Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan discovered that the heartlike object in the crystal box was the Fire Spirit Bead, one of the keys to the Garden of Eden, God's Paradise and the sleeping place of the gods. He sealed the bead inside himself, but a cryptic warning about the five beads and the suffering their gathering would bring left the danger unresolved.

• Nine golden dragons emerged from the pool and revealed a mysterious box containing a blood-red, heartlike object.
• The Emperor Flame Ring reacted to the box and told Xiao Yan that the object was the Fire Spirit Bead, one of the keys to the Garden of Eden.
• Xiao Yan learned that the Garden of Eden required at least Sixth-Tier Samsara Realm strength to enter and might be connected to the Xiao Clan's disappearance and the Guardian's slaughter.
• Xiao Yan used his Xiao Clan bloodline and Holy Flame Power to overcome the box's defenses and open it.
• Xiao Yan confirmed the object was the Fire Spirit Bead and sealed it inside himself to keep its power from attracting calamity.
• A Sanskrit Sound warned Xiao Yan that when the five beads gathered, paradise would open, the god road would appear, and living beings would suffer.

Elder Zhu confronted Sixth Prince Du He after he tried to enter the Heaven Burning Domain, but King Xuan Ling’s Dou Qi energy avatar appeared to protect him. The two powerful experts clashed over the incident, and King Xuan Ling formed a Sky-Breaking Bead as the confrontation escalated.

• Elder Zhu suppressed Du He with Spiritual Power and sent an energy beam toward him, but Du He’s three guards moved to protect him.
• King Xuan Ling’s illusory avatar appeared beside Du He and dispersed Elder Zhu’s beam with a wave.
• Xiao Yan, Mu Yingying, and Mu Feng arrived and watched as Elder Zhu and King Xuan Ling argued over Du He’s unauthorized entry into the no-fly zone.
• Elder Zhu and King Xuan Ling unleashed their Dou Qi and recalled their conflict from a hundred years earlier.
• King Xuan Ling gathered yellow Dou Qi into a Sky-Breaking Bead, whose power alarmed Du He, Xiao Yan, and the others.

Xiao Yan and the Soul Devouring Master found Duan Qifei absorbing grey thunder in the Void Lightning Pool and waited for her to finish while Xiao Yan cultivated nearby. After a month, Xiao Yan reached the Two-star Later-stage Dou Xian level, and Duan Qifei awakened with the Thunder Lord’s power emerging through her.

• Xiao Yan and the Soul Devouring Master found Duan Qifei suspended in a spatial lightning pool, absorbing grey thunder as the Samsara Token between her brows reacted.
• The Soul Devouring Master told Xiao Yan to wait for Duan Qifei to wake and encouraged him to absorb the surrounding Thunder Power.
• Xiao Yan used the First Transformation of the Dragon God and his Holy Flame to withstand and refine the grey thunder while Duan Qifei continued cultivating.
• After a month, Duan Qifei’s strength stabilized at Two-star Dou Xian Perfection, while Xiao Yan reached the Two-star Later-stage Dou Xian limit.
• Duan Qifei awakened as the power of a Samsara Runner emerged, and she greeted Xiao Yan and the Soul Devouring Master before the Thunder Lord appeared to be revealed.

The Demon Emperor routed the Holy See forces and then confronted Blake above the Holy City. Blake unleashed power drawn from the Angel Kingdom, but the Demon Emperor’s beasts began tearing apart his Angel Soul Shadows, leaving Blake terrified.

• Gu Xingtian and the others protected the gathered experts while the Demon Emperor defeated the Holy See’s guards and broke their convictions with his monster power.
• The Demon Emperor spared the defeated forces, then rose to attack Blake as Liu Yun identified him as being at the Third Reincarnation Stage.
• Blake blocked the Demon Emperor’s first attacks and summoned five Angel Soul Shadows using power transmitted from the Angel Kingdom.
• The Demon Emperor sent hundreds of energy beasts against Blake’s Angel Soul Shadows, damaging them and making Blake fear that his ascension ceremony had become his own grave.

