Chapter Summaries

The Pill Tower learned that its hidden strength and long-standing patron were tied to the top-ranked faction, then received a massive Gold Ranking reward that strengthened its alchemists and elders. After the patron urgently ordered Healing Pills for an approaching great battle, Lin Yuan watched from the Seven Star Palace and wondered whether it was finally about to emerge.

• Lin Laoguai and the Pill Tower elders discussed the hidden ancestor and Puppets revealed by the Gold Ranking, and the ancestor appeared to confirm the secrets.
• The ancestor revealed that the top-ranked faction had supplied resources to the Pill Tower and that the Gold Ranking would soon show more about it.
• Golden light empowered alchemists across the continent, advancing the Pill Tower's ancestor to Mid Eight-star Dou Saint and raising many Pill Tower elders to Dou Saint.
• The Gold Ranking bestowed cultivation methods, techniques, a handbook, a bronze Humanoid Battle Puppet, and three Ninth-Grade Golden Pills, which the elders eagerly examined.
• The ancestor received an urgent Healing Pill order from Tian Quan Hall and told the Pill Tower to mobilize its high-level alchemists and branch halls.
• Lin Yuan watched the Pill Tower's image fade from the Gold Ranking and wondered whether the Seven Star Palace was about to emerge into the world.

Lin Yuan prepared the Seven Star Palace for the Heavenly Dao Gold Ranking’s revelation, then left for the Flame Demon Battlefield. The ranking exposed the palace as the continent’s strongest faction and announced immense rewards, leaving everyone across the continent stunned.

• The Hall Master of Tian Quan Hall reported that the branch halls had entered the Flame Demon Battlefield, the palace’s channels were guarded, and most members were returning to support logistics.
• Lin Yuan confirmed that three unreachable allies were safe, ordered Tian Quan Hall to avoid disrupting Xiao Yan’s growth, and gave the Hall Master three Space Stones to offer the Yao, Ling, and Shi Clans in exchange for their becoming Seven Star Palace affiliates.
• Lin Yuan entered the Spatial Channel and departed for the Flame Demon Battlefield, while the Hall Master of Tian Quan Hall put on a silver Big Dipper mask and took the identity of the First Generation Wen Qu Tian Quan Star.
• The Heavenly Dao Gold Ranking revealed the Seven Star Palace’s hidden headquarters on the Meteor God Ice Plain and listed Lin Yuan and the palace’s immense strength.
• The ranking granted the Seven Star Palace powerful Emperor-tier rewards and a level increase for its members, stunning witnesses throughout the Dou Qi Continent.

The Gold Ranking revealed that the Seven Star Palace was founded by Ice Emperor Lin Yuan and guarded an Emperor Grade Pill containing Origin Qi. The Soul Clan and Ancient Clan mobilized to seize it, while the Old Ancestor of Little Pill Tower insisted the palace would be safe because she had seen an Emperor.

• The Dou Qi Continent learned that the Seven Star Palace was a powerful hidden force founded by Ice Emperor Lin Yuan, and that its Emperor Grade Pill could help a Nine-star Dou Saint break through.
• Hun Tiandi ordered the Soul Clan and Hall of Souls forces above Dou Zun to head for the Meteor God Ice Plain and instructed Nihility Devouring Flame to hide his strength for a surprise attack.
• Gu Yuan learned that the Soul Clan was moving against the Seven Star Palace and ordered most of the Ancient Clan’s forces to join the fight for the Emperor Grade Pill.
• Xuan Kongzi and the Pill Tower elders considered sending people to the Meteor God Ice Plain, but the Old Ancestor of Little Pill Tower told them to keep refining pills because the Seven Star Palace would be fine.
• The Old Ancestor of Little Pill Tower explained her confidence by saying she had seen an Emperor.

The Old Ancestor of Little Pill Tower revealed that Ice Emperor Lin Yuan was a present-day Emperor and that Pill Tower belonged to Seven Star Palace, while forces across the Dou Qi Continent set out for the Far North. In the Flame Demon Battlefield, Lin Yuan received a Gold Ranking reward and broke through to Peak of Lower Earthly Supreme before the ranking announced its next review.

