Chapter Summaries

Gu Yuan called on Xiao Xuan to save the Gu Clan, and Xiao Xuan’s projection intervened against Hun Tiandi before Gu Yuan escaped with Gu Xun'er. After Hun Tiandi survived the attack, Void Swallowing Flame betrayed him and took the four pieces of Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade, revealing his alliance with Qian Renhan.

• Gu Yuan pleaded for Xiao Xuan’s help as the Soul Clan slaughtered the Gu Clan and extracted its bloodline.
• Xiao Xuan appeared in the Heavenly Tomb, confronted Hun Tiandi, and unleashed a powerful flame attack that destroyed the four Soul Clan living dead.
• Gu Yuan thanked Xiao Xuan and fled the Ancient Realm with Gu Xun'er while Hun Tiandi and his forces clashed with the attack.
• Hun Tiandi ordered Void Swallowing Flame to destroy the Yan Clan, but Void Swallowing Flame cut off his finger and took his Storage Ring.
• Void Swallowing Flame revealed his alliance with Qian Renhan and displayed the four pieces of Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade.

Void Swallowing Flame revealed his control over much of the Soul Clan and negotiated with Hun Tiandi, while Qian Renhan absorbed the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s resentment and refused its reincarnation trial. After rejoining Void Swallowing Flame, Qian Renhan received Hun Tiandi’s ring and turned his attention to the Yan Clan and Lei Clan.

• Void Swallowing Flame revealed that he had planted bloodline marks in most Soul Clan members and controlled many of its Dou Saint Elders, then agreed to remove the marks after Hun Tiandi asserted his authority.
• Qian Renhan absorbed the Dou Emperor resentment inside the Bodhi Ancient Tree, raising his cultivation to the late stage of the nine-star Dou Saint realm as the tree recovered.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree gained intelligence and offered Qian Renhan a hundred lifetimes of reincarnation, but he refused the trial and left.
• Qian Renhan joined Void Swallowing Flame’s main force, and Void Swallowing Flame gave him Hun Tiandi’s ring and recounted the events in the Gu Clan.
• Qian Renhan declared that the Yan Clan and Lei Clan would replace the Gu Clan as targets for their pills, souls, and Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade.

Qian Renhan destroyed the Yan Clan, then prepared to enter the Ancient Emperor's Cave with Ziyan and Void Swallowing Flame. Hun Tiandi learned of their destination and left his hiding place to force Gu Yuan to help him.

• Qian Renhan led the Void Ancient Dragon Clan into the Yan Clan realm, killed Yan Jin, and wiped out the clan's Dou Saint-level experts.
• The Void Ancient Dragon Clan drove millions of Yan Clan members through a passage into the Soul Clan's territory.
• Gu Yuan and Gu Xun'er arrived at Starfall Pavilion, where Gu Yuan tried to warn the clans about the Soul Clan's threat.
• Qian Renhan reached the peak of the late Ninth Star Dou Saint realm, while Ziyan advanced to the Six Star Dou Saint realm after eating pills.
• Void Swallowing Flame said he had devoured Yan Jin and Lei Ying and advanced to the middle Ninth Star Dou Saint realm, then joined Qian Renhan and Ziyan on the way to the Ancient Emperor's Cave.
• Hun Tiandi learned that Qian Renhan and Void Swallowing Flame had gone to the Ancient Emperor's Cave and left his underground hideout to make Gu Yuan help him.

Ziyan reunited with Su Qian and revealed that she had become the Dragon Emperor of the Void Ancient Dragon Clan. As the Ancient Emperor's Cave rose from the magma, Hun Tiandi and Gu Yuan arrived with the Soul Clan, leaving both sides waiting for a chance to claim the path to becoming a Dou Di.

