Chapter Summaries

Xiao Ting freed Yao Ming from his imprisonment and helped him recover, then removed the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python Nest from the Nine Serenity Yellow Spring. At the Yellow Springs Stone Stele, Yao Ming prepared to trap his rivals while Xiao Ting entered to seek the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s inheritance.

• Xiao Ting revealed Yao Ming’s betrayal and offered to heal him and help him take revenge in exchange for becoming his master, and Yao Ming agreed.
• Xiao Ting gave Yao Ming Saint Creation’s skeleton and a Tier 8 Medicinal Pill, altered the chains’ restrictions, and descended into the Nine Serenity Yellow Spring.
• Xiao Ting found the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python Nest and spent seven days moving it into the world within the Void Map.
• After recovering and reaching the peak of Two-Star Dou Sheng, Yao Ming secretly gathered his former subordinates and arranged to lure Yao Xiaotian and the First Elder to the Yellow Springs Stone Stele.
• Xiao Ting told Yao Ming to capture his rivals without revealing their cooperation, then entered the Yellow Springs Stone Stele and called for the Yellow Springs Demon Saint.

Xiao Ting defeated the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s tests and explained that he could give the Demon Saint a different form of life by making him the artifact spirit of the Yellow Springs Stone Stele. The Demon Saint learned the stele could become a Divine Artifact and might eventually evolve into a Saint Artifact, and he realized what Xiao Ting was proposing.

• Xiao Ting absorbed the lightning trial and shattered the Yellow Springs Finger and Yellow Springs Palm with his soul power.
• The Yellow Springs Demon Saint appeared and praised Xiao Ting’s soul strength and talent, declaring him qualified to inherit his legacy and Demon Saint Essence Blood.
• Xiao Ting offered to let the Yellow Springs Demon Saint live another way and explained the dwindling Origin of the Emperor and the Great Thousand World.
• Xiao Ting explained that the Yellow Springs Stone Stele was already a Quasi-Divine Artifact and could become a Divine Artifact, with the chance to evolve into a Saint Artifact.
• The Yellow Springs Demon Saint understood that Xiao Ting wanted him to become the stele’s artifact spirit.

Xiao Ting persuaded the Yellow Springs Demon Saint to become an artifact spirit, then the Hun Clan and Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan attacked the Ye Clan Chamber of Commerce. Yao Ming revealed that the Nine Serenity Deep Ground Python clan had turned against them, and an Ancient Void Dragon struck Hun Miequan.

• Xiao Ting offered to help the Yellow Springs Demon Saint become an artifact spirit without requiring him to acknowledge Xiao Ting as his master immediately, and the Demon Saint agreed.
• Three months later, Hun Miequan led the Hun Clan and Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan in an assault on the Ye Clan Chamber of Commerce headquarters, where Gu Xuantong and Yao Clan alchemists were gathered.
• Gu Xuantong warned Huang Tian to withdraw, but Huang Tian chose to attack alongside the Hun Clan.
• Yao Ming and the Nine Serenity Deep Ground Python clan activated the Coiling Snake Heavenly Array, sealing the area and betraying the Hun Clan and Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan.
• An Ancient Void Dragon's claw descended on Hun Miequan, shocking him as he realized the Ancient Void Dragon clan had joined the battle.

The Hun Clan and Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan fell into a trap set by Xiao Ting and the Nine Serenity Deep Ground Python clan, but Hun Yan arrived and overwhelmed the defenders. Xiao Ting then appeared through the Yellow Springs Stone Stele, stopped Hun Yan’s flames, and empowered the Nine Serenity Deep Ground Python clan to counterattack.

• The Ancient Void Dragon clan ambushed the Hun Clan and Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, and Yao Ming revealed that he had lured them into Xiao Ting’s trap.
• Hun Miequan burned his body to summon Hun Yan, who destroyed the Heavenly Dragon Array and the Nine Serenity Deep Ground Python clan’s formation.
• Hun Yan unleashed a sea of black flames that threatened to destroy the city, but the Yellow Springs Stone Stele stopped the attack.
• Xiao Ting used the Nine Serenity Yellow Spring to extinguish Hun Yan’s flames and heal the Nine Serenity Deep Ground Python clan.
• The Nine Serenity Deep Ground Python clan formed the Coiling Snake Formation again and emerged from the spring as an Ancient Heavenly Snake.

