Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan and his companions entered the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion and followed Hun Tiandi's group to a vast plaza lined with pillars bearing Heavenly Flame origins. Liuli and Xiao Yi showed signs of recognizing the place, and Liuli suspected the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame had once been held there; the empty pillars at the plaza's end seemed to support her theory.

• Zhu Kun led Xiao Yan, Liuli, Gu Yuan, Xiao Xuan, and Gongsun Lin through the strange mist as they pursued the auras left by Hun Tiandi and his companions.
• Liuli briefly grew pale and dizzy, but she recovered and continued with Xiao Yan supporting her.
• The group reached a massive stone hall and plaza, where Xiao Yan recognized Heavenly Flames burning atop the towering pillars.
• Xiao Yi said the plaza felt familiar, and Liuli suggested that the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame might have originated in the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion.
• At the end of the plaza, the group found two enormous pillars whose damaged arrays held no flames.

Xiao Yan and the others discovered the Tou She Ancient God Statue and its trove of techniques before Nihility Devouring Flame revealed that the figure atop it was the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill. The Nascent Pill attacked Liuli, and her family and allies rushed to defend her, igniting a massive battle in the cave mansion.

• Liuli claimed she had used wisdom to predict the empty stone pillar, while Xiao Yan questioned how she had learned about it.
• Gu Yuan spotted Hun Tiandi, Void, and Ye Luoli near the stone hall, and the two sides confronted one another.
• Void absorbed the mist and revealed the enormous Tou She Ancient God Statue, surrounded by hundreds of cultivation techniques and Dou Skills.
• An old man appeared on the statue, but Nihility Devouring Flame identified him as the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill rather than Tou She Ancient God.
• The Emperor Grade Nascent Pill accused Nihility Devouring Flame and Xiao Yi of betraying their agreements, then charged at Liuli.
• Xiao Yi, Xiao Yan, Gongsun Lin, and Xiao Xuan attacked the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill to protect Liuli, and a great battle began.

Liuli collapsed after experiencing visions of an ancient catastrophe, while the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill overwhelmed the fighters with a devastating attack. Nihility Devouring Flame used the Tou She Ancient God Jade to cast Pill Transformation Divine Art, turning the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill back into a pill, and the injured fighters rushed to seize it.

• Liuli sent Xiao Yi back to Xiao Yan, then suffered violent visions of a world-ending evil, an azure figure sealing it away, and a white-haired woman mourning at a grave before collapsing.
• The Emperor Grade Nascent Pill fought the seven peak experts and unleashed Emperor Pill Palm, blasting them into deep abysses.
• Nihility Devouring Flame called on Hun Tiandi for the complete Tou She Ancient God Jade and used his blood and flames to activate it.
• Nihility Devouring Flame performed Pill Transformation Divine Art, transforming the jade into a Pill Transformation Ring that forcibly returned the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill to pill form.
• Xiao Yan and the other injured fighters rushed toward the ownerless Emperor Grade Nascent Pill to seize it.

Hun Tiandi tried to seize the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill, but Liuli appeared and shattered it with a single sword strike, triggering a devastating explosion. Xiao Yan and Gongsun Lin were thrown clear by Liuli, while she was swallowed by the destruction and the Floating Continent began to collapse.

• Hun Tiandi used self-destructing pills to hold back Xiao Xuan, Gu Yuan, Gongsun Lin, Zhu Kun, and Xiao Yan, then tried to swallow the Emperor Pill Prototype.
• Liuli appeared with a Cyan Ancient Sword and slashed the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill, causing it to crack and shatter.
• The released energy erupted across Heavenly Flame Plaza, destroying its pillars and breaking the Floating Continent apart.
• Xiao Yan and Gongsun Lin rushed toward Liuli, but she struck them away from the explosion and saved them from its center.
• The destructive light engulfed Liuli as Xiao Yan cried out, and Hun Tiandi realized his chance to become an Emperor was gone.

After the Emperor Pill shattered, Xiao Yan grieved over Liuli’s disappearance but insisted that their connection meant she was still alive. He called for a targeted hunt for Hun Tiandi and resolved to grow stronger so he could defeat his enemies and find Liuli.