• Ziyan visited Su Qian at Jia Nan Academy, revealed her identity, and gave him treasures taken from the ancient clans.
• Qian Renhan waited while Ziyan reunited with Su Qian, then Void Swallowing Flame summoned the remnant of Tuoshe Ancient Emperor.
• Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's power caused Jia Nan Academy to collapse as magma flooded the Black-Corner Region, while Ziyan moved the academy's teachers and students to safety.
• The Ancient Emperor's Cave began rising beneath the magma, and Qian Renhan sensed Hun Tiandi and Gu Yuan arriving.
• Hun Tiandi appeared with Gu Yuan and the Soul Clan's remaining experts, and Gu Yuan vowed to settle his debts with his enemies.
• Both sides held back, waiting for a chance to seize the opportunity in the Ancient Emperor's Cave and become a Dou Di.

The Ancient Emperor's Cave emerged from the magma, and Qian Renhan, Zhu Kun, Void Swallowing Flame, Gu Yuan, and Hun Tiandi entered it. They followed Void Swallowing Flame across a vast land marked by Heavenly Flame pillars, arriving at two final pillars without flames.

• The Ancient Emperor's Cave rose from the magma, and Zhu Kun emerged, reuniting with Ziyan.
• Void Swallowing Flame used the Ancient Jade to open the gate, and Qian Renhan, Zhu Kun, Void Swallowing Flame, Gu Yuan, and Hun Tiandi rushed inside.
• Qian Renhan discovered that the cave suppressed Soul Power, while Zhu Kun kept Ziyan close and Void Swallowing Flame led the group onward.
• The groups crossed a vast land and passed twenty-two giant pillars bearing Heavenly Flames ranked fourth through twenty-third.
• At the last two pillars, Zhu Kun noted that neither bore a Heavenly Flame and wondered whether the Pure Lotus Demon Flame had once been there.

The Emperor Grade Crude Pill emerged before the gathered fighters and fought off attacks from Zhu Kun, Void Swallowing Flame, Hun Tiandi, and Gu Yuan. Qian Renhan joined the battle and clashed with the pill using his Stone Emperor Shattering Heaven Palm and Killing Sword Domain.

• Void Swallowing Flame swallowed the mist, revealing Tuoshe Ancient Emperor’s statue and the Emperor Grade Crude Pill.
• Qian Renhan identified the black-robed old man as the Emperor Grade Crude Pill, who accused Void Swallowing Flame of abandoning a promise to rescue him.
• The Emperor Grade Crude Pill repelled the combined attack from Zhu Kun, Void Swallowing Flame, Hun Tiandi, and Gu Yuan, while Qian Renhan sent Ziyan to help the Ancient Dragon Clan fight Hun Tiandi’s forces.
• Qian Renhan charged into the blast from several self-destructing Grade 9 Treasure Pills and struck the Emperor Grade Crude Pill with his Stone Emperor Shattering Heaven Palm.
• Qian Renhan unleashed his Killing Sword Domain and sent blood-colored Sword Qi slashing toward the Emperor Grade Crude Pill.

Qian Renhan fought Emperor Grade Crude Pill and damaged him with a trap of exploding Grade 9 Mysterious Pills, while Void Swallowing Flame entered the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor statue and returned to the battle. As Emperor Grade Crude Pill unleashed the Tou She Heavenly Flame Ruler, Void Swallowing Flame betrayed Qian Renhan by stabbing him through the chest.

• Qian Renhan warned everyone not to breathe Emperor Grade Crude Pill’s fragrance and clashed with him as Zhu Kun transformed and fought Hun Tiandi and Gu Yuan.
• Void Swallowing Flame entered the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor statue, but the statue cast him out and stirred memories of his past enslavement.
• Qian Renhan used seven hidden Grade 9 Mysterious Pills to blast Emperor Grade Crude Pill, then struck him into the plains with the Stone Emperor Shaking Heaven Fist.
• Void Swallowing Flame joined Qian Renhan against Emperor Grade Crude Pill and urged him to fight while Zhu Kun held off Hun Tiandi and Gu Yuan.
• Emperor Grade Crude Pill summoned the Tou She Heavenly Flame Ruler, and Void Swallowing Flame stabbed Qian Renhan from behind, declaring that he alone would become Dou Di.

