Chapter Summaries

Hun Tianchen fought off the Hun Clan’s black-robed men, whose Four-Star Dou Sheng leader tried to overpower him with coordinated attacks. As Lei Yan and the others moved to join the battle, Hun Tianchen summoned the Dragon Transformation Elixir, which became a Giant Dragon and blocked their path.

• Hun Tianchen rejected the black-robed Hun Clan men’s attempt to make him serve them, and they attacked to take him before the Clan Leader.
• Hun Tianchen blocked the Four-Star Dou Sheng’s Shadow Devouring Flash and fought back with strength far beyond his Nine-Star Dou Venerate realm.
• The Four-Star Dou Sheng struck Hun Tianchen with a feint and joined forces with the other black-robed men to keep him under a barrage of attacks.
• Lei Yan and the others charged toward the battle, hoping to attack Hun Tianchen while he was occupied.
• Hun Tianchen threw the Dragon Transformation Elixir toward Lei Yan, and it became a colossal Giant Dragon that barred the group’s way; Ling Kuang judged it to be a late Five-Star Dou Sheng.

Hun Tianchen unleashed formations that filled the battlefield with blood and raised powerful skeleton puppets, while the other fighters struggled against a Giant Dragon. As the Hun Clan’s black-robed figures formed a soul-targeting spear against him, Hun Tianchen prepared to use Huangquan Tiannu.

• Lei Yan struck the Giant Dragon with a lightning spear, and the wounded dragon charged at the late-stage Four-Star Dou Saints.
• Hun Tianchen summoned the sea of blood, raising stone pillars and creating a formation that slowed Dou Qi and drove some fighters to attack one another.
• Blood-colored skeleton puppets crawled from the rivers, fought the crowd, and rose again after being smashed because the sea of blood sustained them.
• Hun Tianchen used the Ancient Dragon Refining Body Technique to punch a Three-Star Dou Saint off the mountain.
• The black-robed figures formed a Soul Hunting Spear to attack Hun Tianchen’s soul, and he answered with a strange syllable as Huangquan Tiannu was about to emerge.

Hun Tianchen fought off Hun Tiandi’s black-robed forces until they used Myriad Souls Blood Sacrifice to bind him and prepare to transport him to Hun Tiandi’s prison. Just as they nearly succeeded, Soul Dragon arrived, while Hun Miesheng continued resisting Hun Ying and two others on another battlefield.

• Hun Tianchen’s Huangquan Tiannu shattered the black-robed men’s jointly cast Soul Hunting Spear and wounded them.
• The leading black-robed man ordered his forces to sacrifice their blood, and Myriad Souls Blood Sacrifice raised each man’s strength by a star.
• The black-robed men used Myriad Souls Blood Binding to restrain Hun Tianchen and opened a spatial rift leading to Hun Tiandi’s sealed location.
• As the black-robed men began dragging Hun Tianchen into the rift, Soul Dragon descended from the mountaintop and appeared beside him.
• Hun Miesheng kept Hun Ying and two others at bay with Heavenly Flames despite being badly wounded.

Hun Miesheng struggled to hold back Hun Ying until Huang Tian and three other reinforcements arrived, but Hun Ying unleashed a pair of dark wings and charged at him with overwhelming speed. Meanwhile, Soul Dragon freed Hun Tianchen and destroyed the black-robed attackers, then went to aid the battle above as Hun Tianchen confronted Lei Yan and the others.

• Hun Miesheng summoned a child flame of Nihility Devouring Flame, raising his strength to the late stage of Six-Star Dou Sheng, but he still faced Hun Ying and two Five-Star Dou Shengs.
• Huang Tian arrived to hold off one Five-Star Dou Sheng, and Hun Qingsheng, Great Heavenly Saint, and Hun Yang came to help restrain the other.
• Hun Ying revealed his dark wings and used their speed to rush Hun Miesheng before he could react.
• Soul Dragon shattered Hun Tianchen's chains, annihilated the black-robed men, and restored Hun Tianchen's injuries.
• Hun Tianchen sent Soul Dragon and the Giant Dragon back to the mountaintop, then faced Lei Yan and the others himself.

