Chapter Summaries

Zhu Kun nearly broke free of Tou She Ancient God's restriction as Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame allied with the Emperor Pill Embryo and attacked the seal. Xiao Bai directed Gu Yuan's side to stop them, and the chapter ended with Hun Yuantian reaching for Xiao Bai while Zhu Kun and Gu Yuan were held back.

• Zhu Kun shattered most of the fire-lines restraining him, while Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame agreed to help the Emperor Pill Embryo escape.
• Hun Tiandi summoned Soul Clan experts to break the Stone Gate, but Xiao Bai told Gu Yuan that Zhu Kun could escape without their help and ordered the clans to attack the Soul Clan.
• Nihility Devouring Flame sent Hun Yuantian, Hun Shengtian, Hun Yao, and Hun Qianmo to delay Zhu Kun, but Zhu Kun's Dragon Emperor roar badly injured them.
• Nihility Devouring Flame ordered Hun Yuantian to capture Xiao Bai, and the four Soul Clan experts held Zhu Kun back as Hun Yuantian reached for him.
• Gu Yuan saw Hun Yuantian attack Xiao Bai, while Hun Tiandi kept Gu Yuan occupied.

Xiao Bai lured Hun Yuantian into the Heavenly Tomb, where Xiao Xuan appeared and killed him, leaving Xiao Bai with Hun Yuantian’s treasures and corpse. Xiao Bai then decided to return to the outside world with Xiao Xuan, who was eager to face the gathering conflict.

• Hun Yuantian pursued Xiao Bai through a spatial rift into the Heavenly Tomb, while Zhu Kun struck Nihility Devouring Flame during the distraction.
• Xiao Bai revealed that the Heavenly Tomb was Hun Yuantian’s burial ground and summoned Xiao Xuan, who confronted his old enemy.
• Xiao Xuan recognized Hun Yuantian as a Soul Clan living dead and killed him with a palm strike when he tried to flee.
• Xiao Bai collected Hun Yuantian’s Gate of Deathly Stillness, Storage Ring, and corpse, while Xiao Xuan sent his Soul Origin into the Heavenly Tomb to form a future Energy Body.
• Xiao Bai told Xiao Xuan he would return to the outside world and remarked that Hun Tiandi must miss him.

Tou She Ancient God's statue restored the Stone Gate and renewed its suppression of the Emperor Pill Embryo and Zhu Kun, then scattered the seven ancient jades. Gu Yuan, Hun Tiandi, and their factions fought to seize them, while Xiao Bai secretly intercepted four with spatial rifts.

• The statue's pressure repaired the Stone Gate, suppressed most fighters, and bound Zhu Kun and the Emperor Pill Embryo again.
• Gu Yuan recognized the statue's role and concluded that collecting the ancient jades was now more important than trying to free Zhu Kun.
• The Stone Gate shattered the fused jade light into seven streaks, and Gu Yuan and Hun Tiandi ordered their factions to seize the scattered ancient jades.
• Nihility Devouring Flame formed the Three Prisons Deathly Stillness Gate array, helping Soul Clan fighters resist the pressure and pursue a jade.
• Xiao Bai used spatial rifts to swallow four ancient jades before the Soul Clan could claim them, delighting Gu Yuan and enraging Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame.

Hun Tiandi fled the underground space after Xiao Xuan’s unexpected appearance made him fear being trapped, though Xiao Xuan could not directly intervene because of the Heavenly Tomb’s rules. Xiao Bai gave the six Ancient Jade pieces to Zhu Kun, who planned to use them with his own piece to break free within three years.

• Nihility Devouring Flame withdrew the surviving Soul Clan members, while Hun Tiandi tried to escape after attacking the Stone Gate.
• Zhu Kun and Gu Yuan intercepted Hun Tiandi, injuring him before Xiao Xuan and Xiao Bai appeared.
• Hun Tiandi recognized Xiao Xuan and used Blood Soul Sacrifice, Void Escape to flee after paying a heavy price.
• Xiao Bai explained that Xiao Xuan could not affect anything outside the Heavenly Tomb, and the other clan leaders greeted Xiao Xuan.
• Xiao Bai examined the Stone Gate with his forehead eye and handed all six Ancient Jade pieces to Zhu Kun.
• Zhu Kun said the weakened Stone Gate could no longer hold him for long and that he expected to break free within three years.

