Chapter Summaries

Xiao Li punished Ling Quan for insulting Xiao Yan and stripped away his Dou God Bloodline before Xiao Yan’s party entered Gu Sheng City. Meanwhile, Gu Xun'er learned that Xiao Yan had arrived and reaffirmed her determination to be with him, despite the marriage decision she had announced.

• Xiao Li confronted the Gu Clan over Ling Quan’s conduct and ignored the elders’ pleas for mercy as he stripped Ling Quan’s Dou God Bloodline.
• Xiao Li returned the sealed bloodline to a Gu Clan elder and entered Gu Sheng City with Xiao Yan and the others.
• Xiao Yan questioned Xiao Li’s harsh punishment, and Xiao Li argued that the Gu Clan would not risk conflict over a mere gate guard.
• Xiao Yun showed off his Wind Fury Dragon Flame, and Xiao Li said he would have opportunities to use it in the Ancient Realm.
• Ling Ying told Gu Xun'er that Xiao Yan had arrived and that Xiao Li had crippled Ling Quan; Gu Xun'er said Ling Quan deserved it and declared she would choose Xiao Yan even if she had to become his concubine.

Xiao Yun humbled the Gu Clan’s Black Annihilation Army commanders while Xiao Yan worried about how Gu Xun'er would fit into his relationships with his other women. When the Ancient Realm opened, Xiao Yan reunited with Gu Xun'er, embracing her before the stunned army.

• Xiao Yun defeated the Black Annihilation Army commanders and mocked their ability to protect Gu Xun'er.
• Xiao Li told Xiao Yan that his training had prepared him to surpass ordinary God Clan geniuses, then advised him to handle his relationships with his women one step at a time.
• Xiao Yun revealed that he had mastered Sword Qi Threading, and Xiao Li praised his progress.
• After several challengers failed to hurt Xiao Yan, the Ancient Realm opened and the group entered aboard the Gu Clan’s warship.
• Xiao Yan left the warship to embrace Gu Xun'er, prompting several angry shouts from the Black Annihilation Army.

Xiao Li confronted the Gu Clan Elders after they tried to intimidate Xiao Yan, and Gu Dao apologized before welcoming the Tianfu Alliance delegation. At the banquet, Gu Yuan and the Gu Clan Three Immortals assessed Xiao Li’s family while Xun’er openly doted on Xiao Yan.

• Xiao Li used his soul pressure to wound the Gu Clan Elders who had challenged Xiao Yan, then rebuked them for their behavior.
• Gu Dao arrived, dismissed the Elders, apologized to Xiao Li, and invited him and his party to a banquet.
• Gu Dao recalled Xun’er’s refusal to marry anyone but Xiao Yan and watched her cling to him in public.
• Gu Yuan welcomed Xiao Li and was astonished by his strength and possible alchemy talent.
• Xiao Li introduced his two sons and daughter to Gu Yuan, who invited them to sit and eat.
• Xun’er repeatedly served Xiao Yan food while Gu Yuan and the Gu Clan Three Immortals watched the couple.

At a banquet, Xiao Li and Gu Yuan discussed the Spirit Clan’s destruction and Gu Yuan’s role in the Xiao Tribe’s past, with Gu Yuan explaining why he had not aided Xiao Xuan. Later, Gu Yuan spoke privately with Xiao Yan about his relationship with Xun’er and asked him to keep her a virgin until she reached the Dou Sheng realm.

• Gu Yuan praised Xiao Li’s children and asked about their marriages, while Xiao Li dismissed his interest in matchmaking.
• Xiao Li and Gu Yuan discussed the Ling Realm’s closure, the Hun Clan, and whether Gu Yuan had betrayed Xiao Xuan by revealing his breakthrough attempt.
• Gu Yuan explained that the Hun Clan had trapped him in the Ancient Realm with two Nine Star Dou Saint Living Dead, preventing him from reinforcing Xiao Xuan.
• Xiao Li said the past no longer mattered and left with his children, prompting Gu Yuan to reflect on Xiao Xuan’s successor.
• Gu Yuan privately warned Xiao Yan that he would face opposition over Xun’er and asked him to keep her a virgin until she reached the Dou Sheng realm.