Xiao Ting ambushed Hun Yuantian with the Burning Flame Saint Stele and rushed back to the Northwest Continent after capturing the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan. He released Hun Yuantian before Zhu Kun, expecting the Old Dragon Emperor to deal with him.

• Hun Yuantian overwhelmed the Ancient Heavenly Snake energy body but was distracted by the Yellow Springs Divine Stele suppressing him.
• Xiao Ting used the Burning Flame Saint Stele to sneak up on Hun Yuantian and seal him inside with Hun Qianmo and Hun Miesheng.
• Hun Yuantian began breaking through the stele’s barrier while Xiao Ting and the Ancient Void Dragon clan captured the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.
• Xiao Ting returned to Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion, told Zhu Kun he had found the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, and asked for help with a problem.
• Xiao Ting opened a gateway in the Burning Flame Saint Stele, and Hun Yuantian stepped out to face Zhu Kun.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Hun Yuantian arrives in the outside world, but his power is sealed by Zhu Kun, who reveals himself as the Old Dragon Emperor of the Ancient Void Dragon tribe.
• Hun Yuantian is defeated and imprisoned within the Burning Flame Saint Stele by Xiao Ting.
• Xiao Ting helps Zi Yan absorb the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit using the Purple Heaven Sky Flame, aiding her transformation.
• Gu Yuan and Hun Tiandi face off, with Hun Tiandi trying to provoke Gu Yuan's curiosity about the Hun Clan's plans. However, Gu Yuan remains unfazed.
• News reaches them that the Hun Clan's plans have been thwarted by Xiao Ting, and Hun Yuantian has been captured.

Character Developments

• Hun Yuantian shows his decisiveness in trying to escape but is ultimately defeated and imprisoned.
• Zhu Kun reveals his true identity and power, demonstrating his strength and resolve.
• Xiao Ting shows his resourcefulness and strategic thinking in aiding Zi Yan's transformation.
• Gu Yuan displays his calm and collected demeanor, remaining unfazed by Hun Tiandi's provocations.

Significant Themes

• Power dynamics and the struggle for dominance between clans.
• The importance of strategic planning and resourcefulness in warfare.
• The theme of curiosity and its consequences, as Hun Tiandi's attempts to provoke Gu Yuan's curiosity backfire.

Character Interactions

• Hun Yuantian vs. Zhu Kun: A battle of power and will, with Zhu Kun emerging victorious.
• Xiao Ting vs. Hun Tiandi: A battle of wits and strategy, with Xiao Ting outmaneuvering Hun Tiandi.
• Gu Yuan vs. Hun Tiandi: A clash of wills and tempers, with Gu Yuan remaining calm and composed despite Hun Tiandi's provocations.

Gu Yuan and the Soul-Extermination Alliance discovered that the Hun Clan had arranged for battlefield deaths to feed Nihility Devouring Flame’s breakthrough. They moved to destroy the Soul Hall’s twenty-four Earthly Fiend Halls, while Nihility revealed that his breakthrough was already assured within a year.

• After Hun Tiandi’s failed scheme and retreat, Yan Jin reported the casualties, and Gu Yuan noticed that the fallen Dou Sheng all had Heaven-Realm Souls.
• Gu Yuan ordered the factions to tally their losses, and the leaders found that many dead Dou Zong and Dou Zun also had powerful souls or bloodlines.
• Fairy Huo Ling suspected the Hun Clan was collecting bloodline and soul energy, and Gu Yuan detected twenty-four Earthly Fiend Halls draining energy across the Western Region of Central Plains.
• The alliance realized the battlefield deaths were feeding Nihility Devouring Flame and decided to destroy the twenty-four Earthly Fiend Halls despite the risk of further casualties.
• Hun Tiandi told Nihility that Gu Yuan and the others had discovered the scheme, and Nihility said he had enough energy to break through within a year even without more sacrifices.

After breaking through to Four-Star Dou Sheng, Xiao Ting traveled to the Wild Ancient Region to obtain the Nether Poison Fire and find the Bodhi Ancient Tree. He reached the tree’s hidden space and offered to help it.

• Xiao Ting broke through to Four-Star Dou Sheng and left Zhu Kun in the cave mansion while he went to Zixiao City to learn about Central Plains developments.
• Xiao Ting concluded that Nihility Devouring Flame’s impending breakthrough could prompt a Hun Clan counterattack, and he planned to save Demon Saint Essence Blood for Caili, Xun'er, and the others.
• Xiao Ting traveled to the Wild Ancient Region and used the Burning Flame Saint Stele to gather and purify its poisonous insects.
• Xiao Ting captured the Nether Poison Fire and stored it in the Yellow Springs Divine Stele for later division and distribution.
• Xiao Ting used Flying Body and Tracing Footsteps to enter the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s hidden space and asked whether it needed a hand.

