Chapter Summaries

Xiao Li and his companions entered the third level of the Heavenly Tomb and encountered the Half Saint-level Blood Axe Saint. After Xiao Li weakened him in a fierce battle, Pei Yuhan and Pei Yuru struck with their combined ultimate art, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Xiao Li and his companions entered the third level and set out toward Xiao Xuan's Ancestor's Tomb Mansion, where dangerous Energy Bodies awaited.
• Xiao Li called out to Xiao Xuan, but his shout attracted the Blood Axe Saint, who attacked the group.
• Xiao Li unleashed a Great Annihilation Seal, a Flame Fist, and Heavenly Flame Shining Sun, but the Blood Axe Saint survived.
• The Blood Axe Saint counterattacked while Xiao Li protected Xiao Ting and blocked the giant axe with his arm.
• Pei Yuhan and Pei Yuru activated their Xiao Clan Marks and used Heavenly Sound Soul Suppression against the Blood Axe Saint.

Xiao Li and his companions encountered two Hun Clan Dou Shengs in the Heavenly Tomb, and Xiao Li spent nearly all his strength using Emperor's Fury against them. As the enemies prepared to kill the group, Xiao Xuan appeared and stopped their attacks.

• Blood Axe Saint fell to Pei Yuhan and Pei Yuru, and Xiao Li's wound healed rapidly because of the Raging Beast Undying Body.
• Xiao Li and the others encountered Hun Diao and another Hun Clan Dou Sheng, who mistook Xiao Li for Xiao Xuan and attacked after recognizing his resemblance.
• Xiao Li used a Thunder Tribulation Pill, his Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Transformations, and his Clan Mark while the Pei Sisters lent him their Dou Qi.
• Xiao Li unleashed the Xiao Tribe's Heaven Rank High Grade Battle Skill, Emperor's Fury, injuring the two Dou Shengs but exhausting himself and the Pei Sisters.
• The two Hun Clan Dou Shengs attacked the helpless group, but Xiao Xuan appeared, stopped their blows, and allowed Xiao Li to collapse into Pei Yuhan's embrace.

Xiao Xuan appeared in the Heavenly Tomb and effortlessly killed two Hun Clan Dou Saints before welcoming Xiao Ting, Pei Yuhan, and Pei Yuru as Xiao Tribe descendants. He brought them to his Tomb Mansion, revived Xiao Li, and asked about the Xiao Tribe, learning that it had fallen and only a declining Xiao Clan and descendants in Yin Valley remained.

• Xiao Xuan crushed Hun Diao and another Hun Clan Dou Saint with a single attack, while other Energy Bodies on the third level hid from his presence.
• Xiao Xuan recognized the Xiao Clan Marks on Xiao Ting, Pei Yuhan, and Pei Yuru, and they paid their respects to their ancestor.
• Xiao Xuan took the group to his Tomb Mansion and brought them inside through an ancient stone tablet.
• Xiao Xuan restored Xiao Li, who introduced himself and greeted his ancestor.
• Xiao Xuan asked Xiao Li about the Xiao Tribe, and Xiao Li explained that it was gone, leaving only a declining Xiao Clan and Xiao Tribe descendants in Yin Valley.

Xiao Li reunited with Xiao Xuan in the Heavenly Tomb and explained the Xiao Clan’s history and current situation. Xiao Xuan agreed to keep living in hope of the clan’s future, then revealed that he had noticed a flaw in Xiao Li and asked whether he wanted to inherit the Dou God Bloodline.

• Xiao Li told Xiao Xuan about the Xiao Clan’s decline, its relocation, Xiao Kong’s resurrection, and his preparations for the clan.
• Xiao Xuan praised Xiao Li, recognized the Yin Yang Twin Flames as a trace of the flames he had once possessed, and learned how they had become attached to Xiao Li.
• Xiao Li declined to inherit the Dou God Bloodline, proposing that the clan save it for its younger generation when the Heavenly Tomb opened again.
• Xiao Li asked whether Xiao Xuan could be revived, but Xiao Xuan said only the power of a Dou God might restore him; he then accepted the treasures to prolong his existence and renewed his resolve to break through.
• Xiao Xuan asked Xiao Li whether he wanted the Dou God Bloodline and warned him that he had a flaw.