Gu Yuan warned Xiao Yan not to be intimate with Xun'er until her bloodline stabilized, then Xiao Yan confronted Gu Yao, who threatened to kill him over his relationship with her. Xiao Yun took Xiao Yan and Xun'er away after a senior's warning ended the standoff, leaving Gu Qingyang to caution Gu Yao about the coming clash.

• Gu Yuan told Xiao Yan that Xun'er might awaken a God Grade Bloodline and warned him to avoid intimacy with her until after the Coming of Age Ceremony and until he became a Dou Sheng.
• Xun'er joined Xiao Yan, and they discussed the upcoming ceremony, Xiao Yan's assessment to defeat the Four Great Commanders, and his confidence in facing the Gu Clan's hostile youths.
• Gu Yao confronted Xiao Yan and threatened to kill him for refusing to leave Xun'er, but Xiao Yan challenged him to fight at the ceremony or immediately.
• A silver-robed Gu Clan man tried to mediate, while Xiao Yan challenged him and offered to fight anyone who opposed him; Xiao Yun then arrived and offered to fight Gu Yao first.
• A voice exerting soul pressure ordered the young men to stop, and Xiao Yun led Xiao Yan and Xun'er away.
• Gu Qingyang told Gu Yao to avoid losing too badly the next day and warned that reliance on the Gu Clan's resources and Dou God Bloodline could weaken a person's character.

Before Gu Xun'er's Coming of Age Ceremony, she confessed her jealousy and love to a sleeping Xiao Yan, who heard her and accepted that he would not choose between the women he loved. At the ceremony, Gu Qian and Gu Xu tried to bar Xiao Yan from entering, but Xiao Yun and Xiao Li intervened, and Mang Tian Chi arrived to greet Xiao Yan and Xiao Li.

• Gu Qingyang left without explaining to Gu Yao why he believed the Gu Clan's Heavenly Prides needed to be tempered.
• Xiao Yan met Ling Ying at Gu Xun'er's residence and told Xun'er he was confident he could defeat the Four Great Commanders.
• Gu Xun'er confessed her buried feelings and jealousy to the sleeping Xiao Yan, who revealed he had heard her and decided to keep all the women he loved in his life.
• Xun'er and Xiao Yan arrived at the Coming of Age Ceremony, where Gu Qian and Gu Xu blocked Xiao Yan from entering the square.
• Xiao Yun struck Gu Qian, Gu Xu, and the soldiers, while Xiao Li used his Saint-level pressure to subdue the two elders.
• Mang Tian Chi arrived, recognized Xiao Yan as a Jia Nan Academy student, and greeted Xiao Li.

Mang Tian Chi arrived at the Gu Clan ceremony after breaking through to Dou Sheng, but Xiao Li stole the attention by defeating a Four Star Dou Saint with one punch and warning the clan’s elders not to bully the young. Xiao Yan then instantly defeated Gu Yao, and the chapter left Gu Yao returning to the arena to demand another fight.

• Mang Tian Chi emerged from seclusion as a Dou Sheng and came to the Gu Clan Coming-of-Age Ceremony, where Xiao Li confronted the elders who had pressured Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Li knocked a Four Star Dou Saint Elder into a distant mountain with one punch, then led Xiao Yan and the others into the ceremony.
• Gu Yuan told Gu Dao that he supported Xiao Li’s actions and intended to purge elders who abused their authority or targeted Xun'er.
• At the ceremony, Xiao Li explained that the Xiao Tribe’s Clan Mark was cultivated and challenged Xiao Yan to show his strength.
• After Gu Yao received an Eighth Grade Bloodline Clan Mark, Xiao Yan defeated him with one punch and called out Gu Qingyang, Gu Hua, and Gu Xing.
• Gu Qingyang, Gu Hua, and Gu Xing received their Clan Marks and stayed on the arena, while bloodied Gu Yao returned with a Long Spear and demanded another fight.

