Chapter Summaries

Hun Tianchen destroyed the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb, then fought Xiao Xuan, who burned his soul in a final attempt to defeat him. Hun Tianchen won and absorbed Xiao Xuan’s remaining Soul Force, bringing his own soul closer to the Emperor Realm.

• Hun Tianchen shattered the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb, restoring the energy bodies’ clarity and earning their submission.
• Hun Tianchen told Xiao Xuan that descendants of the Xiao Clan had survived before preparing to kill him and claim his Soul Force.
• Xiao Xuan burned his soul and unleashed the Xiao Clan’s strongest Dou Technique against Hun Tianchen’s Soul Dragon Slaying Heaven.
• Hun Tianchen’s Soul Dragon overcame Xiao Xuan’s flaming dragons, killing Xiao Xuan and devastating the surrounding land.
• Hun Tianchen gathered Xiao Xuan’s Soul Force and combined it with the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb’s power, loosening the limits of his soul realm.

Hun Tianchen entered the halo’s vast sea of ownerless Soul Force and began refining it in hopes of reaching the Emperor Realm. At the Seven Clans Meeting, Gu Yuan reported that he suspected the Ling Clan and Shi Clan had been exterminated.

• Hun Tianchen discovered that the halo contained a vast ocean of Soul Force and began refining it within a space where time flowed even more slowly than in the Heavenly Tomb.
• Gu Yuan convened the Seven Clans Meeting, and Yao Dan arrived while the Ling Clan, Shi Clan, and Hun Clan were absent.
• Yan Jin and Lei Ying arrived with their clan experts, and Gu Yuan noted that both chiefs had reached Nine-Star Dou Sheng.
• Gu Yuan told Yao Dan, Yan Jin, and Lei Ying that he had visited the sealed realms of the Ling Clan and Shi Clan and received no response to his distress signals.
• Gu Yuan said he suspected the Ling Clan and Shi Clan had been exterminated.

After discovering the Xiao Clan slaughtered by Hun Tianchen, Xiao Yan swore vengeance, while Gu Yuan warned the clan leaders that a continent-wide crisis was approaching. Gu Yuan summoned them to discuss the mysterious force strengthening their clans, and Hun Miesheng arrived as the meeting began.

• Gu Yuan told the clan leaders that the Hun Clan had destroyed the Spirit and Stone Clans, and they suspected Hun Tiandi wanted their pieces of the Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Gu Lie brought Gu Yuan news that made him warn the leaders that a major event was about to strike the Dou Qi Continent.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Jia Ma Empire and found his father and the rest of the Xiao Clan dead, with a message blaming him for opposing Hun Tianchen.
• Xiao Yan mourned his family and vowed to kill Hun Tianchen.
• Gu Yuan explained that the Ancient, Yao, Yan, and Lei Clans had grown far stronger through a mysterious existence’s influence, which he believed was preparing them for a coming crisis.
• Hun Miesheng arrived at Gu Yuan’s gathering after Gu Yuan revealed that he had also invited the Hun Clan.

Gu Yuan confronted Hun Miesheng and Hun Xuzi at a gathering of the Ancient Clans, hoping to unite the other clans against the Hun Clan. Hun Xuzi turned suspicion toward Gu Yuan and departed with Hun Miesheng, leaving Gu Yuan’s plan in ruins and the question of Hun Tiandi’s involvement unanswered.

• Gu Yuan pressured Hun Miesheng, whose nine Heavenly Flames emerged, and Hun Miesheng struggled to withstand Gu Yuan’s power.
• Hun Xuzi arrived as an Eight-Star Dou Saint and defended the Hun Clan, claiming Gu Yuan knew what had happened to the Spirit and Stone Clans.
• Hun Xuzi argued that the Hun Clan had no reason to destroy the two clans while preparing to face the Ancient Clan, shifting the gathering’s suspicion toward Gu Yuan.
• Hun Xuzi took the injured Hun Miesheng and left, followed by Yan Jin and the others.
• Gu Yuan told Gu Lie that he had hoped to unite the other three clans against the Hun Clan, then wondered whether Hun Tiandi had arranged the Hun Clan’s counterattack.

Hun Tianchen emerged from two years of seclusion in the Heavenly Tomb after reaching the Emperor Realm in soul cultivation, then returned to the Soul Realm and began preparing for the Bodhi Ancient Tree and Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. He left Hun Miesheng in charge of the coming preparations.