Xiao Xuan warned Xiao Li that relying on pills could block his progress to Nine Star Dou Saint and offered him the Dou God Bloodline. After Xiao Li refused the full inheritance, Xiao Xuan gave him a bloodline-awakening technique, and Xiao Li began cultivating toward Half Saint.

• Xiao Xuan explained that pill consumption could entrench Xiao Li’s cultivation bottlenecks and urged him to inherit the Dou God Bloodline.
• Xiao Li questioned whether Grade 9 Pills could help him advance, and Xiao Xuan described the extreme requirements for refining a Rank 9 Golden Pill.
• Xiao Li refused the full bloodline inheritance, so Xiao Xuan gave him a drop of Dou God Bloodline and taught him a technique to awaken his own bloodline over time.
• Xiao Li used two Energy Cores and a Bodhi Pill while practicing the bloodline technique, and Xiao Xuan realized he was beginning a breakthrough to Half Saint.
• Xiao Xuan explained Xiao Li’s breakthrough to Pei Yuhan, Pei Yuru, and Xiao Ting, then offered to teach them Xiao Tribe Battle Skills while Xiao Li cultivated in seclusion.

While Yun Yun and Zi Yan cared for the children, Xiao Yan visited Xiao Li’s courtyard to ask about his vanishing Dou Qi, but Yun Yun found nothing wrong and let him leave without revealing what she knew. Meanwhile, Xiao Li advanced to Half Saint in the Heavenly Tomb, where Xiao Xuan witnessed his breakthrough.

• Zi Yan woke from a half-year sleep after taking Xiao Li’s Grade 8 Pill and discovered that she had advanced to the equivalent of a Six-Star Dou Ancestor.
• Xiao Yan arrived at Xiao Li’s courtyard, and Zi Yan knocked him down for calling her “big sister” instead of “Second Grandmother.”
• Yun Yun examined Xiao Yan’s wrist and found his body healthy, but she did not explain that his predicament was part of Xiao Li’s trial.
• Xiao Yan left despondent, while Old Man Yao feared he might be unable to endure the setback and harm himself.
• Zi Yan asked Yun Yun for another Purple Dragon Spirit Pill, swallowed it, and fell asleep to absorb its energy.
• After two and a half years in the Heavenly Tomb, Xiao Li successfully advanced to Half Saint, and Xiao Xuan praised his achievement.

Xiao Li broke through to Low-Level Half-Saint and glimpsed Xiao Chen, who was trapped under the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s control. Xiao Xuan began preparing a possible way to reach him, while the group learned they had only a few months left in the Heavenly Tomb.

• Xiao Li broke through to Low-Level Half-Saint, then saw the Xiao Clan and glimpsed Xiao Chen in a space filled with milky-white flames.
• Xiao Li told Xiao Xuan that Xiao Chen was alive but appeared to be controlled by the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Xiao Xuan said he could not rescue Xiao Chen in his current state and judged that the Great Elder’s Early Seven Star Dou Saint cultivation would make the attempt difficult.
• Xiao Xuan asked Xiao Li for a Spatial Crystal Stone and inscribed something on it to create a special spatial item.
• Pei Yuhan told Xiao Li that two years and five months had passed and only a few months remained before they left the Heavenly Tomb.

Xiao Xuan sent Xiao Li and the others out of the Heavenly Tomb with a Space Secret Treasure and renewed hope for the Xiao Tribe. After Xiao Li emerged as a Half Saint, Hun Yu questioned him about the Ancient Jade, prompting Hun Tiandi to send Hun Miesheng to investigate.

• Xiao Xuan gave Xiao Li a Space Secret Treasure to help rescue Xiao Chen and promised to teach him techniques to pass on to the Xiao Tribe.
• After several months, Xiao Li, the Pei Sisters, and Xiao Ting left the Heavenly Tomb, and Xiao Xuan returned alone to his silent hall.
• Xiao Li emerged from the Heavenly Tomb at Half Saint level, while Hun Yu and Hun Wu had reached Nine Star Dou Zun.
• Hun Yu questioned Xiao Li about the Xiao Tribe's Ancient Jade, but Xiao Li refused to give him information and challenged Hun Tiandi to ask personally.
• Hun Tiandi learned that the Ancient Jade was missing from the Xiao Tribe's ancestral hall and ordered Hun Miesheng to meet Xiao Li with a jade tablet bearing his Soul Mark.

