Chapter Summaries

After accepting Qing Lin and reassuring Zi Yan that he would marry her, Xiao Jin left the Demonic Flame Space to prepare for his breakthrough to Dou Emperor. He returned to the Pill Tower determined to destroy the Soul Clan before Soul Heaven Emperor recovered.

• Xiao Jin accepted Qing Lin, then promised Zi Yan they would marry in the Great Thousand World, making her eager to tell Cai Lin.
• Xiao Jin told Xiao Chen he planned to leave the Demonic Flame Space and break through to Dou Emperor, and Xiao Chen asked him to destroy the Soul Clan.
• Xiao Jin and the women left the Demonic Flame Space, where the Demonic Flame Plains had begun to recover their vegetation after Xiao Yan refined the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Xiao Jin returned to the Pill Tower, where its leaders learned he had reached Nine-Star Dou Sheng and marveled at his strength.
• Xiao Jin learned Soul Heaven Emperor was seriously injured and would need at least one kun year to recover, then told the Pill Tower Ancestor to oversee affairs while he pursued a breakthrough to Dou Emperor.

While traveling to Cai Lianyi’s Dou Emperor Space, Xiao Jin uncovered a Mysterious Underworld Sect raid and learned that the faction was deliberately generating negative emotions. He sent a rescued family to the Pill Tower and began considering how to stop such factions from fueling the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s Evil Sentience.

• Xiao Jin and Cai Lin traveled overland toward Cai Lianyi’s Dou Emperor Space with their group.
• Xiao Jin heard a patriarch curse the Mysterious Underworld Sect and intervened in its massacre of the patriarch’s family.
• Xiao Jin killed the Mysterious Underworld Sect’s Dou Zongs, searched its Dou Zun’s memories, and killed him as well.
• Xiao Jin gave the patriarch a letter and badge and directed his family to seek help from the Pill Tower.
• Xiao Jin told Xun Er and the others that he had underestimated how the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s Evil Sentience could actively create negative emotions through violent factions.

The Pill Tower Ancestor gathered the continent’s leaders to plan a coordinated purge of dark forces, following Xiao Jin’s request to weaken threats that could worsen the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s Evil Sentience. They divided the Central Plains into regions for the major clans to oversee and agreed to expand Ya Fei’s merchant association during the campaign.

• The Pill Tower Ancestor received Xiao Jin’s letter and invited Gu Yuan, Yan Jin, Lei Ying, Zhu Kun, and the other leaders to discuss it.
• The leaders agreed that they could not eliminate all evil, but should recruit forces such as the Flower Sect and Blazing Flame Valley to suppress dark organizations.
• Lei Ying volunteered the Lei Clan to purge dark forces in the Eastern Region, Yan Jin assigned the Western Region to the Flame Clan, and Gu Yuan assigned the Southern Region to the Ancient Clan.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor arranged for a family familiar with the Northern Region to take part, while Zhu Kun would oversee the Central Region with Pill Tower’s support.
• The leaders agreed to expand Ya Fei’s merchant association as they carried out the purge, to help reduce the burden of the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s Evil Sentience.

Xiao Jin learned that Cai Lin’s evolution into the Chaos Heaven-Swallowing Body would require the Nirvana Lightning Tribulation, which could also strengthen him and the others. The group entered Cai Lianyi’s Blood Pool, where Xiao Yi Xian, Yun Yun, and Zi Yan sensed traces of their own powerful bloodlines and constitutions in its crimson mist.

• Xiao Jin asked Cai Lin why there had been no news of her evolution into the Chaos Heaven-Swallowing Body, and Cai Lin explained that her final step would involve the Blood Pool and the Nirvana Lightning Tribulation.
• Cai Lin told Xiao Jin that he would also have to face the tribulation if they evolved together, and that it could help him become a Dou Emperor.
• Xun Er, Xiao Yi Xian, Yun Yun, and Cai Lin reassured Xiao Jin that they would face the calamity with him, while he said he was thinking about defeating Soul Heaven Emperor and gaining benefits for them all.
• Xiao Jin and the others passed through the corridor and entered the enormous Blood Pool.
• Xiao Yi Xian sensed the Woe Poison Body in the Blood Pool, Yun Yun sensed the Innate Wind Spirit Body, and Zi Yan sensed Dragon-Phoenix Bloodline at the Dou Emperor level.