Xiao Ting used the Purple Heaven Sky Flame Visualization Diagram to help the Bodhi Ancient Tree develop intelligence and purge the Dou Di's negative emotions as they entered a hundred generations of reincarnation. After three months, Xiao Ting completed his hundredth life on his nineteenth birthday and received two blessings.

• The Bodhi Ancient Tree gave Xiao Ting nearly thirty Bodhi Seeds and a Bodhi Heart, hoping he would use Heavenly Flames to purify the tree.
• Xiao Ting swallowed the Bodhi Heart, offered the Bodhi Ancient Tree his visualization diagram, and sought to make it his helper.
• Xiao Ting connected with the Bodhi Ancient Tree and entered reincarnation enlightenment while the tree visualized the Purple Heaven Sky Flame Visualization Diagram.
• The visualization awakened the Bodhi Ancient Tree's intelligence and began dissipating the Dou Di's negative emotions as Xiao Ting experienced successive lives.
• Three months later, Xiao Ting completed his hundredth reincarnation on his nineteenth birthday and received the blessings of Instant Completion of One Lifetime of Reincarnation and the Purple Heaven Burning Flame Body Cultivation Method (Primitive Dharma Body).

Xiao Ting learned about the Purple Heaven Burning Flame Body and the Tripod-Ascending Realm, then finished absorbing the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s opportunity and made the tree his companion. He merged the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s space with the Yin Yang Diagram and prepared to pursue another opportunity.

• Xiao Ting discovered that the Purple Heaven Burning Flame Body could let him reach the Tripod-Ascending Realm without a bottleneck, and recorded his thoughts about cultivating it.
• Luo Shen realized she had reached the Middle Tripod-Ascending Realm in the past and vowed to destroy the Extraterritorial Evil Clan when she revived.
• Xiao Ting reached the peak of Four-Star Dou Sheng and the Half-Step Emperor Realm after completing his Hundred Generations Reincarnation at the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• Xiao Ting asked the intelligent Bodhi Ancient Tree to acknowledge him as its master, and it offered him a strand of its soul before becoming an emerald-green bead.
• Xiao Ting placed the Bodhi Bead in the Yin Yang Diagram and merged the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s space with its small world, then wondered whether Senior Zhu Kun had escaped.

Nihility Devouring Flame led the Three Elders of the Hun Clan in a surprise attack on the Yao Clan, aiming to devour it and strengthen himself. As he threatened to destroy the clan, Xiao Ting arrived and began clearing the black flames, while Gu Yuan realized Nihility Devouring Flame had concealed the attack from the alliance.

• Xiao Ting sensed a battle in the Yao Realm and discovered Nihility Devouring Flame attacking the Yao Clan.
• Nihility Devouring Flame explained that Hun Tiandi's assault on the Spirit Clan had been a feint while he targeted the Yao Clan with the Three Elders of the Hun Clan.
• Nihility Devouring Flame used Heaven-Devouring Earth-Burning to send clones against the Yao Clan and planned to devour the clan to increase his strength.
• Xiao Ting announced that Nihility Devouring Flame had celebrated too soon, then shattered his clones and began clearing the black flames around the Yao Realm.
• Yao Dan crushed a Spatial Jade Slip, alerting Gu Yuan, Yan Jin, and Lei Ying to the crisis in the Yao Realm.
• Gu Yuan realized Nihility Devouring Flame had concealed the Yao Realm's condition and helped Hun Tiandi deceive his perception.

Zhu Kun revealed himself in the Yao Realm and overwhelmed Nihility Devouring Flame, forcing Hun Tiandi to tell him how to escape. Nihility Devouring Flame triggered the bloodline marks inside three Hun Clan elders, leaving Zhu Kun to choose between pursuing him and saving the Yao Realm.