Xiao Yan overwhelmed the Four Great Commanders in battle, showing his power without relying on the Xiao Tribe's Dou God Bloodline and revealing his many Heavenly Flames. Xiao Li prevented Gu Clan elders from intervening, leaving the fight between the younger generation unresolved.

• Xiao Yan fought the Four Great Commanders with one hand and rebuked them for relying on inherited bloodlines, then revealed his Transformed Realm Dou Venerate cultivation.
• Gu Qingyang, Gu Yao, Gu Xing, and Gu Hua used the Gu Clan's Heaven Rank cultivation method and unleashed the Great Nirvana Finger, while Xiao Yan absorbed energy with the Flame Mantra.
• Xiao Yan used the Five Rounds of Fire Technique with five Heavenly Flames, then revealed three more as the Yan Clan and Yao Clan visitors watched.
• Xiao Yan's fire formation clashed with the four fingers, and he rushed through the explosion to hit the Four Great Commanders with a Three-Colored Fire Lotus.
• Xiao Li restrained the Gu Clan elders and warned them not to interfere in the younger generation's fight.

Xiao Li advised Gu Xun'er to assert herself in the Gu Clan, while Xiao Yan defeated Gu Yao, Gu Xing, and Gu Hua in the arena. Xun'er revealed her Ten-Star God Grade Bloodline, and Xiao Yan declared he would reach the Late Nine Star Dou Saint realm.

• Xiao Li told Gu Xun'er that many people sought her favor for her status and urged her to deal decisively with those who challenged her authority.
• Xiao Li advised Gu Xun'er to learn how to manage subordinates from Cailin, and she accepted his guidance.
• Xiao Yan defeated Gu Yao, Gu Xing, and Gu Hua, while Gu Qingyang admitted defeat.
• Xun'er touched the Star Plate, which cracked as it revealed her Ten-Star God Grade Bloodline and released a powerful pressure over the Gu Clan members.
• Xiao Li explained that a God Grade Bloodline could lead to the Dou Saint Peak, and Xiao Yan said he would reach the Late Nine Star Dou Saint realm.

Xiao Li secured a place for Xiao Yan and the others in the Heavenly Tomb, while Xun'er asserted her authority as the Gu Clan's future Patriarch. Xiao Li then gave Xiao Yan three ancient map fragments, which joined Xiao Yan's fragment to complete the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame Ancient Map.

• Xiao Li told Xiao Yan to strengthen his cultivation and soul force, then discussed obtaining Heavenly Tomb slots for the younger members of the Xiao Tribe.
• Hun Clan shadows identified Xun'er as a threat and considered secretly eliminating her or allying with the Yao and Yan Clans.
• At the Gu Clan meeting, Xiao Li demanded four Heavenly Tomb slots for the Xiao Tribe, and Xun'er declared who would enter for the Gu Clan and struck down Gu Qian when he challenged her.
• Xiao Li offered to refine pills for the Gu Clan, prompting the Elders to fill the previously empty meeting hall and compete for his services.
• Xiao Yan, Xiao Yun, Xiao Yu, and Xiao Xue played mahjong and discussed fighting the Hun Clan in the Heavenly Tomb.
• Xiao Li gave Xiao Yan three ancient map fragments, and the four pieces joined to complete the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame Ancient Map.

Xiao Li prepared Xiao Yan for the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and sent him into the Heavenly Tomb, while the Yao Clan reconsidered its view of Yao Chen because of his strength. After the tomb opened, Xiao Li stayed in the Ancient Realm to refine a Ninth Grade Mysterious Pill.

