Chapter Summaries

Xiao Ling entered seclusion to refine the Nihility Devouring Flame Child Flame and the Living Flame, using the Destiny Talisman’s extreme chill to suppress both and begin absorbing their power. In the Soul Realm, Hun Tiandi learned that Hun Feng was likely dead and that Gu Yang’s infiltration had been exposed, and he suspected Xiao Ling was involved.

• Xiao Ling set aside thoughts of growing closer to Xun Er and decided to enter seclusion to consolidate his gains.
• Xiao Ling swallowed the Nihility Devouring Flame Child Flame and the Living Flame, then used the Destiny Talisman’s chill to suppress their resistance.
• Xiao Ling began refining both Heavenly Flames with Fen Jue as frost covered his body.
• Hun Miesheng reported to Hun Tiandi that Hun Feng had likely died during the mission in the Barbaric Ancient Region.
• Hun Miesheng revealed that Gu Yuan had killed Gu Yang after exposing the Soul Clan’s possession of the elder.
• Hun Tiandi suspected Xiao Ling had caused Gu Yang’s exposure and said he wanted to meet the Xiao Clan descendant when the time was right.

After completing his seclusion at the late stage of three-star Dou Saint, Xiao Ling reunited with Xun Er and learned that Starfall Pavilion and Danta had destroyed the Soul Hall-backed Nether River Alliance. Gu Yuan then revealed that the Spirit World had vanished, leaving the Soul Clan’s suspected attack to threaten the Ancient Clan with suspicion.

• Xiao Ling finished refining the Living Flame and Nihility Devouring Flame, advancing to the late stage of three-star Dou Saint.
• Xiao Ling used the Living Flame to nourish the spiritual plants in the courtyard and reunited with Xun Er.
• Xun Er told Xiao Ling that Xiao Yan and Starfall Pavilion had clashed with the Nether River Alliance before Yao Chen killed Old Heavenly Nether Demon and Starfall Pavilion and Danta destroyed the alliance.
• Gu Yuan arrived and praised Xiao Ling’s cultivation before reporting that the Spirit World had disappeared without a trace.
• Xun Er realized that the Soul Clan or Ancient Clan could have destroyed the Spirit Clan, making the Ancient Clan a likely target of suspicion.

Xiao Ling and Gu Yuan discussed the Soul Clan’s destruction of the Spirit Clan and the danger facing the ancient clans, while Xiao Ling privately planned to let the Soul Clan gather the Ancient God Jade fragments for him. After Gu Yuan left, Xiao Ling and Xun Er shared a night together and awoke the next morning still nestled in each other’s arms.

• Xun Er urged Gu Yuan to seek an alliance among the ancient clans, but he explained that suspicion of the Ancient Clan and the Soul Clan made cooperation difficult.
• Xiao Ling reassured Gu Yuan and Xun Er, while privately deciding to protect only his own loved ones and let the Soul Clan collect the remaining Ancient God Jade fragments for him to take later.
• Gu Yuan warned Xiao Ling and Xun Er to cultivate quickly, then praised Xun Er and promised not to restrict her relationship with Xiao Ling.
• Gu Yuan demanded that Xiao Ling protect Xun Er, and Xiao Ling vowed to cherish her before Gu Yuan departed through a spatial rift.
• Xiao Ling and Xun Er recalled their years together, spent the night together, and awoke the next morning in each other’s embrace.

Xiao Ling asked Gu Yuan to open the Heavenly Tomb so he could speak privately with Xiao Xuan about a matter of utmost secrecy. After entering the tomb and reuniting with his ancestor, Xiao Ling requested a secure place for their discussion, leaving the secret unspoken.

• Xiao Ling and Xun Er shared a tender morning before Xiao Ling asked Gu Yuan to open a passage into the Heavenly Tomb.
• Gu Yuan agreed to help Xiao Ling enter the Heavenly Tomb and warned him not to remain there for more than a year.
• Gu Yuan forcibly opened a rift, and Xiao Ling entered while Xun Er stayed behind with her father.
• Xiao Ling hurried through the Heavenly Tomb to its core and greeted Xiao Xuan at his tombstone.
• Xiao Ling told Xiao Xuan he had come to discuss an important matter, then asked to speak somewhere completely secluded.

Xiao Ling revealed the Soul Returning Pill to Xiao Xuan in the safety of his tombstone Cave Mansion, offering him a chance to resurrect. Xiao Xuan accepted the pill and prepared to use the Heavenly Tomb Soul’s origin energy to help Xiao Ling advance his soul, but the Heavenly Tomb Soul appeared and challenged Xiao Xuan for breaking their agreement.

• Xiao Ling took Xiao Xuan into his sealed tombstone Cave Mansion so they could discuss resurrection beyond the Heavenly Tomb Soul’s detection.
• Xiao Xuan dismissed resurrection as impossible, but Xiao Ling showed him an Emperor-grade Soul Returning Pill and explained that it could restore him to life.
• Xiao Xuan accepted the pill and offered to help Xiao Ling break through to an Emperor Realm Soul using the Heavenly Tomb Soul’s origin energy.
• Xiao Xuan destroyed the Cave Mansion’s concealment and summoned the Heavenly Tomb Soul, whose enormous face appeared in the sky.
• The Heavenly Tomb Soul accused Xiao Xuan of breaking their agreement, and Xiao Xuan challenged its claim to be the tomb’s rightful guardian.

Xiao Xuan burned his Emperor Realm soul to defeat the Heavenly Tomb Soul and extract its Soul Origin. He gave the origin to Xiao Ling to refine and absorb, while Xiao Ling's attention remained on Xiao Xuan.

