Gu Yuan they would enter the Heavenly Tomb to meet Xiao Xuan, the strongest person beneath the Dou Emperor realm.

Gu Han defied the Spirit of the Heavenly Tomb’s rules and brought Xiao Yan and the others into the tomb’s depths. There, he restored Xiao Xuan’s body through the Yin Yang Twin Flames and proposed cooperating to help Xiao Yan reach Dou Saint and Emperor Realm Soul.

• Xiao Yan thanked Gu Han on Xiao Xuan’s behalf for helping him rise, while Gu Yuan reflected on how little the Ancient Clan had done for the Xiao Clan.
• Gu Han stopped the Heavenly Tomb’s gate from closing and intimidated its Spirit with Emperor Realm Soul Power and the power of the Great Thousand.
• Gu Han told Xun’er and Xiang Qingyue to crush their jade pendants and teleport to his true body in the Xuanwu Secret Realm.
• Gu Han brought Xiao Yan, Gu Yuan, and Gu Lie to Xiao Xuan’s tombstone and used the Yin Yang Twin Flames to give Xiao Xuan a body.
• Xiao Xuan greeted Gu Yuan without renewing their friendship, and Gu Han proposed working with Xiao Xuan to help Xiao Yan break through to Dou Saint and attain an Emperor Realm Soul.

Gu Han laid out a plan to help Xiao Yan reach Two-Star Dou Saint and gain an Emperor Realm Soul by taking control of the Heavenly Tomb’s accumulated soul origin. After Xiao Xuan agreed to restrain the Spirit of the Heavenly Tomb, Gu Han and Gu Yuan launched their attack.

• Gu Han promised Xiao Yan a path to Two-Star Dou Saint and Emperor Realm Soul Power without requiring Xiao Xuan to sacrifice himself.
• Gu Han explained that he intended to refine the Spirit of the Heavenly Tomb and divide its stored soul origin among Xiao Yan, Gu Lie, and a new Heavenly Tomb Artifact Spirit.
• Xiao Xuan agreed to restrain the Spirit of the Heavenly Tomb while Gu Han took control of it.
• Gu Han attacked with the Yin Yang Twin Flames, but Xiao Xuan’s restraint weakened the Spirit of the Heavenly Tomb’s control over the energy.
• Gu Yuan struck the restrained Spirit of the Heavenly Tomb with the Golden Emperor Blazing Heaven Flame.

Two years after the Soul Hall fell, the Black Tortoise Hall had absorbed much of its territory and Middle Continent’s powers had reorganized. Gu Yuan and the others broke into the Hun Realm and found that Hun Tiandi had sacrificed the entire Soul Clan to strengthen himself; he rose to face them with a terrifying blood giant.

• Over two years, the Black Tortoise Hall annexed most of the Soul Hall’s legacy as the factions of Middle Continent formed a new order.
• Gu Han, Zhu Kun, Gu Yuan, Zhu Huo, Yan Jin, and Lei Ying spent half a year breaking through the Hun Realm’s barriers and destroying the Soul Emperor’s remnant soul.
• Experts from across the continent entered the exposed Hun Realm and discovered its land was deserted, with a vast blood sea hanging above it.
• Zhu Kun revealed that Hun Tiandi had refined the Soul Clan and its hundreds of millions of descendants to heal his injuries and strengthen his bloodline.
• Hun Tiandi rose from the blood sea and vowed to eliminate his enemies, condensing the blood into a colossal form that Gu Yuan recognized as the Dou Emperor Celestial Body.

Zhu Kun and four other Nine-Star Dou Saints fought Hun Tiandi for three days, but could not defeat him, and his apparent Dou Emperor Celestial Body left everyone alarmed. Gu Han clarified that it was only a Dou Saint Celestial Body and explained how Dou Saints and Dou Emperors would advance in the Great Thousand World; Xiao Yan then decided to test the technique himself.