• Xiao Li told Xiao Yan to reach Two Star Dou Sheng and Heaven Realm Great Perfection before the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame emerged, and gave him a jade pendant for Xiao Xuan's Ancestor.
• At the Heavenly Tomb entrance, Yao Xingji rejected an alliance with the Hun Clan and praised Yao Chen's strength, while discussing the Yao Clan's invitation for him.
• Xiao Li overheard Yao Xingji and reflected that the Yao Clan had changed its attitude toward Yao Chen after he became powerful.
• Elder Tongxuan introduced the Heavenly Tomb, and Xiao Xue, Xiao Yu, Xiao Yun, and Xiao Yan entered for its six-month trial.
• Xiao Li remained in the Ancient Realm and planned to refine a Ninth Grade Mysterious Pill, with Gu Yuan offering a reward and favor if he made one for Gu Xun'er.

Xiao Yan and his group were drawn into an ancient hall, where they met Xiao Xuan and began Xiao Xue’s inheritance of the Dou God Bloodline. Xiao Xuan prepared Energy Cores for the others to cultivate with over the next three years, while Xiao Li’s Soul Mark vanished after he declined Xiao Xuan’s offer to help advance his soul.

• A wormhole swallowed Xiao Yan, Gu Xun'er, and the others inside the Heavenly Tomb, transporting them to an ancient hall where they met Xiao Xuan.
• Xiao Xuan recognized Xiao Yan and Xiao Li’s children, assessed their abilities and treasures, and learned through Xiao Li’s jade pendant that they had come to visit.
• Xiao Li chose Xiao Xue to inherit the Dou God Bloodline, and Xiao Xuan began transferring it to her through a blood pool.
• Xiao Xuan revealed a large stockpile of Energy Cores he had gathered for the children and told them to use the next three years to make breakthroughs.
• Xiao Xuan offered to help Xiao Li’s soul reach the God Realm, but Xiao Li declined for now and his Soul Mark dissipated.
• Xiao Xuan encouraged Xiao Yan and the others to cultivate with the Energy Cores while Xiao Xue underwent her inheritance.

Xiao Li refined a Ninth Grade Mysterious Pill in the Ancient Realm, overcoming terrifying Pill Lightning and catching the pill when it tried to escape. Gu Yuan then gave Xiao Li the Gu Clan's requested recipes and payment, including a special pill intended to help Xun'er reach Dou Sheng.

• Xiao Li's alchemy astonished Gu Yi and the Gu Clan's other alchemists as he refined pills with transformed black and white flames.
• Xiao Li gathered World Energy for seven days and refined a Ninth Grade Mysterious Pill, whose emergence brought black Pill Lightning and a rain of medicinal beads.
• The completed pill fled in the form of a young child, but Xiao Li caught and subdued it with his Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Wings and the Pill Transformation Art.
• Xiao Li identified the pill as a Heaven-Melting Pill and put it away, while Gu Yuan praised his achievement and discussed Dan Old Monster's past attempt to refine a Rank 9 Golden Pill.
• Gu Yuan gave Xiao Li three Ninth Grade Treasure Pill recipes, payment, and a request to refine a Ninth Grade Mysterious Pill; Xiao Li learned one recipe could help Xun'er break through to Dou Sheng.

Xiao Li refined the Ninth Grade Mysterious Pill and advanced to Late Six Star Dou Saint, while the Gu Clan decided to befriend him and brought him pills to refine. After leaving seclusion, Xiao Li agreed to begin refining them.

• Xiao Li swallowed the Heaven-Melting Pill and supporting pills, then used the Yin Yang Holy Flame to refine their energy in seclusion.
• Gu Yuan and the Gu Clan Three Immortals discussed Xiao Li’s Supreme Dragon Phoenix Bloodline and decided not to antagonize him.
• Gu Yuan and the Gu Clan Three Immortals discussed the missing Spirit and Stone Clans, the other clans’ alliance, and Hun Tiandi’s ambitions.
• After one month, Xiao Li finished refining the Heaven-Melting Pill, reached Late Six Star Dou Saint, and improved his aptitude and Soul Force.
• Xiao Li told himself he would return to the Northwest Continent to visit the Gate of Life and Death before the Bodhi Ancient Tree appeared.
• Gu Yuan entered with the Gu Clan Three Immortals and asked Xiao Li to refine their pills, and Xiao Li agreed.

