Chapter Summaries

Gu Yuan attacked Hun Tiandi to stop him from breaking the Gu Clan and Yao Clan’s morale, but Hun Tiandi held him back while Soul Clan forces targeted their clansmen. Meanwhile, Nihility Devouring Flame pursued the Lei Clan for the real Tuoshe Ancient Jade, and Huang Tian realized the Soul Clan had used the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan as a pawn.

• Hun Tiandi accused Gu Yuan of betraying Xiao Xuan, and the Gu Clan’s young geniuses lost faith in their clan chief.
• Gu Yuan used the Emperor Seal Technique, Great Nirvana Finger, and Ancient Emperor Heaven-Shattering Finger against Hun Tiandi, but Hun Tiandi blocked the attacks and sent Soul Clan Dou Sheng to attack the Gu and Yao clans.
• Nihility Devouring Flame learned that the Lei Clan’s Tuoshe Ancient Jade was real and rushed to intercept their evacuation to the Baichen Realm.
• Nihility Devouring Flame shattered the Lei Clan’s spatial passage, leaving forty percent of the clan behind as Lei Ying sent Lei Dong through the tunnel.
• The Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan suffered devastating losses, and Huang Tian realized Hun Tiandi had deceived them and used their clan to distract the continent while the Soul Clan attacked the ancient Emperor Clans.

Zi Yan killed Huang Tian, ordered the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan defeated, and explained that she spared its women because they were needed for the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit. While her elders schemed to offer Su Baichen the Dragon Phoenix Ruins as a betrothal gift, Xiao Yi Xian advanced toward the Five-Star Dou Sheng realm in seclusion.

• Zi Yan killed Huang Tian before he could self-destruct, then ordered the Ancient Dragon Island disciples to kill the clan's men, seal its women's cultivation, and collect the corpses.
• Zi Yan told Zhu Kun, Zhu Feng, and Zhuli that the Heaven Demon Phoenix women were needed to produce the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit and revealed that Su Baichen possessed the Dragon Phoenix Ruins.
• After Zi Yan left to search the treasury, Zhu Kun, Zhu Feng, and Zhuli agreed to offer Su Baichen the Dragon Phoenix Ruins as a betrothal gift.
• Zi Yan selected treasures for Su Baichen, Cailin, and Xuanyi from the Heaven Demon Phoenix treasury, unaware that her elders were arranging her betrothal gifts.
• In the Baichen Realm, Xiao Yi Xian refined Su Baichen's gifts and absorbed Yellow Spring Demon Saint Essence Blood as she attempted to break through to Five-Star Dou Sheng.

Cailin steered Lei Dong toward considering the Tuoshe Ancient Jade in exchange for his captured family, while avoiding taking responsibility for the dangerous bargain herself. After Lei Dong left to consult his clansmen, Cailin and Xuanyi discussed finding someone with similar experience to persuade him.

• Lei Dong knelt before Cailin and Xuanyi and offered the Tuoshe Ancient Jade in return for their help saving his Lei Clan.
• A guard reported that the Soul Clan would kill Lei Clan captives unless the clan surrendered the Ancient Jade, and Cailin signaled Xuanyi to stay calm.
• Cailin advised Lei Dong to trade the jade for his family and told him that the Nihility Devouring Flame was unlikely to kill his father immediately.
• Cailin sent Lei Dong with Qing Lin to consult his clansmen, then told Xuanyi that someone who had suffered a similar family loss should persuade him.
• Xuanyi recognized an excellent candidate for the task.

Lei Dong learned that Mr. Su could not return soon, leaving the Lei Clan to decide whether to trade the Tuoshe Ancient Jade for their captured relatives. Ling Yuhan and Ling Xi arrived and urged Lei Dong to trust the Baichen Realm and save the people, leaving the final decision to him.

• Lei Dong told the Lei Clan that Mr. Su was in an unknown ruin and could not rescue the clan chief and the others soon.
• Lei Dong silenced accusations against the Baichen Realm and explained that Lady Cailin had offered to trade the Tuoshe Ancient Jade for the captives.
• The Lei Clan elders and younger members argued over whether to protect the Ancient Jade or use it to save their people.
• Ling Yuhan and Ling Xi arrived, revealed that Mr. Su had rescued them after the Ling Clan's destruction, and urged Lei Dong to trade the Ancient Jade for the captives.
• Ling Yuhan argued that people mattered more than the jade, and the room waited for Lei Dong to choose.