• Hun Tianchen emerged from seclusion, demonstrated his Emperor Realm soul power, and opened a spatial passage from the Heavenly Tomb to the Soul Realm.
• Hun Tianchen praised Hun Ya's progress, sent him back to the clan, and thanked Xiao Yi Xian for guarding him before bringing her through the passage.
• Hun Clan experts welcomed Hun Tianchen, and Hun Xuzi congratulated him on reaching Seven-Star Dou Sheng and the Emperor Realm in soul cultivation.
• Hun Xuzi reported that his effort to turn the Yan, Lei, and Yao Clans against approaching the Ancient Clan had succeeded, while Hun Miesheng said the Bodhi Ancient Tree would appear in a month.
• Hun Tianchen ordered Hun Miesheng to prepare for the Bodhi Ancient Tree and the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and Hun Miesheng eagerly accepted.

Hun Tianchen took Xiao Yi Xian to the depths of the Void Thunder Pool to absorb its Black Demon Lightning and increase his strength. After drawing a bolt into his body, he began refining its energy while Xiao Yi Xian watched over him.

• Hun Tianchen visited Ziyan on Ancient Void Dragon Island, then left with Xiao Yi Xian for the Void Thunder Pool.
• Hun Tianchen and Xiao Yi Xian crossed the thunder pool and reached its depths, where enormous clusters of Black Demon Lightning gathered.
• Hun Tianchen observed the black lightning before asking Xiao Yi Xian to protect him as he entered its region.
• A bolt of Black Demon Lightning struck Hun Tianchen's arm, and he absorbed it into his body.
• Hun Tianchen activated the Ancient Dragon Refining Body Technique as the lightning's energy began merging into his muscles, bones, and cells.

Hun Tianchen absorbed Black Demon Lightning in the Void Thunder Pool for seven days, advancing from early-stage to late-stage Seven-Star Dou Sheng and nearing Eight-Star Dou Sheng. After reuniting with Xiao Yi Xian and learning Hun Miesheng had gone to the Mǎnghuāng Ancient Domain, he approached a golden lightning dragon and recognized it as Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning.

• Hun Tianchen absorbed the Black Demon Lightning bolts in the Void Thunder Pool, using their energy to strengthen his body and loosen the bottleneck in his cultivation.
• Hun Tianchen cultivated undisturbed for seven days, advancing from early-stage to late-stage Seven-Star Dou Sheng and coming within one step of Eight-Star Dou Sheng.
• Hun Tianchen stopped cultivating as his body grew resistant to Black Demon Lightning, then joined Xiao Yi Xian, who had waited beside him.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Hun Tianchen that Hun Miesheng had set out for the Mǎnghuāng Ancient Domain to await the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• Hun Tianchen followed a powerful pressure into the depths of the thunder pool and identified a golden lightning dragon as Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning.

Hun Tianchen discovered Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning in the Sea of Lightning and absorbed one of its attacks, refining its energy into Dou Qi. He then realized the lightning was gathering spirit and might become an intelligent being.

• Hun Tianchen recognized the golden lightning dragon as Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning, a rare phenomenon associated with ninth-tier Golden Elixirs.
• Black Demon Lightning attacked Hun Tianchen, but he withstood it and faced the dragon.
• The dragon fired a massive bolt of golden lightning, which Hun Tianchen absorbed with his Dou Qi vortexes.
• Hun Tianchen refined the destructive energy into pure Dou Qi, and his strength began to rise again.
• The golden lightning dragon roared as lightning gathered around it, and Hun Tianchen realized it was condensing intelligence.

Hun Tianchen watched the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning struggle to form intelligence as the Black Demon Lightning sacrificed themselves to suppress its backlash. When the golden dragon weakened, Hun Tianchen confronted it and urged it to follow him, offering help while threatening to devour it; the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning was left considering his offer.

• The Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning endured violent internal explosions as a trace of spirit began to form in its eyes.
• The Black Demon Lightning rushed into the golden dragon and used their own power to suppress its backlash, helping its spirit grow while its body dimmed.
• Hun Tianchen judged that the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning was about to fail and entered the Sea of Lightning to claim it.
• Soul Dragon swallowed the Black Demon Lightning that charged at Hun Tianchen.
• Hun Tianchen told the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning that heaven would not allow it to gain intelligence, then offered to help it if it followed him and threatened to devour it otherwise.
• The Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning looked toward the sky, then studied Hun Tianchen as he demanded that it choose.

Hun Tianchen extracted Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning’s power and gave it spiritual intelligence before leaving with Xiao Yi Xian. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan traveled to Mǎnghuāng Town to seek the Bodhi Ancient Tree and planned to enter the dangerous Mǎnghuāng Ancient Domain with other experts.

• Hun Tianchen drew the golden lightning from Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning, then formed a seed of spiritual qi and gave the weakened dragon intelligence.
• Hun Tianchen invited Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning to seek him out and meet Soul Dragon before departing for the Soul Realm with Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Yan reached the Mǎnghuāng Ancient Domain’s outskirts, determined to find the Bodhi Ancient Tree and gain the chance to become a Dou Saint.
• Xiao Yan avoided Hall of Souls experts on the way and arrived in crowded Mǎnghuāng Town to gather information before entering the ancient domain.
• Yao Chen told Xiao Yan that an earlier group entering the Mǎnghuāng Ancient Domain had apparently died, including several Half Saints.
• Xiao Yan decided to follow the experts entering the next day and proceed cautiously through the forbidden land.