Xiao Yan and the others emerged from the Heavenly Tomb with greatly improved cultivation, while Hun Ya and Hun Li were found dead. Xiao Li brought the group back to the Tianfu Alliance, whose strength had grown enough to prepare it to contend with the God Clans.

• Xiao Li welcomed the cultivators leaving the Heavenly Tomb, where the clans reported meager gains and Hun Ya and Hun Li emerged dead.
• Gu Qingyang, Gu Hua, and Gu Zhen returned and explained that Xiao Xuan had taken them to the third level, where they cultivated separately from the Hun Clan members.
• Xiao Yan, Xiao Li, Xiao Yun, Xiao Yu, and Xiao Xue emerged; Xiao Li recognized Xiao Xue's Intermediate Half-Saint cultivation and her Dou God Bloodline.
• Xiao Li destroyed two masses of Black Mist, and Yao Xingji gave Xiao Yan an invitation to the Yao Clan's clan ceremony and challenged him to an alchemy contest another time.
• Xiao Li used spatial shifting to take the group to the Tianfu Alliance headquarters, where he welcomed the newly joined Heavenly Crystal Saint and Hehuan Saint.
• Xiao Li assessed the Alliance's powerful Dou Saints and Half Saints as its strength continued to grow toward challenging the God Clans.

Xiao Li entered the hidden third layer of the Gate of Life and Death and discovered that its spirit was the ancient sword expert Tiancan Jiansheng. Tiancan Jiansheng revealed his intent to seize Xiao Li’s body and attacked him.

• At a banquet, Xiao Li obtained the Heaven Rank Intermediate Yin-Yang Harmonization Foundation-Nourishing Method from Joyful Demon Elder in exchange for a Thunder Tribulation Pill.
• Months later, Xiao Li returned to the Northern Continent, found that Xiao Zhan and Bai Xinya had advanced in cultivation, and sent foundation-building pills to Xiao Zhan’s two young daughters.
• Xiao Li entered the Gate of Life and Death, found a Spatial Wormhole in its second layer, and crossed into the previously hidden third layer.
• The Black Lotus Mark in Xiao Li’s palm heated as Tiancan Jiansheng appeared and identified himself as the spirit of the Gate of Life and Death.
• Tiancan Jiansheng called Xiao Li a fine vessel, tried to take everything he had, and attacked by crushing him with the surrounding space.

Xiao Li defeated the Gate of Life and Death’s fused spirit and Tiancan Jiansheng’s Remnant Soul with the Black Lotus, then began refining the vast energy and Soul Force it absorbed. At the Tianfu Alliance, Hun Miesheng challenged the alliance to battle at the Fallen Mountain Range in one month, and Xiao Li’s sudden arrival interrupted the elders’ discussion.

• Xiao Li discovered that the being claiming to be Tiancan Jiansheng had fused with the third floor and attacked him with sword lights.
• Xiao Li split the monstrous face with Yin Yang Holy Flame, endured its sword assault, and healed his injuries with the flames.
• The Black Lotus absorbed the monster’s energy, returned to Xiao Li, and flooded him with energy and immense Soul Force to refine.
• Old Man Yao and the Tianfu Alliance elders discussed the destruction of the Spirit and Stone Clans and Soul Hall’s silence.
• Hun Miesheng appeared as a soul incarnation, challenged the Tianfu Alliance to fight at the Fallen Mountain Range in one month, and left a letter of challenge.
• As Yao Chen prepared to answer the elders, a violet-gold radiance appeared and a noble purple figure emerged.