• Zhu Kun attacked Nihility Devouring Flame with violet-gold energy, broke through his defenses, and drove his true form into the mountains.
• Nihility Devouring Flame tried to flee as Zhu Kun revealed himself as the Ancient Void Dragon Old Dragon Emperor and continued suppressing him.
• Nihility Devouring Flame called for Hun Tiandi, who told him to use the contingency hidden in the Hun Clan's bloodlines to escape.
• Nihility Devouring Flame discovered Hun Tiandi had known about his bloodline marks and ignited them within three Hun Clan elders.
• The three Mid-Eight-Star Dou Sheng elders began to self-destruct, and Zhu Kun faced the choice of pursuing Nihility Devouring Flame or preventing the Yao Realm's destruction.

Zhu Kun rescued the Yao Clan, joined the Soul-Extermination Alliance, and helped drive Hun Tiandi away. After the battle, Xiao Ting entered the Demonic Flame Space ahead of its scheduled opening.

• Xiao Ting asked Zhu Kun to save the Yao Clan and let Nihility Devouring Flame escape, and Zhu Kun killed the Three Elders of the Hun Clan with their own self-detonation contained in the void.
• Zhu Kun reunited with the Ancient Void Dragons, rejected Hun Tiandi’s offer to cooperate, and declared his support for Xiao Ting.
• Zhu Kun and Gu Yuan attacked Hun Tiandi, but Hun Tiandi borrowed Nihility Devouring Flame’s power and escaped using Void Displacement.
• Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun agreed to find and destroy the Soul Realm, while Xiao Ting sent them messages about his next move.
• Xiao Ting used Flying Body and Tracing Footsteps to enter the Demonic Flame Space before its scheduled opening.

Xiao Ting used the Purple Heaven Sky Flame and the Pure Lotus Demon Saint’s map to suppress and begin refining the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. In the Soul Realm, Hun Tiandi sealed the realm and attacked Nihility Devouring Flame, revealing that he had prepared to suppress its self-destruction.

• Xiao Ting reached the Lava Sea and released the Purple Heaven Sky Flame against the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame resisted the Purple Heaven Sky Flame and activated the Heaven Refining Ancient Array, but a map entered the flame and took control of the array away from it.
• The Purple Heaven Sky Flame enveloped and began devouring the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s origin as Xiao Ting began cultivating.
• Hun Tiandi sealed the Soul Realm after returning with Nihility Devouring Flame, then attacked it with the Soul Emperor Remnant Shadow’s aid.
• Nihility Devouring Flame threatened to self-destruct, but Hun Tiandi suppressed its origin and revealed that he had tampered with the Tunling Clan chieftain’s body.

Hun Tiandi forced Nihility Devouring Flame to surrender his life-bound soul mark in exchange for sparing him and binding their powers together. A year later, Xiao Ting completed a celestial body founded on the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, then appeared before Xiao Yan at Star Meteor Pavilion and revealed the flame.

• Hun Tiandi revealed the mark planted in Nihility Devouring Flame’s origin and threatened to fuse with him.
• Nihility Devouring Flame threatened to erase his memories of the Pill-Refining Divine Art, so Hun Tiandi offered to spare him if he surrendered his life-bound soul mark and fused with the Hun Clan’s remnant soul and descendants.
• Nihility Devouring Flame agreed to Hun Tiandi’s demands.
• After a year of silence, Xiao Ting completed his embryonic celestial body with eighty percent of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s origin and collected the Demonic Flame Space with the Bodhi Yin Yang Diagram.
• Xiao Ting traveled to Star Meteor Pavilion, where Xiao Yan was breaking through to Dou Zun, and showed him the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.

Xiao Ting gifted Xiao Yan a sealed portion of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, then gained the Void Compass, which gave him a way to reach the Great Thousand World. He persuaded Gu Yuan to help him enter the Heavenly Tomb and seek its Spirit’s origin, leaving Gu Yuan outside as he went in to meet Xiao Xuan.

• Xiao Ting sealed one-tenth of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame inside Xiao Yan’s Clan Mark to strengthen him until he could refine it.
• Xiao Ting received the Void Compass, learned it could teleport him to the Great Thousand World, and met Gu Yuan outside the Gu Clan.
• Xiao Ting asked Gu Yuan to help him devour the Spirit of the Heavenly Tomb’s origin and reach an Emperor-Realm Soul, and Gu Yuan agreed.
• Xiao Ting offered the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame to the Gu Clan, and Gu Yuan brought him before the elders, who approved his entry into the Heavenly Tomb.
• Xiao Ting sealed the flame inside Xun’er, then entered the Heavenly Tomb through an opening Gu Yuan tore in the void to speak with Xiao Xuan.