• The Allied Army learned that Hun Tiandi, the Nihility Devouring Flame, and Ye Luoli had escaped, while Liuli had vanished in the Energy Storm.
• Xiao Yan and Gongsun Lin grieved at the place where Liuli disappeared as Gu Yuan urged the survivors to leave the unstable Ancient Emperor’s Cave Mansion.
• Xiao Xuan proposed wiping out the weakened Soul Clan, but Xiao Yan argued for tracking Hun Tiandi and surrounding him when he next appeared.
• Zhu Kun prepared to take the Tou She Ancient God statue as the group readied to leave.
• Xiao Yan told Gongsun Lin that his connection with Liuli remained through the Sun Moon Same Sky Technique, and vowed to bring her back.
• Xiao Yan resolved to strengthen himself through Fen Jue while watching the freed multicolored flames.

Liuli awoke in a white space and learned from the Natural Realm Realm Master that the power that shattered the Emperor Pill came from the Azure Emperor’s legacy within her. The woman revealed that five years had passed since Liuli disappeared, leaving her waiting to hear what had happened to everyone else.

• Liuli recalled losing control of her body and shattering the Emperor Pill before she fainted.
• The Natural Realm Realm Master appeared and told Liuli that she had brought her there.
• The Natural Realm Realm Master explained that the Azure Emperor’s power, buried in Liuli’s bloodline and soul, had shattered the Emperor Pill.
• Liuli learned that five years had passed since she disappeared from the Dou Qi Continent.
• The Natural Realm Realm Master reassured Liuli that Xiao Yan was doing well and had reached the Nine-star Dou Saint stage.

Liuli learned that Xiao Yan had reached Nine-star Dou Saint while searching for her, and asked to leave for the Northern Domain, but the White-robed Woman refused. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan and Gongsun Lin uncovered evidence of a Soul Clan formation as they hunted the clan’s remaining forces.

• The White-robed Woman told Liuli that the alliance had driven Hun Tiandi and the Soul Clan’s remnants into the shifting, sealed Hun Realm after years of war.
• The White-robed Woman explained that Xiao Yan had absorbed twenty embryonic Heavenly Flames and reached Nine-star Dou Saint while fighting the Soul Clan and searching for Liuli.
• Liuli asked how to leave and said she wanted to go to the Northern Domain, but the White-robed Woman told her she could not leave yet because a grand drama was about to begin.
• In the Northern Domain, Xiao Yan destroyed the last Soul Hall stronghold and reunited with Gongsun Lin, who showed him a map marking a continent-wide formation tied to Hun Tiandi’s attempt to become a Dou Di.

Xiao Yan and Gongsun Lin traced a chilling aura to the Northwest Region and discovered that the Spirit-Imprisoning Great Array was failing, threatening to unleash the Outer Realm Evil Clan. Meanwhile, Hun Tiandi sacrificed vast numbers of people to a Blood Pool and sought the Saint Clan envoy’s help to become an Emperor.

• Xiao Yan and Gongsun Lin discussed the missing Natural Realm fighters while continuing their search for Hun Realm survivors.
• Xiao Yan and Gongsun Lin sensed a familiar, chilling aura from the Northwest Region and rushed there.
• Xiao Yan recognized the Outer Realm Evil Clan’s aura and told Gongsun Lin about his and Liuli’s experience in the Spirit Imprisonment Realm.
• Xiao Yan and Gongsun Lin found a massive breach forming in the Spirit-Imprisoning Great Array and decided to evacuate nearby survivors.
• Hun Tiandi used a Blood Pool filled with the dead to prepare to inherit the Saint Clan’s power, while Nihility Devouring Flame feared for his own safety.
• Hun Tiandi contacted the Saint Clan envoy and asked for help becoming an Emperor.

Hun Tiandi accepted the Outer Realm Evil Clan’s demand to capture the Lord of the Natural Realm in exchange for help becoming a Dou Di, then began absorbing the Blood Pool. At Starfall Pavilion, Xiao Yan and the Allied Army concluded that the evil clan was pushing Hun Tiandi toward Emperorhood so he could break the Spirit-Imprisoning Great Array.