After the Soul Clan’s attack, Xiao Bai admitted he had engineered the events that brought the clans together, earning their astonishment and Xiao Xuan’s pride. Zhu Kun then entrusted Zi Yan to Xiao Bai, who proposed taking her to the Heavenly Tomb to complete her evolution sooner.

• Gu Yuan introduced Zhu Kun as the Taixu Ancient Dragon emperor, an ancient expert from Tou She Ancient God’s era.
• Xiao Bai admitted to Lei Ying, Yan Jin, and Yao Dan that he had arranged the recent events to expose the Soul Clan’s infiltrators and weaken its plans.
• Xiao Xuan praised Xiao Bai, then bickered with Gu Yuan over whether Xiao Bai belonged to the Xiao Clan or the Gu Clan because his surname was Xiao.
• Zhu Kun showed Xiao Bai Zi Yan’s cocoon and asked him to take her somewhere safe while he broke free of his restrictions.
• Xiao Bai suggested the Heavenly Tomb, where time passed faster, and Zhu Kun agreed to entrust Zi Yan to him.

Xiao Bai left the underground world after discussing his plan to reach Dou Sheng and warning Gu Yuan that Nihility Devouring Flame might be pursuing an Emperor Realm Soul. He returned to Purple Firmament Palace, reunited with Xiao Yi Xian and Yun Yun, and told them about his encounter with the Ancient Races and Zi Yan’s father.

• Xiao Bai told Gu Yuan he planned to enter seclusion to break through to Dou Sheng, and Gu Yuan shared his breakthrough insights.
• Xiao Bai warned Gu Yuan that the Soul Clan was gathering Soul Origin to help Nihility Devouring Flame reach an Emperor Realm Soul, and Gu Yuan promised to watch the clan.
• Xiao Xuan returned to the Heaven Tomb with the purple cocoon, while Zhu Kun sent Xiao Bai out of the Underground Lava beneath Jia Nan Academy.
• Xiao Bai returned to Purple Firmament Palace, where Xiao Yi Xian and Yun Yun greeted him and he described the Dou Di cave, the Ancient Races, and Zi Yan’s father.
• Xiao Bai reunited with his daughter Xiao Qing and told Xiao Yi Xian and Yun Yun that Cai Lin might reach Four-Star Dou Sheng after her seclusion, leaving the two women newly determined to improve.

Xiao Bai refined powerful Eighth Grade Pills while worrying about the Soul Clan’s suspicious silence and preparing to seek the Bodhi Ancient Tree. After Xiao Yi Xian and Yun Yun returned from the Heavenly Tomb, he sent them and Xiao Qing back inside and set out toward the Vast Ancient Region.

• Xiao Bai refined high-grade Eighth Grade Pills for over a month, and Xiao Qing collected the pill-formed animals into her Storage Ring.
• Xiao Bai suspected the Soul Clan’s quietness meant Nihility Devouring Flame was advancing toward an Emperor Realm Soul, and he resolved to grow stronger.
• Xiao Bai told Xiao Qing he would send her with Xiao Yi Xian and Yun Yun before leaving to seek an opportunity, then sensed the Bodhi Seed guiding him toward the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Yun Yun emerged from the Heavenly Tomb much stronger, and they told Xiao Bai that Zi Yan had reached Four-Star Dou Sheng while sleeping in a light cocoon.
• Xiao Bai explained that he wanted to comprehend the Dao beneath the Bodhi Ancient Tree, and the Bodhi Seed glowed with an image of the tree as if summoning him.
• Xiao Bai sent Xiao Yi Xian, Yun Yun, and Xiao Qing into the Heavenly Tomb, then turned toward the Vast Ancient Region determined to advance to Dou Sheng.

Xiao Bai traveled to Vast Desolation Town to follow the Bodhi Seed’s guidance into the Vast Ancient Region, where he discovered a Hall of Souls gathering searching for the Bodhi Ancient Tree. He confronted the seven Heavenly Venerates, killed Fourth Heavenly Venerate, and forced Third Heavenly Venerate to agree to talk.

• Xiao Bai reached Vast Desolation Town and settled into an inn before nightfall.
• The Bodhi Seed guided Xiao Bai toward the Vast Ancient Region, and he sensed the Hall of Souls nearby.
• Xiao Bai secretly discovered Third Heavenly Venerate, Nine Heavens Venerable, and five others discussing their search for the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• Xiao Bai appeared in the secret chamber and demanded to know why the Hall of Souls wanted the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• Xiao Bai sealed the chamber and killed Fourth Heavenly Venerate with a strike of golden lightning.
• Third Heavenly Venerate gave in to Xiao Bai’s pressure and offered to talk.