Lin Yunshu won the imperial election and was proclaimed the new queen, but Lin Fengya immediately revealed his intent to seize her Starlight Power and the Tian Xing Continent. The chapter ended with the altar stunned as his threat exposed the danger behind the apparently smooth vote.

• Lin Fengya questioned the Abyss Head about the Emperor’s absence, and the Abyss Guards removed Ji Xuan from the altar at Lin Yunshu’s order.
• The Abyss Head began the election ceremony and instructed the ten elders to cast their votes for the successor they trusted.
• The elders cast four votes for Lin Yunshu and three each for Lin Feng and Lin Fengya, and the Abyss Head declared Lin Yunshu the new queen.
• Lin Fengya stood up from his wheelchair, alarming the elders who had voted for him.
• Lin Fengya congratulated Lin Yunshu and demanded her Starlight Power and the Tian Xing Continent under her command.

As the Sect Tournament approached, Ye Mo ordered Tian Xing to wait until the Blood River Realm before targeting Yan Chi, Mu Yingying, and Xiao Yan. Meanwhile, Gravedigging Ghost Immortal planned to investigate whether the Xuan Ling Imperial Family had allied with the Blood Demon Race, as an elder at Star Gazing Valley foresaw a human disaster for Xiao Yan.

• Ye Mo warned Tian Xing not to attack Yan Chi or Mu Yingying in Blood River Town and ordered him to eliminate the Burning Incense Pavilion members in the Blood River Realm.
• Gravedigging Ghost Immortal learned that Dark Night Ghost Immortal had returned injured and that the Xuan Ling Imperial Family’s strength had surged after the Xuan Ling Emperor’s death.
• Dark Crow Ghost Emperor reported suspected Blood Demon Race involvement and said Ghost Immortal Qianying had declined to join an attack.
• Gravedigging Ghost Immortal ordered the Seven Ghost Generals and Three Marshals to enter the Blood River Realm and seek proof against the Xuan Ling Imperial Family.
• An elder at Star Gazing Valley saw three falling stars and warned that Xiao Yan’s survival depended on his own fortune.

At the Plane Conference, Leng Luochen revealed that the gathering’s true purpose was to send the young talents into the Outer Realm to retrieve Zhou Yuan’s remains from the Martial Mansion. Xiao Yan was appointed commander, and the group entered the Outer Realm through a Space Channel.

• Leng Luochen officially named Xiao Yan the ninety-ninth Demon Subduing King and began the Plane Conference.
• Leng Luochen explained that the Great Thousand Palace had discovered the Martial Mansion, where Zhou Yuan’s remains and great treasures lay amid the Outer Realm Evil Clan’s territory.
• Leng Luochen told the gathered talents that anything they found in the Martial Mansion would be theirs, while the Great Thousand Palace sought only Zhou Yuan’s remains.
• The talents agreed to take part, and Leng Luochen assigned Old Kun to maintain the passage and Xiao Yan to isolate the Outer Realm space.
• Leng Luochen placed Xiao Yan in command, gave the group a detailed intelligence map, and sent them through the Space Channel toward the Outer Realm.

The Blood Demon Envoy arrived to retrieve the Moonlight Fairy’s inheritance, which the Netherworld Twin Venerables had taken. As the enemy attacked Xiao Yan, he used the Sky Shifting Ruler to make the Blood Demon Envoy’s strike vanish and counterattacked.

• The Blood Demon Envoy entered the great hall, and You Zun revealed the silver stone containing the Moonlight Fairy’s inheritance.
• Cang Yue identified the intruder as a human body carrying the Blood Demon Envoy’s origin power and ordered an attack.
• The Blood Demon Envoy dodged Cang Yue’s assault and rushed at Xiao Yan, sealing the space around him.
• Xiao Yan sent Mu Yingying away and prepared to defend himself with the Primordial Fire Ruler while Cang Yue restrained Mu Yingying from intervening.
• Xiao Yan used the Sky Shifting Ruler, causing the Blood Demon Envoy’s attack to vanish before his ruler struck the Envoy’s black robe.

Xiao Yan tried to return to the Garden of Eden and reach the Dou Shen Stage while Ren Yuanzi attacked the Great Thousand World. The Holy King, Xiao Tianming, and countless others sacrificed themselves to hold back Ren Yuanzi’s forces as the Garden of Eden’s fluctuations intensified.