Ling Xi and Ling Yuhan completed Cailin and Xuanyi’s plan to persuade Lei Dong to exchange the Tuoshe Ancient Jade for his people. Afterward, Ling Xi proposed a scandalous way to revive the fallen Ling Clan, leaving Ling Yuhan considering whether to pursue it.

• Ling Dong exchanged the Tuoshe Ancient Jade for the Lei Clan’s people after Ling Yuhan persuaded him.
• Ling Xi and Ling Yuhan recalled how Cailin and Xuanyi had recruited them to help guide Lei Dong’s decision.
• Ling Yuhan reflected that the Ling Clan had been destroyed while the Lei Clan still had hope of survival.
• Ling Xi proposed that Ling Yuhan follow the Xiao Clan’s example and use her Ninth-Grade Dou Di Bloodline to win the favor of the two ladies.
• Ling Yuhan blushed at Ling Xi’s plan but began to consider whether it could give the Ling Clan a chance to revive.

Gu Lingyi was summoned to defend the Gu Clan and struck Hun Tiandi, but Hun Tiandi escaped with his Soul Clan forces toward the Gu Clan’s Ancestral Shrine. Gu Lingyi suspected the retreat was part of a larger scheme involving the Tuoshe Ancient Jade.

• Gu Yuan summoned the Gu Clan’s Ancient Emperor Inheritance Array, bringing forth Gu Lingyi as a powerful remnant soul.
• Gu Lingyi surveyed the slaughter and attacked Hun Tiandi with a massive energy palm.
• Hun Tiandi survived the strike using three Ultra-Heaven-Tier Dou Techniques and a defensive artifact, though he was slightly injured.
• As Gu Lingyi launched a stronger second strike, Hun Tiandi crushed an ancient jade pendant and vanished with his experts.
• Gu Lingyi sensed Hun Tiandi’s group fleeing toward the Ancestral Shrine and warned Gu Yuan that Hun Tiandi likely had another plan.

Xun'er tried to protect the Tuoshe Ancient Jade from Gu Yang, a Soul Clan spy, but Hun Tiandi arrived and took the jade. Gu Lingyi appeared too late to stop the Soul Clan's escape and lamented the Gu Clan's decline.

• Gu Yang revealed himself as a Soul Clan spy after killing an Ancient Jade Guardian Elder and tried to seize the Tuoshe Ancient Jade from Xun'er.
• Xun'er and three Golden Armor Guards fought back, but Gu Yang shattered her defensive artifacts and wounded them.
• Hun Tiandi entered the Ancestral Shrine with Soul Clan experts and broke Xun'er's final defensive barrier, knocking her unconscious.
• Gu Yang took the Tuoshe Ancient Jade and activated the Gu Clan's Escape Teleportation Array for Hun Tiandi and the Soul Clan experts.
• Gu Lingyi arrived with Half-Emperor pressure, but Hun Tiandi and his group escaped through the array before he could stop them.
• Gu Lingyi mourned the Gu Clan's state and laughed bitterly at its disgrace.

Gu Lingyi healed Gu Xun'er, confronted Gu Yuan over the Soul Clan's infiltration and escape, then offered Xun'er his inheritance. Xun'er asked him to pass it to her father, but Gu Lingyi refused and chose her instead.

• Gu Lingyi revived Gu Xun'er and learned that she was Gu Yuan's daughter.
• Gu Yuan arrived with Gu Clan and Yao Clan experts, and Gu Lingyi revealed that the Soul Clan had escaped through the Gu Clan's Void Evasion Array.
• Gu Lingyi rebuked Gu Yuan for failing to detect the spy who had posed as a jade-guarding elder.
• Gu Lingyi praised Xun'er for guarding the Tuoshe Ancient Jade and offered her his inheritance.
• Xun'er declined the inheritance for herself and asked Gu Lingyi to give it to Gu Yuan, but he refused to entrust it to an idiot.