Xiao Bai learned that the Soul Clan had sent the Hall of Souls to find the Bodhi Ancient Tree, likely to use its vitality to heal Hun Tiandi’s injuries. After Xiao Xuan took the captured Soul Hall members into custody in the Heavenly Tomb, Xiao Bai changed his plan and began searching the Vast Ancient Region for the tree.

• Third Heavenly Venerate told Xiao Bai that the Soul Clan had ordered the Hall of Souls to search the Vast Ancient Region and gave him a jade slip made with Bodhi Seed essence to detect the tree.
• Xiao Bai sent the six surviving Heavenly Venerates through a Space Rift into the Heavenly Tomb rather than kill them and draw the Soul Clan’s attention.
• Xiao Xuan appeared at the rift, learned of the Soul Clan’s search, and agreed to imprison the six Soul Hall members at the Heavenly Tomb’s outer edge.
• Xiao Bai and Xiao Xuan reasoned that the Soul Clan likely wanted the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s vitality to heal Hun Tiandi’s injuries.
• Xiao Bai returned to the inn, destroyed Fourth Heavenly Venerate’s remains, and began searching the Vast Ancient Region with his Soul Strength and Bodhi Seed.

Gu Yuan learned that Xiao Bai had gone to the Vast Ancient Region to seek the Bodhi Ancient Tree and warned the allied clans to prepare for the Soul Clan’s plans. As the Bodhi Seed began summoning Xiao Bai, he captured an Ancient Heavenly Demon Python and its blood pool for Xiao Qing before turning his attention to the approaching tree.

• Gu Yuan told Xun Er that Xiao Bai suspected the Soul Clan wanted the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s Life Source to heal Hun Tiandi, and he asked her to warn the Lei, Yan, and Yao clans.
• Xiao Bai entered the core of the Vast Ancient Region and lured a Hall of Souls search party into fighting the region’s beasts.
• Xiao Bai sensed an Ancient Heavenly Demon Python and headed toward its valley, but the Bodhi Seed suddenly began guiding him toward the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• Xiao Bai captured the python and sent it into the Heavenly Tomb, where Xiao Xuan recognized it and received its unused Heavenly Demon Blood Pool for Xiao Qing.
• Xiao Bai felt the Bodhi Seed’s summons intensify and examined it as the ancient tree’s presence stirred in the distance.

The Hall of Souls Great Heavenly Venerate and Second Heavenly Venerate found the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s signal, but Xiao Bai’s Bodhi Seed triggered the tree’s hidden teleportation before they could capture him. Xiao Bai arrived in the tree’s secret realm, glimpsed a darkness sealed within its core, and was enveloped by the tree’s Clear Qi as his Dou Qi drained away.

• The Great Heavenly Venerate and Second Heavenly Venerate followed their glowing jade slip to a wasteland but could not find the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• Xiao Bai watched from concealment as his Bodhi Seed’s summons grew stronger, then opened the vertical eye on his brow to examine it.
• A green pillar erupted from beneath Xiao Bai, and the two Heavenly Venerates recognized him and attacked, but the pillar dissolved their strikes.
• The pillar shrank into a teleportation beam and carried Xiao Bai away before the Great Heavenly Venerate could reach him.
• Xiao Bai arrived in the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s hidden realm, saw a mass of darkness sealed within the tree’s core, and found he could not leave.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree enveloped Xiao Bai in Clear Qi, causing the Dou Qi in his body to drain away.

Hun Tiandi ordered the Soul Clan to pursue the Bodhi Ancient Tree while giving Hun Mie Sheng two years to complete his Northwest Continent task. Inside the tree’s hidden space, Xiao Bai resisted an illusion of an easy breakthrough to Dou Saint and proposed that he and the tree repeat the bargain in reality.

• Hun Tiandi sent Hun Xuzi and the Soul Clan’s younger generation to the Vast Ancient Region as cover for secretly seeking the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s life source.
• Hun Tiandi gave Hun Mie Sheng two years to finish collecting materials for the Northwest Continent plan.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree drew Xiao Bai into an illusion where he purified its resentment, received its Bodhi Heart, and appeared to break through to Dou Saint.
• Xiao Bai recognized the apparent breakthrough as an illusion and shattered the false world with his Soul Strength.
• Xiao Bai faced the miniature Bodhi Ancient Tree and proposed they repeat the events of the illusion in reality, and the tree accepted.