• Xiao Xuan used Soul Combustion to overpower the Heavenly Tomb Soul and bind it with threads of Soul Fire.
• Xiao Xuan tore the Heavenly Tomb Soul's Soul Origin from its body despite its pleas and attempt to burn its own soul.
• The weakened Heavenly Tomb Soul was attacked by the Energy Bodies and destroyed, freeing them from its influence.
• Xiao Xuan gave the Soul Origin to Xiao Ling and told him to refine and absorb it.
• Xiao Ling looked at Xiao Xuan instead of the immense Soul Origin floating before him.

Xiao Ling entered the Heavenly Tomb Soul Origin and began refining its vast power, while the Spirit of the Ancestor Stone explained that lacking Supreme Power would keep him from fully reaching the Divine Palace Realm. A month later, Xiao Xuan continued guarding him as his Soul Body weakened, and he expected Xiao Ling’s cultivation to end within days.

• Xiao Ling entered the Soul Origin and discovered that the ring contained an immense ocean of condensed Soul Power.
• The Spirit of the Ancestor Stone told Xiao Ling that absorbing the Soul Origin could bring him to the half-step Divine Palace Realm, but he lacked the Supreme Power needed to form a complete Divine Palace.
• The Spirit of the Ancestor Stone reassured Xiao Ling that he could pursue the Divine Palace Realm later on the Heaven Profound Continent, and Xiao Ling accepted the limits of his current opportunity.
• Xiao Ling used his Destiny Talisman and the Spirit of the Ancestor Stone’s purifying power to refine the Soul Origin and strengthen his soul.
• A month later, Xiao Xuan guarded the Soul Origin while his Soul Body weakened, and he judged that Xiao Ling’s rapid cultivation would likely end within a few days.

Xiao Ling completed his breakthrough to an Emperor Realm Soul and used the Soul Returning Pill to revive Xiao Xuan as a living peak Nine Star Dou Saint. Xiao Xuan pledged to support Xiao Ling’s future path to Dou Emperor, and the two left the Heavenly Tomb with Xiao Ling now its master.

• Xiao Ling emerged from seclusion with an Emperor Realm Soul and offered to guard Xiao Xuan while he took the Soul Returning Pill.
• Xiao Xuan swallowed the pill and regained a living body, his bloodline, and the strength of a peak Nine Star Dou Saint, though he did not break through to Dou Emperor.
• Xiao Xuan thanked Xiao Ling and resolved to set aside his own pursuit of Dou Emperor to protect and support him.
• Xiao Xuan explained that Origin Qi was needed to reach Dou Emperor and that the Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion held an Emperor-Grade Embryonic Pill.
• Xiao Ling promised to help restore the Xiao Clan’s former glory, then used his control of the Heavenly Tomb to leave with Xiao Xuan.

Xiao Ling and Xiao Xuan returned from the Heavenly Tomb, where Xiao Xuan’s resurrection astonished Gu Yuan and prompted a discussion of the Xiao Clan, the Soul Clan, and Xiao Chen. Xiao Ling prepared to leave with Xiao Xuan to investigate the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and rescue Xiao Chen, reassuring Xun Er before the journey.

• Gu Yuan met Xiao Ling and Xiao Xuan and recognized that Xiao Xuan had returned to life.
• Xiao Ling attributed Xiao Xuan’s resurrection to a Soul Returning Pill, while Gu Yuan apologized for failing to protect the Xiao Clan and learned Xiao Ling had reached the Emperor Realm Soul.
• Xiao Xuan sensed that Xiao Chen had survived, and he agreed with Gu Yuan to keep his resurrection secret.
• Xiao Ling revealed that Xiao Chen might be trapped in the Demonic Flame Space and proposed that he and Xiao Xuan break in to rescue him and seek the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Xiao Ling reunited with Xun Er in the Ancient Realm and reassured her about the dangers of his coming journey.

Xiao Ling and Xiao Xuan secretly left the Ancient Realm and found the unstable barrier to the Demonic Flame Space, where Xiao Chen was likely trapped. Xiao Xuan broke open the barrier after a prolonged assault, and he urged Xiao Ling to enter through the rift.

• Xiao Ling reassured Xun Er that Xiao Xuan would accompany him, while Xiao Xuan promised to keep him safe.
• Gu Yuan drew Hun Tiandi’s attention with a remote soul confrontation as Xiao Ling and Xiao Xuan secretly departed the Ancient Realm.
• Xiao Xuan and Xiao Ling reached a remote mountain range and sensed the Demonic Flame Space and the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame beneath it.
• Xiao Xuan attacked the fragile Space Barrier while Xiao Ling concealed the disturbance with a spatial barrier.
• After an hour of attacks, Xiao Xuan widened the resulting rift and called for Xiao Ling to enter quickly.

Xiao Ling entered the Demonic Flame Space and fought his way through its Flame Figure guardians as he advanced toward the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. Xiao Xuan rescued Xiao Chen and trusted Xiao Ling to subdue the flame, while the two watched his progress from deeper within the space.

• Xiao Ling and Xiao Xuan entered the Demonic Flame Space as its shattered seal began to give way.
• Xiao Ling absorbed the flame invading his body, escaped the illusory sea of fire, and found himself separated from Xiao Xuan.
• Xiao Xuan followed the Xiao Clan bloodline resonance to Xiao Chen and rescued him from his thousand-year imprisonment.
• Xiao Ling froze and shattered the Flame Figures guarding the White Giant Gate, then continued deeper through successive barriers.
• Xiao Chen worried that Xiao Ling was in danger, but Xiao Xuan said Xiao Ling had come to subdue the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and could handle it.