• The Old Ancestor of Little Pill Tower told Lin Laoguai and the other elders that Ice Emperor Lin Yuan was a present-day Emperor and that Pill Tower would return to Seven Star Palace's Tian Quan Hall.
• The Old Ancestor of Little Pill Tower warned the elders not to reveal Seven Star Palace's secrets, and they returned to refining pills with renewed motivation.
• The Seven Great Ancient Clans and many other factions and Loose Cultivators traveled toward Meteor God Ice Plain to see Seven Star Palace.
• Lin Yuan warned Tian Quan, the Hall Master of Tian Quan Hall, to avoid excessive killing if the Soul Clan attacked Seven Star Palace.
• Bestowal Golden Light reached Lin Yuan in the Flame Demon Battlefield, helping him break through to Peak of Lower Earthly Supreme and granting him several other rewards.
• The Heavenly Dao Gold Ranking announced that its review of the Ten Great Sect Forces had ended and that it would review the Ten Great Clans in half a year.

Lin Yuan examined the Heavenly Dao Gold Ranking rewards and discovered an incomplete clone Divine Ability called Three Lives Body. When he sensed that Flame Demon Clan experts had attacked his wife and children in violation of his agreement, he rushed toward the battlefield, where they were surrounded.

• Lin Yuan inspected the Emperor Grade Killing Formation and several Emperor-level scrolls, then found that Three Lives Body could create powerful clones but that he had received only the Present Body method.
• Lin Yuan put away the rewards and sensed that Flame Demon Clan experts had violated his rules by attacking his wife and children.
• The chapter recounted how Lin Yuan and the Seven Star Palace had fought the Flame Demon Clan, then agreed with its leader that Supreme Realm experts would not act on the Flame Demon Battlefield.
• Lin Yuan sped toward the southeast of the battlefield, where his wife and children were surrounded in a valley by more than a dozen Flame Demon Clan experts.

Flame Demon Clan forces ambushed Yan Fei, Lin Han, and Lin Yan, but Lin Yuan arrived as a newly advanced Lower Earth Supreme and swiftly rescued his family. Afterward, Lin Yan and Yan Fei asked whether mysterious golden lights that strengthened them were connected to Lin Yuan’s breakthrough.

• A Seventh Grade Supreme Flame Demon Clan Elder trapped Yan Fei, Lin Han, and Lin Yan behind a shield and revealed his plan to capture them as leverage against Lin Yuan.
• Lin Han sensed Lin Yuan approaching, despite the elder’s claim that Lin Yuan could not reach them in time.
• Lin Yuan arrived, froze the surrounding Flame Demon Clan warriors, destroyed their bodies, and imprisoned the elder’s fleeing soul.
• Lin Yan reunited with Lin Yuan and told him that golden lights had entered her, Lin Han, and Yan Fei, strengthening the children by one star.
• Yan Fei asked Lin Yuan whether the golden lights were related to his breakthrough to Lower Earth Supreme.

After learning the Flame Demon Clan’s ancestor would emerge from seclusion within ten years, Lin Yuan arranged a counterattack while hiding the Heavenly Dao Gold Ranking from the clan. He gave the Origin Qi Emperor Grade Pill to Tian Ji and began preparing to create a Present World Body as the Seven Star Palace went to war.

• Lin Yuan told Yan Fei, Lin Han, and Lin Yan about the Heavenly Dao Gold Ranking, and Lin Han correctly identified Tian Ji as the best recipient of the Emperor Grade Pill.
• Lin Yuan searched a Flame Demon Clan supreme expert’s soul and learned that their ancestor’s injuries had improved, leaving the Dou Qi Continent at most ten years to prepare.
• Lin Yuan instructed Yan Fei to take the children to the Meteor God Ice Plain, guard the Spatial Channel with Tian Quan, and keep the Gold Ranking secret.
• Lin Yuan delivered the Origin Qi Emperor Grade Pill to Tian Ji, protected his secluded cultivation, and prepared to condense a Present World Body.
• The Five Hall Masters led the Seven Star Palace in a counterattack, claiming the Flame Demon Clan had broken their hundred-year agreement by attacking Lin Yuan’s family.

After Xie Zhu’s failed attack on Lin Yuan’s family, the Flame Demon Clan abandoned him and agreed to avoid provoking Lin Yuan for ten years, while Lin Yuan quietly prepared a counterattack. Meanwhile, powerful factions gathered at the Meteor God Ice Plain, where the Soul Clan encountered an invisible barrier near Seven Star Palace.