Xiao Yan and his companions escaped the beast tide and reached the area before the Bodhi Ancient Tree, where Hun Clan experts blocked the way. As Xiao Yan learned about the dangerous Hun Yu and Hun Feng, he remained wary of the Hun Clan and its powerful younger generation.

• Xiao Yan and his companions defeated a massive beast and escaped the beast tide, finding that the other beasts would not cross into the cleared area.
• Xiao Yan saw the Bodhi Ancient Tree in the distance and reflected on the dangers and opportunities of the Mǎnghuāng Ancient Domain.
• A Yan Clan member pointed out that Hun Yu and another Hun Clan man were blocking the path to the tree.
• Xiao Yan learned that Hun Yu possessed a God-grade Bloodline and was considered second only to Hun Tianchen among the Hun Clan's younger generation.
• A Lei Clan member warned Xiao Yan that Hun Yu was vicious despite his friendly manner, and Xiao Yan resolved to treat him as an enemy.
• The clans identified Hun Feng as a powerful Hun Clan madman with a God-grade Bloodline, whose status also remained beneath Hun Tianchen's.

Xiao Yan and the others found Hun Yu and Hun Feng guarding the route to the Bodhi Ancient Tree, but the Hun Clan's rules and sealed space kept them from fighting or calling for help. Hun Feng returned with orders not to act rashly, and the chapter ended as the Bodhi Ancient Tree erupted with a tremendous disturbance.

• Hun Yu warned Xiao Yan that Hun Feng was a ruthless fighter who had rarely met anyone able to restrain him.
• Hun Feng insulted Xiao Yan, but Hun Yu reminded him that their mission was to seal the area and not disrupt Hun Tianchen's plan.
• Hun Feng left to consult Hun Miesheng while Hun Yu stayed behind to guard the area.
• The trapped group tried to summon reinforcements with their jade slips, but Xiao Yan and Yao Chen realized the space had been sealed and several Six-Star Dou Shengs were watching them.
• Hun Feng returned with Hun Miesheng's orders to hold their position, and Hun Yu and Hun Feng discussed how Xiao Yan and the Ancient Clan would eventually be destroyed.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree suddenly erupted with a tremendous disturbance.

Hun Miesheng and his forces attacked the Bodhi Ancient Tree to seize its power for their Young Clan Leader, but the wounded tree repelled him with a devastating counterattack. Feng Qing'er took command and used her Ancient Heaven Phoenix flames to try to uproot it.

• Hun Miesheng demanded that the Bodhi Ancient Tree surrender its Ling Root, while the tree refused and prepared to defend itself.
• Feng Qing'er arrived and ordered Hun Miesheng to stop wasting time and attack the tree.
• Hun Miesheng struck the Bodhi Ancient Tree with nine Heavenly Flames, but its power rebounded his attack and sent him flying, badly injured.
• Feng Qing'er summoned Ancient Heaven Phoenix flames, formed giant flaming hands, and seized the Bodhi Ancient Tree in an attempt to uproot it.

Feng Qing'er and Hun Miesheng battled the Bodhi Ancient Tree as the Hun Clan attacked the gathered experts. Yao Chen sent Xiao Yan toward the tree, where Xiao Yan wounded Hun Yu with the golden Heavenly Mandate Flame.

• Feng Qing'er tried to uproot the Bodhi Ancient Tree, while Hun Miesheng burned away its branches and clashed with it.
• Hun Feng received Hun Miesheng's order to kill everyone, and Hun Yu attacked the crowd as the Hun Clan revealed its intentions.
• Hun Feng attacked Xiao Yan, but Yao Chen shielded him; the Blood River Saint then appeared and crushed many of the gathered experts.
• Yao Chen threw Xiao Yan toward the Bodhi Ancient Tree and fought the Blood River Saint and Hun Feng to buy him time.
• Hun Yu pursued Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan blocked his strike with the Mysterious Heavy Ruler and injured him with the Heavenly Mandate Flame.

Xiao Yan was saved from Hun Yu by the Bodhi Ancient Tree, but Feng Qing'er defeated the tree and claimed its Ling Root. Back in the Soul Realm, Hun Tianchen received the Ling Root and entered seclusion as the Hun Clan prepared to seize the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.