Zi Yan emerged from seclusion as an Early Nine Star Dou Saint, and Xiao Li returned with an Emperor Realm Soul and Peak Eight Star Dou Sheng cultivation. After learning that the Hun Clan had challenged the Tianfu Alliance, Xiao Li urged them to fight and explained how the Gate of Life and Death had transformed him, leaving the Black Lotus’s origins in the Greater Thousand World as an open possibility.

• Zi Yan told Old Man Yao that she had reached Early Nine Star Dou Saint but could not match her father or Hun Tiandi, and the elders arranged for Xiao Yan to escort the alliance’s younger generation to the Barren Ancient Region.
• Xiao Li appeared before Old Man Yao and Zi Yan with an Emperor Realm Soul and revealed that he had reached Peak Eight Star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Li recommended accepting Hun Miesheng’s challenge and predicted that the Hun Clan would send the Four Demon Saints to test the Tianfu Alliance.
• Xiao Li showed Zi Yan the Gate of Life and Death and recounted how the Black Lotus had devoured a monster containing Tiancan Jiansheng’s memories, granting him an Emperor Realm Soul and Tiancan Jiansheng’s inheritance.
• Xiao Li identified the Black Lotus as the Saint Abyss Suppressing Demon Lotus and suspected that it might have come from the Greater Thousand World.

At Falling Summit, Xiao Li exposed the Hun Clan’s hidden Demon Saints and confronted Hun Tiandi, who arrived to stop the Tianfu Alliance. Xiao Li and Zi Yan joined forces as a Dragon Phoenix and charged Hun Tiandi, leaving their battle unresolved.

• Hun Miesheng led ten Soul Hall Dou Saints through a spatial passage to Falling Summit, where Xiao Li and more than a dozen Tianfu Alliance experts appeared.
• Xiao Li exposed Hun Sha, Hun Jing, Hun Yan, and Hun Tu, the Hun Clan’s Four Demon Saints, and prepared to strike them with Yin Yang Reincarnation.
• Hun Tiandi emerged and shattered Xiao Li’s Yin Yang Fish, then attacked Xiao Li and Zi Yan with a giant finger.
• Xiao Li and Zi Yan fused their Dou Qi into a Dragon Phoenix Dharma Form and repelled Hun Tiandi’s attack, collapsing the mountain range in the clash.
• Hun Tiandi began gathering a Battle Skill, but Xiao Li and Zi Yan transformed into a massive Dragon Phoenix and rushed him before he could finish.
• As Hun Tiandi moved to attack them, the Emperor Gu Shattering Nirvana Finger was unleashed.

Gu Yuan intervened to drive Hun Tiandi away after Xiao Li and Zi Yan helped repel the Hun Clan. Back at the Tianfu Alliance, Xiao Li disguised himself to join Xiao Yan’s group on their trip to the Barren Ancient Region, while the Alliance’s experts prepared for further cultivation and pill refining.

• Gu Yuan confronted Hun Tiandi, and the two exchanged Battle Skills before Hun Tiandi withdrew with the Hun Clan rather than risk fighting Xiao Li and Zi Yan’s Dragon Phoenix Dharma Form.
• Xiao Li thanked Gu Yuan for intervening, then returned with Zi Yan to the Tianfu Alliance and reminded its Dou Saints that the Hun Clan’s strength justified his caution.
• Xiao Yan prepared to lead Alliance members to the Barren Ancient Region, and Xiao Li returned, disguised himself as a burly Dou Venerate Peak Elder, and joined the group.
• The Tianfu Alliance’s Dou Saint experts went into seclusion, while Old Man Yao, Old Freak Lin, Elder Han, Elder Cheng, Lü Elder, and Old Man Shennong set out to refine Ninth Grade Treasure Pills.
• Old Man Shennong and the Pill Tower Old Ancestor discussed whether the Pill Tower Old Ancestor could become a Golden Core, and black lightning continued appearing around the Alliance headquarters.