Hun Tianchen fought the allied Dou Saints as his Death Flame and overwhelming physical strength broke through their attacks. He unleashed the Hun Clan’s Blood Demon Corrosive Heart Thunder at Lei Yan as the battle escalated.

• Yao Wangui attacked Hun Tianchen with the Heaven-Refining Fire Hand, but Hun Tianchen shattered it with his Death Flame and injured Yao Wangui.
• Shi Xin, Lei Yan, and Huo Yao coordinated an assault, with Shi Xin absorbing Hun Tianchen’s Huangquan Palm and Huo Yao striking him with the Fire Cloud Water Flame.
• Lei Yan thrust his silver spear at Hun Tianchen, but it could not pierce his skin, and Hun Tianchen counterattacked with a powerful punch.
• Ling Kuang stepped in to shield Lei Yan from the punch and was sent staggering backward, vomiting blood.
• Hun Tianchen summoned a rain of blood and aimed his Blood Demon Corrosive Heart Thunder at Lei Yan.

Hun Tianchen overwhelmed Lei Yan, Shi Xin, Ling Kuang, Yao Wangui, and Huo Yao with blood lightning and trapped them in his soul domain. Huo Yao broke the domain, and the others struck back, but Hun Tianchen began releasing even greater power as the chapter ended.

• Hun Tianchen shattered the five Dou Saints’ barrier with blood lightning, severely wounding Shi Xin, then trapped them in his Domain of Ten Thousand Souls.
• Huo Yao prepared to break the domain while Lei Yan, Ling Kuang, Shi Xin, and Yao Wangui held off the wronged souls and Hun Tianchen’s spear attack.
• Huo Yao unleashed his Flowing Cloud Water Flame and burned away the black mist domain and its wronged souls.
• Lei Yan attacked Hun Tianchen with Nine Dragons Thunder Annihilation while Ling Kuang severed Hun Tianchen’s left hand with his twin blades.
• Shi Xin warned the others to keep attacking as Hun Tianchen began erupting with unprecedented power beneath the lightning assault.

Hun Tianchen used Eternal Domain Dark Tribulation to bind and drag his opponents underground, but Gu Sha ambushed him and broke the technique. After Hun Tianchen defeated Gu Sha and battered Lei Yan, Ling Kuang wounded him with his blades, giving the others a chance to fight back.

• Hun Tianchen unleashed Eternal Domain Dark Tribulation, binding Lei Yan and Shi Xin while dragging Yao Wangui and Huo Yao underground to be crushed.
• Gu Sha emerged from concealment and struck Hun Tianchen, breaking the chains and freeing Lei Yan and Shi Xin.
• Hun Tianchen recognized Gu Sha's Ancient Clan concealment art, then charged him and defeated him despite Gu Sha's warning about Hun Tiandi.
• Hun Tianchen knocked Lei Yan down, but Ling Kuang charged him and cut a deep gash across his chest.
• Gu Sha, Shi Xin, and Lei Yan rose and rushed to support Ling Kuang.

Ling Kuang overwhelmed Hun Tianchen with the Ling Clan’s Dual Spirit Saber Technique, seemingly cutting him nearly in half. Hun Tianchen then sacrificed the fighters below to restore his injuries, annihilating nearly everyone in the Tianfu Alliance except Xiao Yan, Yao Chen, and Yun Yun.

• Ling Kuang unleashed his accumulated Dual Spirit Saber Technique and, with Lei Yan’s support, drove Hun Tianchen back with relentless soul-cutting strikes.
• Ling Kuang fused his twin sabers into one and struck Hun Tianchen, leaving him apparently half-severed as Lei Yan, Shi Xin, and Gu Sha celebrated.
• Hun Tianchen used a wave of his hand to make the fighters below explode, turning them into blood-colored energy that restored his wounds.
• More than ninety percent of the crowd died, and everyone in the Tianfu Alliance except Xiao Yan, Yao Chen, and Yun Yun was annihilated.

Hun Tianchen slaughtered nearly the entire Tianfu Alliance, leaving Yun Yun devastated and Yao Chen near death as Xiao Yan’s killing intent drove his strength higher. Yun Yun escaped the formation and disappeared, while Hun Tianchen sacrificed the gathered souls to reach Five-Star Dou Saint strength.