• The Outer Realm Evil Clan told Hun Tiandi that the Blood Pool lacked enough energy and demanded that he capture the Lord of the Natural Realm after becoming an Emperor.
• A dark red mark branded itself into Hun Tiandi’s consciousness, and he suppressed his doubts before absorbing the Blood Pool’s power.
• Xiao Yan reported the evil energy and its connection to the Outer Realm Evil Clan to the Allied Army’s leaders at Starfall Pavilion.
• Zhu Kun identified the Outer Realm Evil Clan as invaders from beyond the heavens, while Xiao Yan argued that outside interference had damaged the Spirit-Imprisoning Great Array.
• Xiao Yan and Gu Yuan reasoned that the evil clan needed a Dou Di to destroy the array’s core, and the group identified Hun Tiandi as the likely candidate.

Xiao Yan planned to concentrate the Allied Army’s elite forces around the Spirit Imprisonment Realm, where Hun Tiandi was likely to act. Zhu Kun revealed that the Tou She Ancient God Stone Statue held an inheritance and Emperor Origin, and Xiao Yi said she knew how to open it.

• Xiao Yan persuaded the Allied Army to guard the Central Continent while secretly gathering its strongest fighters in the Northwest Region to watch the Spirit Imprisonment Realm.
• Xiao Xuan deduced that Zhu Kun had moved the Tou She Ancient God Stone Statue because it held a secret, and Zhu Kun summoned Xiao Yan, Gu Yuan, and Gongsun Lin.
• Zhu Kun explained that Tou She Ancient God had been a Heavenly Flame who consumed all twenty-two ranked flames, and that the statue sealed part of his Emperor Origin and complete inheritance.
• Zhu Kun admitted he could not open or damage the statue, dampening the group’s hopes of obtaining its power.
• Xiao Yi emerged from Xiao Yan and, recognizing the statue, declared that she knew how to open it.

Xiao Yi opened the Tou She Ancient God statue, and its power carried Xiao Yan inside while his allies moved it to the Heavenly Tomb to buy him time. A year later, Hun Tiandi appeared in the blood-soaked Northwest Region with power beyond the Dou Saint realm and began using the region’s lives to refine the Heaven Devouring Blood Sea Method.

• Xiao Yi used her Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame to open the statue, whose radiance forced everyone except Xiao Yan to their knees before carrying him inside.
• Xiao Xuan, Zhu Kun, Gu Yuan, and Gongsun Lin agreed to move the statue into the Heavenly Tomb so Xiao Yan could gain more time to advance to Dou Di.
• Over the following year, the Void Vortex spread crimson fog across the Northwest Region, driving its inhabitants into murderous madness and killing hundreds of millions.
• Hun Tiandi brought the Hun Realm to the region, raised a blood sea, and created a vast abyss by crushing the land beneath it.
• Xiao Xuan, Gu Yuan, Zhu Kun, and Gongsun Lin attacked Hun Tiandi, but his blood hands repelled them and revealed his power had surpassed the Dou Saint realm.
• Hun Tiandi formed a region-wide formation that drew blood qi and soul fragments from the dead and the living into his Blood Cocoon as he began refining the Heaven Devouring Blood Sea Method.

Hun Tiandi completed the Heaven Swallowing Grand Formation’s sacrifice of the Northwest Region and emerged as a Dou Di, shattering the Allied Army’s defenses. After devouring Nihility Devouring Flame, he turned toward the Allied Army and summoned them to face him.

• Gu Yuan ordered the Allied Army to defend the Jia Ma Empire and buy time for Xiao Yan as Hun Tiandi’s formation consumed the Northwest Region.
• The Jia Ma Empire became the last refuge for survivors, and the Allied Army spent half a year holding them behind a defensive formation.
• Hun Tiandi emerged from the blood cocoon, and his aura cracked the Allied Army’s barrier and killed countless people inside it.
• Hun Tiandi found Nihility Devouring Flame hiding in a lake, suppressed his attempt to self-destruct, and swallowed his origin.
• Hun Tiandi faced the Allied Army and challenged them to settle their score.