• Yun Qi’s humming weakened the pressure from Ren Yuanzi and awakened an ancient fluctuation within the resurrected supremes, but Ren Yuanzi recalled them before Xiao Yan could free them from his control.
• Ren Yuanzi shattered Xiao Yan’s Endless God Domain with a rain of blood-red needles, and Xiao Yan asked the Great Thousand living beings to buy him three minutes as he headed toward the Garden of Eden’s golden portal.
• The Holy King and Xiao Tianming rallied the Great Thousand World’s forces, while the Angel Queen and the angels strengthened them with Holy Angel’s Lament.
• Ren Yuanzi ordered the resurrected supremes to slaughter the Great Thousand World, and its fighters charged them to protect Xiao Yan.
• The Holy King, Xiao Tianming, Yaoji, the Golden Dragon King, and nearly all the coalition’s peak experts fell in battle as the Garden of Eden’s fluctuations grew stronger.

Xiao Yan discovered that the patterns of Baxia on his dragon scales contained a defensive Dou Ji and then entered the Earth Spirit Pagoda’s Third Layer. He arrived in a scorching realm that appeared to be a world of magma, while Ling Yuanzi had prevented Dhexuzi from ending his trial.

• Xiao Yan sensed that the patterns of Baxia held a defensive Dou Ji and considered how the power would help him prepare for the Century-Long Pact.
• Xiao Yan left the Second Layer, and Dhexuzi appeared to investigate the weakened auras of the Ghost Queen and the Dragon Blood Martial Emperor.
• Ling Yuanzi identified Xiao Yan as a Spirit Academy disciple and refused Dhexuzi’s demand to end his trial.
• Xiao Yan traveled through the Space Channel to the Third Layer and found himself in a place that seemed to be a world of magma.

Xiao Yan and You Er fought to escape Bai Ruoqian, whose poison overwhelmed Xiao Yan’s water defense. They fled through a Void Gate after a powerful wolf-shaped phantom intervened, but the Lord of Fierce Souls’ seclusion location remained undiscovered with less than a month until its seclusion ended.

• Bai Ruoqian attacked Xiao Yan and You Er with poison, but Xiao Yan’s Dragon Clan defense formed a water curtain that held it back.
• Xiao Yan planned to escape through a Void Gate as his weakening sky curtain began to fail.
• You Er used Soul Source to hold back Bai Ruoqian’s poison dragon, risking her future ability to advance her soul power.
• Xiao Yan opened a Void Gate and sent You Er through, but Bai Ruoqian attacked before he could follow.
• A green wolf-shaped energy phantom burst from the Void Gate, repelled Bai Ruoqian, and let Xiao Yan escape.
• Bai Ruoqian noted that the southern marker had been passed, while the Lord of Fierce Souls’ seclusion location was still unknown and less than a month remained.

Xiao Yan and his companions descended into the Poison God Demon Pool to pursue the wounded Eight-Poison Demon Snake, but they encountered a mysterious creature hidden in the poisonous mire. As their defenses weakened, Xiao Yi Xian absorbed the attacks and sensed something below that powerfully attracted her poison pill.

• Xiao Yan and his companions plunged into the Poison God Demon Pool after the falling Eight-Poison Demon Snake, while Elder Du Ya and a Scorpion Sect woman arrived and followed them down in search of the beast.
• Xiao Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, Xun'er, and Duhun Zi descended through increasingly potent venom, and Duhun Zi realized this region did not match his memories of the pool.
• The group wondered what had happened to the Eight-Poison Demon Snake before eerie sounds and surging corrosive waves revealed a hidden presence in the mire.
• Xiao Yi Xian sensed an unknown being below that attracted her poison pill more strongly than the Eight-Poison Demon Snake had.
• The mysterious creature repeatedly attacked with venomous waves, which Xiao Yi Xian absorbed as the group continued downward and their protective barriers neared exhaustion.