• Xie Feng ordered the Flame Demon Clan to abandon Xie Zhu, deny responsibility for his actions, and avoid sending members to the Dou Qi Continent for ten years.
• Lin Yuan learned of the Flame Demon Clan’s response, redeployed Seven Star Palace’s forces, and continued condensing a clone of his Present World Body.
• Over the next month, Seven Star Palace members hunted Flame Demon Clan forces across the battlefield while the Flame Demon Clan believed the conflict had settled down.
• Powerful factions from across the Dou Qi Continent gathered at the Meteor God Ice Plain and advanced toward Seven Star Palace, with the Soul Clan and Hall of Souls leading.
• Hun Miesheng failed to break through an invisible barrier blocking the Soul Clan’s advance, and Hun Tiandi smiled as he recognized they had reached their destination.

Hun Tiandi and the Soul Clan failed to break through Seven Star Palace’s Sect Protecting Grand Formation, so he sought to unite the continent’s strongest forces. As the armies gathered at Meteor God Ice Plain, Gu Yuan left open the possibility of cooperating, and Hun Tiandi began approaching the other factions.

• Hun Tiandi struck Seven Star Palace’s invisible barrier, but his powerful attack failed to damage its Sect Protecting Grand Formation.
• Gu Yuan arrived with the Ancient Clan and learned from Hun Tiandi that the barrier had stopped the Soul Clan’s advance.
• Hun Tiandi urged Gu Yuan to cooperate against Seven Star Palace, and Gu Yuan said they would discuss it after the other forces arrived.
• The other Ancient Clans, magical beast families, and Central Continent sects gathered at Meteor God Ice Plain, while Pill Tower remained absent.
• Hun Tiandi approached the Seven Ancient Clans as Hall Master Hun Miesheng and the Hall of Souls contacted the other gathered factions.

Hun Tiandi failed to gather the major clans’ support, then led the Soul Clan and its allies in an assault on the Seven Star Palace’s formation, which remained unscathed. As the attackers began to retreat, the Hall Master of Tian Quan Hall opened a vortex in the formation, and a terrifying presence approached from within.

• Hun Tiandi failed to win the Ancient Clans or the Five Great Clans to his cause, but proceeded with the Soul Clan and the allies gathered by the Hall of Souls.
• Inside the formation, the Hall Master of Tian Quan Hall showed Lin Yan the appearances of Xiao Yan and Yao Chen, and Lin Yan noticed Xiao Yan looking toward her.
• Xiao Yan told Yao Chen he felt someone inside the Seven Star Palace watching him, but Yao Chen suggested he might have sensed incorrectly.
• Hun Miesheng called for an audience with the Hall Master of Tian Quan Hall, and Hun Tiandi ordered the assembled forces to attack after receiving no reply.
• The attackers’ combined strikes failed to damage the ice-blue formation, and Hun Tiandi began to give up hope as the Soul Clan prepared to retreat.
• The Hall Master of Tian Quan Hall used a Blue Token to open a vortex in the formation, from which a powerful, unsettling aura began to approach.

The Hall Master of Tian Quan Hall killed Hun Qianmo with a single palm and ordered the assembled forces to leave the Seven Star Palace. Hun Tiandi withdrew with the Soul Clan, vowing revenge if he ever reached the Dou Emperor realm.

• The Hall Master of Tian Quan Hall launched a Flame Giant Palm at Hun Qianmo, and Hun Tiandi could not reach him in time to intervene.
• The Flame Giant Palm destroyed Hun Qianmo and the Soul Clan members beside him, reducing them to ashes and annihilating their souls.
• Gu Yuan, Lei Ying, Yan Jin, Yao Dan, and the other clan patriarchs felt relieved that they had not joined the Soul Clan's attack, while Huang Tian and Tianming Old Demon retreated with their forces.
• The Hall Master of Tian Quan Hall warned the attackers against striking the Sect Protecting Grand Formation again, dismissed their hopes of taking the Emperor Grade Pill, and ordered everyone to leave within one incense stick.
• Hun Tiandi ordered the Soul Clan to retreat and privately vowed to make the Seven Star Palace pay if he broke through to the Dou Emperor realm.

After the Soul Clan retreated from the Seven Star Palace, the clan leaders speculated about the palace’s power while Gu Xun’er invited Xiao Yan to enter the Heavenly Tomb. Three clan leaders later returned to the palace for a secret meeting and discovered one another there.

• Yan Jin, Lei Ying, and Yao Dan discussed Hun Qianmo’s death and Gu Yuan speculated that the Seven Star Palace had driven off the Soul Clan to focus on breaking through to Dou Emperor.
• Gu Yuan told Gu Xun’er that the Heavenly Tomb would soon open and that Xiao Yan was entitled to enter, so she flew to inform him.
• Gu Xun’er explained the Heavenly Tomb Trial to Xiao Yan, and he agreed to go and inspect his ancestors’ Mufu.
• The departing forces spread news of the Soul Clan’s defeat, while the other ancient clans helped publicize it.
• The Ling Clan Patriarch returned to meet the Hall Master of Tian Quan Hall, but the Yao Clan Leader and Shi Clan Leader emerged from separate spatial rifts and joined him.