Void Swallowing Flame betrayed Qian Renhan and used the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade to suppress the Emperor Grade Crude Pill, then declared himself the final victor. Qian Renhan revealed he could still act, seized the pill from Void Swallowing Flame, and swallowed it despite his grievous injuries.

• Void Swallowing Flame stabbed Qian Renhan and burned his body with black flames, while Ziyan tried to reach them but was held back by Soul Clan fighters.
• Void Swallowing Flame used the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade to create the Transformation Pill Ring and trap the Emperor Grade Crude Pill.
• Hun Tiandi, Gu Yuan, and Zhu Kun attacked Void Swallowing Flame, who detonated four Six-Star Dou Saints; Ziyan was critically injured, and Zhu Kun shielded her.
• Void Swallowing Flame claimed his thousand-year scheme had succeeded and reached for the Transformation Pill Ring, but Qian Renhan immobilized him with powerful Soul Power.
• Qian Renhan took the Emperor Grade Crude Pill from Void Swallowing Flame and swallowed it, astonishing Gu Yuan.

After reaching the Half Emperor realm, Qian Renhan healed Ziyan, defeated Void Swallowing Flame, and revealed that he came from a lower world. He then began using the Soul Realm and descendants of the Ancient Eight Clans to ripen the Emperor Grade Crude Pill and pursue the Dou Emperor realm.

• Qian Renhan used life force extracted from Soul Clan Dou Saints to heal Ziyan, while Gu Yuan and Hun Tiandi fled.
• Qian Renhan revealed that he came from a lower world, then erased Void Swallowing Flame's consciousness and retained its black flame.
• Qian Renhan left the Ancient Emperor's Cave with Zhu Kun, Ziyan, and the Taixu Ancient Dragon clan.
• A massive cauldron appeared over the Central Continent, and Gu Yuan realized Qian Renhan was using the Soul Clan and living descendants of the Ancient Eight Clans as ingredients to refine the pill within himself.

Gu Xun'er asked Xiao Yan to plead with Qian Renhan for her father, while Qian Renhan began a blood sacrifice to fuel his attempt to become a Dou Di. Zhu Kun warned Ziyan that Qian Renhan might leave her behind as he pursued strength, and she was left weighing her feelings for him.

• Gu Xun'er asked Xiao Yan to ask Qian Renhan to spare her father, while Cailin's murderous stare made Xiao Yan hesitate.
• Qian Renhan activated the Soul Realm formation, which killed tens of millions of beings and turned their blood into energy for the Emperor Grade Crude Pill.
• Zhu Kun returned from Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's Cave Dwelling and explained to Ziyan that the blood sacrifice was supplying the worldly energy Qian Renhan needed to become a Dou Di.
• Zhu Kun told Ziyan that Qian Renhan was not from their world and was not yet forty, despite his white hair.
• Ziyan asked whether Qian Renhan would accept her confession, and Zhu Kun warned that he might leave her behind if she could not keep up with him.

The God Realm faced spatial-temporal turbulence as Gong Changwei and five other God Kings tried to seize it, but Qian Xunji’s sudden power crushed them. On the Dout Qi Continent, Qian Renhan emerged from the Soul Realm after succeeding in his breakthrough and declared that he had become an Emperor.

• The God of Life summoned the gods to defend the Douluo God Realm from spatial-temporal turbulence, while the imprisoned God of Destruction sensed the danger.
• Gong Changwei and five other God Kings revealed their plan to take the Douluo God Realm, then attacked its gods and tried to seize Life.
• Qian Xunji’s power surged alongside Qian Renxue’s, and his casual palm shattered the six God Kings, their wives, and the God Realm’s barriers.
• Qian Renhan emerged from the sea of blood in the Soul Realm, and Gu Yuan and Hun Tiandi recognized that he had become a Battle Emperor.
• Hun Tiandi ordered Hun Feng to save the Soul Clan’s survivors, while Gu Yuan begged Xiao Yan to protect Xuner and the Gu Clan’s last bloodline.
• Qian Renhan rose from the blood lotus, changed his hair and robes, and announced that he had become an Emperor.

