Chapter Summaries

The Purifying Lotus Demonic Saint wrested control of the Refining Heaven Ancient Formation from the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, who unleashed his full power and forced the gathered experts to flee. As a fire lotus formed, Feng Qing'er and the other beast-clan chiefs blocked the escape route and revealed their alliance with the Hun Clan.

• The Purifying Lotus Demonic Saint stopped the formation’s light pillars and reclaimed control of the Refining Heaven Ancient Formation from the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame unleashed Demonic Flame Annihilation, vaporizing the space’s energy and burning a Five-Star Dou Sheng to ash.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame opened a spatial passage and warned the gathered experts to escape before he exploded.
• The Gu, Lei, and Yan Clan teams headed for the passage as a crimson fire lotus formed, while the Lei Clan hesitated.
• Feng Qing'er and three other figures blocked the passage, and Feng Qing'er confirmed that they were working with the Hun Clan and threatened to kill everyone.

The Purifying Lotus Demonic Saint used the Refining Heaven Ancient Formation to extract the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s memories and intelligence, intending to erase its consciousness and contain its destructive nature. After the Flame turned on him, the Saint chose to make them disappear together, and the formation collapsed around them.

• The Purifying Lotus Demonic Saint sealed the Demonic Lotus inside a fire prison formed by the two great formations.
• The Saint used the Refining Heaven Ancient Formation to strip the Flame’s memories and intelligence from its body as it fought back and accused him of killing it.
• The extracted Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame took human form, but the Saint compressed the fire prison and prevented it from returning to its body.
• The Flame begged for mercy, then attacked the Saint with corrosive blood mist while declaring its hatred.
• The Saint said they would disappear together, and the enormous formation collapsed into two beams of brilliance that struck the fire prison.

Hun Miesheng found the purified Demonic Flame Origin after the Purifying Lotus Demonic Saint and the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame vanished in an explosion, then fought the Ancient, Lei, and Yan clans when they tried to stop him. As Hun Miesheng overwhelmed the Ancient Clan’s three Seven-Star Dou Sheng, Gu Kong summoned the Ancient Clan leader, Gu Yuan.

• Hun Miesheng searched the explosion’s aftermath and spotted the Demonic Flame Origin drifting across the magma sea.
• Hun Miesheng approached the tranquil Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and the Blood River Saint learned that the Purifying Lotus Demonic Saint had stripped away its past memories and negative influence.
• Gu Kong, Gu Leng, and Gu Kuang blocked Hun Miesheng from taking the flame, and the Ancient, Lei, and Yan clans joined the battle.
• Four peak Eight-Star Dou Sheng attacked and slaughtered half of the clans’ Dou Sheng experts as Lei Nu and the others struggled to escape.
• Hun Miesheng summoned a flaming halberd and defeated the three Ancient Clan Seven-Star Dou Sheng despite their combined attacks.
• Gu Kong crushed a jade slip, summoning the Ancient Clan leader, Gu Yuan, before Hun Miesheng.

Gu Yuan’s clone entered the Demon Fire Space and overwhelmed the experts there, but Hun Miesheng summoned a phantom that Gu Yuan identified as Hun Tianchen. The chapter ended with Hun Tianchen’s appearance revealing a power that seemed to surpass even Gu Yuan’s half-step Dou Di strength.

• Queen Medusa recognized that Gu Yuan had entered as a clone, and the experts realized the Hun Clan was behind the destruction of the Spirit and Stone Clans.
• Gu Yuan crushed Hun Miesheng and Blood River Saint and forced back Queen Medusa, Feng Qing'er, Ziyan, and Xiao Yi Xian.
• The four women launched their strongest Dou Techniques at Gu Yuan, but he blocked their attacks without a scratch.
• Hun Miesheng crushed a jade slip and summoned the phantom of Hun Tianchen, whose aura killed experts below the Four-Star Dou Sheng realm.
• Gu Yuan recognized Hun Tianchen and exclaimed that he had reached the Nine-Star Dou Sheng realm.