• Yun Yun realized Hun Tianchen had manipulated her into leading the Flower Sect into the Tianfu Alliance, then left the formation and vanished to avoid harming anyone else.
• Xiao Yan used his golden Dou Qi to keep Yao Chen alive, and his strength rose as his killing intent toward Hun Tianchen intensified.
• Gu Sha and the other survivors saw that only two members of the Tianfu Alliance remained and urged the Ancient Races to flee.
• Hun Tianchen sacrificed the flesh, blood, and souls he had gathered, raising his strength to Five-Star Dou Saint and deepening the survivors’ despair.

Hun Tianchen used the Myriad Souls Blood Sacrifice to transform into a powerful blood-red Dragonman and overwhelmed the Ancient Races’ fighters. As the Dragonman’s punch threatened Ling Kuang, Xiao Yan appeared and blocked it with his Mysterious Heavy Ruler.

• Hun Tianchen transformed into a blood-red Dragonman after reaching the Five-Star Dou Saint level.
• Shi Xin charged the Dragonman and was torn apart by its roar, while Lei Yan attacked with Thunder Movement Across the Eight Desolations and was sent flying after the Dragonman swallowed his lightning.
• The Dragonman knocked Gu Sha down and forced Ling Kuang to abandon gathering Dou Qi and fight with the Dual Spirit Saber Technique.
• The Dragonman broke Ling Kuang’s saber technique with one punch, but Xiao Yan appeared and blocked the blow with his Mysterious Heavy Ruler.

Xiao Yan gained the power of the Heavenly Mandate Flame and used it to overwhelm Hun Tianchen, whose blood-colored Dragonman form vanished in a devastating blast. As Xiao Yan prepared to finish him, Hun Tianchen smiled and warned that the battle was not over.

• The Heavenly Mandate Flame raised Xiao Yan to Six-Star Dou Sheng and gave his Flame Mantra the power to burn away Hun Tianchen's blood-colored energy.
• Xiao Yan struck Hun Tianchen with the Mysterious Heavy Ruler and Heavenly Mandate Flame, driving him back and weakening his aura.
• Hun Tianchen expanded into a colossal Dragonman and unleashed blood lightning, which Xiao Yan blocked with Six Harmonies Movement Ruler.
• Xiao Yan fused Wind Fury Dragon Flame, Netherworld Poison Fire, and the Heavenly Mandate Flame into a fire lotus that blasted Hun Tianchen out of his Dragonman form.
• Xiao Yan raised his ruler over the battered Hun Tianchen as Ling Kuang, Lei Yan, and Gu Sha watched hopefully, but Hun Tianchen smiled and rejected their belief that evil would be defeated.

Xiao Yan killed Hun Tianchen, then begged the others to help save Yao Chen and continued toward the Soul Devouring Death Array. At the mountaintop, the group found another Hun Tianchen preparing to feed an elixir to the array.

• Xiao Yan killed Hun Tianchen, whose body dissolved as its energy flowed toward the Soul Devouring Death Array.
• Xiao Yan begged the others to help save Yao Chen, and Yao Ling offered a chance to rescue him with Yao Tian's help.
• Gu Sha, Lei Yan, and Ling Kuang joined Xiao Yan as he headed for the mountaintop.
• A palm strike from the Soul Devouring Death Array nearly killed Hun Ying, forcing him and the other attackers to retreat.
• Hun Miesheng and the others returned to the array, where Xiao Yan and his companions saw a white-robed Hun Tianchen preparing to toss in an elixir.

Xiao Yan and the others discovered that the Hun Tianchen they had fought was a clone, while the real Hun Tianchen prepared to break through to Dou Saint. They learned the clone’s weakness and saw Hun Tianchen reveal his Sacred Body Demonic Heart physique, leaving them facing an even more formidable enemy.