Zhu Jin gathered representatives of seven super sects at the Burning Incense Pavilion to discuss the Xuan Ling Imperial Family’s suspected collusion with the Outer Realm Evil Clan. With Pill Valley pledging to provide battle supplies and Zhu Jin assuring them Fen Tian could handle the Imperial Family’s leaders, the sects agreed to form an alliance and launch their campaign in five days.

• After King Xuan Ling captured Mu Yingying and Cai Lin, he returned to the Xuan Ling Imperial Family, which mobilized its forces and tightened security around Xuan Ling City.
• Zhu Jin welcomed Wine Sword Immortal and Huang Li to the Burning Incense Pavilion while other sect leaders gathered to discuss the Xuan Ling Imperial Family.
• Zhu Jin learned that only seven sects had answered the invitation, as the rest had refused to join the meeting.
• Ye Qingtian pledged that Pill Valley would supply the medicinal pills needed for a campaign against the Xuan Ling Imperial Family.
• Zhu Jin said Fen Tian had broken through and would handle King Xuan Ling and the Imperial Family’s other powerhouses, persuading the gathered sects to support the campaign.
• The representatives agreed to organize their elite forces into the Demon Subjugation Alliance and call the Xuan Ling Imperial Family to account in five days.

Xiao Yan and Mu Yingying used their sacred flame crystals to annihilate Evil Tian Xing after Xiao Yan outmaneuvered him with a body double and a soul attack. Elsewhere, Tian Xing’s three fellow apostles learned of his death and headed deeper into the Blood River Realm, while an evil voice in King Xuan Ling’s body also sensed the Fourth Apostle’s fall.

• Evil Tian Xing attacked Xiao Yan while Xiao Yan was occupied resisting his evil qi, but Xiao Yan escaped the fatal strike with a body double and hit him with Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath.
• Xiao Yan followed with Yellow Springs Finger and Yellow Springs Palm, badly injuring Evil Tian Xing and dissipating his evil qi.
• Mu Yingying joined Xiao Yan and said their sacred flame crystals could release enough Holy Flame Power to destroy Evil Tian Xing.
• Xiao Yan and Mu Yingying activated the sacred flame crystals, and the azure and earth-yellow flames erased Evil Tian Xing.
• Three of Tian Xing’s fellow apostles learned he had likely died while seeking sacred flame alone, then set out toward the deeper regions to attack the Burning Incense Pavilion and other super sects.
• An evil voice within King Xuan Ling’s body sensed that the Fourth Apostle had fallen.

Yaoling helped Xiao Yan, Yue Ru, and Yun Yun pass through the guarded Heaven Realm Crack and reach the Heaven Realm Gate, where Yue Ru and Yun Yun entered to break through it. Yaoling then warned Xiao Yan that the Heavenly Emperor had a grudge against the Xiao Clan and had secretly taken the Human Realm Lord’s place during a period connected to turmoil on the Four Dou Di Continents.

• Yaoling used the power of the Yaochi Heavenly Pond to conceal the four companions and lead them past the Outer Realm Evil Clan guards into the Immortal Realm Center’s entrance.
• The group arrived before the Heaven Realm Gate, a divine artifact whose defenses had been reversed and whose black flames resembled those on Ming Feng.
• Yue Ru and Yun Yun offered to handle the Heaven Realm Gate, while Xiao Yan sat down to regulate the powers within his body.
• Yaoling asked Xiao Yan whether he possessed several holy flames and was a Xiao Clan descendant, then explained that the Heavenly Emperor had a grudge against the Xiao Clan.
• Yaoling revealed that the Heavenly Emperor had secretly entered the Human Realm Center and replaced the missing Human Realm Lord for a time during turmoil connected to the Four Dou Di Continents.

Xiao Yan confronted a Headless Ghost Fiend shortly after entering the Blood River Realm, but his attacks passed through it and it nearly struck him down. Yan Chi revealed that the creature had devoured 997 humans and that killing it before it reached 1,000 could yield death blood ghost liquid.