Xiao Jin and the others discovered that the Blood Pool contained several supreme bloodlines, offering them a chance to strengthen their own through mutual resonance. Cai Lianyi explained the three stages of the Nirvana Lightning Tribulation, but left Xiao Jin asking how to survive its final trial.

• Xiao Jin realized the Blood Pool’s supreme bloodlines could fuse with the women’s bloodlines and benefit everyone.
• Cai Lianyi arrived, praised Xiao Jin’s progress, and explained that the Nirvana Lightning Tribulation had three stages.
• Cai Lianyi described the Physical Body Tribulation and Soul Refinement Tribulation, which tested the body and soul.
• Cai Lianyi said the Source Shaping Tribulation could elevate bloodlines so greatly that descendants would rarely see them weaken.
• Xiao Jin pointed out that Cai Lianyi had explained the final stage’s benefits but not how to pass it, and she compared his practical focus to A Li.

Cai Lianyi explained how the Source Shaping Tribulation tested bloodlines and why Li Que had prepared the Blood Pool to help Xiao Jin and the girls endure it. She insisted that Ya Fei must join them, and Xiao Jin learned that the Blood Pool could help her attempt the breakthrough despite her low cultivation.

• Cai Lianyi explained that the golden lightning of the Source Shaping Tribulation attacked the bloodline, while the Blood Pool's bloodline energy and Emperor-tier treasures could strengthen the body and soul.
• Cai Lianyi revealed that she had failed the tribulation because she already possessed a Dou Emperor Bloodline, and said Li Que had used her failure to devise a safer path for Xiao Jin and the girls.
• Cai Lianyi suggested that the girls could have founded separate powerful clans by marrying elsewhere, but they affirmed their devotion to Xiao Jin.
• When Xiao Jin asked to enter the Blood Pool, Cai Lianyi said Ya Fei was still missing and urged him not to leave her out of the opportunity.
• Cai Lianyi explained that the tribulation acted on the group as a whole and that the Blood Pool's complementary bloodlines could help Ya Fei attempt to reach the same realm.

After Ya Fei finished organizing the merchant association and reunited with Xiao Jin and the others, Xiao Jin asked Cai Lianyi how to conceal a Dou Emperor breakthrough. He planned to suppress their bloodlines until Soul Heaven Emperor reached his moment of triumph, then shatter his hopes.

• Ya Fei spent nearly a year managing the merchant association before returning with Xiao Jin to Cai Lianyi's cave abode.
• Xiao Jin teased Ya Fei during their journey, then reunited with her and the other women.
• Xiao Jin asked Cai Lianyi whether a newly awakened Dou Emperor Bloodline could be temporarily suppressed.
• Cai Lianyi confirmed that it could and explained the method to Xun Er, Cai Lin, Ya Fei, and Zi Yan.
• The women memorized the method so they could conceal their bloodlines from their clansmen after breaking through.

Xiao Jin and the women cultivated in the Blood Pool, rapidly improving their realms, bloodlines, and souls as they prepared for the Nirvana Lightning Tribulation. A year later, Xiao Yan and Xiao Chen left the vanished Demonic Flame Space, and Xiao Chen set out to visit Xiao Xuan.

• Xiao Jin entered the Blood Pool first, where its immense energy nearly overwhelmed him before the Reincarnation Nirvana Flame refined it.
• Cai Lianyi told the women to gather around Xiao Jin, and Xun Er joined him so the Blood Pool's energy could strengthen their bloodlines through repeated circulation.
• After one month, Ya Fei and the other women reached the late Eight-Star Dou Sheng stage, while the Blood Pool's energy also began tempering their souls and Xiao Jin's Emperor Realm soul.
• Another year later, Xiao Yan and Xiao Chen emerged as the Demonic Flame Space collapsed and disappeared completely.
• Xiao Yan gave Xiao Chen a jade pendant and opened a spatial passage to Wutan City, while Xiao Chen chose to visit Xiao Xuan first.