Xun'er accepted Gu Lingyi's inheritance, and the Gu Clan ancestor vanished after warning them to stop Hun Tiandi from becoming a Dou Di. Su Baichen completed his trial in the Thunder Pool and rejected the Thunder Emperor's offer to abandon the path of space, leaving the Thunder Emperor to propose a compromise.

• Xun'er accepted Gu Lingyi's inheritance and received his Dou Skills, cultivation methods, and combat experience.
• Gu Lingyi disappeared after warning Gu Yuan and the others that they must stop Hun Tiandi from ascending to Dou Di, and the Gu Clan's protective formation collapsed.
• Su Baichen refined the Nine Profound Golden Lightning in the Thunder Pool, earning the Thunder Emperor's praise.
• The Thunder Emperor offered Su Baichen his inheritance, but Su Baichen refused to leave the path of space for the path of lightning.
• The Thunder Emperor proposed a compromise, and Su Baichen affirmed that he would pursue the Law of Space to attain Dou Di.

The Thunder Emperor offered Su Baichen a compromise: he could inherit the Nine Heavens Divine Lightning Body without abandoning his cultivation of space, and Su Baichen agreed. Meanwhile, Hun Tiandi learned the Lei Clan’s Tuoshe Ancient Jade was fake and headed for the Baichen Realm, where Zhu Kun prepared to help the Lei Clan use the real jade to exchange for someone.

• The Thunder Emperor offered to reshape Su Baichen’s body with Nine Profound Golden Lightning, and Su Baichen nodded in agreement.
• Hun Tiandi learned from Nihility Devouring Flame that the Lei Clan’s Tuoshe Ancient Jade had been fake.
• Hun Tiandi ordered his main forces to return and defend the Soul Clan while he led others to the Baichen Realm to seize the real jade.
• Zhu Kun saw the Tuoshe Ancient Jade in the Baichen Realm and asked Lei Dong whether it was the jade the Lei Clan had guarded.
• Zhu Kun confirmed he had come to help the Lei Clan exchange the Tuoshe Ancient Jade for someone after Zi Yan relayed Cailin’s message.

Hun Tiandi traded vast resources with Zhu Kun for the Lei Clan’s Tuoshe Ancient Jade, then left to pursue the Dou Di breakthrough. Zhu Kun revealed that he knew Tou She Ancient God’s cave mansion well, leaving the others stunned as he recalled Nihility Devouring Flame escaping from it.

• Hun Tiandi offered Zhu Kun the Soul Clan’s resources in exchange for the Lei Clan captives and Zhu Kun’s Tuoshe Ancient Jade.
• Zhu Kun accepted the trade and handed Hun Tiandi the genuine Ancient Jade, which Hun Tiandi inspected before departing with Nihility Devouring Flame and the Soul Clan members.
• Lei Dong caught his wounded father, Lei Ying, who warned Zhu Kun that Hun Tiandi could quickly locate the Dou Di Cave Mansion now that he held all the Ancient Jade.
• Zhu Kun dismissed Lei Ying’s plea to pursue Hun Tiandi and claimed he knew Tou She Ancient God’s cave mansion like the back of his hand.
• Zhu Kun privately recognized Nihility Devouring Flame as the little black flame that had escaped from the cave mansion by luck.

Cailin met Zhu Kun in the Baichen Realm and reassured him that Zi Yan was loved and accepted. She asked about Su Baichen, and Zhu Kun revealed that he was receiving an extraordinary inheritance in the Void Lightning Pool.

• Zhu Kun noticed Cailin following him through the garden and greeted her as Zi Yan’s older sister.
• Cailin told Zhu Kun that she and the others loved Zi Yan, easing his worries about his daughter.
• Zhu Kun described Zi Yan’s stubborn habits and asked Cailin to look after her.
• Cailin reassured Zhu Kun that Zi Yan’s quirks were part of her genuine nature.
• Cailin asked how Su Baichen was doing, and Zhu Kun said he was tempering his body with Nine Profound Golden Lightning in the Void Lightning Pool.
• Zhu Kun complained that the pool’s inheritance had ignored the Ancient Void Dragon clan for ages but had chosen Su Baichen.