Hun Tianchen revealed overwhelming strength in the Demon Fire Space, killing the Yan and Lei Clan experts and the Ancient Clan members before crushing Gu Yuan's clone. As Hun Tianchen prepared to finish Gu Yuan, Xiao Yan arrived and declared his return.

• Gu Yuan sensed Hun Tianchen's Emperor Realm soul and near Nine-Star Dou Saint strength, while Hun Tianchen killed more than thirty Yan and Lei Clan Dou Saints with a word.
• Hun Tianchen used soul power to kill the Ancient Clan members, enraging Gu Yuan and driving him to attack.
• Hun Tianchen blocked Gu Yuan's escape with the Reincarnation Blood Sea, and Gu Yuan shattered it with the Annihilating Ancient Emperor Finger.
• Hun Tianchen struck Gu Yuan with Huangquan Tiannu, causing Gu Yuan's clone to collapse under the destructive soundwaves.
• As Hun Tianchen moved to destroy Gu Yuan's clone, Xiao Yan arrived with the Mysterious Heavy Ruler and golden flames and announced his return.

Xiao Yan arrived at the Demon Fire Space and protected Gu Yuan from Hun Tianchen, then fought Feng Qing'er and Queen Medusa. Hun Tianchen swallowed Xiao Yan’s Heavenly Mandate Fire Lotus, preventing him from destroying the Demon Fire Space, while Gu Yuan revealed he needed time to send a message and escape.

• Xiao Yan appeared before Gu Yuan, and Feng Qing'er recognized him as the survivor who had received the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s remaining power.
• Feng Qing'er attacked Xiao Yan with Heaven Phoenix Sea of Fire, and Xiao Yan countered her palm strike before dodging the energy tide.
• Queen Medusa fired nine-colored Energy Beams at Xiao Yan, and he blocked them with Six Harmonies Movement Ruler.
• Xiao Yan formed a Heavenly Mandate Fire Lotus, but Hun Tianchen’s Soul Dragon swallowed it and absorbed its energy before it could explode.
• Xiao Yan learned that Gu Yuan needed time to send a message to his true body and take them away, then decided to create trouble for Hun Tianchen by targeting the Demon Fire Origin.

Xiao Yan fought off the weakened Hun Clan experts while Gu Yuan prepared to open a spatial rift, but Hun Tianchen killed Gu Yuan with a soul-power hand. Xiao Yan unleashed his strongest attack against Hun Tianchen, who stopped it with one finger and offered him a choice: crawl away or be sent back to his hometown.

• Xiao Yan held off the Hun Clan experts as Gu Yuan gathered strength to open a spatial rift.
• Hun Tianchen crushed Gu Yuan with a soul-power hand just as Gu Yuan was about to succeed.
• Xiao Yan attacked Hun Tianchen with the Heavenly Mandate Judgement Ruler, unleashing a vast sea of golden flames that shattered the Demon Fire Space.
• Hun Tianchen stopped Xiao Yan's strongest attack with one finger and mocked him for being unable to take revenge.
• Hun Tianchen gave Xiao Yan one more chance to crawl away or be sent back to his hometown.

Hun Tianchen sent Hun Miesheng to refine the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame while the clans formed an alliance against the Hun Clan. A year later, Hun Miesheng returned to the Soul Realm as a peak Nine-Star Dou Sheng, and the Hun Clan prepared to welcome its new king.

• Hun Tianchen gave Hun Miesheng an Extreme Ice Mirror pill and a barrier to protect him while refining the Demon Fire Origin, then struck Xiao Yan into a distant city and returned to his true body.
• After Gu Yuan's avatar was destroyed, Gu Yuan ordered the Ancient, Lei, Yan, and Yao Clans to unite against the Hun Clan, and the Yao Clan later refined a Golden Elixir that helped Yao Dan reach Nine-Star Dou Sheng.
• The four clans formed an alliance, and Xiao Yan recovered, reached Nine-Star Dou Sheng, and told the alliance that the three great magical beast races had submitted to the Hun Clan.
• Hun Miesheng emerged from the former Demon Fire Space after refining the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and reaching peak Nine-Star Dou Sheng, while the alliance's experts arrived too late to stop him.
• Gu Yuan recognized the aura Hun Miesheng had left behind and realized the Hun Clan had gained a new peak Nine-Star Dou Sheng as Hun Miesheng returned to the Soul Realm, where the Hun Clan's experts knelt to welcome their new king.