Xiao Bai purified the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s seeds with his Gold-Black Lightning Taiji Diagram while Hun Xuzi searched unsuccessfully for him in the Vast Ancient Region. After the tree recovered, its prayer mat began forcing energy into Xiao Bai and forming a Bodhi Heart, then the tree enveloped him in a cocoon that made him lose consciousness.

• The Bodhi Tree Spirit used Xiao Bai’s lightning to purify its Bodhi Seeds, and an ancient voice warned him to leave as a Favored One, though the sealed space trapped him.
• Hun Xuzi searched the place where Xiao Bai disappeared but found no trace of the Bodhi Ancient Tree, then ordered the Great Heavenly Venerate and Gu You to keep watch.
• The Great Heavenly Venerate and Gu You waited as more people arrived in the Vast Ancient Region, hoping Xiao Bai and the tree would reappear nearby.
• Xiao Bai finished purifying the Bodhi Seeds, and the restored Bodhi Tree Spirit released a powerful wave of Vitality Force.
• The prayer mat poured excessive energy into Xiao Bai, causing a Bodhi Heart to begin forming and his body to swell, until the tree’s light enclosed him in a cocoon and overwhelmed his consciousness.

Xiao Bai experienced ninety-eight reincarnations before the ninety-ninth, Mo Yuan, broke through to Dou Sheng and continued his rise to Peak Dou Sheng. Mo Yuan entered a mysterious Gate of Life and Death resembling the one Xiao Bai had seen before, where he found the Qi of Rules and declared that his path to Dou Di was complete.

• Xiao Bai watched Lin Yu grow from a young alchemy apprentice into a Rank 8 Alchemist and Peak Dou Zun before receiving the Bodhi Ancient Tree's guidance and reaching Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Bai experienced many more lives, gaining insights from an array formation genius and an Artifact Refining enthusiast before counting ninety-eight reincarnations.
• In his ninety-ninth life, Mo Yuan rose from a bullied youth to Dou Sheng in just over thirty years, then reached Peak Dou Sheng after another thirty years.
• Unable to break through to Dou Di, Mo Yuan traveled the continent in search of clues and eventually found a Gate of Life and Death that reminded Xiao Bai of the one at the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Mo Yuan crossed into the shattered, storm-filled world beyond the gate and pulled a strand of five-colored Qi of Rules from a Space Rift, proclaiming his path to Dou Di complete.

Xiao Yi Xian, Yun Yun, Xiao Qing, and the sleeping Zi Yan emerged from the Heavenly Tomb into the Vast Ancient Region, where the Hall of Souls Great Heavenly Venerate and Gu You attacked them. Zi Yan’s cocoon protected Xiao Qing by crippling the Great Heavenly Venerate, whose terror grew when he sensed it had the aura of a Five-Star Dou Sheng.

• Xiao Yi Xian, Yun Yun, Xiao Qing, and Zi Yan’s light cocoon were forced out of the Heavenly Tomb and encountered the Hall of Souls Great Heavenly Venerate and Gu You.
• Gu You recognized Xiao Bai’s companions and attacked Xiao Yi Xian, but her poison weakened his hand and forced him to purge it with Dou Qi.
• The Great Heavenly Venerate unleashed his Two-Star Dou Sheng pressure and moved to seize Xiao Qing while Yun Yun struggled to protect her.
• Zi Yan’s cocoon struck the Great Heavenly Venerate, breaking his arm and blasting him into a distant mountain.
• Gu You rescued the badly injured Great Heavenly Venerate, who stared at the cocoon in fear after sensing its Five-Star Dou Sheng aura.

Hun Xuzi arrived to seize Xiao Bai’s family, but the Bodhi Ancient Tree emerged in the Vast Ancient Region and revealed a figure who appeared to be Xiao Bai. The chapter ended with his family recognizing him within the tree’s light.

• The Great Heavenly Venerate summoned Hun Xuzi after Zi Yan’s cocoon badly injured him, while Xiao Yi Xian tried to teleport the family away.
• Hun Xuzi sealed the surrounding space and arrived, then moved to capture Xiao Yi Xian, Yun Yun, Xiao Qing, and Zi Yan’s cocoon.
• Xiao Yi Xian broke Xiao Bai’s Lightning Slip to call for help as Hun Xuzi’s attack threatened to seize them.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree burst from the wasteland, its emerald light destroying Hun Xuzi’s grasp and drawing everyone’s attention.
• Xiao Yi Xian, Yun Yun, and Xiao Qing recognized a figure seated within the tree’s light as Xiao Bai.