After refining the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, Xiao Yan returned to Starfall Pavilion, learned Yao Chen had moved it into Pill Tower’s Small World, and headed to Pill Tower to pursue the opportunity in the Heavenly Tomb. There, the leaders discussed the campaign against dark factions and the threat of the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s Evil Sentience as Xiao Yan arrived and asked to be sent into the tomb.

• Xiao Yan left for Starfall Pavilion to tell Yao Chen he had refined the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, but found the place deserted.
• Xiao Yan found Yao Chen’s letter and learned that Yao Chen had relocated Starfall Pavilion to Pill Tower’s Small World.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor rebuked Gu Yuan over merchant association affairs, then told him to take Xiao Xuan along when escorting Xiao Yan to the Heavenly Tomb.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor reviewed reports that the allied forces had eliminated more than half of the continent’s dark factions, weakening but not stopping the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s Evil Sentience.
• Xiao Yan arrived at Pill Tower and asked the Pill Tower Ancestor to arrange for someone to send him into the Heavenly Tomb.

Xiao Yan spent half a year sparring to stabilize his rapidly advanced Dou Qi while the alliance waited for Xiao Jin’s seclusion to end. New intelligence revealed that Dou Saint Puppets had left the Wild Wilderness on the Soul Clan’s orders to search for Tou She Ancient God’s Cave Mansion, confirming that Soul Heaven Emperor’s injuries had healed.

• Xiao Yan’s unstable Dou Qi led Yao Chen and Xiao Xuan to arrange a further half year of sparring with alliance experts.
• Two years after Xiao Jin entered seclusion, the alliance still had received no news, and the continent remained peaceful.
• An Ancient Void Dragon Clan scout reported that a Two-Star Dou Saint Puppet from the Wild Wilderness had been searching for a mountain range and a vast Magma World.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor concluded that the Soul Clan was searching for Tou She Ancient God’s Cave Mansion and recalled Xiao Jin’s warning about Soul Heaven Emperor’s recovery.
• Zhu Kun recognized the cave mansion as the place he had escaped from, while the alliance’s leaders noted that Xiao Jin had already designated its inheritance.

The allied forces prepared a false Ancient Emperor Cave Mansion on the Southeast Continent to distract Soul Heaven Emperor while guarding the real one beneath Jia Nan Academy. As strange thunderclouds gathered over a distant mountain range, a terrifying existence seemed to be awakening there.

• The allied forces agreed to delay Soul Heaven Emperor with a fabricated cave mansion because Xiao Jin had not returned yet.
• Zhu Kun reported that the disguise was ready, and the Pill Tower Ancestor planned to spread word of it and add the spectacle of Nine Profound Golden Lightning.
• The alliance maintained a wormhole and stationed more than twenty Dou Sheng experts near Jia Nan Academy to protect the real cave mansion.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor asked Xiao Xuan to return to the Northwest Continent, and Xiao Xuan agreed while entrusting Xiao Yan to the others.
• Ninth-tier magical beasts fled into hiding as thunderclouds repeatedly gathered and dispersed above a mountain range, signaling the birth of a terrifying existence.

Xiao Jin and the others endured the first stage of the Nirvana Lightning Tribulation in the Blood Pool, while Cai Lianyi confirmed that they had passed the Physical Body Tribulation. In the Soul Realm, Soul Heaven Emperor reflected on the Soul Clan’s losses and set his hopes on the inheritance in the Tou She Ancient God’s Cave Mansion.

• Pitch-black lightning struck the Blood Pool, and Xiao Jin used Emperor Flame and Void to temper and redistribute its violent energy among everyone.
• Lightning patterns formed beneath the skin of those in the Blood Pool, confirming that they had passed the first lightning tribulation.
• Cai Lianyi recalled how she and Li Que had devised a balance that could help Xiao Jin and the others endure the Nirvana Lightning Tribulation.
• The chapter described how the coalition had decimated the Soul Clan, leaving it with only a handful of powerful Dou Saints.
• Soul Heaven Emperor, whose injuries had healed and who had gathered the Tou She Ancient God Jade, resolved to seek the Ancient Emperor Cave Mansion’s inheritance, unsettling Nihility Devouring Flame.