After countless reincarnations beneath the Bodhi Ancient Tree, Hun Tianchen reached peak Nine-Star Dou Sheng and emerged from seclusion. Hun Tiandi broke free of his seal with overwhelming new power, killed Hun Tianchen’s avatar, and left Hun Tianchen trapped in the Soul Realm to protect his clan.

• Hun Tianchen emerged from enlightenment beneath the Bodhi Ancient Tree after enduring countless lives in which Hun Tiandi repeatedly killed him.
• Hun Tianchen reached peak Nine-Star Dou Sheng and rallied the Hun Clan, declaring that they would face the continent’s enemies together.
• Hun Tiandi broke the sealing formation, having absorbed its energy and advanced beyond Dou Di without becoming one.
• Hun Tiandi recognized that the Hun Tianchen before him was an avatar and killed it with a single slap.
• Hun Tianchen concluded that leaving the Soul Realm would expose the Hun Clan to Hun Tiandi, so he would have to remain and leave future operations to Hun Miesheng and the others.

The Hun Clan’s immense strength and Hun Tiandi’s disappearance kept the continent in a tense balance, while Gu Yuan’s alliance searched in vain for signs of the Soul Realm. After two quiet years, Gu Yang injured an Ancestral Hall elder and fled with the Ancient Jade, prompting Gu Yuan to declare that the Hun Clan had finally made its move.

• Hun Tianchen’s forces grew to include four revived Supreme Elders, several Nine-Star Dou Saints, and more than three hundred Dou Saints overall.
• Hun Tiandi remained hidden, and his presence restrained Hun Tianchen from attacking Gu Yuan’s alliance.
• Gu Yuan, Lei Ying, Yan Jin, Yao Dan, and Xiao Yan met after another peaceful year and discussed the Hun Clan’s unexplained inactivity.
• A member of the Ancient Clan reported that Gu Yang had injured the Ancestral Hall elder and stolen the Ancient Jade.
• Gu Yuan concluded that the Hun Clan was behind Gu Yang’s theft and had ended its two-year silence.

After the Hun Clan stole the Ancient Jade, Xiao Yan helped the Ancient Clan search for Gu Yang and exposed him hiding beneath the mountains. Gu Yang revealed that Xu Wu had fused his soul with the real Gu Yang’s over a century earlier, then escaped through a spatial crack with the jade.

• Gu Yuan ordered the Ancient Realm sealed and sent Gu Lie and the Black Annihilation Army to find Gu Yang.
• Xiao Yan fused his soul with Little Yi and searched the mountain range with his soul power.
• Xiao Yan detected Gu Yang hiding in magma and blasted him out of a distant mountain.
• Gu Yang broke through the Black Annihilation Army’s Spirit-Binding Net, but Gu Lie struck his defensive barrier as he tried to flee.
• Gu Yuan warned the other clan chiefs that the Hun Clan might have stolen their Ancient Jades too, and Gu Yang revealed Xu Wu had fused his soul with the real Gu Yang’s over a hundred years earlier.
• Gu Yang declared that he had obtained the Ancient Jade and called for his lord to grant him the sacred path back as a spatial crack opened before him.

Hun Tianchen arrived with the Hun Clan army and clashed with Gu Yuan and the Ancient Clan, while Xiao Yan tried to stop him. Hun Tianchen seized the Ancient Jade and departed, declaring that he would stand at the summit.