On the way back to the Northwest Continent, Xiao Li recalled Xiao Xuan’s warning that the Black Lotus contained a trace of Origin Emperor Qi, then resolved to seek the remaining Origin Qi in the Emperor Grade Crude Pill. In Wutan City, he cured Bai Xinya’s hereditary illness and greatly improved her cultivation talent; Xiao Yan followed him as he left.

• Xiao Xuan told Xiao Li that the Black Lotus contained a trace of Origin Emperor Qi and warned him not to reveal or use it before he was strong enough.
• Xiao Li concluded that the Black Lotus did not hold enough Origin Qi for a true breakthrough and decided the Emperor Grade Crude Pill was his remaining option.
• Xiao Yan begged Xiao Li to save his mother, Bai Xinya, who was gravely ill.
• Xiao Li diagnosed Bai Xinya with a latent hereditary disease and treated her with Dou Saint Marrow and two pills, using Yang Fire to help her absorb their medicinal power.
• Xiao Li declared Bai Xinya would recover, and Xiao Yan saw her complexion and breathing improve before hurrying after Xiao Li.

Xiao Yan told Xiao Li that his Dou Qi had fallen to Three Stages, and Xiao Li reassured him that he remained part of the Xiao Clan and that his talent could return. Xiao Li then learned that the Hall of Souls had sent a Three Star Dou Saint to summon him to meet its Hall Master, so he prepared to go with Old Ancestor Xiao Kong for protection.

• Xiao Yan confessed to Xiao Li that his Dou Qi had fallen from near Dou Zhe to Three Stages and asked him to investigate.
• Xiao Li reassured Xiao Yan that he would not be cast out of the Xiao Clan and said there was nothing wrong with his body.
• Old Man Yao considered taking Xiao Yan as his disciple but decided to observe him longer.
• Xiao Li met Old Ancestor Xiao Kong, who revealed that he had killed a Two Star Dou Sheng from the Spirit Clan and left the corpse by his bamboo house.
• Tianyin Old Man contacted Xiao Li through a Spatial Jade Mirror and reported that a Three Star Dou Saint had arrived with an invitation from the Hall of Souls Hall Master.
• Xiao Li agreed to go meet the Hall of Souls representative and asked Xiao Kong to accompany him in case they attacked.

Xiao Li met Hun Miesheng and spoke with Hun Tiandi’s soul projection about the Ancient Emperor Jade. He claimed he had given the jade to Gu Yuan, leaving Hun Tiandi to consider Xiao Li’s attempt to pit them against each other.

• Xiao Li and Tianyin Old Man arrived at the Ancient Battlefield in the Burial Sky Mountain Range, while Xiao Kong stayed nearby in the void.
• Hun Miesheng and the Soul Hall’s Nine Great Heavenly Venerates appeared, and Hun Miesheng questioned Xiao Li about the Ancient Jade.
• Xiao Li asked whether Hun Miesheng or the person behind him wanted the jade, prompting Hun Tiandi’s soul projection to emerge from a jade fragment.
• Hun Tiandi spoke of the Hun Clan’s defeat of the Xiao Tribe and demanded to know where the Ancient Jade was.
• Xiao Li said he had personally given the Ancient Jade to Gu Yuan, and Hun Tiandi surmised that Xiao Li hoped to make them fight.
• Xiao Li told Hun Tiandi that he considered him stronger than Gu Yuan.

Xiao Li learned from Hun Tiandi and Hun Miesheng that the Gu Clan had benefited from Xiao Xuan’s downfall and Burning Flame Old Monster’s death. Hun Tiandi later revealed his own suspicions about Gu Yuan’s choices and predicted that Xiao Li would become a major problem for the Gu Clan.

• Hun Tiandi praised Xiao Li for favoring him over Gu Yuan, then claimed the Gu Clan had abandoned the Xiao Tribe and profited from its decline.
• Hun Miesheng explained that Gu Yuan led the other God Clans in hunting Burning Flame Old Monster and helped establish the rule barring Five Star Dou Saints from the continent.
• Xiao Kong emerged from hiding to confront Hun Tiandi, who departed with Hun Miesheng and the Nine Great Heavenly Venerates; Xiao Kong roared against the Hun Clan and Gu Yuan.
• In the Hun Realm, Hun Miesheng asked Hun Tiandi how the Gu Clan had learned of Xiao Xuan’s planned breakthrough, and Hun Tiandi said Gu Yuan had not betrayed the secret but had likely acted out of self-interest.
• Hun Tiandi said he had planted suspicion in Xiao Li’s mind and expected Xiao Li to give the Gu Clan its greatest headache, while declaring that the Hun Clan would rule the continent.