• Hun Tianchen revealed that the defeated opponent had been a clone with roughly seventy percent of his strength, and Xiao Yan realized the group had fought a copy all along.
• Hun Tianchen said the Alchemy Tower Old Ancestor had interrupted his attempt to reach the Emperor Realm, so he had beaten him back to his original form and returned him to the Soul Devouring Death Array.
• Hun Miesheng arrived with four others, and Hun Tianchen healed their injuries before sending them to guard the area while he dealt with his breakthrough.
• Hun Tianchen explained that his clones could not inherit his physique, and Xiao Yan recognized that this was how they had identified the clone.
• Gu Sha identified Hun Tianchen’s revealed physique as the legendary Sacred Body Demonic Heart, whose bearer possessed powerful Dou Qi and two conflicting forces from birth.

Hun Tianchen revealed that his Sacred Body Demonic Heart drove his campaign of slaughter, then overwhelmed the Ancient Clan’s group as they tried to stop him. He killed Ling Kuang and fed Gu Sha and Lei Yan to the Soul Devouring Death Array before confronting Xiao Yan.

• Gu Sha identified Hun Tianchen’s Sacred Body Demonic Heart and accused him of slaughtering Central Plains to become a Dou Saint.
• Gu Sha, Lei Yan, and Ling Kuang failed to send messages to their clans after Hun Tianchen revealed he had sealed the area.
• Hun Tianchen explained that he had killed those who threatened him and claimed Xiao Yan had unknowingly helped his plan.
• Ling Kuang attacked Hun Tianchen, but Hun Tianchen crushed his saber and killed him with a squeeze of his neck.
• Hun Tianchen broke Gu Sha’s arm, kicked him into the Soul Devouring Death Array, and threw Lei Yan into it before asking Xiao Yan what he would do next.

Hun Tianchen revealed that the Soul Devouring Death Array had empowered him to the strength of a Nine-Star Dou Sheng, leaving Xiao Yan convinced he had no chance. Xiao Yan launched his strongest attack, but Hun Tianchen blocked it with one finger and countered, leaving Xiao Yan bleeding from wounds across his body.

• Hun Tianchen killed three late-stage Four-Star Dou Saints with only physical attacks.
• Hun Tianchen explained that the Soul Devouring Death Array supplied him with immense energy and claimed his strength had reached the Nine-Star Dou Sheng level.
• Hun Tianchen told Xiao Yan that he would spare him because he still had value, while insisting that Hun Tiandi was his only opponent.
• Xiao Yan swung the Mysterious Heavy Ruler at Hun Tianchen, but Hun Tianchen stopped it with one finger.
• Hun Tianchen's dark-red flame swallowed Xiao Yan's Heavenly Mandate Flame, and he pressed the ruler down, causing Xiao Yan to bleed from wounds across his body.

Hun Tianchen defeated Xiao Yan, stripped away his Heavenly Flames, and left him dying at the foot of the mountain. With the Soul Devouring Death Array still active across Central Plains, Hun Tianchen entered the Blood Sea to pursue a breakthrough to Dou Saint.

• Hun Tianchen explained that killing Xiao Yan would risk his breakthrough, then took the Wind Fury Dragon Flame and Netherworld Poison Fire from him and punched him off the mountaintop.
• Yao Tian and Yao Ling judged Xiao Yan nearly impossible to save, while Gu Xun'er ordered the Ancient Clan to leave after Gu Sha's death.
• The Ancient Races withdrew, and Yao Tian asked Yao Ling to send the wounded to a safe place to recuperate.
• Hun Tianchen opened a path into the Blood Sea as Hun Miesheng and the Hall of Souls experts congratulated him on his plan.
• Hun Tianchen entered the Soul Devouring Death Array, rapidly rose to the peak of Nine Revolutions Dou Venerate, and swallowed the Dragon Transformation Elixir, Huangquan Yaosheng's Essence Blood, and a ninth-grade medicinal pill to refine them together.

Hun Tianchen charged toward Dou Saint inside the Soul Devouring Death Array as a devastating Heavenly Tribulation formed above him and attacked the array. While he remained focused on breaking through, the Sacred Body Demonic Heart began evolving his inner world into a tiny universe, and his physical strength reached a new peak.