Xiao Bai underwent a hundred lifetimes beneath the Bodhi Ancient Tree while Mo Yuan’s remnant soul corrupted the tree and extinguished its protection. Xiao Bai awoke, recognized Mo Yuan, and refused to be impressed by his claims before Mo Yuan demanded access to his Sea of Consciousness.

• Hun Xuzi and the Great Heavenly Venerate sensed cold Black Qi corrupting the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s life energy and Xiao Bai’s protective emerald light.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Yun Yun charged toward Xiao Bai with Xiao Qing, but a powerful curtain of light blocked their path as the emerald protection faded away.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree’s exhausted intelligence warned Xiao Bai that he would have to stop Mo Yuan from taking his connection to the Heaven and Earth Origin.
• Mo Yuan emerged from the corrupted tree and fixed his attention on Xiao Bai’s silver vertical mark as Xiao Bai opened his eyes after experiencing a hundred reincarnations.
• Xiao Bai named Mo Yuan and said Mo Yuan’s life ranked only second among his reincarnations, prompting Mo Yuan to demand that Xiao Bai lower his Sea of Consciousness defenses.

Xiao Yan arrived at the Bodhi Ancient Tree and learned that Xiao Bai was trapped inside, just as Hun Tiandi tried to seize the tree and Gu Yuan intervened. Inside the tree, Xiao Bai bargained with Mo Yuan for permission to send a message that could keep the two peak Dou Saints from attacking until he emerged.

• Xiao Yan recognized Hun Xuzi and reunited with Xiao Yi Xian and Yun Yun, who told him Xiao Bai was inside the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• A giant black palm descended from the sky to seize the tree, and Gu Yuan countered it with a Chaos Giant Finger.
• Hun Tiandi declared that he would take the Bodhi Ancient Tree and threatened war if Gu Yuan stopped him.
• Inside the tree, Mo Yuan continued trying to invade Xiao Bai's Sea of Consciousness while Xiao Bai resisted.
• Xiao Bai offered to let Mo Yuan enter his Sea of Consciousness if he could send a message to make Hun Tiandi and Gu Yuan refrain from attacking the tree.
• Mo Yuan agreed to review the message before Xiao Bai sent it.

Gu Yuan and Hun Tiandi agreed to leave the Bodhi Ancient Tree undisturbed until Xiao Bai emerged, while Xiao Bai opened his Sea of Consciousness to lure Mo Yuan into a trap. The Ancient Thunder Talisman bound and began purifying Mo Yuan’s soul, and Xiao Bai absorbed a strange liquid that caused his Soul Strength to surge.

• Gu Yuan proposed a truce with Hun Tiandi until Xiao Bai left the Bodhi Ancient Tree, and Hun Tiandi accepted.
• Hun Xuzi withdrew with the injured Great Heavenly Venerate and Second Heavenly Venerate Gu You, while others turned their attention back to the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• Mo Yuan cautiously sent a thread of Soul Strength into Xiao Bai’s open Sea of Consciousness and discovered the Ancient Thunder Talisman at its core.
• Mo Yuan entered with most of his Soul Origin to seize the talisman, but it awakened and bound him in Purple Thunder God Chains.
• Xiao Bai caught a seven-colored drop from the Thunder Chain, and his Soul Strength surged after absorbing it.

After the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s barrier vanished, Xiao Bai emerged, and the people gathered there fled as the Soul Clan and the Four Clan Alliance assembled for battle. Hun Tiandi tried to seize the tree, while Nihility Devouring Flame confronted Gu Yuan with a newly attained Emperor Realm Soul.

• After nearly a year, the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s Clear Qi barrier disappeared, and the crowd rushed toward the tree before fleeing when they learned Xiao Bai had emerged.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Yun Yun recognized Xiao Bai beneath the tree and left with Xiao Qing, while Xiao Yan departed with Tang Huo Er.
• Hun Tiandi arrived through a Space Rift with nearly a hundred Dou Saints, and Gu Yuan appeared with the Four Clan Alliance’s forces.
• Gu Yuan urged Hun Tiandi to stop, but Hun Tiandi formed a giant energy hand to seize the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• Nihility Devouring Flame appeared to block Gu Yuan, and Gu Yuan realized it had reached an Emperor Realm Soul.