Xiao Ting entered the Heavenly Tomb and met Xiao Xuan, who was astonished by his strength and learned how far the Xiao Tribe had fallen. Xiao Chen reunited with Xiao Xuan and confessed his role in the tribe’s decline, but Xiao Xuan forgave him and took hope from Xiao Ting’s survival.

• Gu Yuan let Xiao Ting enter the Heavenly Tomb and resolved to help him become a Dou Di.
• Xiao Ting used his void technique to reach the tomb’s lowest level and pay respects to Xiao Xuan.
• Xiao Xuan emerged from the stone stele and was shocked to learn that the Xiao Tribe had dwindled to the Xiao Clan and that Xiao Ting had risen to Peak Five-Star Dou Sheng in five years.
• Xiao Ting released Xiao Chen from the Purple Heaven Sky Flame and introduced him to Xiao Xuan.
• Xiao Chen knelt and blamed himself for the Xiao Tribe’s decline after the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame controlled him.
• Xiao Xuan forgave Xiao Chen and took hope from Xiao Ting’s accomplishments.

Xiao Ting told Xiao Xuan and Xiao Chen how he had destroyed the Hun Clan, then absorbed Xiao Xuan’s Dou Di Bloodline to reach the God-Grade and strengthen his cultivation. With Gu Yuan’s help, Xiao Ting and Xiao Xuan began their attack on the Spirit of the Heavenly Tomb, which confronted Xiao Xuan as he prepared to restrain it.

• Xiao Ting recounted the Hun Clan’s schemes and destruction, and Xiao Xuan offered him the bloodline spark he had left for the Xiao Tribe.
• Xiao Ting revealed that he also intended to use the Spirit of the Heavenly Tomb’s Source to reach an Emperor-Realm Soul, and he and Xiao Xuan planned to kill it and free the energy bodies.
• Xiao Ting used the Purple Heaven Sky Flame to absorb Xiao Xuan’s bloodline pool, reaching the God-Grade and the peak of Six-Star Dou Sheng after six months inside the Heavenly Tomb.
• Xiao Ting contacted Gu Yuan, who tore open the Heavenly Tomb and attacked its Spirit with his Emperor-Realm Soul.
• Xiao Xuan unleashed his soul power and formed flaming chains to restrain the Spirit of the Heavenly Tomb, which accused him of betraying it.

Xiao Ting helped Xiao Xuan suppress and devour the Spirit of the Heavenly Tomb, freeing its energy bodies and giving Xiao Xuan partial control of the tomb. Half a year later, the allied experts opened the Soul Realm, where they discovered that Hun Tiandi had reached the Half-Emperor level.

• Xiao Xuan attacked the Spirit of the Heavenly Tomb while Gu Yuan restrained it from outside, and Zhu Kun offered to help.
• Xiao Ting entered the Heavenly Tomb, used Law of Heaven and Earth, and devoured the imprisoned portion of the Spirit's Source.
• As Xiao Ting weakened the Spirit, Xiao Xuan sealed it, claimed part of the Heavenly Tomb's authority, and freed the energy bodies from their savage urges.
• Xiao Xuan explained his limited control of the Heavenly Tomb and offered Xiao Chen powerful energy bodies to help him reach Six-Star Dou Sheng.
• Half a year later, Zhu Kun and the assembled experts opened the entrance to the Soul Realm, but a black flame blasted Zhu Kun back.
• Gu Yuan sensed the power inside the Soul Realm and realized Hun Tiandi had become a Half-Emperor.

Hun Tiandi revealed that he had become a Half-Emperor after perfectly fusing with Nihility Devouring Flame and devouring the Hun Clan and its blood descendants. Zhu Kun fought him and was defeated, but declared that he could still stop Hun Tiandi until the borrowed power ran out.

• Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun recognized that Hun Tiandi had reached the Half-Emperor realm.
• Gu Yuan attacked the Soul Realm, but Hun Tiandi's black flames devoured the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame strike.
• Hun Tiandi revealed he had perfectly fused with Nihility Devouring Flame and devoured every member of the Hun Clan, including billions of blood descendants.
• Hun Tiandi unleashed his power, forcing Yan Jin, Lei Ying, and the others to retreat as Zhu Kun challenged him.
• After about an hour of battle, Hun Tiandi blasted Zhu Kun away and defeated him.
• Zhu Kun said Hun Tiandi's borrowed power had a time limit and vowed that he could still stop him.