• Hun Miesheng and the other experts realized that the Heavenly Tribulation had appeared when Hun Tianchen entered seclusion and feared it was targeting him.
• Hun Miesheng accepted Wind Fury Dragon Flame and Netherworld Poison Fire from Hun Miesheng's preparations, bringing his count of controlled Heavenly Flames to nine.
• A golden lightning dragon and a holy hall appeared above the Soul Devouring Death Array and unleashed a Heavenly Tribulation powerful enough to make the array tremble.
• Inside the array, Hun Tianchen absorbed its energy as the Dragon Transformation Elixir took effect and his inner world began developing suns and other celestial bodies.
• Hun Tianchen's Sacred Body Demonic Heart continued evolving, his Ancient Dragon Refining Body Technique strengthened his body, and he opened his heterochromatic eyes as the surrounding energy grew sparse.

Three years after the Soul Devouring Death Array began its struggle with the Heavenly Tribulation, Hun Miesheng guarded the array while the Hun Clan faced pressure over Hun Tianchen’s plan. At a meeting of the Ancient Races, Hun Qianmo admitted the Hun Clan bore responsibility but claimed its leaders had not known of the plan.

• Hun Miesheng and Hun Yang discussed the three-year stalemate and Hun Miesheng’s rise to late Six-Star Dou Sheng.
• Hun Mo confronted Hun Miesheng over the Hun Clan’s exposed plan and demanded an explanation, but Hun Miesheng drove him back with his aura.
• Hun Miesheng told Hun Mo that the Young Clan Leader had made preparations and that the clan’s upper echelon had sided with him.
• At the Ancient Races’ meeting, Ling Yidao demanded an explanation from Hun Qianmo about the events in Central Plains.
• Hun Qianmo accepted that the Hun Clan bore responsibility but claimed its leaders had not known of Hun Tianchen’s plan.

Hun Qianmo defended the Hun Clan against the six clans’ demands for an explanation over Hun Tianchen, arguing that the Hun Clan had suffered the worst losses and could not stop him. The meeting ended with Hun Qianmo leaving, while Huo Qianshan acknowledged that the Hun Clan’s losses were real.

• A Dou Saint from the Ancient Clan accused Hun Qianmo of evading responsibility for Gu Sha’s death, and Hun Qianmo countered that Hun Tianchen had killed all twenty-eight Dou Saints the Hun Clan sent.
• Shi Qiang and Elder Lei Nu pressed Hun Qianmo for an explanation, while Huo Qianshan asked how the Hun Clan planned to deal with Hun Tianchen.
• Huo Qianshan and the other old monsters suspected that powerful followers, rather than Hun Tianchen himself, had defeated the experts pursuing him.
• Hun Qianmo said the Hun Clan had repeatedly sent people into the Blood Sea, where they either died to the Heavenly Tribulation or failed to return, and challenged the other clans to act themselves.
• Hun Qianmo left after declaring that the Hun Clan would continue to hold Hun Tianchen accountable, and Huo Qianshan admitted the Hun Clan had lost the most Dou Saints.

Hun Qianmo and Hun Miesheng confirmed that Hun Tianchen’s plan had hidden the Hun Clan’s role in Central Plains’s bloodbath and earned the other clans’ trust. In the Ancient Realm, Xiao Yan remained weak after three years of recovery, while Gu Yuan refused to believe his warning about Hun Tianchen and could not break the Soul Devouring Death Array.

• Hun Qianmo told Hun Miesheng that the other clans had accepted a false explanation for Central Plains’s bloodbath and no longer suspected the Hun Clan.
• Hun Miesheng praised Hun Qianmo’s work and promised him a chance to advance after Hun Tianchen emerged from seclusion.
• Xiao Yan, whose cultivation had fallen to One-Star Dou Venerate, urged Gu Yuan to attack Hun Tianchen, but Gu Yuan doubted that Hun Tianchen could have harmed Hun Tiandi.
• Xiao Yan asked Gu Yuan to break the Soul Devouring Death Array, but Gu Yuan explained that its blood energy, resentful souls, and Dragonmen made it too resilient to breach.
• Gu Yuan recalled that a Nine-Star Dou Sheng Dragonman had nearly trapped him inside the array, and he concluded that Hun Tianchen’s rise to Dou Saint was inevitable.