• Gu Yang tried to escape through a spatial rift, but Xiao Yan moved to intercept him before Hun Tianchen attacked Xiao Yan from the sky.
• Gu Yuan blocked Hun Tianchen’s attack and confronted him as the Hun Clan army emerged from spatial rifts.
• The Hun Clan’s Seal of Destruction clashed with the Ancient Clan’s Ancient Emperor’s Mirror, and both attacks collapsed in a storm that injured experts from both sides.
• Xiao Yan spotted Hun Tianchen holding the Ancient Jade and urged the Ancient Clan’s experts to stop him, but Hun Tianchen extinguished their attacks with a single finger.
• Hun Tianchen declared that the vacancy on heaven’s throne would end, transformed to resemble Hun Tiandi, shook the Ancient Realm, and announced that he would stand at the summit.

Hun Tianchen withdrew after revealing that the Hun Clan had attacked four clans at once and already possessed the Xiao Clan's Ancient Jade. Gu Yuan gathered the survivors to discuss the Hun Clan's overwhelming strength and their uncertain chances of resisting it.

• Hun Tianchen repelled Gu Yuan, then claimed the Hun Clan had obtained the Xiao Clan's Ancient Jade before retreating through a spatial rift.
• Xiao Yan realized the Hun Clan might possess five Ancient Jades, while Gu Yuan and the Ancient Clan learned how strong the Hun Clan's forces had become.
• Lei Ying, Yan Jin, and Yao Dan reported that their clans' Ancient Jades had also been stolen, with a Lei Clan elder betraying his clan.
• Gu Yuan ordered Gu Dao to handle the aftermath and called Xiao Yan to a meeting, where Xuner followed them into the hall.
• Gu Yuan warned that no single faction could face the Hun Clan head-on and feared the threat posed by Hun Tiandi joining Hun Tianchen.

Hun Tiandi abandoned his attempt to breach the Soul Realm’s defenses, while Gu Yuan forged an alliance with the other Ancient Races to oppose the Hun Clan. Hun Tianchen assembled all eight Ancient Jades, summoning the phantom of Tou She Ancient God as the Hun Clan prepared to pursue his inheritance.

• Hun Tiandi sensed the Soul Realm’s powerful barrier and left rather than risk alerting Hun Tianchen.
• Gu Yuan warned the other patriarchs that the Hun Clan viewed the Ancient Races as bloodline sources and proposed uniting against them.
• Gu Yuan called for the allied armies to gather and reclaim Ancient Jades from the Hun Clan in half a month.
• Hun Tianchen praised Nihility Devouring Flame for reaching the Emperor Realm soul and said he would help him obtain Tou She Ancient God’s inheritance.
• Hun Tianchen used his Essence Blood to fuse the eight Ancient Jades into a complete jade, which summoned Tou She Ancient God’s phantom.

Hun Tianchen and Nihility Devouring Flame discovered the location of Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion and prepared their forces for war. As the Soul Clan began conquering the Black Corner Region, their attack reached Jia Nan Academy during its student ceremony.

• Hun Tianchen revealed an image of the Ancient Emperor's Cave beneath Jia Nan Academy in the Black Corner Region and ordered Hun Miesheng to prepare the Soul Clan's final plan.
• Hun Tianchen said he would deal with Hun Tiandi while Nihility Devouring Flame warned that Gu Yuan was monitoring them.
• A black-robed Soul Clan force attacked the Demon Blade Sect, killed its guards and leader, and began a campaign to take control of the Black Corner Region within one day.
• During Jia Nan Academy's student ceremony, Su Qian sensed approaching wind carrying blood and killing intent and ordered the Law Enforcement Team and elders to be on guard.

Hun You led a force of black-robed attackers to Jia Nan Academy and demanded that everyone leave the Black Corner Region within an hour or be killed. As the academy’s defenders were overwhelmed, an enemy far stronger than its Nine-Star Dou Venerates revealed the aura of a Dou Saint.

• Hun You told Su Qian that Jia Nan Academy had one hour to evacuate the Black Corner Region, threatening to kill everyone who remained.
• Two black-robed fighters slaughtered dozens of Xiao Gate experts, revealing their strength as Dou Venerates.
• Wu Hao attacked five black-robed Nine-Star Dou Venerates and was struck down, while Su Qian caught him.
• Hundred Elder and Thousand Elder arrived, but Hun You sent another fighter to face them.
• The newly arrived fighter released an aura several times stronger than the two elders’, and the defenders recognized him as a Dou Saint.