Soul Heaven Emperor ordered the Soul Clan to search the four fringe regions for the Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion after Nihility Devouring Flame recalled it was not in the Central Plains. In the Wild Wilderness, Hun Miesheng was revealed alive and growing stronger while bound to the Bodhi Ancient Tree.

• Soul Heaven Emperor and Nihility Devouring Flame discussed the failed search for the Ancient Emperor Cave Mansion and rejected asking the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan for help.
• Nihility Devouring Flame recalled that the cave mansion was not in the Central Plains, though an inexplicable energy prevented him from remembering more.
• Soul Heaven Emperor ordered Nihility Devouring Flame to scatter the Soul Clan's Dou Saints across the four fringe regions to find the cave mansion.
• Black mist spread through the Wild Wilderness, killing its ancient trees and beasts as waves of evil aura pulsed from its depths.
• Hun Miesheng appeared beneath the Bodhi Ancient Tree, alive despite his death in the Demonic Flame Space and connected to the tree by blood vessels.
• Hun Miesheng and others bound to the giant tree slowly grew stronger through the Bodhi Ancient Tree's power.

The coalition discussed the Soul Clan’s movements and sent Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun to place Xiao Jin’s Spatial Mark near the Wild Wilderness. In Cai Lianyi’s Dou Emperor Space, Xiao Jin completed the Source Shaping Tribulation and opened his eyes as he and seven women neared their breakthrough to Dou Emperor.

• The Pill Tower Ancestor told the coalition that the Soul Clan had gathered on the Northwest Continent, likely as a smokescreen to buy time for Soul Heaven Emperor.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor asked Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun to place Xiao Jin’s Spatial Mark at the edge of the Wild Wilderness to ease pressure from the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s Evil Sentience.
• Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun accepted the Spatial Mark and were told to join Xiao Xuan on the Northwest Continent afterward.
• In Cai Lianyi’s Dou Emperor Space, the thunderclouds dissipated after Xiao Jin passed the Source Shaping Tribulation, leaving less than one percent of the Blood Pool’s energy.
• Xiao Jin opened his eyes as dazzling flames engulfed the Blood Pool and terrifying pressure rose from him and the seven women around him.

After Xiao Jin and the women became Dou Emperors, they concealed their bloodlines to keep their breakthrough secret while he prepared to pursue the Soul Clan and the Evil Sentience of the Bodhi Ancient Tree. He planned to visit Tou She Ancient God's Cave and then the Wild Wilderness, leaving the others with Cai Lianyi for guidance.

• Xiao Jin mastered control of his aura, and Xun Er, Ya Fei, Yun Yun, Xiao Yi Xian, Cai Lin, Qing Lin, and Zi Yan awoke as Dou Emperors.
• Zi Yan said she wanted to beat up her father, Zhu Kun, to vent the frustration of her past suffering.
• Cai Lianyi taught the women how to seal their bloodlines so their clansmen would not gain Dou Emperor benefits or learn of the breakthrough.
• Xiao Jin explained that he planned to let Soul Heaven Emperor eliminate most of the Soul Clan before wiping out the survivors himself.
• Xiao Jin said he would visit Tou She Ancient God's Cave and then the Wild Wilderness to confront the Evil Sentience of the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• Cai Lianyi offered to keep and teach the women, and Xiao Jin agreed.

Xiao Jin questioned Tou She Ancient God about finding his true body, but Tou She refused to reveal its whereabouts because an unknown force warned him to keep them secret. After Xiao Jin sensed his Spatial Mark activate in the Wild Wilderness, he rushed to help Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun, where Zhu Kun was ambushed, gravely wounded, and seemingly controlled.

• Xiao Jin pressed Tou She Ancient God for a way to find his true body, and Tou She explained that it had traveled to the Great Thousand World to seek its origins.
• Tou She Ancient God refused to reveal his true body's whereabouts despite Xiao Jin's assurances, driven by an unexplained warning within his soul.
• Xiao Jin sensed that his Spatial Mark had been triggered in the Wild Wilderness and immediately left after detecting trouble there.
• Gu Yuan set up Xiao Jin's Spatial Mark while Zhu Kun fought off the surrounding Magical Beasts.
• A hidden mass of black energy struck Zhu Kun, severely wounded him, and turned his gaze toward Gu Yuan as the black hue spread through his eyes.