Gongsun Lin sacrificed himself to strike Hun Tiandi, leaving a tiny wound on the newly ascended Dou Di before Hun Tiandi tried to destroy Gongsun Lin’s soul. Xiao Yan arrived in a wave of flames and stopped the attack, leaving Hun Tiandi shocked at his return.

• Hun Tiandi appeared before the Allied Army’s formation, declared that he would become an Emperor, and pressed the defenders down with his Emperor Might.
• Gongsun Lin stepped into the Emperor Might and announced that he would test his nameless sword on Hun Tiandi’s Dou Di Body.
• Gongsun Lin’s sword strike killed him but left a small wound on Hun Tiandi’s brow, revealing that the Dou Di could be injured.
• Hun Tiandi tried to seize Gongsun Lin’s remaining soul with a Soul Giant Hand and vowed to destroy it forever.
• Xiao Yan arrived amid a vast wave of flames and forced Hun Tiandi’s Soul Giant Hand back.
• Hun Tiandi recognized Xiao Yan and reacted with shock and disbelief.

Xiao Yan emerged as a Dou Di, awakened the Xiao Clan’s ancestral bloodline, and protected the Jia Ma Empire with a flaming barrier. He then vowed to kill Hun Tiandi and destroy the Soul Clan, and the two Emperors began their battle as Zhu Kun predicted Xiao Yan would win.

• Xiao Xiao’s bloodline power erupted, raising her to Eight-star Dou Saint, and the Xiao Clan’s direct descendants experienced a surge in strength.
• Xiao Xuan recognized the changes as the Xiao Clan’s bloodline reciprocation and realized Xiao Yan had become a Dou Di; Xiao Yan’s flames formed a barrier that drove away the evil blood mist.
• Xiao Yan confronted Hun Tiandi, returned Gongsun Lin’s Soul Body to Gongsun Yu, and vowed to kill Hun Tiandi and the Soul Clan.
• Hun Tiandi unleashed his Heaven-Swallowing Dharma Image and a vast sea of blood, while Xiao Yan summoned his Flame Emperor Dharma Body.
• Xiao Yan and Hun Tiandi’s Emperor forms collided, beginning their battle, and Zhu Kun declared that Xiao Yan would win.

Xiao Yan drove Hun Tiandi into a disadvantage during their battle, but Hun Tiandi fused an Evil Eye into his forehead and regained overwhelming strength. He condensed the blood qi into a massive blade, leaving the Allied Army facing a devastating attack.

• Xiao Yan struck Hun Tiandi with Flame Profound Explosion, sending him crashing into the ruined mountains and prompting cheers from the Allied Army.
• Hun Tiandi revealed the Outer Realm Evil Clan’s Evil Eye and embedded it in his forehead through Blood Sacrifice · Soul Fusion.
• The Evil Eye awakened a third eye on Hun Tiandi and strengthened him, reviving and expanding his blood river.
• Hun Tiandi unleashed Myriad Souls Blood Sacrifice and condensed the gathered blood qi into a giant blade that made space vanish along its edge.

Hun Tiandi unleashed the Emperor Slaying Ghost Blood Blade, but Xiao Yan summoned the Heavenly Flame Plaza and gathered the continent’s Heavenly Flames to forge the Heavenly Flame Eternal Ruler. Their final attacks collided, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Hun Tiandi raised the Emperor Slaying Ghost Blood Blade and declared that Xiao Yan would die beneath his forbidden technique.
• Xiao Yan summoned the Heavenly Flame Plaza, which reappeared through the power of the Ancient Emperor Inheritance and gathered flames from across the continent.
• Xiao Yan commanded the Heavenly Flames into the plaza, including Yin Yang Twin Flames and Nihility Devouring Flame, and realized that she was still alive.
• Hun Tiandi attacked the Heavenly Flame Plaza with the blood blade after Nihility Devouring Flame escaped his control.
• Xiao Yan condensed the Heavenly Flame Eternal Ruler from the twenty-two Heavenly Flames and clashed with Hun Tiandi’s strike.