Qian Renhan tore open the Dout Qi Continent’s realm barrier and drew Primal Qi from the Great Thousand World, raising the continent’s power and triggering breakthroughs. As powerful figures entered seclusion and prepared for conflict, members of the Qian Clan and gods from the God Realm arrived on the continent.

• Qian Renhan discovered the Dout Qi Continent was enclosed by a spatial membrane and slashed open its barrier with his blood sword.
• Primal Qi poured through the breach, raising the continent’s plane level and helping Yao Chen, Fairy Qing, and Xuan Kongzi reach the One-Star Dou Saint realm.
• Zhu Kun, Gu Yuan, and Hun Tiandi left to enter seclusion, while Qian Renhan cultivated beneath the breach to stabilize his pill-achieved Dou Emperor realm.
• Yao Chen warned Xiao Yan that other Dou Emperors could emerge and urged him to gather allies; Xiao Yan and Cailin headed to the Jia Ma Empire to evacuate their people.
• Several months later, Qian Xunji, Qian Daoliu, Bo Saixi, the Six Great Enshrined Elders, and other ascended members of the Qian Clan and God Realm arrived on the Dout Qi Continent.

Qian Renhan’s relatives from the God Realm arrived on the Dou Qi Continent and settled on Ancient Dragon Island as they learned to cultivate there. After Zhu Kun broke through to Dou Emperor, Qian Renhan prepared to face Hun Tiandi while Zhu Kun fought Gu Yuan.

• The Qian Clan members arrived unable to fly or control their divine power, and Qian Renhan gave them a Storage Ring of cultivation techniques and martial skills.
• Ziyan explained the continent to the newcomers, who later brought the Six Great Enshrined Elders and other gods to live on Ancient Dragon Island.
• Ziyan broke through to Nine-Star Dou Saint, and Zhu Kun later entered the Dou Emperor realm.
• Qian Renhan and Zhu Kun confronted Hun Tiandi and Gu Yuan, who had also reached Dou Emperor; Zhu Kun engaged Gu Yuan while Qian Renhan faced Hun Tiandi.

Hun Tiandi and Qian Renhan fought as towering Emperor Bodies, devastating the Central Continent while Qian Renhan gradually gained the upper hand. Hun Tiandi then activated the Soul Devouring Death Formation, sacrificing the continent’s inhabitants to forge a gigantic blood blade, and revealed the formation’s original purpose.

• Qian Renhan split Hun Tiandi’s blood wave and swallowed his Blood Demon Corroding Heart Lightning with the Dark Emperor Body.
• Hun Tiandi absorbed blood from the Soul Realm and the Central Continent to become a Blood Emperor Body, then clashed with Qian Renhan across the Five Continents.
• Qian Renhan seized blood qi from Hun Tiandi, leaving Hun Tiandi weakened and forcing him to land on the Central Continent.
• Hun Tiandi activated the Soul Devouring Death Formation and slaughtered the Central Continent’s inhabitants, sparing only people protected by Starfall Pavilion’s formation.
• The formation condensed the immense sea of blood into a gigantic transparent blood blade, and Hun Tiandi said he had originally intended to use the formation and its sacrifices to ripen the Emperor Grade Crude Pill.

Qian Renhan countered Hun Tiandi’s Emperor-Slaying Array by drawing on the negative emotions of the Five Continents and trapping him in the Heaven-Transforming Emperor-Refining Array. As Hun Tiandi tried to escape the cauldron, Gu Yuan charged to stop Qian Renhan, but Zhu Kun blocked him.