Xun'er awakened from Gu Lingyi's inheritance stronger and newly trained, only to learn that Gu Yuan had sent the Gu Clan elders to attack the Soul Clan. A report suggested Hun Tiandi was headed for the Ancient God Cave Mansion, but Cao Ying revealed that he was instead confronting Zhu Kun near the Baichen Realm, leaving Gu Yuan desperate to learn whether Hun Tiandi had obtained the Lei Clan's Tuoshe Ancient Jade.

• Xun'er awoke as a Five-Star Dou Sheng and told Gu Yuan she had spent six years mastering Gu Lingyi's inheritance techniques.
• Xun'er learned that the Yao Clan had left the Gu Realm and Gu Yuan had dispatched the Gu Clan elders to investigate and attack the Soul Clan.
• A Gu Clan elder reported that the Yan and Yao Clans had joined the attack, but Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame were nowhere to be found.
• Gu Yuan feared Hun Tiandi had gone to the Ancient God Cave Mansion, but Cao Ying told Xun'er that Hun Tiandi was facing Zhu Kun near the Baichen Realm.
• Gu Yuan demanded to know whether Hun Tiandi had obtained the Lei Clan's Tuoshe Ancient Jade, but the communication with Cao Ying fell silent.

Cao Ying told Xun'er and Gu Yuan that Hun Tiandi had obtained all the Tuoshe Ancient Jades, leaving them convinced he would become an Emperor. She then revealed that Zhu Kun knew the Ancient God Cave Mansion was beneath Jia Nan Academy’s Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower.

• Gu Yuan tried to escape an awkward conversation with Cao Ying, but Xun'er reassured her that he had left and defended his efforts to change.
• Cao Ying explained that Lei Zhen had hidden the Lei Clan’s real Ancient Jade and protected the clan’s talented members by sending them to the Baichen Realm.
• Cao Ying told Xun'er that Zhu Kun had traded the Tuoshe Ancient Jade to Hun Tiandi in exchange for captured Lei Clan prisoners and extorted him in the process.
• Gu Yuan and Xun'er despaired when they learned Hun Tiandi had taken the last Ancient Jade and could open the Ancient God Cave Mansion.
• Cao Ying revealed that Zhu Kun knew the Cave Mansion was beneath the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower at Jia Nan Academy.

Su Qian evacuated Jia Nan Academy and the Baichen Realm’s allied forces after Cailin warned that a Dou Sheng battle was imminent. At the Spirit Snake Valley assembly point, Cao Ying revealed that a cave estate left by the Tou She Ancient God lay beneath the academy’s Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower.

• Director Li told Su Qian that Cailin had ordered Jia Nan Academy to evacuate because a Dou Sheng-level battle was about to break out.
• Su Qian ordered the academy’s students and staff to evacuate, and the academy emptied in less than half an hour.
• Forces across the Northwest Continent that were connected to the Baichen Realm also evacuated.
• Cailin, Xuanyi, and the Baichen Realm’s Dou Sheng experts gathered with Su Qian and Jia Nan Academy’s senior members at Spirit Snake Valley.
• Cao Ying told Su Qian that the cave estate of the Tou She Ancient God lay beneath Jia Nan Academy’s Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower.

Su Qian realized Jia Nan Academy stood above Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion and feared the ruin would draw the entire continent’s attention. In the Void Lightning Pool, Su Baichen learned that Source Qi of the Emperor had once been plentiful but had since been depleted, and the Thunder Emperor vanished after accepting him as a disciple.

• Su Qian was shocked to learn that Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion lay beneath Jia Nan Academy and worried the academy would become a target.
• The Thunder Emperor praised Su Baichen for completing the Nine Heavens Divine Lightning Body and explained that Source Qi of the Emperor had been abundant when he ascended.
• The Thunder Emperor told Su Baichen that later changes had depleted Source Qi, making the path to Dou Di far harder for future generations.
• The Thunder Emperor said the Void Lightning Pool and its Thunder Origin would belong to Su Baichen, then began to vanish.
• Su Baichen knelt and called the Thunder Emperor his master, prompting the phantom to stabilize briefly and depart with satisfaction.