The White-robed Woman revealed her past as the Plane Embryo’s incarnation and the bond she shared with the disciple who became Azure Emperor, who sacrificed himself to seal the Demon Emperor. After understanding the source of the sword intent, Liuli chose to return to the Northwest Region and help Xiao Yan finish the war.

• The White-robed Woman recalled finding a starving boy in the ruins, taking him as her disciple, and watching him rise to become a Dou Di.
• She rejected his romantic feelings, but later reunited with him when he saved her doppelganger from an attacker.
• As the Plane Wall weakened, he learned that the White-robed Woman planned to sacrifice herself and persuaded her to let him merge with the Plane Embryo.
• He transcended Dou Di, fought the Demon Emperor, and sacrificed his origin to seal him, leaving the White-robed Woman to bury his remains in their bamboo grove.
• Liuli learned that the White-robed Woman had forgotten Azure Emperor’s name, understood the origin of the sword intent, and decided to return to the Northwest Region.
• The White-robed Woman opened a passage to the blood-red battlefield, and Liuli stepped through to help Xiao Yan finish the war.

After a devastating battle left Xiao Yan and Hun Tiandi unable to fight, Hun Tiandi tried to escape, only for the Blood Demon Emperor of the Outer Realm Evil Clan to emerge and seize him as a vessel. The chapter ended with Hun Tiandi trapped inside a pulsing Blood-Colored Egg while Xiao Yan could only watch.

• Xiao Yan and Hun Tiandi survived their cataclysmic clash, but both were too injured to continue fighting.
• Hun Tiandi fled, declaring that he would return, while Xiao Yan hesitated to pursue him because he had to protect the survivors.
• The Blood Demon Emperor tore open the sky, revealed himself as the Blood Demon Clan clan leader, and announced that he had been searching for a suitable vessel.
• Hun Tiandi tried to escape, but the cracked Evil Eye restrained him, and the Blood Demon Emperor revealed that he intended to take over his body.
• The Blood Demon Emperor transformed into blood and engulfed Hun Tiandi, who pleaded with Xiao Yan for help before falling silent inside a pulsing Blood-Colored Egg.

After a year of healing and searching for answers about the Blood Demon Emperor, Xiao Yan faced the threat of the cocoon breaking and struggled with whether he could win. Just as Liuli returned to him, the Blood Demon Emperor gave him half a month to choose between submission and the destruction of the continent.

• Xiao Yan accepted the Allied Army’s plea to fight the Blood Demon Emperor and moved the Jia Ma Empire and its people into a protected Small Space Plane.
• Xiao Yan returned to Wutan City to recover in seclusion, while the Blood Cocoon remained dormant for a year.
• After the cocoon began releasing blood mist, Xiao Yan healed and searched the Sword Clan’s records and Sword Tomb for information about the Azure Emperor and Blood Demon Emperor, but found nothing.
• The Blood Demon Emperor contacted Xiao Yan and gave him half a month to submit or watch the continent be destroyed and refined into a Blood Pool.
• As Xiao Yan hesitated over whether to fight or surrender, Liuli appeared at his door, and he recognized and embraced her.

Liuli confessed how she had hidden her knowledge of Xiao Yan’s future and explained that she had brought back the Plane Embryo’s origin for him to use against the Blood Demon Emperor. Several days later, the Blood Demon Emperor emerged from a giant egg in the Northwest Region and unleashed blood waves across the continent.

• Liuli cried in Xiao Yan’s arms and confessed that she had known his future from the day she arrived in this world but had feared changing the plot.
• Liuli explained that Xiao Xuan and the Lord of the Natural Realm had planned to set the worldline right, and that the Plane Embryo’s origin had been transferred into her in the Heavenly Tomb and later during the battle with the Yao Clan.
• Liuli told Xiao Yan that she had spent years in the Natural Realm fusing with the Plane Embryo’s origin, reached the Half Emperor realm, and returned it so he could use its power against the Blood Demon Emperor.
• Several days later, Xiao Yan and Liuli watched from Wutan City as the giant blood-colored egg in the Northwest Region cracked and exploded.
• The Blood Demon Emperor emerged, vowed to refine the continent into a Blood Pool, and unleashed waves of blood-colored energy across the Dou Qi Continent.