Xiao Li and the Xiao Clan debated whether to trust the Hun Clan’s accusations against Gu Yuan, while Xiao Kong returned from the Demon Fire Plains with Xiao Chen, the Xiao Tribe’s long-lost Blood Axe. Xiao Chen reunited with the clan and agreed to focus on rapidly rebuilding his strength as the Xiao Clan prepared for looming conflict.

• Xiao Li gathered Xiao Ting, Xiao Lin, and Xiao Zhan and told them about his meeting with the Hun Clan.
• Xiao Lin called for the Gu Clan girl to be expelled, but Xiao Zhan warned that the Hun Clan could be lying to turn the clans against each other.
• Xiao Li concluded that Hun Tiandi was sowing suspicion and might soon attack the God Clans with a prepared trump card.
• Xiao Kong entered the meeting hall with Xiao Chen and introduced him as the Xiao Tribe’s remaining clansman with a God Grade Bloodline, known as Blood Axe.
• Xiao Chen praised Xiao Li and the clan for preserving the Xiao Tribe, then promised Xiao Kong he would cultivate until he was strong enough to avenge the past.

Xiao Li tried to break through his alchemy bottleneck and refine a Ninth Grade Treasure Pill. Inspired by a dream, he combined three sets of ingredients in a new method, and the resulting pill summoned Black Demon Thunder.

• Xiao Li lamented that he could only refine Eighth Grade Pills with Nine-Colored Pill Lightning, and Xiao Kong explained that his cultivation and soul force met the requirements for a Ninth Grade Treasure Pill.
• Xiao Li dreamed of a tiny figure refining an enormous pill, then woke and realized he had found inspiration.
• After eating with Xiao Kong, Xiao Li asked him to stand guard and began refining three sets of ingredients for the Four Symbols Holy Yuan Pill at once.
• Xiao Li ruined two batches over five days, then spent two months refining the remaining ingredients as his technique improved.
• Xiao Li formed the pill between two fire dragons, which created a Yin Yang Fish pattern and released a powerful energy fluctuation.
• Pitch-black clouds gathered above Xiao Li, signaling the arrival of Black Demon Thunder.

Xiao Li successfully refined a Ninth Grade Treasure Pill, and Xiao Kong subdued its Black Demon Thunder tribulation and captured the pill after it took Xiao Li’s form and tried to flee. Xiao Li gave the pill to Tianyin Old Man to test its effects, then explored the strengthened Yin Valley while Tianyin Old Man entered seclusion.

• Xiao Li completed the Four Symbols Holy Yuan Pill, summoning Black Demon Thunder, and Xiao Kong froze and compressed the tribulation into a black pearl.
• The Yin Yang Fish exploded, and Xiao Kong caught the Ninth Grade Treasure Pill after it escaped in Xiao Li’s form.
• Xiao Li celebrated becoming a Grade 9 Alchemist and named the pill the Myriad Symbols Holy Yuan Pill.
• Xiao Li and Xiao Kong brought the pill to Tianyin Old Man, who agreed to take it and entered seclusion to test its effects.
• Xiao Li wandered around Yin Realm and observed that Yin Valley had grown to one Dou Sheng, two Half Saints, and nearly twenty Dou Zun Experts.

Xiao Li reunited with Wang Ming and Su Wan Yin in the Yin Realm, then learned why Venerable Tianhe had joined Yin Valley and that the Tianming Sect had freed a powerful Dou Saint. He left knowing the Tianming Sect’s rescued ally was still badly injured but dangerous.

• Xiao Li visited Wang Ming and pregnant Su Wan Yin, revealed he had reached Half Saint, and learned they were expecting their third child.
• Xiao Li met Venerable Tianhe in Yin Valley and competed with him in alchemy, producing Nine-Colored Pill Lightning while Tianhe managed Seven-Colored Pill Lightning.
• Venerable Tianhe told Xiao Li that Tianming Sect had tried to seize him, and that Tianyinzi rescued him before he joined Yin Valley.
• Xiao Li asked Tianyinzi about the Tianming Sect’s Dou Saint, and Tianyinzi explained that Tianming Old Demon had freed Youming Saint from the Flower Sect’s seal.
• Tianyinzi revealed that Youming Saint had once been a Two Star Dou Sheng but now had fallen to Early One Star Dou Saint cultivation and could only fight at High-Level Half-Saint strength.