The Soul Clan used the Four Soul Clan Elders and the Gates of Dead Silence to trap the allied armies of the Gu Clan, Yan Clan, and Yao Clan. The Soul Clan Great Elder stopped the elders from killing the army, explaining that Hun Tiandi needed Gu Yuan occupied while he entered the Ancient God Cave Mansion.

• A Soul Clan Dou Sheng delivered Hun Tiandi's order to the Soul Clan Great Elder to use the Four Soul Clan Elders.
• The Four Soul Clan Elders appeared, and Yao Dan recognized them as dead warriors refined into living dead by Hun Tiandi's forbidden art.
• The Great Elder reported that Hun Tiandi had gathered the Tuoshe Ancient Jade fragments and was heading to the Ancient God Cave Mansion.
• The elders summoned the Gates of Dead Silence, whose devouring force dragged many members of the allied army into the black gates.
• Hun Yuantian began to merge the gates into the Realm of Death, but the Great Elder stopped him and explained that Hun Tiandi needed Gu Yuan to worry about rescuing the trapped army.

After the allied forces of the Gu, Yan, and Yao Clans were trapped in the Soul Clan’s Gate of Dead Silence, the younger generation in the Yan Realm searched for a way to save their elders. They decided to seek Su Baichen’s help in the Baichen Realm and set out at once.

• Hun Yuantian transformed the Gate of Dead Silence into a cage to hold the allied forces while the Soul Clan’s Great Elder left to support the clan leader.
• News of the allied forces’ entrapment reached the Yan Realm, where the young clansmen discovered they could not contact their elders.
• Yao Tian called on the gathered geniuses to find a plan, and a Yan Clan member’s suggestion to ask Gu Yuan for help was ridiculed.
• Yao Ling proposed asking Su Baichen for help, citing the Baichen Realm’s reputation and Lady Cailin’s willingness to trade the Tuoshe Ancient Jade for Lei Clan prisoners.
• Huo Xuan led the gathered geniuses as they set out for the Baichen Realm to seek aid.

Su Baichen absorbed the Void Lightning Pool and broke through to Half-Emperor, alarming Zi Yan and Jiang Mingyue. After Zi Yan clung to him in relief and Jiang Mingyue teased him about consuming her daughter’s intended dowry, Su Baichen accepted his feelings and greeted her as his mother-in-law.

• Su Baichen used the Tianxuan Bead to swallow the Void Lightning Pool and its Thunder Origin.
• Zi Yan feared Su Baichen had died, but he emerged and broke through to Half-Emperor.
• Zi Yan rushed into Su Baichen’s arms, and he comforted her by calling the breakthrough an inheritance from Senior Thunder Emperor.
• Jiang Mingyue confronted Su Baichen for consuming the sacred pool she had planned as Zi Yan’s dowry.
• Su Baichen recognized Zi Yan as the most important person in his life and respectfully greeted Jiang Mingyue as his mother-in-law.

Gu Yuan struggled to choose between pursuing the Ancient God Cave Mansion and rescuing the Gu, Yan, and Yao clans’ trapped forces, then followed Xun’er’s advice and headed for the Soul Realm. In Baichen Realm, Yao Tian, Huo Xuan, and Yao Ling learned Su Baichen and Cailin were away, but Su Baichen’s voice suddenly answered their plea for help.

• Su Baichen greeted Jiang Mingyue as his mother-in-law, leaving Zi Yan flustered as she recognized his romantic feelings for her.
• Gu Yuan weighed going to the Ancient God Cave Mansion against rescuing the allied clans trapped by the Gate of Dead Silence in the Soul Realm.
• Xun’er urged Gu Yuan to save their clansmen, assuring him Su Baichen would understand, and Gu Yuan chose to go to the Soul Realm.
• Lei Dong told Yao Tian, Huo Xuan, and Yao Ling that Su Baichen had been absent and Cailin had led Baichen Realm’s elite Dou Shengs to the Ancient God Cave Mansion.
• Yao Ling asked when Su Baichen would return, and his voice suddenly sounded above the plaza, asking what help they needed.