Gu Yuan risked his life to finish activating Xiao Jin’s Spatial Mark, which freed Zhu Kun and the controlled Magical Beasts from the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s Evil Sentience. Xiao Jin arrived as a Dou Emperor and prepared to investigate the tree, revealing that Xun Er and Zi Yan had also become Dou Emperors.

• Zhu Kun became controlled by the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s Evil Sentience and formed a deadly purple-gold attack against Gu Yuan.
• Gu Yuan chose to keep charging Xiao Jin’s Spatial Mark instead of retreating, despite the danger of Zhu Kun’s attack.
• The Spatial Mark’s silver energy erased Zhu Kun’s attack and freed him and the controlled Magical Beasts from the Evil Sentience.
• Xiao Jin appeared and confirmed that Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun were safe before deciding to investigate the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• Xiao Jin told Gu Yuan that he had become a Dou Emperor and revealed that Xun Er and Zi Yan had also reached that level.

After reaching Dou Emperor, Xiao Jin entered the Wild Wilderness and confronted the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s Evil Sentience, which had taken on Cang Yuan’s face. The Evil Sentience claimed neither of them could kill the other, and Xiao Jin considered testing whether he could destroy it.

• Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun returned to the Pill Tower and agreed to keep Xiao Jin’s Dou Emperor breakthrough secret from everyone except Xuan Shu.
• Xiao Jin entered the Wild Wilderness, found signs of people consumed or controlled by the Bodhi Ancient Tree, and traveled toward its core.
• At the Bodhi Ancient Tree, Xiao Jin recognized Hun Miesheng, Hun Yao, and Hun Sheng Tian among its puppets, then destroyed the gathered puppets with a soundwave.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree’s Evil Sentience appeared with Cang Yuan’s face and admitted it had learned Xiao Jin had succeeded in breaking through to Dou Emperor.
• The Evil Sentience said Xiao Jin could not kill it, and Xiao Jin wondered whether he should test that claim.

Xiao Jin used the Reincarnation Nirvana Flame against the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s Evil Sentience but could not destroy it, so he learned about its connection to an unknown power and sealed it. He then received confirmation that Cang Yuan had intended to leave a seed for the Dou Qi Continent, though desire had undermined that plan.

• Xiao Jin burned the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s Evil Sentience with the Reincarnation Nirvana Flame, but an inexhaustible energy kept it alive and allowed it to recover.
• The Evil Sentience taunted Xiao Jin, then revealed its resentment over enduring the negative emotions of a Dou Emperor while Cang Yuan achieved eternity.
• Xiao Jin claimed he had severed the Evil Sentience’s connection to its source and could make it perish by sealing it and weakening that connection.
• The Evil Sentience said it had stolen its immortality from the source, and Xiao Jin deployed a vast silver formation to seal it beneath the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• An earthy yellow radiance emerged from Xiao Jin, confirming that Cang Yuan had wanted to leave a seed for the Dou Qi Continent; Xiao Jin concluded that desire had still exerted too much influence.

Xiao Jin sealed the Bodhi Ancient Tree's Evil Sentience for ten years and reassured the allied leaders that the Wild Wilderness was no longer forbidden ground. Meanwhile, Soul Heaven Emperor learned that the tree had vanished and focused on investigating a possible location of Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion, fearing that a Dou Emperor had emerged among his enemies.

• Xiao Jin returned to the Pill Tower and told Gu Yuan, Zhu Kun, the Pill Tower Ancestor, Yan Jin, and Lei Ying that he had sealed the Bodhi Ancient Tree's Evil Sentience for ten years.
• Xiao Jin dismissed the Soul Clan and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan as immediate threats, but resolved to search for the missing Soul Emperor near the sealed passage to the Dou Qi Continent.
• A Soul Clan elder reported to Soul Heaven Emperor that scouts had sensed a powerful battle in the Wild Wilderness and found the Bodhi Ancient Tree gone.
• Soul Heaven Emperor concluded that a true Dou Emperor or several Half-Emperors might have sealed the tree and feared the Soul Clan could not withstand either possibility.
• The elder reported that scouts had found a place on the Northwest Continent resembling the image of Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion, and Soul Heaven Emperor ordered him to send Void to him as soon as he returned.