• Zhu Kun explained the power of a Dou Emperor Celestial Body as he and Gu Yuan led the attack on Hun Tiandi.
• Xiao Yan and the other Dou Saints withdrew while Zhu Kun, Gu Yuan, Yan Jin, Lei Ying, and Zhu Huo fought Hun Tiandi for three days and the battle shattered the Hun Realm.
• The five Nine-Star Dou Saints proved unable to overcome Hun Tiandi, so the others prepared to use the Yin Yang Tai Xu Map to seal or trap him.
• Gu Han appeared and explained that Hun Tiandi’s Celestial Body was a Dou Saint Celestial Body, not a Dou Emperor Celestial Body.
• Gu Han described how cultivators from the Dou Qi Continent could progress in the Great Thousand World and deduced Xiao Yan’s future cultivation path.
• Xiao Yan said he would try using a Dou Saint Celestial Body.

Hun Tiandi defeated Zhu Kun and the other four Dou Saints, but Gu Han trapped him inside the Yin Yang Taiji Diagram and revealed his Great Thousand Method cultivation. The chapter ended with Hun Tiandi realizing Gu Han could lead him to the Great Thousand World and deciding to capture him.

• Hun Tiandi used his Dou Saint Celestial Body Dou Technique to suppress Zhu Kun and break the formation formed by Gu Yuan and the others.
• Hun Tiandi prepared to escape rather than fight the surrounding Dou Saints head-on, but Gu Han's Yin Yang Taiji Diagram sealed the space around him.
• Gu Han appeared before Hun Tiandi and revealed that his cultivation was at the peak of Third Grade Sovereign, not the Dou Qi Continent's Dou Saint realm.
• Gu Han explained that the Dou Qi Continent was a lower plane within the Great Thousand World and that its Realm Passage required Dou Emperor strength to cross.
• Xiao Yan compared Gu Han's cultivation to immortal cultivation and concluded that he and Teacher should stay close to Gu Han.
• Hun Tiandi recognized that Gu Han might know how to reach the Great Thousand World and declared that he would capture him.

Gu Han and the five Nine-Star Dou Saints trapped Hun Tiandi inside the shattered Hun Realm, where Gu Han’s True Martial Great Emperor Celestial Body overwhelmed Hun Tiandi’s attacks. As Gu Han’s sword struck Hun Tiandi’s desperate counterattack, Gu Han spotted a Realm Passage in the shattered space.

• Gu Han revealed that he had told Hun Tiandi about the Great Thousand World to keep him occupied, then Zhu Kun and the other four Nine-Star Dou Saints returned and formed the Five Elements Yin Yang Array to seal the Hun Realm.
• Gu Han summoned his True Martial Great Emperor Celestial Body, and Hun Tiandi attacked it with Blood Sea Soul Annihilation.
• Gu Han used Black Tortoise Profound Nether Light to devour Hun Tiandi’s blood sea, then sent a massive sword strike toward him.
• Hun Tiandi transformed the Soul Emperor Celestial Body into blood Qi to resist Gu Han’s sword, and Gu Han noticed a Realm Passage in the shattered space.

Gu Han discovered that the Soul Clan's Realm Passage led to a ruined continent and learned the Dou Qi Continent now bordered the Great Thousand World's front lines, giving him a possible route to the Heavenly Profound Continent. He defeated and froze Hun Tiandi, then sealed him inside the Yin Yang Tai Xu Map, though the battle drained much of Gu Han's reserves.

• Gu Han used the Mystic Armor Heaven-Peering Technique to uncover the Soul Clan Realm Passage's history and the Dou Qi Continent's current position near the Great Thousand World's battlefront.
• Gu Han realized he could use his deductions to seek a route to the Heavenly Profound Continent and its Plane Embryo.
• Gu Han's True Martial Celestial Body shattered Hun Tiandi's self-detonating Celestial Body and broke through his Nihility Devouring Flame barrier.
• Gu Han unleashed the Northern Underworld Ice Seal, freezing Hun Tiandi and the surrounding area despite Hun Tiandi burning his Dou Emperor Bloodline to escape.
• Gu Han swallowed the ice mountain containing Hun Tiandi into the Yin Yang Tai Xu Map and dismissed his Sovereign Celestial Body, exhausted but satisfied with the result.

Five years after the Soul Clan’s destruction, the Black Tortoise Hall oversaw the Hun Realm as a training ground, but a mysterious gate unleashed demonic energy and drove several Dou Saints mad. Zhu Kun and the others tried to destroy the gate, only to find their combined attack had failed.