Tianyinzi and Xiao Li learned that the Tianming Sect had joined Ice River Valley and Huangquan Pavilion in the Minghe Alliance, but they remained confident they could handle its forces. Xiao Li entered seclusion and began helping the Yin Yang Heart Flame devour a divided flame of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• Tianyinzi explained that he planned to grow stronger before secretly eliminating Youming Saint, since joining forces with Fire Cloud Old Ancestor risked attracting Soul Hall's attention.
• A Dou Zong Elder delivered news that the Tianming Sect had formed the Minghe Alliance with Ice River Valley, Huangquan Pavilion, and other forces.
• Xiao Li told Tianyinzi he planned to reach the Dou Saint realm and handed him pills for Burning Flame Valley and the Flower Sect before entering seclusion.
• Xiao Li brought out a divided flame of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and asked the Yin Yang Heart Flame to devour it to advance.
• The Yin Yang Heart Flame swallowed the bead containing the divided flame, and Xiao Li channeled Dou Qi into it as it fought back and began devouring the flame's energy.

Xiao Li’s Yin Yang Heart Flame advanced into a Half Saint-class Heavenly Flame, and he returned home after arranging to recruit allies with Ninth Grade Treasure Pills. In Wutan City, Xiao Yan despaired over his lost Dou Qi while Nalan Yanran resolved to confront his resignation, unaware another girl was watching them.

• Xiao Li awakened the Yin Yang Heart Flame, found it had reached High-Level Half-Saint strength, and renamed it the Yin Yang Holy Flame.
• Tianyin Old Man told Xiao Li that a Ninth Grade Treasure Pill had brought his cultivation close to the Two Star Dou Saint Mid-Stage.
• Xiao Li asked Tianyin Old Man to gather medicinal ingredients and offer pill refinement to potential allies in exchange for their support against the Minghe Alliance and Soul Hall.
• Xiao Li left for the Xiao Clan, while Xiao Yan lay in Back Mountain feeling worthless after two years without progress beyond Three Stages of Dou Qi.
• Nalan Yanran watched Xiao Yan and resolved not to let him give up, as another young girl secretly resented their closeness.

Xiao Li met Yao Chen and offered to help resurrect him in exchange for taking Xiao Yan as his disciple. Yao Chen accepted after seeing Dou Saint remains and learning he could use them to reach the Saint realm, leaving him ready to guide Xiao Yan while planning to temper his disposition.

• Xiao Li revealed that he knew Yao Chen was hiding in Xiao Yan's Bone Flame Ring and spoke with him in Xiao Yan's room.
• Xiao Li asked Yao Chen to take Xiao Yan as his disciple and promised to resurrect him with a method that could help him become a Dou Saint.
• Xiao Li showed Yao Chen Two Star Dou Sheng remains and provoked his anger by insulting Yao Wangui, prompting Yao Chen to accept the offer.
• Xiao Li told Yao Chen that Qing Fairy of the Flower Sect still searched for him, and the two compared their resurrection methods.
• Yao Chen agreed to first raise Xiao Yan properly and temper his disposition.

Xiao Yan accidentally fell into the Hot Spring while Xiao Yu was bathing, so she beat him before Nalan Yanran intervened. Later, Nalan Yanran urged Xiao Yan not to give up after losing his Dou Qi, but his despairing words upset her and she ran from his room.

• Xiao Yu caught Xiao Yan after he accidentally landed in the Hot Spring where she was bathing and struck her, then beat him in front of the Xiao Clan disciples.
• Nalan Yanran stopped Xiao Yu, helped Xiao Yan back to his room, and applied medicine while questioning him about the incident.
• Xiao Xun'er arrived with ointment, saw Nalan Yanran tending Xiao Yan, and left after setting down the medicine.
• Nalan Yanran asked Xiao Yan what he planned to do about his missing Dou Qi, and Xiao Yan said he might be unworthy of her.
• Nalan Yanran slapped Xiao Yan and ran out, then collided with Xiao Xun'er on her way to her teacher's residence.