The Hall Master of Tian Quan Hall summoned the Yao, Shi, and Ling Clan leaders and warned them that the Soul Clan could destroy their clans despite their confidence in their defenses and alliances. He gave them Space Stones that could summon the Seven Star Palace, in exchange for becoming its Affiliated Clans.

• The Yao Clan Leader, Shi Clan Leader, and Ling Clan Patriarch discovered that all three had answered the Hall Master of Tian Quan Hall's summons.
• The Hall Master of Tian Quan Hall revealed that he had not summoned the Gu Lei Yan clans because they could defend themselves, while the three assembled clans were too weak to withstand the Soul Clan.
• The clan leaders cited their protective arrays, Dou Emperor remnants, and alliances, but the Hall Master warned that the Soul Clan coveted their Tou She Ancient God Jade and had four Eight-star Dou Saints and another Nine-star Dou Saint hidden nearby.
• The Hall Master explained that Hun Tiandi would target the Ancient Dou Emperor Legacy Families whether or not he obtained the Heavenly Dao Gold Ranking's path to becoming a Dou Emperor.
• The Hall Master gave each clan leader a Space Stone that could open a channel to the Seven Star Palace and offered its protection in return for their clans becoming Affiliated Clans.

After the Meteor God Ice Plain, the Soul Clan continued its plans while the continent awaited the Gold Ranking. Five months later, the ranking reappeared to evaluate the Dou Qi Continent’s Ten Great Clans.

• Hall Master of Tian Quan Hall gave the Ling, Shi, and Yao Clan leaders Space Stones as a safeguard, explaining they could submit to the Seven Star Palace if their clans faced destruction.
• Hun Tiandi left the Meteor God Ice Plain and ordered the Soul Clan’s plans to proceed, including waiting for the Ling Clan to receive its Gold Ranking reward before attacking.
• Hun Tiandi dismissed concerns about the Pill Tower, Dongji Sect, and Nanming Sect, choosing to wait for the Family Ranking’s announcement.
• The Soul Clan became a subject of ridicule after its defeat, while Hall of Souls forces continued creating conflicts and collecting Soul Bodies for the Millennium Plan.
• Five months later, the Heavenly Dao Gold Ranking appeared and announced that it would rank the Dou Qi Continent’s Ten Great Clans.

The Heavenly Dao Gold Ranking announced the criteria for the Ten Great Clans ranking, prompting clans across the continent to assess their chances. It named the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan tenth, while other clans and Seven Star Palace awaited the remaining results.

• The ranking criteria stated that eligible clans needed a hundred years of history and would be judged by their combat power, affiliated forces, and foundations.
• Huang Tian and Phoenix believed the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan could contend with the Ancient Void Dragon Clan and anticipated its rewards.
• Yao Xiaotian and the Great Elder discussed the Nine Netherworld Dark Python Clan’s prospects after the Xiao Clan’s decline.
• At the Gu Realm, Xiao Yan hoped the Ancient Void Dragon Clan would rank and help Zi Yan resolve East Dragon Island’s crisis.
• Mu Hongyan said she and Lin Han and Lin Yan would represent Seven Star Palace because Brother Yuan could not attend, and Tian Shu and Kai Yang said they did not regret joining.
• The ranking named the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan tenth, citing Huang Tian, its three Dou Saint Elders, and its affiliated Magical Beast Families.

The Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan was ranked tenth, and Huang Tian chose to raise every clan member’s bloodline concentration rather than claim the location of a Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit that would mature in a hundred years. After the clan received its rewards and grew stronger, the Gold Ranking revealed the Spirit Realm as the next location.

• Yao Xiaotian lamented that the Nine Netherworld Dark Python Clan had been left off the ranking, while Gu Yuan and Hun Tiandi wondered what the reveal meant for the continent.
• Huang Tian chose to increase all Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan members’ bloodline concentration, prioritizing immediate strength over the uncertain future fruit.
• The Gold Ranking’s blessing strengthened the clan, advancing Huang Tian to Late Six-star Dou Saint and the Heavenly Demon Three Phoenixes to higher ranks.
• Huang Tian kept enough Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Essence Blood to reach Seven-star Dou Saint and divided the remainder among the Heavenly Demon Three Phoenixes and Jiu Feng.
• The Gold Ranking’s view shifted from the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s territory to the Spirit Realm.