• Xiao Yan sent Xiao Yi to protect Mu Yingying and Yan Chi, then went alone to face the Headless Ghost Fiend.
• Xiao Yan's Yellow Springs Finger and Yellow Springs Palm passed harmlessly through the creature.
• The Headless Ghost Fiend formed a short sword from ghost qi and nearly pierced Xiao Yan's throat, prompting him to draw the Primordial Fire Ruler.
• Yan Chi told Xiao Yi that the fiend had devoured 997 humans and would transform after consuming three more.
• Yan Chi revealed that killing the fiend before it devoured 1,000 humans could yield death blood ghost liquid, and Xiao Yi reacted with shock.

Xiao Yan faced the Blood Demon King’s overwhelming attack and awakened the Xiao Clan Mark’s power. The clan mark killed the Blood Demon King, while Xiao Yan remained in a special meditative state as the mark vanished.

• The Demon Emperor Heavenly Image destroyed the Blood Demon King’s Violent Ape with a single strike.
• Xiao Yan emerged from the void, and the Blood Demon King attacked him with a powerful blood-red palm.
• Xiao Yan used several techniques to resist, then began to unleash the Demon Cube and his demon bloodline.
• An ancient voice awakened the Xiao Clan Mark, suppressing the demon power and revealing Xiao Yan’s orthodox Xiao Clan bloodline.
• The clan mark’s white light pierced and destroyed the fleeing Blood Demon King.
• Xiao Yan entered a special meditative state as the clan mark slowly vanished from his forehead.

Xiao Yan, Demon Xiao Yan, and the Darkness Lord fought Renshenzi while the Endless Flame Alliance battled the Nether forces. Xiao Yan revealed a silver-white scroll that Renshenzi feared was a divine technique, forcing him to retreat into Nether City as the second battle ended.

• Demon Xiao Yan and the Darkness Lord joined Xiao Yan in attacking Renshenzi, who answered with his Yin and Yang Scroll.
• Xiao Yan asked the other two to buy him time and produced a silver-white scroll whose power shielded the coalition forces and erased Forgotten Immortal Xuanzun’s attack.
• Renshenzi recognized the scroll’s power as a possible divine technique and ordered his forces to retreat rather than risk being killed.
• Xiao Yan and the Darkness Lord feigned pursuit as Renshenzi escaped with Forgotten Immortal Xuanzun into Nether City.
• Demon Xiao Yan reassured Yun Yun and the others, and the Nether Wall battlefield fell quiet.

The Ghost Face Soul Flame and the Blood Demon Envoy battled, with the Soul Flame summoning its Holy Flame Domain to suppress its old enemy. The Blood Demon Envoy shattered a human heart to destroy the domain, leaving the fight unresolved as Xiao Yan and his party reached the seal’s outer edge.

• The Ghost Face Soul Flame and the Blood Demon Envoy exchanged powerful attacks that ended in a draw.
• The Ghost Face Soul Flame created the Holy Flame Domain and warned that it would become the Blood Demon Envoy’s graveyard.
• The Blood Demon Envoy formed a childlike body from human Essence Blood, angering the Ghost Face Soul Flame.
• The Ghost Face Soul Flame declared that it would suppress the Blood Demon Envoy and filled the domain with cyan flames.
• The Blood Demon Envoy crushed a blood-red heart, extinguishing the Holy Flames and destroying the domain.
• Xiao Yan and his party arrived at the outer periphery of the seal while the two opponents remained at an impasse.

Xiao Yan used the Bloodthirsty Demonic Dragon Lizard's essence blood to awaken the yin-yang power left in his body by the Yin Yang Profound Dragon Pill. After successfully producing pure yin and yang powers, he gave the yang power to Su Xueying, hoping to solve her Yin Yang Heart problem and learn about his family.

• Xiao Yan recalled how the Yin Yang Profound Dragon Pill had left traces of yin-yang power in his body and asked the Golden Dragon King how to awaken them.
• The Golden Dragon King suggested using a drop of the Bloodthirsty Demonic Dragon Lizard's essence blood to draw out the dormant power.
• Xiao Yan told Su Xueying he could resolve her Yin Yang Heart problem without joining yin and yang, then refined a drop of the dragon lizard's essence blood with his Milky White Flame.
• The essence blood formed a protective crimson shield around Xiao Yan and awakened pure yin and pure yang power in his hands.
• Xiao Yan gave Su Xueying the pure yang power, intending to help her and learn more about his family.