• Gu Yuan and the other leaders agreed to make the Hun Realm a training ground, and Gu Han authorized Cai Li to negotiate on behalf of the Black Tortoise Hall.
• Over the next five years, the Black Tortoise Hall became the Dou Qi Continent’s dominant power and organized annual training expeditions into the Hun Realm.
• After a year of training, Feng Qing'er, Mu Qing Luan, and the other prodigies saw a spatial gate appear in the Hun Realm, releasing a terrifying aura and black demonic mist.
• Several Dou Saints at the entrance were possessed and attacked those around them until Gu Yuan, Zhu Kun, and the others restrained them.
• Zhu Kun and three other Nine-Star Dou Saints reinforced his strike against the gate, but their attack failed and left them stunned.

Xiao Yan emerged as a Dou Emperor and shielded the Hun Realm from a powerful Strange Demon who had overwhelmed Gu Yuan and the others. The demon challenged Xiao Yan’s strength as Xiao Yan gathered the Heavenly Flames to fight him.

• A violet-eyed Strange Demon emerged from the gate, defeated Zhu Kun and injured Gu Yuan, Yan Jin, Lei Ying, and Zhu Huo with a single attack.
• The Strange Demon recognized that the Dou Qi Continent had lost its plane origin and tried to subdue its defenders, while its demonic aura suppressed their powers and drew away their Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Yan’s Heavenly Flames formed a vast barrier that burned away the demon’s attack and moved Ling Qingxuan and the others outside the Hun Realm.
• Xiao Zhan, Xiao Li, Xiao Ding, and other Xiao Family members surged in cultivation as their Dou Emperor Bloodline awakened, and Zhu Kun concluded that Xiao Yan had broken through using the Tou She Ancient God inheritance.
• Xiao Yan confronted the Strange Demon, declared that his power was sufficient to suppress it, and formed a giant flame body from the Heavenly Flames.

Xiao Yan fought the Purple-Eyed Strange Demon King in the Hun Realm, matching his strength and surviving his Demon Emperor Remnant Image. After Xiao Yan’s Flame Emperor Body shattered, he summoned and dismissed the Strange Fire Plaza, saying that someone had arrived to collect the demon.

• Xiao Yan and the Purple-Eyed Strange Demon King clashed in giant forms, and their battle devastated the Hun Realm for a full day.
• Xiao Yan reinforced the barrier around the Hun Realm to protect Middle Continent from the battle’s shockwaves.
• The Purple-Eyed Strange Demon King unleashed the Demon Emperor Remnant Image, and Xiao Yan countered with the Buddha Fury Emperor Fire Lotus, but his Flame Emperor Body shattered.
• Xiao Yan summoned the Strange Fire Plaza with the Strange Fire Eternal Ruler, then made it vanish and told the Purple-Eyed Strange Demon King that his collector had arrived.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Xiao Yan breaks through to Dou Emperor and defeats a Purple-Eyed Strange Demon.
• Gu Han, using the Black Tortoise Immortal-Suppressing Technique, absorbs the demon to break through to Seventh Grade Sovereign.
• Gu Han reveals that he lured the demon to help him break through and that he has opened a path between the Great Thousand World and the Dou Qi Continent.
• Gu Han announces his intention to leave the Dou Qi Continent to seek higher-level opportunities, promising to return in three to five years.

Character Developments

• Xiao Yan: Breaks through to Dou Emperor, decides to stay on the Dou Qi Continent for 10 years to guard it, and expresses his trust in Gu Han.
• Gu Han: Breaks through to Seventh Grade Sovereign, shows his strategic planning and decisiveness, and reveals his intention to return with a grand gift for Xiao Yan.

Significant Themes

• Strength and power: Characters strive to become stronger to protect their loved ones and achieve their goals.
• Trust and loyalty: Xiao Yan's trust in Gu Han and his willingness to stay behind to guard the Dou Qi Continent.
• Ambition and exploration: Gu Han's desire to venture into a broader world to seek higher-level opportunities.

Character Interactions

• Xiao Yan and Gu Han: Their friendship deepens as they express their trust and support for each other.
• Gu Han and his women: Gu Han decides which women to take with him on his journey, leaving some behind to continue their development on the Dou Qi Continent.