• Zhu Kun recognized that Hun Tiandi’s array positions formed the Soul Clan’s Emperor-Slaying Array, which Hun Tiandi used to forge a bloodblade by sacrificing Soul Clan experts.
• Qian Renhan summoned the Fallen Angel and gathered Dark Energy and resentment from across the Five Continents, while the bloodblade also fed the black giant with hatred from Hun Tiandi’s slaughter.
• When the Soul Clan army refused Hun Tiandi’s demand for more sacrifices, he slaughtered most of them, killed Hun Feng, and fed his own blood to the blade.
• Hun Tiandi attacked Qian Renhan with the Emperor-Slaying Ghost Bloodblade, but Qian Renhan trapped him inside the Fallen Angel Realm and activated the Heaven-Transforming Emperor-Refining Array.
• Gu Yuan recognized the black cauldron as an array capable of refining a Dou Di and charged toward it, but Zhu Kun intercepted him.
• Hun Tiandi struck the cauldron with his bloodblade, opening deep cracks across its surface.

Qian Renhan refined Hun Tiandi into an Emperor Pill and began refining Gu Yuan, but Xiao Yan arrived with Tuoshe Ancient Emperor’s inheritance and rescued his father-in-law. Qian Renhan challenged Xiao Yan to defeat him, setting up a clash between the two Dou Emperors.

• Qian Renhan refined Hun Tiandi into an Emperor Pill after binding him in the Black Cauldron.
• Qian Renhan placed the weakened Gu Yuan in the cauldron and began refining him.
• Xiao Yan crossed from the Northwestern Continent and destroyed part of the cauldron, rescuing Gu Yuan.
• Xiao Yan revealed that he had obtained Tuoshe Ancient Emperor’s inheritance and reached the Dou Emperor Realm.
• Qian Renhan demanded that Xiao Yan defeat him or lose both Gu Yuan and his own life.
• Ziyan asked Zhu Kun whether Qian Renhan would really kill Xiao Yan, and Zhu Kun told her to watch.

Xiao Yan learned that his extraordinary fortune came from being the Dou Qi Continent’s protagonist, chosen because Burning Mantra could help the world grow, and he challenged Qian Renhan. Qian Renhan destroyed Xiao Yan’s ultimate attack with a sword strike that carved a vast trench across the continent.

• Xiao Yan asked Qian Renhan why he had become ruthless, and Qian Renhan explained that he had struggled for strength because the world could destroy him and everything he cared about.
• Qian Renhan told Xiao Yan that his repeated good fortune marked him as the world’s protagonist, and Xiao Yan realized Burning Mantra had helped the continent choose him.
• Xiao Yan vowed to repay the Dou Qi Continent and attacked Qian Renhan with magma and Fire Lotuses.
• Qian Renhan used Killing Sword Domain against Xiao Yan, who gathered thirteen Heavenly Flames to form the Annihilation Fire Lotus.
• Qian Renhan slashed the Fire Lotus apart, defeated Xiao Yan’s ultimate move, and carved a thousand-zhang-deep trench from Central Continent toward the coast.

Xiao Yan and Qian Renhan fought a decisive battle, with Xiao Yan sacrificing his body to wield the Heavenly Flame Ancient Ruler before Qian Renhan defeated him. Qian Renhan then reshaped the aftermath, refined Gu Yuan and Gu Xun'er, and departed through a passage to another plane.

• Xiao Yan summoned the Heavenly Flame Plaza and called the Heavenly Flames across the continent to gather into the Heavenly Flame Ancient Ruler.
• Xiao Yan transformed his body into Emperor Flame and merged with the ruler, while Qian Renhan merged with the Asura Sword, and the weapons collided with continent-shattering force.
• Qian Renhan defeated Xiao Yan but altered his memories instead of killing him, then refined Gu Yuan and Gu Xun'er into pills.
• Qian Renhan discussed his departure with Zhu Kun and opened a passage to another plane.
• Qian Renhan accepted Zhu Kun's Soul Jade without leaving a Soul Mark and entered the passage.