Xiao Yan returned to Jia Nan Academy and saved it from a Hun Clan attack, revealing overwhelming strength as he sought to make amends for his past wrongdoing. After defeating the attackers, he faced Hun Clan reinforcements rushing toward the academy.

• Hun You ordered a Dou Saint to attack Jia Nan Academy, and the Dou Saint struck Qian and Bai, the Two Elders, before unleashing a massive attack on the square.
• Xiao Yan appeared, protected everyone from the attack, and killed the Dou Saint with a gesture.
• Hun You and the Hall of Souls experts tried to flee, but Xiao Yan killed the fleeing experts with a single step.
• Xiao Yan declared that he would repay Jia Nan Academy for its kindness and protect it from the Hun Clan, then struck Hun You with a flaming palm.
• Several figures rushed toward the fallen Hun You, prompting Xiao Yan to wonder whether more reinforcements had arrived.

Nihility Devouring Flame led the Hun Clan army to Jia Nan Academy to seize Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion, while Xiao Yan and the allied clans gathered to oppose them. As the armies faced off, the Hun Clan activated a continent-wide formation that threatened to destroy all life on the Dou Qi Continent.

• Nihility Devouring Flame arrived with the Hun Clan army and confronted Xiao Yan, but learned from Hun Tianchen's Soul Dragon that he could not take Xiao Yan's Heavenly Mandate Flame.
• The allied forces led by Gu Yuan, Yao Dan, and Yan Jin arrived at Jia Nan Academy after Xiao Yan confirmed that Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion lay beneath the Black Corner Region.
• Xiao Yan warned the allies that a terrifying creature guarded the cave and might be as powerful as Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Nihility Devouring Flame revealed that Hun Tianchen had predicted Gu Yuan would bring the allies to the Black Corner Region, then pointed out that the Hun Clan had sent few Dou Saints.
• Black pillars of light spread across the Dou Qi Continent, and an ancient formation appeared in the sky with an aura that threatened to annihilate all life.

Nihility Devouring Flame revealed that Hun Tianchen had deceived Gu Yuan and the allied forces into thinking the Hun Clan had gathered the Ancient Jades and was targeting Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion. Gu Yuan rushed back to Central Plains to stop the formation, while Nihility Devouring Flame and Blood River Saint prepared to open the cave mansion.

• Nihility Devouring Flame revealed that the Slaughtering Heaven and Devouring Blood Formation was being set up in Central Plains to harvest life across the continent.
• Nihility Devouring Flame explained that Hun Tianchen had used Gu Xun'er’s capture and a staged Ancient Jade transaction to draw Gu Yuan and the Ancient Clan away from Central Plains.
• Nihility Devouring Flame revealed that the Jade Pendant from Xiao Yan’s father was not an Ancient Jade, and that Hun Tianchen had used the deception to misdirect the allied army.
• Gu Yuan ordered everyone to return to Central Plains, and the allied forces hurried through a spatial rift.
• Nihility Devouring Flame and Blood River Saint discussed Hun Tianchen’s successful deception and prepared to open Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion.

Nihility Devouring Flame destroyed Jia Nan Academy to expose the Ancient Emperor's Cave, which rose from the magma after he used the Tou She Ancient God Jade. As he and the gathered experts faced the ancient gate, a powerful creature emerged from the magma and announced that it had finally seen daylight again.

• Nihility Devouring Flame used the Tou She Ancient God Jade to smash Jia Nan Academy into ruins, releasing underground magma that flooded the Black Corner Region.
• A vast vortex formed in the magma, and Nihility Devouring Flame sensed that the Ancient Emperor's Cave was about to emerge.
• Magma pillars erupted and injured fighters from both sides as the vortex slowed and the ancient stone gate rose from the receding lava.
• Nihility Devouring Flame raised the Tou She Ancient God Jade, and the sealed gate began to show signs of opening.
• A tremendous roar and savage aura burst from the magma as a mysterious creature emerged and declared that it had finally seen daylight again.