• Hun Yu attacked Xiao Yan, but the Bodhi Ancient Tree struck Hun Yu away before he could kill him.
• Feng Qing'er transformed into an Ancient Heaven Phoenix and unleashed a devastating flame storm against the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• Feng Qing'er broke through the tree's defenses, defeated it, and took its Ling Root before ordering the Hun Clan forces to retreat.
• Blood River Saint and Hun Feng left Yao Chen behind, while Gu Xun'er stood over the dying Yao Chen after killing the other Ancient Clan members who had come.
• Feng Qing'er presented the Ling Root to Hun Tianchen in the Soul Realm, and Hun Tianchen announced that the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame would soon emerge.
• Hun Tianchen began his seclusion and ordered Hun Miesheng and Hun Xuzi to lead the Hun Clan in his absence.

As the Bodhi Ancient Tree poured its power into Xiao Yan, the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame descended, drawing the continent’s major powers to the Central Plains. Hun Miesheng gathered with his allies at the Flame’s scorched desert and confronted the arriving clans, who accused him of destroying the Bodhi Ancient Tree.

• The dying Bodhi Ancient Tree plunged its branches into Xiao Yan and flooded him with power.
• Yao Dan gathered the Yao Clan to prepare to refine a ninth-tier Golden Elixir and strengthen the clan.
• Twin moons appeared and nine stars aligned, heralding the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s descent; Hun Miesheng ordered his forces to prepare.
• The Flame’s emergence drew the major powers toward the northwest, where its heat had incinerated a mountain range into a vast desert.
• Hun Miesheng counted the arriving clans and traded accusations with Lei Nu and Huo Qianshan, who blamed him for destroying the Bodhi Ancient Tree.

Hun Miesheng clashed verbally with the gathered experts as powerful leaders from the three great magical beast clans arrived to pursue the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. When a milky white entrance opened, Hun Miesheng rushed inside, intent on claiming the flame and rising in status.

• Hun Miesheng accused Huo Qianshan and the Yan Clan of destroying the Bodhi Ancient Tree, while Huo Qianshan and Lei Nu challenged him.
• Feng Qing'er arrived with the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, followed by Queen Medusa and Ziyan, each a peak Eight-Star Dou Sheng.
• Gu Kong invoked the Ancient Eight Clans' rules against experts above Five-Star Dou Sheng, but Feng Qing'er knocked him from the sky with a flaming palm.
• A milky white halo formed in the shattered space, and powerful figures rushed into it as the entrance to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame opened.
• Hun Miesheng entered the space, hoping to obtain the flame and rise above those who had once treated him like a dog.

Hun Miesheng and the Hall of Souls escaped the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s Nightmare Sky Mist and emerged over a sea of magma. The Flame appeared in human form, confronted Hun Miesheng, and declared that he would turn him into a Fire Slave.

• Hun Miesheng led the Hall of Souls through the Nightmare Sky Mist and broke the illusion, freeing other trapped experts as well.
• Hun Miesheng and the others found themselves on boulders above a vast magma sea, with a silver ring of light behind them.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame rose from the magma in the form of a white-robed man, and the gathered experts recognized its true form.
• Hun Miesheng concealed how he had broken the illusion while the others reacted with surprise and fear at his apparent strength.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame dismissed the light ring and said he would turn Hun Miesheng into a Fire Slave.

The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame sealed the spatial passage and trapped Xiao Yan and the others in a fiery prison, revealing its overwhelming strength and army of Fire Slaves. With escape blocked and most weaker Dou Saints dead, the remaining clans and the Hall of Souls agreed to join forces against it.

• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame concealed the spatial passage and formed a prison of fire around the group.
• The flame triggered explosions inside its victims, and Huo Qianshan warned everyone to suppress their emotions before the white-robed man killed nearly eighty percent of those below Three-Star Dou Saint.
• The white-robed man summoned nearly a hundred Dou Saint Fire Slaves and declared that he would refine Hun Tianchen into his strongest slave.
• The Hall Master of the Hall of Souls proposed that the factions cooperate to survive and defeat the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Huo Qianshan, the Lei Clan, and the Ancient Clan agreed to cooperate, assigning the Seven-Star Dou Saints and above to fight the flame while the others handled its Fire Slaves.

Xiao Yi Xian arrived to press Hun Miesheng to finish the plan to subdue the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, while a Space Lock trapped the assembled clans and experts. Hun Miesheng revealed an ancient map that summoned the remnant image of the Purifying Lotus Demonic Saint, who confronted the Flame.

• Hun Miesheng and the other experts surrounded the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, while the three Magical Beast clan patriarchs hung back.
• Xiao Yi Xian arrived and told Hun Miesheng that the Young Clan Leader wanted the operation completed quickly.
• Gu Kong tried to send a warning but discovered that a Space Lock, made by four peak Eight-Star Dou Shengs, blocked messages.
• Hun Miesheng took out an ancient map and summoned the illusory remnant image of the Purifying Lotus Demonic Saint.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame recognized the Purifying Lotus Demonic Saint and roared in disbelief that he was still alive.