The Ling Clan ranked ninth on the Heavenly Dao Gold Ranking, and its patriarch chose a special reward that revealed the clan’s coming destruction. The Ling Clan learned that the Soul Clan planned to seal and annihilate them, leaving them to prepare for the coming attack.

• The Gold Ranking revealed the Ling Clan’s strength, rewards, and choice between raising everyone’s bloodline grade or taking another special reward.
• Hun Tiandi ordered Hun Miesheng to tell Nihility Devouring Flame to seal off the Spirit Realm and attack the Ling Clan.
• The Ling Clan Patriarch chose the second special reward, and the Gold Ranking raised the cultivation of the clan’s members by one star and delivered the other rewards.
• The Ling Clan Patriarch revealed that the reward was the Ling Clan Chronicle, which recorded the clan’s destruction later that year.
• The patriarch and elders read that Nihility Devouring Flame would seal the Spirit Realm, help the Soul Clan destroy the Ling Clan, and send its survivors to the Soul Clan Blood Pool.

The Ling Clan learned the Soul Clan was about to attack and chose to join the Seven Star Palace in exchange for protection. Lin Yuan answered their plea by moving the entire Spirit Realm to the Far North Meteor God Ice Plain, where the clan members found him waiting.

• The Ling Clan elders realized the Soul Clan's attack was scheduled for that day and saw the Nihility Devouring Flame leading the Soul Clan toward their Spirit Realm.
• The Ling Clan Great Elder ordered the clan to activate its protective array and preserve its bloodline, while the Patriarch revealed the Space Stone offered by the Seven Star Palace.
• The Great Elder and the other elders agreed to become an affiliated clan of the Seven Star Palace, and the Patriarch crushed the Space Stone.
• Lin Yuan told the Ling Clan he could not intervene directly but would move their Spirit Realm to the Far North Meteor God Ice Plain.
• Lin Yuan transported the Spirit Realm from the Central Continent, and the Ling Clan Patriarch and elders found him outside it wearing his Silver Seven Star Mask.

After the Soul Clan drove the Ling Clan to the brink of annihilation, the Seven Star Palace transported Spirit Realm away and accepted the survivors. As Nihility Devouring Flame turned toward the Shi Clan, the Heavenly Dao Gold Ranking revealed the family in eighth place.

• The Ling Clan Patriarch told the Hall Master of Tian Quan Hall that Nihility Devouring Flame and the Soul Clan Army had attacked, and that the Ling Clan escaped by crushing a Space Stone.
• The Hall Master of Tian Quan Hall arranged for two Seven Star Palace Dou Saints to assist the Ling Clan elders and confirmed that the Seven Star Palace founder had transported Spirit Realm.
• Nihility Devouring Flame found Spirit Realm gone, killed a Soul Clan Dou Venerate in anger, and ordered his army to report back and proceed to the Shi Clan.
• Gu Yuan and the Ancient Clans discussed the Ling Clan's rewards and anticipated their own ranking rewards.
• The Heavenly Dao Gold Ranking updated to eighth place, showing an unfamiliar setting and a group of muscular figures.

The Shi and Yao Clans learned from their clan chronicles that the Soul Clan would destroy them, then accepted the Seven Star Palace’s offer of protection and had their realms moved beside the Ling Clan’s. As the Soul Clan halted its advance after discovering the realms had vanished, the Heavenly Dao Gold Ranking announced something new.

• The Heavenly Dao Gold Ranking placed the Shi Clan eighth and the Yao Clan seventh, granting both clans rewards and revealing their strengths.
• The Shi Clan Patriarch and Yao Clan Leader chose clan chronicles over increased bloodline concentration and learned that the Soul Clan would annihilate their clans.
• The Shi Clan elders voted to become an affiliated clan of the Seven Star Palace, and Lin Yuan moved the Stone Realm beside the Ling Clan’s Spirit Realm.
• Yao Dan arrived with the Yao Clan, and the Hall Master of Tian Quan Hall led the three clan leaders to meet the Mistress while their elders stayed behind.
• Hun Yan and Hun Sha reported that the Stone Realm and Medicine Realm had disappeared, prompting the Nihility Devouring Flame to halt the Soul Clan’s advance and return.
• The Heavenly Dao Gold Ranking rang out with a dragon roar as the Nihility Devouring Flame was about to respond.